JOIN ASBURY BOOK COOPERATIVE FOR AN EXCITING CONVERSATION BETWEEN TWO
NEW JERSEY AUTHORS--CORINNE MANNING AND PAUL LISICKY--ABOUT THEIR NEW
BOOKS--_WE HAD NO RULES _(MANNING, ARSENAL PULP PRESS) AND _LATER: MY
LIFE AT THE END OF THE WORLD _(LISICKY, GRAYWOLF PRESS). THE TWO WILL
ALSO DISCUSS THE CONCEPT OF NEW JERSEY "LITERARY IMAGINATION."CORINNE
MANNING is a prose writer and LITERARY ORGANIZER. Their stories and
essays have been published widely, including in _Toward an Ethics of
Activism _and Shadow Map: An Anthology of Survivors of Sexual Assault
[https://asburybookcoop.indielite.org/book/9781937865825]. CORINNE
FOUNDED THE JAMES FRANCO REVIEW, a project that sought to address
implicit bias in the publishing industry. _We Had No Rules_
[https://asburybookcoop.indielite.org/book/9781551527994] is their
debut collection of short stories.
PAUL LISICKY'S six books include _Later: My Life at the Edge of the
World_ [https://asburybookcoop.indielite.org/book/9781644450161]_
(named one of Oprah's 31 most anticipated LGBTQ Books of 2020)_, _The
Narrow Door,_
[https://asburybookcoop.indielite.org/book/9781555977283]_ __Unbuilt
Projects_ [https://asburybookcoop.indielite.org/book/9781935536253],
and _Lawnboy_
[https://asburybookcoop.indielite.org/book/9781555974480]. His work
has appeared in _The Atlantic_, _Conjunctions_, _Fence_, The New York
_Times_, _Ploughshares_, and elsewhere. His awards include fellowships
from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts,
and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where he has served on
the Writing Committee since 2000. He is an Associate Professor in the
MFA Program at Rutgers University-Camden, where he is the editor of
StoryQuarterly. He lives in Brooklyn.
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