New American Writing: Jesse Ball & Daniel Orozco

Jesse Ball’s novels include The Way Through Doors, Samedi the Deafness (finalist for The Believer Book Award), and a new book, The Curfew. He has published several books of poetry and was awarded the Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize in 2008 for The Early Deaths of Lubeck, Brennan, Harp & Carr. Daniel Orozco’s stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, Best American Mystery Stories, Best American Essays, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. He was awarded a 2006 NEA Fellowship in fiction and was a finalist for a 2006 National Magazine Award in fiction. Orientation: And Other Stories is his first book.

This series of contemporary fiction and poetry readings is organized by Benjamin Weissman, author of two books of short fiction, most recently Headless, and professor of creative writing at Art Center College of Design and Otis College of Art and Design.