Happy Ending Music and Reading Series:
Temporary New Yorkers
with Julie Orringer, Ryan Harty, and Andrew Sean Greer and Musical Guest 2008 Academy Award Winner Glen Hansard

Show Description

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TEMPORARY NEW YORKERS
Featuring authors Julie Orringer, Ryan Harty, and Andrew Sean Greer and Musical Guest 2008 Academy Award Winner Glen Hansard

RYAN HARTY is the author of the story collection Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona, which won the John Simmons Award for Short Fiction and was named a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year.  His stories have appeared in numerous magazines and journals, and have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize.  He is currently at work on a novel.

JULIE ORRINGER is the author of How to Breathe Underwater, a short story collection published by Knopf in 2003, and of The Invisible Bridge, a novel forthcoming from Knopf in 2009.

ANDREW SEAN GREER  is the author of four books, most recently The Story of a Marriage, an Amazon Best Book of 2008, and the 2004 bestseller The Confessions of Max Tivoli. He is the recipient of the Northern California Book Award, the California Book Award, the NY Public Library Young Lions Award, an O Henry Prize, and fellowships from the NEA and the NY Public Library. Greer currently lives in San Francisco and New York, at work on his next novel. He has a pug named Olive.

MUSICAL GUEST - GLEN HANSARD is the vocalist and guitarist for Irish rock group The Frames. Hansard quit school at age 13 to begin busking on local Dublin streets. He first came to public attention as guitar player 'Outspan Foster' in the Alan Parker film The Commitments, a role he subsequently regretted, believing it distracted from his music career.  Once, a film Starring Glen and Markéta Irglová won World Cinema Audience Award at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival in the Dramatic category.

HOST - AMANDA STERN is the author of three novels, the critically acclaimed novel, The Long Haul and two young adult books written under a pseudonym. She founded the “Happy Ending Music and Reading Series” out of the Happy Ending bar in 2003 and has been running, curating and hosting it ever since.  She’s at work on her next adult novel and a series of children’s books.

The Happy Ending Music and Reading Series, chosen by New York Magazine and NY Press as the best reading series in NYC, and singled out by the New York Times Magazine for helping to "Keep downtown alive," features the most interesting storytellers, writers, musicians, raconteurs and personalities, and requires the readers to take one public risk, while the musicians, who perform two short sets with their original, lyric-driven music, are required to play one cover song and try to get the audience to sing along.

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