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“Our Next Reading is”...

Trumpet Fiction is ducts' live reading series in New York City hosted by our editor, Jonathan Kravetz.

May 8th, 6:45 p.m. Humor Reading

The place:
KGB Bar, 2nd floor
85 E. 4th Street
between 2nd Avenue and the Bowery

The readers are:

Dan McCoy
Daniel is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Jest Magazine and Modern Humorist and whose sketches have been heard on the NPR programs Rewind and Morning Edition. Recently, he was named humor editor of the online magazine Ducts. He can also be seen around New York performing as part of the improv troupe Robotski. He lives in Brooklyn.

Ritch Duncan
Ritch Duncan is writer, comedian and the editor-in-chief of the Brooklyn based humor magazine, Jest. He has performed standup all over the country and written comedy for a bunch of different television shows, which is sort of cool, if that's the kind of thing that impresses you. Despite these lofty sucesses, he still has never: a) owned a car b) purchased a new couch or c) been to Los Angeles. He would like to do all three of these things, although not necessarily in that order.

J.B. Miller
J .B. Miller was born in Massachusetts but mostly grew up in London where he learned English and attended a number of strict prep schools that required uniforms and the best behavior. But he recovered and returned to the U.S. where he went to high school a bit (in Massachusetts again) and attended college (NYU - not that it makes much of a difference). He refused to go to graduate school. He did some freelance writing for The New York Times and Salon.com and is the only author of the novel My Life in Action Painting (Grove Press) and the humor collection The Satanic Nurses and Other Literary Parodies (St. Martin's Press), plus a number of plays produced skittishly on the New York stage, including "Bobby Supreme," "White Lies," and "Shirkers."

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June 12th, 6:45 p.m.

The place:
KGB Bar, 2nd floor
85 E. 4th Street
between 2nd Avenue and the Bowery

The readers are:

Hermine Meinhard
Hermine Meinhard's first book, Bright Turquoise Umbrella , is just out from Tupelo Press. The winner of the Sue Saniel Elkind Poetry Award, her work has appeared in Barrow Street , Luna, How2 , la petite zine , Willow Springs , The Prose Poem and other journals. She is poetry editor of 3 rd bed and teaches at New York University and the New York Writers Workshop at the Jewish Community Center Manhattan.

Dom Angiello
Dom Angiello, one of four brothers, was born in the Bronx, New York of first generation Italian-American parents. He holds a Ph.D. (in medieval English literature) from Fordham and is Professor of English at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, where he recently conducted a workshop in memoir writing. His first career was in office machines sales and service. Later, he started a residential construction and remodeling firm, which two of his sons still operate.

Dom studied memoir and fiction writing at Sarah Lawrence College, the Truro Center for the Arts and the Hudson Valley Writer's Center. Several of his essays, including "The Store," have appeared in Ducts , and he read his story "The Parking Lot Troll" last spring in the Trumpet Fiction series. Other work is expected to appear in Bibliophile and Italian Americana.

Ellen Schecter
Ellen Schecter has published 24 books for children and their teachers and parents. Her picture books often highlight brave girls from a variety of cultures, offering fresh new role models for both boys and girls. She also has written/or created multi-award-winning television and video for children and families on CBS, PBS, CBC, Nickelodeon, Disney, and the Discovery Channel. Her credits include many episodes for the Emmy Award-winning Reading Rainbow series, as well as the proposals and pilot scripts for The Magic Schoolbus, Allegra's Window on Nick, Jr. and Ramona, based on the popular books by Beverly Cleary, for the CBC and PBS. Her Family Haggadah was a Book of the Month and Jewish Book Club selection. Her articles and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Christian Science Monitor, Shema, and Journey, the Jewish feminist journal of Ma'Yan. Her articles on Healing have appeared in The Outstretched Arm, Guide Me Along the Way, and other publications of the National Center for Jewish Healing. Her work appears on the web on ducts.org, and praxis post; a webzine of medicine and culture. She is a member of the Writer's Guild, ASCAP, The Society for Children's Book Writers, and PEN. She is featured in Who's Who Among American Women, Who's Who In Entertainment, and Something About The Author.

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