Ticketed Events
Lounge Lit: ZIP Code Stories Live!
Inspired by the popular Radio Boston series, we're bringing together Boston-area authors Holly LeCraw, Steve Macone, and Dawn Tripp to read very short stories inspired by Boston-area ZIP codes. Attendees can also sign up at the door for a chance to represent their neighborhood and read their own 500-word ZIP code stories during our open mic. Hosted by Henriette Lazaridis Power, editor of The Drum, and Anthony Brooks, co-host of WBUR's Radio Boston. See below for bios of authors and hosts.
Tickets--which go to support the BBF and The Drum and include complimentary beer, wine, and appetizers--are $20 in advance or $25 at the door. Or, purchase our special Lounge Lit package and get tickets to all three Lounge Lit events for just $50!
Holly LeCraw
Holly LeCraw's debut, The Swimming Pool, was named a Best Book of Summer by The Daily Beast and Good Morning America and was a 2010 Kirkus Top Debut. Her short fiction has appeared in Boston's own Post Road and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. LeCraw is currently at work on her second novel.
Steve Macone
Steve Macone, a regular at comedy clubs throughout Boston, is a contributor for The Onion. Macone's humor writing and essays have been featured in the New Yorker and Boston Globe Magazine, as well as named "notable essay" in the Best American Essays series.
Dawn Tripp
Dawn Tripp graduated from Harvard and lives in Massachusetts. Her novels include Moon Tide, The Season of Open Water, and the Boston Globe-bestselling Game of Secrets.
Anthony Brooks
Anthony Brooks, co-host of WBUR's Radio Boston, has more than 25 years of experience in public radio, and has worked as producer, editor, reporter, and host for WBUR and NPR. Brooks worked as lead reporter for NPR's covering of the 2000 presidential election. In 2002 Brooks received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for best radio feature, and he received the Knight Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan in 2006. Brooks lives in Somerville.
Henriette Power
A Rhodes Scholar and holder of a Ph.D., Henriette Power taught English literature at Harvard for ten years. She is the founding editor of The Drum Literary Magazine, an online literary magazine publishing short fiction and essays in audio form. Her first novel will be published in 2013 by Ballantine Books.