Anthony Varallo and Jared Joseph will read from their new fiction, What Did You Do Today? and Danny the Ambulance. Anthony Varallo will read from What Did You Do Today?, winner of the 2023 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction. “There are few authors working in the flash form today who write with as much grace and mastery as Tony Varallo. Filled with humor and warmth, these beautiful and elegantly crafted stories give us powerful glimpses into the complex inner worlds of parents and children struggling with the challenges of growing up and growing old, of being both a caretaker and the one in need of care.”—Andrew Porter

Anthony Varallo is the author of the novel The Lines, as well as four previous short story collections This Day in History, Out Loud, Think of Me and I’ll Know, and Everyone Was There. He is a professor of English, where he teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the College of Charleston.

Jared Joseph will read from his recent novel, Danny The Ambulance. “Have you ever seen Danny Welle's adaptation of Danny Kafka's The Trial? Jared Joseph's Danny The Ambulance is there, in the Jury Room dive bar, and we might be drunk but it seems like nothing is what it seems. Danny Joseph invites us into a verisimilar reality like Danny Egger's The Lighthouse or Danny Bergman's Persona, but he does it in a way that is whip crack smart and sardonic and decidedly modern.' - Danny Bender
Jared Joseph is also the author of A Book About Myself Called Hell from Kernpunkt Press, and he has been published in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Iowa Review, and Action. He holds a PhD in literature from the UC Santa Cruz and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He lives in Los Angeles where he writes and teaches.

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