Reading Series at Community Bookstore with Kim Torne, Powell Pittman, Sophie Grimes, and Mark Lilla

Kimberly Torneis a Brooklyn based writer of children’s books and artist. Under the pen name, Jamie Mae, she wrote the Isle of Misfit series for little bee books (2019). She is also an author of dark, twisty, and often very queer stories for teens. You can find her art and poetry on Instagram@tornepages.

Powell Pittmanis a Southern dude. He went to a university and earned degrees, then spent time as an army officer doing military things. He now shares an apartment with an old woman in a nearby neighborhood, where he writes stuff. In his free time he travels places, enjoys this and that, and occasionally participates in whatnot and so forth.

Sophie Grimesholds an MFA in Poetry from Boston University. She is author of two chapbooks: City Structures (2013), and Waiting for the Exterminator (2019).Poems of hers have been published by Hanging Loose Press, The Literary Review, and Lockjaw Magazineamong many other small presses. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and for Bettering American Poetry. Sophie currently lives in Brooklyn where she supports teacher recruitment efforts at the New York City Department of Education and writes poetry reviews for Publishers Weekly. To learn more, visit sophiegrimes.com.

Mark Lilla’smost recent books are The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics andThe Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction. He is a contributor to the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, and publications worldwide. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He lectures widely and has delivered the Weizmann Memorial Lecture in Israel and the Carlyle Lectures at Oxford University. In 2015 Overseas Press Club of America awarded him its prize for Best Commentary on International News in Any Medium. A former professor at NYU and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, he joined Columbia University in 2007 as Professor of the Humanities.