Readings from:
The Subway Chronicles:
Scenes from Life in New York

Hosted by Editor,
Jacquelin Cangro

with contributors:
Leigh Stolle, Tim McLoughlin, and Garrett Chaffin-Quiray

This collection is a just dip into the amazing variety of writing that has appeared on Jacquelin Cangro's popular web site thesubwaychronicles.com. Coming from both well-known writers and exciting up & comers, these stories and essays bring us a unique view of the world in and around the subways, above ground and below.

Contributors include Jonathan Lethem, Francine Prose, Calvin Trillin and Colson Whitehead, as well as the writers who will be featured in tonight's celebration.

Even though we take a lot of things for granted as we ride the subway these writers shine a fresh light on the mundane world that we sometimes let slip below the surface of our conscious mind. They also reveal how, even as people move in and out of the city, the experiences they have had in the subways have left a powerful impression on their memories and emotional life.
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Leigh Stolle, whose contribution is called The Transfer, worked as a journalist before earning an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College . She currently lives in Colorado and is working on a collection of short stories.
Tim McLoughlin, whose contribution is called Opening Day, has published his first novel, Heart of the Old Country. It won Italy 's Premio Penne award and has been optioned for a film. He is the editor of the Brooklyn Noir anthology series and his short fiction has been included in Best American Mystery Stories.
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray, whose contribution is called Service Advisory, was educated at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television. He's published variously in newspapers, magazines, and on-line journals, including The San Francisco Chronicle, Writer's Journal, and PopMatters, and he's contributed to several books on cinema like 1,001 Movies You Must See Before You Die. As a former corporate drone (no "I" in team) and resident of Forest Hills, Queens, he guiltily read The New York Post and developed a preference for the express E train. He now lives in, and writes from, San Diego.

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