Once upon a time you were in third grade and you had to give book reports and it was awesome. The Book Report promises to deliver exactly what it promises: reports on books by the people who’ve read them. Join Leigh Stein and Sasha Fletcher and assorted literate guests for an evening that will remind you of 3rd grade in the best possible way.

Tommy “Teebs” Pico is the founder and editor in chief of birdsong, an antiracist/queer-positive collective, small press, and zine that publishes art and writing. He was a Queer/Art/Mentors inaugural fellow, 2013 Lambda Literary fellow in poetry, and has been published in BOMB, [PANK], and the Best American Poetry Blog. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he now lives in Brooklyn and is working on Absent Mindr— the first chapbook app published for iOS mobile/tablet devices (VERBALVISUAL, April 2014).
 
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Sean H. Doyle lives in Brooklyn, NY. He works hard every day to be a better person, and is learning how to love himself more. His book, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE, is forthcoming from Civil Coping Mechanisms in early 2015.
 
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Nadxieli Nieto is the managing editor of NOON, former editor-in-chief of Salt Hill Journal, and founder of Nieto Books. She is the co-editor of the forthcoming flash science fiction anthology, Gigantic Worlds, a collaboration with Gigantic Books due to hit bookstores this spring. Her writing appears in New York Tyrant, Washington Square Review, Everyday Genius, and elsewhere.

Tobias Carroll lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York. His writing has recently been published by Tin House, The Collagist, Underwater New York, The Paris Review Daily, Necessary Fiction, Bookforum, The Collapsar, and Joyland. He is the managing editor of Vol.1 Brooklyn, and can be found on Twitter at @TobiasCarroll.

Leigh Stein is the author of four chapbooks of poetry and one novel, The Fallback Plan, newly released from Melville House. You can listen to an excerpt of The Fallback Plan here.

Sasha Fletcher is the author of the novella WHEN ALL OUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED MARCHING BANDS WILL FILL THE STREETS AND WE WILL NOT HEAR THEM BECAUSE WE WILL BE UPSTAIRS IN THE CLOUDS [ml press 2010] and a couple of poetry chapbooks.