Published: July 25, 2026; Aithor: Julia Sonrisa
Address: 143, 7th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Phone: +1 (718) 783-3075
Join Kristen Gleason at Community Bookstore in celebration of The Wallet and Other Thefts. Brigid Hughes will join her in conversation.
Please note that an RSVP does not guarantee you a seat. We can accommodate approximately 50 seated and 80 total. If you require a seat, please plan to arrive early.
The Wallet and Other Thefts is a book of short fiction shimmering with mystery and menace. This surreal, precise collection unfolds in a world beyond conventional time and space. Concerned with theft, shame, exile, tourism, masochism, God, and “Nature,” these stories are lightly linked — objects, diseases, and landscapes reappear.
Gleason’s elliptical prose refuses traditional narrative logic, resisting easy resolution. Reminiscent of the work of Anna Kavan, Jane Bowles, and Marie NDiaye, The Wallet and Other Thefts is a work of slipstream fiction that pulses with a sense of something generously withheld.
Kristen Gleason is a fiction writer whose debut short story collection The Wallet and Other Thefts was released by Fonograf Editions. Her stories have appeared in BOMB, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, The White Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. Her work has won several awards, including the BOMB Biannual Fiction Contest and The White Review Short Story Prize. She received a Writing Fellowship from A Public Space and was a fine arts Fulbright grantee in Tromsø, Norway. She lives in Athens, Georgia.
Brigid Hughes is the founder and editor of the literary and arts magazine A Public Space and A Public Space Books. She teaches in the MFA program at Columbia University and lives in New York City.
Time: 7:00 pm EDT
Free!
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