AUTHOR MINGLE with Gabriel Roth & Daphne Uviller Set for 12/8 at Andaz Wall Street

Pen Parentis has an intimate evening of good literature, conversation, and music planned for Tuesday, December 10th 2013, featuring two acclaimed novelists known for their keen insights into human relationships. Gabriel Roth and Daphne Uviller will read from their work and join in discussions about writing and an active family life. Prior to the readings, and periodically throughout the night, salon-goers will be serenaded by live jazz. Past readers and friends of Pen Parentis are likely to make an appearance. The reading takes place at the elegant Andaz Wall Street at 75 Wall Street, and the hotel graciously provides happy hour specials on beer on wine. The night kicks off at 7:00 pm, and admission is free.

Now in its tenth season, Pen Parentis has been welcoming avid readers as well as novice and professional writers to its Literary Salons, a series of free readings open to the public. Each author will read from new work, discuss their writing life and process in a Q&A, and then mingle over drinks. Books will be available for purchase from Bluestockings Books.

December 10th's Literary Salon features:

Gabriel Roth is the author of The Unknowns, which came out from Little, Brown in July. He grew up in London, England, and has worked as a journalist and a software developer. His daughter will be three in November.

Daphne Uviller (PHOTO ATTACHED. Credit: Pen Parentis) is a mother and the author of the novels Hotel No Tell and Super in the City, which are currently optioned for television, and is the co-editor of the anthology Only Child: Writers on the Singular Joys and Solitary Sorrows of Growing Up Solo. She is a former Books and Poetry editor at Time Out New York, and her reviews, profiles, and articles have been published in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Newsday, The Forward, New York Magazine, Oxygen, Allure, and Self, for which she wrote an ethics column.

More info at penparentis.org.

Transportation info: Take the 2/3/4/5/J/M to Wall Street. The Salon takes place on the 2nd floor of the Andaz Hotel, at 75 Wall Street.

Upcoming Events:

January 14th 2014, 7pm: POETRY NIGHT, featuring James Arthur, Timothy Donnelly, Miranda Field, Lynn Melnick, and KC Trommer.

February 11th 2014, 7pm: AUTHORS FROM TIN HOUSE, featuring Cari Luna, Elissa Schappell, and Matthew Specktor.

Pen Parentis, Ltd, is a New York City-based nonprofit literary organization that provides resources to authors who are also parents, to help them stay on creative track after starting a family.

Pen Parentis Literary Salons are made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. They are also funded in part by The Fund for Creative Communities with public funds from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, and by a generous one-time grant from the Sustainable Arts Foundation in California.