IN THIS UPDATE: Kate Bernheimer, Michael Atkinson, Matthew Wells.

1) As we reported in August, Kate Bernheimer is very busy. Here are a few updates: October 16, Boston Book Festival, fairy-tale reading and discussion with Kathryn Davis, Kelly Link, and Maria Tatar. October 27, reading from Horse, Flower, Bird at The Booksmith in San Francisco. Also on October 27: Gregory Maguire introduces My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me at New York’s Symphony Space. October 29, Antigone Books in Tucson, fairy-tale reading from My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, with Lydia Millet, Joy Williams, Alissa Nutting, and Karen Brennan.

2) Michael Atkinson is on a panel (“Let’s Pretend We’re Strangers: Including Real People as Fictional Characters”) at Boucheron in San Francisco today. He also tells us: “New pieces in The Village Voice, The L Magazine, In These Times, IFC.com, LA Weekly and Mystery Scene!”

3) Matthew Wells‘ online reading of The Manhattan Sonnets will be streaming tomorrow morning on the New River Dramatists section of the Art International Radio site.

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