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The Brooklyn Book Festival goes virtual this year, and Greenlight’s traditional Brooklyn Indie Party (ten years and counting) must go online as well! On the Friday night before BKBF, our beloved local indie Greenlight is partnering with CLMP, as well as some of Brooklyn’s best independent book and magazine publishers (including us!), to throw a Brooklyn-sized party celebrating the spirit of literary independence in Brooklyn with an all-star revue.

Each press will have an editor or publisher introducing a featured author, highlighting great indie talents including Megan Cummins, Adam Smyer, Ivan Vladislavić, Kim McLarin, Jenzo DuQue, JinJin Xu, Grace Schulman, and Zahra Patterson; and representing Restless, we’re thrilled to have Rat Rule 79 author Rivka Galchen.  All ticket proceeds will be distributed evenly among tonight’s presses, making this a great way to support our beloved Brooklyn indie community while discovering new talents and seeing old friends.  Join us with the drink of your choice in hand to kick off the Brooklyn Book Festival weekend!

When: Friday, October 2 at 7:30 pm ET

Where: Greenlight Bookstore via Zoom. Tickets are $5; get yours here.

Rivka Galchen is an award-winning fiction writer and journalist who loves noodles and numbers and modest-sized towns where her dad might have worked. Her work appears often in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The London Review of Books and The New York Times. She is the author of three books: Atmospheric Disturbances (Novel, FSG, 2008), American Innovations (Short Stories, FSG 2014) and Little Labors (Essays, New Directions, 2016). She has received numerous prizes and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Fellowship, The Berlin Prize and The William J Saroyan International Prize in Fiction. In 2010, she was named to The New Yorker’s list of 20 Writers Under 40. Galchen also holds an MD from Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Rat Rule 79 is her first book for young readers.

Books by Rivka Galchen