We're back! After a January hibernation, we're kicking off our 2023 reading series at Insa on Monday, February 5th to read, cook, and eat with Megan Nolan (Ordinary Human Failings), Temim Fruchter (City of Laughter), and Cynthia Zarin (Inverno). We can't wait to bring their work to the table at Insa, and in case you're not already familiar with this crew, here's a bit to whet your appetites:

Megan Nolan was born in 1990 in Waterford, Ireland. Her essays and reviews have been published by the New York Times, White Review, Guardian and Frieze amongst others. Her debut novel, Acts of Desperation, was the recipient of a Betty Trask Award, shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize.

Temim Fruchter is a writer who lives in Brooklyn, loves saturated color, and believes in queer possibility. She holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Maryland, and is the recipient of fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Vermont Studio Center, and a 2020 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. She is co-host of Pete’s Reading Series in Brooklyn. Her debut novel, CITY OF LAUGHTER, is forthcoming from Grove Atlantic in winter 2024.

Cynthia Zarin is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Orbit and The Ada Poems, as well as five books for children and two essay collections, Two Cities and An Enlarged Heart: A Personal History. Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award for Poetry, and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry. A longtime contributor to The New Yorker, she teaches at Yale University and lives in New York City.

Each ticket includes three small dishes inspired by the passages, and one complimentary drink. We'll conclude with a conversation between the authors and TOC founder Evan Hanczor. Our friends at Center for Fiction will be with us selling books, so come ready to pick up some copies!

We may not be able to accommodate dietary restrictions for this event, as dishes are drawn from specific scenes in the book and will be prepared in advance, but if you have any food allergies please alert us ASAP so we can confirm what dishes will be available to you! We'll do our best to accommodate gluten free and vegetarian alternatives. Please also be aware that tables are communal and dishes may be served on shared platters.

We do have a handful of seats reserved for sliding-scale admission to keep these events as accessible as possible, so please let us know if this ticket price is prohibitive for you. We want to get you a seat at the table. These sliding scale seats are limited, so please be thoughtful about your resources and needs when making a request.

Accessibility Info: Insa is a ground-floor restaurant with a wheelchair-accessible entrance and communal tables with bench-seating (benches are moveable as needed). Single-occupancy restrooms are equipped with proper facilities to meet the needs of individuals with disabilities.

Email us at biscuits@tablesofcontents.org with any questions. We can't wait to see you at this table.

See you soon,

TOC