Sana Krasikov Reading Thursday is Last JLL Event of 2011

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Prose writer Sana Krasikov. Photo by Staci Schwartz.
Prizewinning prose writer SanaKrasikov will read on Thursday night at 7 in the Marvin Center Amphitheater (3rd floor), concluding this year’s amazing Jewish Literature Live series curated by Prof. Faye Moskowtiz.  
 
Krasikov, a Russian emigre,  is author of the collection of short stories, One More Year.  Her stories have appeared in New Yorker the The Atlantic Monthly. A profile of Krasikov from The Village Voice (from whence the beautiful and sad photograph above is taken) appears here.
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