• Franklin Park Reading Series: Starring Blake Butler, Tracy O’Neill, Maisy Card, and Ashleigh Bryant Phillips

    With Host Marae Hart

    This is episode four of the Virtual Franklin Park Reading Series, hosted by Marae Hart. This episode is a showcase of new fiction by acclaimed writers Blake Butler, author of Alice Knott, Tracy O’Neill, author of Quotients, Maisy Card, author of These Ghosts Are Family, and Ashleigh Bryant Phillips, Sleepovers.

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    The Virtual Franklin Park Reading Series is an online event series from the producers of the longrunning, Crown Heights, Brooklyn-based Franklin Park Reading Series. Hosted by Marae Hart and curated by Penina Roth, Virtual Franklin Park events feature authors with newly released books and favorite alumni sharing work tied to different monthly themes.

    To purchase the authors’ books through FP’s local indie bookstore Unnameable Books, click here.


    The Virtual Book Channel
    The Virtual Book Channel
    Launched during the coronavirus pandemic as virtual literary communities began emerging in vital and unexpected ways, The Virtual Book Channel seeks to provide the best possible platforms for writers to reach their readers. The VBC (aka “The Veeb”) is a curated channel that archives live-streamed programming through partnerships with independent bookstores, literary festivals, authors' WFH spaces, and more.





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