Summer is over but don’t worry–ANIMAL FARM is still here. On Tuesday, September 15, take a much-needed break from expending your limited psychic energy on the Great Franzen Backlash to join us and our friends CHRISTINE SMALLWOOD, NAMARA SMITH, MARK SUSSMAN, and JENNIFER SEARS to enjoy a tonic mix of fiction and essay-writing in a positive emotional space.

ANIMAL FARM is NYC’s destination for the newest and best satirical and/or critical writing in any genre. We start promptly (LOL) at 8:00 at OVER THE EIGHT, 594 Union Avenue in Williamsburg (L to Bedford or G to Metropolitan/Lorimer).

CHRISTINE SMALLWOOD has published essays and reviews in many magazines, including The New Yorker, T, andHarper’s, where she is a New Books columnist. She is the co-author of ScarJo (forthcoming from Peradam), and her short stories have been published in The Paris Review and n+1. She holds a PhD in English from Columbia University.

NAMARA SMITH is an associate editor at n+1. She has written for n+1, Bookforum, and The New Yorker.

MARK SUSSMAN’s writing has appeared in Slate, Bookforum, The Believer, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other places. His book ScarJo, co-written with Christine Smallwood and with images by Chris Santa Maria, is forthcoming from Peradam. He teaches writing and American literature at Hunter College.

JENNIFER SEARS’s fiction has appeared most recently in Guernica’s “Boundaries of Taste” issue, J Journal, Fiction International, and Witness Magazine. She lives in Williamsburg and teaches English at New York City College of Technology in Brooklyn.

PATRICK W. GALLAGHER is Host of Animal FARM Animal FARM (HOAF). His fiction and essays have appeared in The Adirondack Review, n+1, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, the New York Times, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, and elsewhere, and he holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from NYU. Ask him about his novel, Pollen.