All But True Fiction Series hosted by Doug Gordon

Readers are young adult fiction author Beth Kephart and April Lindner, author of a clever update of Jane Eyre March 17, 2012 (Saturday), 7:00 p.m Free admission. Beth Kephart is the author of five memoirs, an autobiography of a river, the corporate fable ZENOBIA: THE CURIOUS BOOK OF BUSINESS (co-authored with Matthew Emmens), and give acclaimed novels for young adults. On October 25, 2011, Egmont USA will publish YOU ARE MY ONLY. In the summer of 2012, Philomel will publish SMALL DAMAGES. Kephart is at work on a memoir about teaching, a novel for adults, and a prequel to her acclaimed Centennial era novel, DANGEROUS NEIGHBORS (Egmont USA). April Lindner is the author of Jane, a contemporary retelling of Jane Eyre, forthcoming from the Poppy imprint of Little, Brown in October 2010. I'm also the author of Skin, winner of the 2002 Walt McDonald First Book Poetry Prize from Texas Tech University Press. My poems have appeared in The Hudson Review, The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Crazyhorse, and many other journals. I'm an associate professor of English at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia.

All But True: The Musehouse Fiction Series
In an era when memoirists, journalists and other nonfiction writers have been accused of stretching the facts, the Musehouse Fiction Series celebrates those who pursue larger truths without pretending to be factual. Some of the region’s best novelists and short story writers will share tales that are stunning, revelatory, visionary. Readings scheduled for the third Saturday, alternating months.

Doug Gordon, All But True series coordinator, is an editor and publishing professional in Philadelphia. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, he has published two novels and dozens of stories under a pen name.