Saturday, January 24th, 7-9 p.m.

The Gallery at Avalon Island | 39 S. Magnolia Ave., Orlando, FL

Boris Fishman will read from his debut novel, A Replacement Life, published in 2014 by Harper’s. A Replacement Life tells the story of a failed journalist asked to do the unthinkable: forge Holocaust-restitution claims for old Russian Jews in Brooklyn, New York. A Replacement Life has been positively reviewed by The New York Times, NPR, The Guardian, Newsweek, and many other publications.

John King, the host of the writing podcast The Drunken Odyssey with John King, will read seven poems before Boris Fishman. John King’s verse has appeared in Gargoyle and Palooka. He earned his MFA from New York University in 2010.

Free and open to the public!

Meet Boris Fishman at the JCC in Maitland on Sunday, January 25th at 1 p.m.

Included in The New York Times‘ 100 Notable Books of 2014, Boris Fishman’s A Replacement Life is a “bold, ambitious and wickedly smart first novel” in which “a Soviet émigré writer in New York becomes disturbingly adept at forging applications for Holocaust reparations.”

Read the full article from The New York Times Book Review here: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/15/books/review/a-replacement-life-by-boris-fishman.html

JAN. 25, 1 p.m.
Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida | 851 N. Maitland Ave., Orlando, FL

Event in partnership with the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida (http://www.holocaustedu.org/events/community_presentations/) and sponsored by Greenberg Traurig.

Free to the public! Bagel bar provided.

N.C.C. McGowan will present The Tender Mercies of the Wicked from 3-5 p.m. on Saturday, January 24th at Writers Block Bookstore.

Winter Park writer Randy Noles will appear at Writers Block Bookstore, 124 E. Welbourne Avenue, Winter Park, fro 5 – 7 p.m. on Wednesday, January 21st.  Meet Noles and learn about Fiddler’s Curse, his well-reviewed second book.