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Updated list of readers below for tomorrow’s reading of Bartleby, the Scrivener at the public atrium at 60 Wall Street. The reading is free and open to all; we’ll have portions of the text available for walk-up readers. Attendees are encouraged to...

Updated list of readers below for tomorrow’s reading of Bartleby, the Scrivener at the public atrium at 60 Wall Street. The reading is free and open to all; we’ll have portions of the text available for walk-up readers. Attendees are encouraged to bring donations for OWS; according to Haywood Carey of our panel on Monday, duct tape and blankets are currently needed.

  • Nitsuh Abebe, New York magazine
  • Jami Attenberg, The Melting Season
  • Amanda Bullock, your Housing Works blogger
  • Ryan Chapman, FSG
  • Joshua Cohen, A Heaven of Others
  • Allison Devers, Writers’ Houses
  • Stephen Elliott, The Adderall Diaries
  • Rachel Fershleiser, Internet superstar and inventor of six-word memoirs
  • Molly Fischer, journalist
  • David Goodwillie, American Subversive
  • Michele Hardesty, People’s Library
  • Michelle Legro, editor, Lapham’s Quarterly
  • Sam MacLaughlin, McNally Jackson Books
  • Maureen Miller, editor, Rap Genius
  • Eileen Myles, Inferno
  • Maud Newton, When the Flock Changed
  • Tom Roberge, New Directions
  • Sarah Sarai
  • Erich Strom
  • Brendan Jay Sullivan, Texts, Drugs and Rock'n'Roll
  • Adam Wilson, Flatscreen
  • James Yeh, editor, Gigantic
  • Daniel Zilio

Thank you to Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, McNally Jackson Books, and Justin Taylor for organizing; and to the People’s Library at Occupy Wall Street and to Melville House, publisher of the Art of the Novella edition of Bartleby, the Scrivener, for their support.