Once upon a time you were in third grade and you had to give book reports and it was awesome. The Book Report promises to deliver exactly what it promises: reports on books by the people who’ve read them. Join Leigh Stein and Sasha Fletcher and assorted literate guests for an evening that will remind you of 3rd grade in the best possible way.

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Leslie Goshko is the host and creator of the monthly storytelling series, Sideshow Goshko, which has been hailed as a Time Out New York and New York Times “Critics’ Pick”, and also noted as “a well-programmed night” by the New York Times. Sideshow Goshko has been featured on TruTV’s Impractical Jokers, NPR’s Snap Judgment, and in The New Yorker.

A Manhattan Monologue Slam Champion, and contributing blogger for the Huffington Post, Leslie’s stories and comedy writing have appeared on Sirius XM, WNYC, New York Metro “Funny Page,” and more. Her cabaret show “An Old-Fashioned Piano Party with Leslie Goshko” is heralded as a Time Out New York “Critic’s Pick,” and she served as the musical director for NY1 anchors Pat Kiernan and Jamie Stelter’s live show at 92Y, “Pat and Jamie’s NY.”

Leslie has been featured on two albums: the full-length album for kids’ band “Thunder and Sunshine” (of which she is a member) and on the GlasOnGlas EP “Silver and Violet.” She can regularly be seen behind the baby grand playing live piano karaoke at Sid Gold’s Request Room in NYC. And thanks to the support of many Internet voters, she performed with the cast of Hairspray on Broadway.

Molly Rose Quinn was raised in Memphis, Tennessee. Her poems have appeared in Two Serious Ladies, Four Way Review, and The Fiddleback, and she holds an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. She works as a producer of the literary programs at Symphony Space in Manhattan and recently joined the fiction committee for the 2014 Brooklyn Book Festival. She lives in Brooklyn, where she works with the Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop and The Atlas Review.

Leigh Stein is the author of four chapbooks of poetry and one novel, The Fallback Plan, newly released from Melville House. You can listen to an excerpt of The Fallback Plan here.

Sasha Fletcher is the author of the novella WHEN ALL OUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED MARCHING BANDS WILL FILL THE STREETS AND WE WILL NOT HEAR THEM BECAUSE WE WILL BE UPSTAIRS IN THE CLOUDS [ml press 2010] and a couple of poetry chapbooks.