The Fall 2018 season for the most prestigious literary programming in Queens has officially begun. The Queens College Evening Readings series presents award-winning and renowned writers, to begin Tuesday, October 23 at 7:00 PM in Choral Room 264 in Lefrak Concert Hall and is free to all CUNY faculty and students. We hope you will join us, as well as help us spread the word by sharing with your contacts of interest. More information can be found below or by visiting the Queens College Evening Readings Webpage<http://kupferbergcenter.org/evening-readings-kca/>: Tuesday, October 23, New York Times bestselling novelist James Kaplan will discuss his creative process and read from his work. In November 2010, Doubleday published Frank: The Voice, the first volume of Kaplan's definitive biography of Frank Sinatra. The book was also chosen by former New York Times chief book critic Michiko Kakutani as one of her Top Ten Books of 2010. In Spring 2019 Yale University Press will publish Kaplan's Irving Berlin: New York Genius, as part of its Jewish Lives series. Tuesday, November 13, Ricky Riccardi will discuss the last 25 years of the life and career of Louis Armstrong. These were Armstrong's most popular years but in the jazz world, many critics spent those years criticizing Armstrong for "going commercial," for "selling out," for being an "Uncle Tom" and more. Riccardi's bookWhat a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong's Later Years refuted those claims, often using Armstrong's own words to defend himself. Tuesday, December 11, award-winning author Jennifer Egan will read from her novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, which won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times book prize. Her newest novel Manhattan Beach has been awarded the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was long listed for the National Book Award.