The Urbane Arts Club
Wed, May 06
|Brooklyn
Hannah Lillith Assadi Reading
Join us for Hannah Lillith Assadi's reading of Paradiso 17 and conversation with Kate Zambreno, here at The Urbane Arts Club. Books for sale from Taylor & Co. Doors at 7:00.
Time & Location
May 06, 2026, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Brooklyn, 1016 Beverley Rd, Brooklyn, NY 11218, USA
About the event
About Hannah Lillith Assadi
Hannah Lillith Assadi is the author of Sonora (Soho 2017), which received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Prize. Her second novel The Stars Are Not Yet Bells (Riverhead 2022) was named a New Yorker and NPR best book of 2022. Her third novel Paradiso 17, inspired by the life of her late Palestinian father, is out from Knopf on March 17, 2026. She teaches fiction at the Columbia University School of the Arts and the Pratt Institute. In 2018, she was named a '5 under 35' honoree by the National Book Foundation.
About Kate Zambreno
Kate Zambreno is the author of more than ten books that confound genre—variously novels, speculative essays and reports, performative lectures—including Animal Stories, The Light Room, Drifts, Book of Mutter, and Heroines. They also co-authored, with Sofia Samatar, a work of experimental criticism, Tone. Forthcoming from Semiotext(e) in 2026…