Muldoon's Picnic (April)

Sophie Cabot Black was raised on a small farm in New England. She received her B.A. from Marlboro College and her M.F.A. from Columbia University. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including The Atlantic, Bomb, Granta, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Tin House, and Poetry. 

Andy Fitzpatrick is a Dublin-born songwriter and performer. His new album, Antoinette Plaza, is now available on Spotify, iTunes, and all other online stores.

"The stretch of Fitzpatrick's imagination and his sharp way with a lyric reveals more with each listen."—The Irish Times 

"While adamantly low-key, his bittersweet tunes creep up and nestle in nicely."—Time Out New York

Photo credit: Leon Steel

Virginia Heffernan is a journalist, critic and author, most recently, of MAGIC AND LOSS: The Internet as Art (Simon & Schuster, 2016). She is a contributing editor at POLITICO, a cohost of Slate's Trumpcast podcast, and a columnist at FastCompany. Heffernan has been called "America's preeminent cultural critic," "a public intellectual for the 21st century," and among the "finest living writers of English prose." Edward Mendelson in The New York Review of Books called MAGIC AND LOSS, "surprisingly moving...an ecstatic narrative of submission."

Heffernan has also written for The New Yorker, Mother Jones, New York magazine, Salon, MTV, POLITICO, VICE, WIRED, the LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Marie Claire, Glamour, The Message, Matter, and many other publications. She has appeared on The Open Mind, 20/20, CNBC, MSNBC, and regularly on NPR.

The Prodigals are an American-Irish jig-punk band who combine Irish music and rock’n’roll. Its members are Gregory Grene (button accordion, vocals), Dave Fahy (guitar, vocals), Alex Grene (fiddle), Andrew Harkin (bass, double bass) and Brian Tracey (drums).

Gary Shteyngart was born in Leningrad in 1972 and came to the United States seven years later. He is the author of the novels Super Sad True Love Story, which won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and was selected as one of the best books of the year by more than forty news journals and magazines around the world; Absurdistan, which was chosen as one of the ten best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review and Time magazine; and The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, winner of the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Travel + Leisure, Esquire, GQ, The New York Times Magazine, and many other publications and has been translated into twenty-six languages. Shteyngart lives in New York City and upstate New York.