July 19 Dorothy Parker Read Here featuring Ed Lin, Nikki Mammano, & Zarinah!
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Dorothy Parker Read Here — July Reading at Core’s Tavern
A Lo Sontag–Curated Event, Co‑Hosted by Lo Sontag and Kimberly Organa Solo
Featuring Ed Lin, Nikki Mammano, & Zarinah
Sunday, July 19 • 2:00–4:30 p.m. • Bloomfield, NJ
Bloomfield, NJ — D10/11 Media continues its acclaimed reading series Dorothy Parker Read Here with a summer installment on Sunday, July 19, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Bloomfield’s historic Core’s Tavern (45 Franklin St). Curated by Lo Sontag and co‑hosted by Lo Sontag and Kimberly Organa Solo, the series brings together contemporary writers whose work carries forward Dorothy Parker’s legacy of wit, precision, and cultural clarity.
Held inside the 1936 tavern—home to the original Waldorf Astoria backbar, where Parker herself is rumored to have once held court—the event blends literary excellence with a setting steeped in storytelling and lore.
Featured Readers
Ed Lin, a native New Yorker of Taiwanese and Chinese descent, is the first author to win three Asian American Literary Awards. His latest book, The Dead Can’t Make a Living (Soho Crime), is the fifth installment in his Taipei Night Market mystery series. His 2020 YA novel, David Tung Can’t Have a Girlfriend Until He Gets Into an Ivy League College, was published by Kaya Press. Lin holds degrees in mining engineering and journalism from Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn with his wife, actress Cindy Cheung, and their son.
Nikki Mammano was raised in the greater New York metro area and spent her early twenties in Hawaii before returning to the Northeast, where she earned a BA in Communications and settled in Montclair, New Jersey. Her memoir, Breaking Good, explores her lived experience of addiction, recovery, and the criminal underworld of Oahu, offering an unsanitized look at the systems people fall through—and what it takes to rebuild a life.
Zarinah has been writing since childhood, using story as a way of thinking through the world across fiction, poetry, and narrative forms. She studied English and Journalism and later earned a Juris Doctor from Rutgers Law School–Newark, bringing a wide-ranging command of language to her work. Grounded in observation and shaped by experience across disciplines, her writing returns persistently to the craft of narrative and form. She lives in Bloomfield, New Jersey.
Continuing the Series
Dorothy Parker Read Here offers an intimate, ongoing space for literature that refuses dullness and embraces clarity, humor, and edge. Presented by Lo Sontag, the series centers writers whose work invites audiences to listen closely, and respond in kind.
Event Details
Event: Dorothy Parker Read Here — July Reading
Curated by: Lo Sontag
Co‑Hosted by: Lo Sontag and Kimberly Organa Solo
Date: Sunday, July 19, 2026
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Location: Core’s TavernAddress: 45 Franklin St, (Halcyon Park) Bloomfield, NJ 07003
Admission: Free and open to the public
A Lo Sontag–Curated Event, Co‑Hosted by Lo Sontag and Kimberly Organa Solo
Featuring Ed Lin, Nikki Mammano, & Zarinah
Sunday, July 19 • 2:00–4:30 p.m. • Bloomfield, NJ
Bloomfield, NJ — D10/11 Media continues its acclaimed reading series Dorothy Parker Read Here with a summer installment on Sunday, July 19, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Bloomfield’s historic Core’s Tavern (45 Franklin St). Curated by Lo Sontag and co‑hosted by Lo Sontag and Kimberly Organa Solo, the series brings together contemporary writers whose work carries forward Dorothy Parker’s legacy of wit, precision, and cultural clarity.
Held inside the 1936 tavern—home to the original Waldorf Astoria backbar, where Parker herself is rumored to have once held court—the event blends literary excellence with a setting steeped in storytelling and lore.
Featured Readers
Ed Lin, a native New Yorker of Taiwanese and Chinese descent, is the first author to win three Asian American Literary Awards. His latest book, The Dead Can’t Make a Living (Soho Crime), is the fifth installment in his Taipei Night Market mystery series. His 2020 YA novel, David Tung Can’t Have a Girlfriend Until He Gets Into an Ivy League College, was published by Kaya Press. Lin holds degrees in mining engineering and journalism from Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn with his wife, actress Cindy Cheung, and their son.
Nikki Mammano was raised in the greater New York metro area and spent her early twenties in Hawaii before returning to the Northeast, where she earned a BA in Communications and settled in Montclair, New Jersey. Her memoir, Breaking Good, explores her lived experience of addiction, recovery, and the criminal underworld of Oahu, offering an unsanitized look at the systems people fall through—and what it takes to rebuild a life.
Zarinah has been writing since childhood, using story as a way of thinking through the world across fiction, poetry, and narrative forms. She studied English and Journalism and later earned a Juris Doctor from Rutgers Law School–Newark, bringing a wide-ranging command of language to her work. Grounded in observation and shaped by experience across disciplines, her writing returns persistently to the craft of narrative and form. She lives in Bloomfield, New Jersey.
Continuing the Series
Dorothy Parker Read Here offers an intimate, ongoing space for literature that refuses dullness and embraces clarity, humor, and edge. Presented by Lo Sontag, the series centers writers whose work invites audiences to listen closely, and respond in kind.
Event Details
Event: Dorothy Parker Read Here — July Reading
Curated by: Lo Sontag
Co‑Hosted by: Lo Sontag and Kimberly Organa Solo
Date: Sunday, July 19, 2026
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Location: Core’s TavernAddress: 45 Franklin St, (Halcyon Park) Bloomfield, NJ 07003
Admission: Free and open to the public
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