(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Pulitzer Prize-nominated author David Gates and Albany’s Karen Lin-Greenberg will read from recent works at Time and Space Limited on Sunday, June 14, 2015, at 7pm, in a co-presentation by Karen Schoemer, Bookseller. Gates will be reading from his new collection, “A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me: Stories and a Novella,” published by Knopf. Lin-Greenberg will read from her story collection “Faulty Predictions,” winner of the 2013 Flannery O’Connor award for short fiction. Books by both authors will be available for purchase and signing.

Acclaimed novelist David Gates — anointed by New York magazine as “a true heir to both Raymond Carver and John Cheever” and the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist “Jernigan” —returns with his first collection in fifteen years, “A Hand Reached Down To Guide Me: Stories and a Novella.”

The eagerly anticipated new collection boasts eleven stories and a masterful novella, and it follows on the heels of Gates’ many previous critical successes. His second novel, “Preston Falls,” was named one of the Best Eleven Books of the Year by The New York Times, and both it and the collection “The Wonders of the Invisible World” were shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award.  This year, the featured story “A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me” was chosen by editor Jennifer Egan and included in “The Best American Short Stories 2014.”

Gates’s characters, young or old or neither, are well educated, broadly knowledgeable, often creative, and variously accomplished.  They are doctors, composers, directors, academics, and journalists, and every one of them carries a full supply of the human condition: parents in assisted-living facilities, too many or too few people in their families and marriages, impulses pulling them away from comfort into distraction or catastrophe. Terrifyingly self-aware, they refuse to go gently — even when they’re going nowhere fast, in settings that range across the metropolitan and suburban Northeast to the countryside upstate and in New England.

Gates lives in Missoula, where he teaches at the University of Montana, and in Granville, New York, where he is associated with the Bennington Writing Seminars. A former Guggenheim Fellow, for many years he was a writer and editor at Newsweek, where he specialized in music and books.

In Karin Lin-Greenberg’s “Faulty Predictions” (University of Georgia Press), young characters try to find their way in the world and older characters confront regrets. In “Editorial Decisions,” members of the editorial board of a high school literary magazine are witnesses to an unspeakable act of violence. Two grandmothers, both immigrants from China, argue over the value of their treasures at a filming of Antiques Roadshow in “Prized Possessions.” In “A Good Brother,” a sister forces her brother to accompany her to the Running of the Brides at Filene’s Base- ment. A city bus driver adopts a pig that has been brought onto the bus by rowdy college students in “Designated Driver.”

The stories in “Faulty Predictions” take place in locales as diverse as small-town Ohio, the mountains of western North Carolina, and the plains of Kansas. Lin-Greenberg provides insight into the human condition over a varied cross section of geography, age, and culture. Although the characters are often faced with obstacles and challenges, the stories also cap- ture moments of optimism and hope.

Lin-Greenberg’s fiction has appeared in literary journals including the Antioch Review, Epoch, Kenyon Review Online, and North American Review. She lives and teaches creative writing in upstate New York.

Time & Space Limited Theater Company was founded in NYC in 1973 by Linda Mussman and Claudia Bruce. In 1991, TSL moved to Hudson, New York, where it expanded its role as an avant garde theater company to include becoming a community arts organization, while always keeping theater at its core.

TSL’s programming spotlights the powerful role of the arts in awakening individual imaginations and fostering community participation. Whether offering people their first experience with  live theater or  opera , providing workshops and special enrichment projects for  young people  that include theater, art, movie-making, circus performance and gardening, or initiating discussions of local and global political issues, TSL is always looking to set off the spark that benefits and alters individual lives.

At its location in Hudson, TSL is both a beacon for change in Upstate New York and a national model, providing its community with an arts organization that is committed to constructing relationships on a local level.

Karen Schoemer is a poet, author, journalist and spoken word performer. As an independent bookseller, she brings literary events to cultural organizations in Hudson and around Columbia County.