The Antibody
A boost to your spirit if not your immune system, The Antibody was a quarantine reading and conversation series hosted by Brian Gresko via Zoom and live streamed on YouTube. Edited episodes also appeared on The Virtual Book Channel by Lit Hub, and are archived below.
From March 24th to December 3rd, 2020, The Antibody featured writers of all genres from across the globe, bringing together emerging voices with acclaimed debuts authors and established literary superstars. Over the course of 25 shows, The Antibody collaborated with Epiphany Literary Journal to celebrate “The Borders Issue,” WORD Bookstore and Catapult to launch the anthology Tiny Nightmares, and The Center for Fiction for an all-star fundraiser benefiting the Book Industry Charitable Fund’s COVID-19 relief efforts.
The series is currently on hiatus, but follow @AntibodSeries on Twitter for updates. To read more about the inspiration and planning behind the series, check out this feature on Fear No Lit.
2020 Shows
December 3, 2020: Readings by Matthew Daddona (House of Sound), Hafizah Geter (Un-American), and Xiaolu Guo (A Lover's Discourse), followed by discussion.
November 19, 2020: Readings by Ayad Akhtar (Homeland Elegies), Nicole Krauss (To Be A Man), and Jonathan Lethem (The Arrest), followed by discussion.
October 29, 2020: The Antibody and WORD Bookstore present the virtual book launch for Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Tales of Horror.
October 22, 2020: Readings by Angela Chen (Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex), Athena Dixon (The Incredible Shrinking Woman), and Melissa Faliveno (Tomboyland: Essays), followed by discussion.
October 8th, 2020: Readings by Makenna Goodman (The Shame), Hari Kunzru (Red Pill), and Sigrid Nunez (What Are You Going Through), followed by discussion.
September 24, 2020: Readings by Kelli Jo Ford (Crooked Hallelujah), Megan Cummins (If The Body Allows It), and Melissa Ragsly (We Know This Will All Disappear), followed by discussion.
August 6, 2020: Season Finale Fundraiser for the Book Industry Charitable Fund’s COVID-19 Relief Fund, in collaboration with The Center For Fiction; featuring Jericho Brown (The Tradition), Carmen Maria Machado (In The Dream House), Celeste Ng (Little Fires Everywhere), and Karen Russell (Orange World)
July 28, 2020: Readings by Porochista Khakpour (Brown Album), Meredith Talusan (Fairest), and Justin Taylor (Riding With The Ghost), followed by discussion.
July 21, 2020: Readings by Mary South (You Will Never Be Forgotten), Elisabeth Thomas (Catherine House), and Kristen Millares Young (Subduction), followed by discussion.
Episode 17 — POSTPONED due to medical emergency
July 7, 2020: Readings by Afia Atakora (Conjure Women), Clare Beams (The Illness Lesson), and Kirkland Hamill (Filthy Beasts), followed by discussion.
June 30, 2020: Readings by Brit Bennett (The Vanishing Half), Michele Filgate (What My Mother and I Don't Talk About), Lynn Steger Strong (Want), followed by discussion.
June 26, 2020: In collaboration Epiphany Literary Journal, eight readings to celebrate the release of The Borders Issue.
June 23, 2020: Readings by Zaina Arafat (You Exist Too Much), Diksha Basu (Destination Wedding), and Annie Kim (Eros, Unbroken), followed by discussion.
June 16, 2020: Readings by Roy G. Guzmán (Catrachos), Genevieve Hudson (Boys of Alabama), and Wayétu Moore (The Dragons, The Giant, The Women), followed by discussion.
June 10, 2020: Readings by Shayla Lawson (This Is Major), Nadia Owusu (Aftershocks), and Emily Raboteau (Searching For Zion), followed by discussion.
June 2, 2020: Blackout Tuesday; Black Lives Matter
May 26, 2020: Readings by Elizabeth Kadetsky (The Memory Eaters), Lisa Olstein (Pain Studies), and Sejal Shah (This Is One Way to Dance), followed by discussion.
May 19, 2020: Readings by Laura van den Berg (I Hold A Wolf By The Ears), Melissa Febos (Abandon Me), and Tracy O'Neill (Quotients), followed by discussion.
May 12, 2020: Readings by Laura Bogart (Don't You Know I Love You), Peter Kispert (I Know You Know Who I Am), and Matt Ortile (The Groom Will Keep His Name), followed by d...
May 5, 2020: Readings by Sarah Blake (Naamah), Emily St. John Mandel (The Glass Hotel), and Anna Solomon (The Book of V.), followed by discussion.
April 28, 2020: Readings by Danielle Lazarin (Back Talk), Jennifer Rosner (The Yellow Bird Sings), and Audrey Olivero, followed by discussion.
April 21, 2020: Readings by Mary-Kim Arnold (The Fish & The Dove), Marie-Helene Bertino (Parakeet), and C Pam Zhang (How Much of These Hills Is Gold), followed by discussion.
April 14, 2020: Readings by novelists Rebecca Dinerstein (Hex), Megan Giddings (Lakewood), and Megha Majumdar (A Burning), followed by discussion.
April 7th, 2020: Readings by Hannah Bae, Melissa Clark (Dinner In French), and E.J. Koh (The Magical Language of Others), followed by discussion.
March 31, 2020: Readings by Andrew Altschul (The Gringa), Rachel Lyon (Self-Portrait With Boy) and Michael Seidlinger (Dreams of Being), followed by discussion.
March 24, 2020: Readings by Kendra Allen (When You Learn The Alphabet), Maisy Card (These Ghosts Are Family), and Hilary Leichter (Temporary), followed by discussion.