Visiting Writer Gabe Habash

Columbus native Gabe Habash comes back to read from his debut novel, Stephen Florida.  Hanya Yanagihara, author of A Little Life, says, "In Stephen Florida, Gabe Habash has created a coming-of-age story with its own, often explosive, rhythm and velocity. Habash has a canny sense of how young men speak and behave, and in Stephen, he's created a singular character: funny, ambitious, affecting, but also deeply troubled, vulnerable, and compellingly strange. This is a shape-shifter of a book, both a dark ode to the mysteries and landscapes of the American West and a complex and convincing character study."  Gabe is currently the fiction reviews editor for Publishers Weekly. He holds an MFA from New York University.