Robert Lopez, Nicki Pombier Berger, Rebecca Resnick and Elizabeth Gaffney read at KGB Bar on May 14, 2010. 

Here’s a teaser from Metropolis, Elizabeth Gaffney’s novel featuring such historical underwater escapades as exploding caissons in the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Westfield ferry disaster …

From Metropolis:

Then a second boom echoed through the great chamber below thee bottom of the river and there came a roaring and a rush of air and water. All three lamps and candles went dark, and a flood of river and mud swept Harris off his feet and sucked him under …