Risa Miller Reads at Hotel Marlowe

Wednesday, November 2, 2005
From 6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
(During Wine Hour, which begins at 5:30 PM)

Risa Miller's remarkable first novel, Welcome to Heavenly Heights, began as Miller's MFA thesis for the Creative Writing program at Emerson College, and was published by St. Martin's Press. About Heavenly Heights, Booklist writes, "Miller's American Jewish characters remind themselves why they have come to Israel, and she relates their stories with delicacy and bittersweet humor. Miller uses small catastrophes—a vandalized water pipe, a shattered windshield—to underscore the precariousness of life in Heavenly Heights and the bonds that connect its residents. This is a sensitive and clear-eyed portrayal of a much-debated and misunderstood way of life." In 1999, Miller received the PEN-New England Discovery Award. She has taught writing at UMass Boston and Emerson and is currently at work on a second novel.

Porter Square Books is the bookseller for the PEN-Marlowe Series.

The Hotel Marlowe is located at 25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge. Inexpensive parking is available in the Cambridgeside Galleria garage with direct entry into the hotel from Levels A and C. The hotel is closest to the Lechmere T-stop, and is within walking distance of Charles and Kendall Square.

For more information call 617-824-8820 or email pen_ne@lesley.edu.