Julian Houston Reads at Hotel Marlowe

Wednesday, May 3, 2006
From 6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
(During Wine Hour, which begins at 5:30 PM)

Julian Houston was born in Richmond, Virginia, and educated in the public schools of that city before attending the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut. He attended Boston University and was a community organizer in Harlem during the civil rights movement. Now an associate justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, Houston lives in Brookline with his wife and family. His debut novel, New Boy, is a nuanced and powerful story of the first African American student in an elite Connecticut boarding school during the 1950's. Moving between a privileged school, the emerging civil rights movement, and jazz clubs of Harlem, Houston's young hero, Rob Garrett, traverses the shifting terrain of class and race in America. "This is history without sensationalism,"
says The New York Times, "in which small acts of resistance eventually change the rules."

Porter Square Books will be selling books at this reading.

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 e-mail pen_ne@lesley.edu