Annual Book Party

Tuesday, September 25, 2007
7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
The Gym, Radcliffe Yard
The Radcliffe Institute, Cambridge

Please join with us at our annual gathering of the PEN New England community featuring the traditional celebration of those who have published books this year and the presentation of PEN New England’s "Friend to Writers" Award.

And don’t miss this year’s special event featuring Anne Bernays and Justin Kaplan as hosts of The 2007 PEN New England Literary Quiz!

If you are a PEN New England member and have published a book since last September please e-mail pen_ne@lesley.edu or call 617.349.8113 and leave your name, the title of your book, the publisher, and the publication date so we can share the news on September 25th and list it in our next newsletter as well.

And please bring a copy of your book for other members and guests to admire. If you haven’t published this year, please come and raise a glass to those who have.

Alan Hirshfield Reads at Hotel Marlowe

Wednesday September 5, 2007
6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
During the Hotel Marlowe's Wine Hour, which begins at 5:00 PM

Alan Hirshfeld is the author of The Electric Life of Michael Faraday (Walker & Co., 2006), a biography of the 19th-century scientist who laid the foundations of our modern electrical age. Los Angeles Weekly writes that the book illuminates Faraday's life "with surpassing grace and a playful spirit." Hirshfeld's previous book, Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos (Henry Holt, 2002), chronicles the human stories involved in the centuries-long quest by astronomers to measure the first distance to a star. He is currently working on a book about the life and work of the ancient Greek mathematician/inventor Archimedes. Professor of Physics at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and Associate of the Harvard College Observatory, he has written widely for scientific magazines and has lectured around the country about scientific history and discovery.

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