Sue Miller Reads at Hotel Marlowe
Wednesday August 6, 2008
6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
During the Hotel Marlowe's Wine Hour, which begins at 5:00 PM
Sue Miller’s latest novel The Senator’s Wife, was called "a master class in the refinement of craft" by The Boston Globe. Miller is also author of the novels Lost in the Forest, The World Below, While I Was Gone, The Distinguished Guest, For Love, Family Pictures, and The Good Mother; the story collection Inventing the Abbotts; and the memoir The Story of My Father. She was for four years the Chair of PEN New England. She lives in Boston.
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
Janna Malamud Smith Reads at Hotel Marlowe
Wednesday July 2, 2008
6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
During the Hotel Marlowe's Wine Hour, which begins at 5:00 PM
Janna Malamud Smith is a writer and psychotherapist. She has lectured widely, and has published nationally and internationally in newspapers, magazines and journals including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Herald Tribune, Haaretz, The Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The American Scholar and The Threepenny Review. She is the author of three books: her latest, My Father is a Book: a Memoir of Bernard Malamud (2006) received a "starred" review from Publisher’s Weekly, was selected as a Washington Post Best Book of the Year, a Rocky Mountain News Favorite Book of the Year, and a New York Times Editor’s Choice. Private Matters (1997) and A Potent Spell (2003) were both chosen as "Notable Books" by The New York Times Sunday Book Review. She has a private practice, is a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and works part time at the Cambridge Health Alliance where she sees patients, supervises and teaches psychotherapy.
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
Rose Moss Reads at Hotel Marlowe
Wednesday May 7, 2008
6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
During the Hotel Marlowe's Wine Hour, which begins at 5:00 PM
Rose Moss, born in Johannesburg, South Africa, has lived in the United States since 1964. In 2007, Penguin published her most recent book, In Court, as a Modern Classic. She has published two novels, The Family Reunion, short-listed for a National Book Award, and The Terrorist, featured selection by the New Fiction Society. The Terrorist was published as The Schoolmaster in South Africa and has been re-printed. Her third book, Shouting at the Crocodile, non-fiction, presents two defendants in a treason trial during the last days of apartheid. Among her more than forty short stories, one won a Quill Prize from the Massachusetts Review and another, a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. Several have been cited in Best American Short Stories, been nominated for Pushcart prizes, selected for anthologies in the United States and abroad and have been widely translated. Her non-fiction has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Atlantic Monthly and other similar publications and in scholarly journals. She teaches in the Nieman Program at Harvard University, Harvard Law School and the Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard. Moss is a member of PEN American Center, an active member of PEN New England, and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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
Robert Finch Reads at Hotel Marlowe
Wednesday April 2, 2008
6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
During the Hotel Marlowe's Wine Hour, which begins at 5:00 PM
Robert Finch is widely regarded as one of America's leading nature writers, and has lived on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, since 1971. He has published seven books of essays, most recently, The Iambics of Newfoundland: Notes from an Unknown Shore (Counterpoint Press, 2007). Others include Common Ground (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1982), The Primal Place (republished in 2007 by Countryman Press), Outlands, and The Cape Itself (with photographer Ralph MacKenzie), Death of a Hornet and Other Cape Cod Essays, and Special Places on Cape Cod and the Islands. In addition he has edited A Place Apart: A Cape Cod Reader and co-edited (with John Elder) The Norton Book of Nature Writing. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and journals, and has been widely anthologized and translated. In 2005 he received the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award for Radio Writing. Mr. Finch has taught at numerous colleges and writers conferences and is currently on the nonfiction faculty of the MFA in Writing Program at Spalding University, Louisville, Kentucky. He lives in Wellfleet, MA, with his wife, the writer Kathy Shorr, and spends summers in Newfoundland.
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
Three Women Writers from Local Graduate Writing Programs
In Honor of WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
PEN New England invites you to a reading by
Three Women Writers from Local Graduate Writing Programs
Heather Christle, poet
Laura van den Berg, fiction writer
Jessica Belt, non-fiction writer
Introduced by Jessica Treadway
Novelist and PEN New England Board Member
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
6:15 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
during the Hotel Marlowe's Wine Hour, beginning at 5:00 p.m.
Heather Christle grew up in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. Her poems appear in Boston Review, LIT, Octopus, Tarpaulin Sky, Verse and in The Best American Erotic Poetry: 1800 to the Present, edited by David Lehamn. In 2006 she won Third Coast's annual poetry competition. She is a candidate in the UMass Amherst MFA Program, where she also teaches an undergraduate poetry class. She lives in Northampton and is the assistant editor of Jubilat.
Laura van den Berg is a third-year MFA student at Emerson College, where she is the editor-in-chief of Redivider and a Ploughshares staff member. Her fiction has been published or will soon appear in StoryQuarterly, The Greensboro Review, Third Coast, The Louisville Review, The Northwest Review, The Indiana Review, The Literary Review, and American Short Fiction, among others. Her stories have also received awards from Glimmer Train and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
Jessica Belt writes essays on religion, Texas, and the eccentricities of urban living. She is inspired by the oddballs and chatterboxes she meets near her home in Cambridge, MA. She studied sociology at Gordon College and will complete her MFA at Lesley University in June 2008. Jessica's essays have appeared in InkCollective.
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
Jeffrey Harrison Reads at Hotel Marlowe
Wednesday February 6, 2008
6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
During the Hotel Marlowe's Wine Hour, which begins at 5:00 PM
Jeffrey Harrison is the author of four full-length books of poetry—The Singing Underneath (1988), selected by James Merrill for the National Poetry Series; Signs of Arrival (1996); Feeding the Fire (Sarabande Books, 2001); and Incomplete Knowledge (Four Way Books, 2006)—as well as The Names of Things: New and Selected Poems, (Waywiser Press, U.K., 2006). His poems have appeared in many magazines and anthologies including The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Yale Review, and Poets of the New Century. Harrison has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and has been awarded two Pushcart Prizes. He taught at George Washington University, College of the Holy Cross, and Phillips Academy, and currently is a faculty member of the Stonecoast MFA Program, University of Southern Maine.
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
Anne Bernays Reads at Hotel Marlowe
Wednesday January 2, 2008
6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
During the Hotel Marlowe's Wine Hour, which begins at 5:00 PM
Anne Bernays is the author of nine published novels, among them Growing Up Rich, Professor Romeo, and most recently, Trophy House, (Simon and Schuster, 2005). With her husband, Justin Kaplan, she wrote The Language of Names and Back Then, a double memoir. With Pamela Painter she wrote What If, Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers, (Pearson Longmans, 2004). Bernays teaches writing at Harvard's Nieman Foundation and is on the faculty of Lesley University's MFA program. She had published non-fiction in national magazines and journals. Her tenth novel (from which she will be reading) was bought and scheduled for publication by Simon and Schuster, then embargoed because of potential legal problems in the story.
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
Susan Pollack Reads at Hotel Marlowe
Wednesday December 5, 2007
6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
During the Hotel Marlowe's Wine Hour, which begins at 5:00 PM
Susan Pollack is an award-winning journalist and author of the recent Gloucester Fishermen's Wives Cookbook: Stories and Recipes (Twin Lights Publishers, 2005). Her essays and feature articles have appeared in publications including Orion, Sierra, The Boston Globe Magazine, Ms., Mademoiselle, Amicus Journal, New Age, National Fisherman, Writing Nature, The East Hampton Star, International Herald Tribune, Gloucester Daily Times, and the Virginia Woolf Bulletin, as well as anthologies such as Best Spiritual Writing. She is now working on a collection of essays about landscape and imagination, which includes pieces on Virginia Woolf’s Sussex, a Florentine pensione, and the women of Gloucester, where she and her husband, a poet and boat builder, have made their home in a 1735 fisherman's cottage.
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
Ann Harleman Reads at Hotel Marlowe
Wednesday November 7, 2007
6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
During the Hotel Marlowe's Wine Hour, which begins at 5:00 PM
Ann Harleman is the author of two short story collections—Happiness, and Thoreau’s Laundry—and two novels, Bitter Lake and The Year She Disappeared. Her awards include Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellowships, three Rhode Island State Arts Council fellowships, the Berlin Prize in Literature, the Iowa Short Fiction Award, the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, the O. Henry Award, and a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award. The first woman to receive a Ph.D. in linguistics from Princeton, Ann spent some years living and working behind the "Iron Curtain," and now serves on the faculties of Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design. Her website is www.annharleman.com.
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
Joyce Peseroff Reads at Hotel Marlowe
Wednesday October 3, 2007
6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
During the Hotel Marlowe's Wine Hour, which begins at 5:00 PM
Joyce Peseroff’s four books of poems are The Hardness Scale, A Dog in the Lifeboat, Mortal Education, and Eastern Mountain Time (Carnegie Mellon University Press). She is the editor of The Ploughshares Poetry Reader, Robert Bly: When Sleepers Awake, and Simply Lasting: Writers on Jane Kenyon. Recent poems and reviews appear in Margie, Memorious, Ploughshares, Salamander, Slate, and The Women’s Review of Books. She has received grants for her poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, as well as a Pushcart Prize. She is Director of Creative Writing and the new MFA Program at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
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
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
Richard Hoffman Reads at Hotel Marlowe
Wednesday August 1, 2007
6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
During the Hotel Marlowe's Wine Hour, which begins at 5:00 PM
Richard Hoffman is author of the award-winning Half the House: a Memoir, and the poetry collections, Without Paradise and Gold Star Road, winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize. His work, both verse and prose, has appeared in Agni, Ascent, Harvard Review, Hudson Review, Poetry, Witness and other magazines. He has been awarded several fellowships and prizes, most recently a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in fiction, and The Literary Review’s Charles Angoff Prize. He is Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College and also teaches in the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine.
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
JoAnn Hart Reads at Hotel Marlowe
Wednesday July 11, 2007
6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
During the Hotel Marlowe's Wine Hour, which begins at 5:00 PM
JoeAnn Hart is the recipient of the 2004 PEN New England Discovery Award in Fiction, which directly led to the discovery of Addled (Little, Brown and Company, 2007), her first novel. She is a regular contributor to the Boston Globe Magazine, and her essays and short fiction have appeared in numerous literary journals, most recently The MacGuffin, Open City, and Prairie Schooner.
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
Gregory Maguire Reads at Hotel Marlowe
Wednesday May 2, 2007
6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
During the Hotel Marlowe's Wine Hour, which begins at 5:00 PM
GREGORY MAGUIRE is the author of the The New York Times bestsellers Son of a Witch and Wicked, the latter of which inspired the hit Broadway musical. He has written five adult novels and fifteen children's novels, as well as reviews, fiction, and editorials for Ploughshares, The New York Times Book Review, the Christian Science Monitor, the LA Times, and other journals. His forthcoming work includes a children's novel What-the-Dickens, and an adult novel, A Cowardly War.
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
Megan Marshall Reads at Hotel Marlowe
Wednesday April 4, 2007
6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
During the Hotel Marlowe's Wine Hour, which begins at 5:00 PM
Megan Marshall is the author of The Peabody Sisters (Houghton Mifflin, 2005), a landmark biography of three women who made American intellectual history. Described as "a stunning work" by The New York Times, The Peabody Sisters was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and the recipient of the Francis Parkman Prize from The Society of American Historians, and the Mark Lynton History Prize. Marshall is currently a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, working on a new biography, titled Ebe: The Untold Story of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Forgotten Sister. She has also written for many publications including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Slate, and The New York Times Book Review.
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
Readings by Three Mystery Writers at the Hotel Marlowe
In Honor of WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
PEN New England invites you to a reading by
Three Mystery Writers
Susan Conant, Barbara Neely & Jane Langton
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
6:15 to 7:30 p.m.
During the Hotel Marlowe's Wine Hour
5:00 – 6:15 p.m.
Susan Conant graduated from Radcliffe College and holds a doctorate in human development from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her first dog lovers' mystery, A New Leash on Death, was published in 1990; and her seventeenth, Gaits of Heaven, in 2006. Susan is a six-time winner of the Dog Writers Association of America's Maxwell Award. Her first cat mystery, Scratch the Surface, was published in 2005. She and her daughter, Jessica Conant-Park, are collaborating on a new series of chick-lit culinary mysteries, the first of which, Steamed, was published in March of 2006. Susan and her husband live near Boston with an Alaskan malamute and two Chartreux cats.
Barbara Neely is a novelist, short story writer, and author of the popular Blanche White mystery novels. The first book in this series, Blanche on the Lam, won the Agatha, the Macavity, and the Anthony—three of the four major mystery awards for best first novel—as well as the Go On Girl! Book Club award for a debut novel. The subsequent books in the series, BLANCHE AMONG The Talented Tenth, Blanche Cleans Up and Blanche Passes Go have also received critical acclaim from both fans and literary critics. Books in the Blanche White series have been taught in courses at universities as varied as Howard University, Northwestern, Bryn Mawr, Old Dominion, Boston College, Appalachian State University, Washington State University and Guttenberg University in Mainz, Germany. Books in the series have been translated into French, German and Japanese and Neely's short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, magazines, university texts, and journals.
Jane Langton's mystery novels include Steeplechase, The Deserter, Murder at Gettysbury, and Murder at Monticello. She writes about her hero and heroine, Homer and Mary Kelly, who have stumbled on the bodies of expired people in far flung places that Langton herself wished to visit—Florence, Venice and Oxford—as well as down-home neighborhoods like Monticello and Gettysburg. Most of her eighteen novels are illustrated with Langton's own drawings of the real places where the fictional events happen: one has ten prints by M. C. Escher, and two include nineteenth-century photographs. Usually some majestic presence—Thoreau, Mrs. Jack Gardner, Emily Dickinson, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Darwin—hovers over the action. Langton is the author of several children’s books as well.
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
Michael Lowenthal Reads at Hotel Marlowe
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
From 6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
(During Wine Hour, which begins at 5:00 PM)
Michael Lowenthal is the author of Charity Girl (Houghton Mifflin, 2007). The novel, set in 1918, is based on a disturbing but little-remembered episode in American history, when the government, claiming special wartime powers to protect the military, arrested and incarcerated 15,000 women who had venereal disease. The women—American citizens—were held indefinitely, without formal charges, in federally funded detention centers. Lowenthal is the author of of two previous novels, Avoidance (Graywolf Press, 2002) and The Same Embrace (Dutton, 1998). His stories have appeared in the Southern Review, Kenyon Review, and Tin House, and have been widely anthologized, most recently in Best New American Voices 2005 and Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction from the Edge. The recipient of fellowships from the Bread Loaf and Wesleyan writers' conferences, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers, Lowenthal teaches creative writing at Boston College and in the low-residency MFA program at Lesley University. He also serves on the Executive Board of PEN New England.
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
Gary Duehr Reads at Hotel Marlowe
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
From 6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
(During Wine Hour, which begins at 5:00 PM)
In the fall of 2004, Gary Duehr published Potato Chips for Dinner: Poems 1984-2004. His previous books of poetry are Beautiful Bullets, Winter Light, and Where Everyone Is Going To. He has also published the chapbooks Connie Stevens Is Flying Over the Pacific Ocean, In the Bar Apocalypse Now, and Between Things. Duehr has taught poetry and writing for institutions including Boston University, Lesley University, and Tufts University. His MFA is from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. In 2001 he received an NEA Poetry Fellowship, and he has also received grants and fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the LEF Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Journals in which his poems have appeared include Agni, American Literary Review, Chiron Review, Cottonwood, Hawaii Review, Hotel Amerika, Iowa Review, North American Review, and Southern Poetry Review. In addition, Duehr co-directs the Invisible Cities Group, which creates large-scale performances combining theatrical elements, installations of visual art, and poetry.
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
Bill Roorbach Reads at Hotel Marlowe
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
From 6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
(During Wine Hour, which begins at 5:00 PM)
Bill Roorbach is the author most recently of Temple Stream, winner of the 2006 Maine Literary Award in Nonfiction. His fiction includes the novel The Smallest Color and a collection of stories, Big Bend, which won the Flannery O'Connor Prize. The title story also won an O. Henry Award. His other books of nonfiction are A Place on Water (with Bob Kimber and Wes McNair), Into Woods, Summers with Juliet, and the best-selling book of instruction, Writing Life Stories. His short work has appeared in The Atlantic, Harper's, Granta, and the New York Times Magazine. He currently holds the William H.P. Jenks Chair in Contemporary American Letters at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. He lives in Farmington, Maine, with his wife, the painter Juliet Karelsen, and their daughter Elysia.
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
Jessica Treadway Reads at Hotel Marlowe
Wednesday, November 1, 2006
From 6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
(During Wine Hour, which begins at 5:00 PM)
Jessica Treadway grew up in upstate New York, where after college she served as a bureau manager and reporter for United Press International. She moved to Boston in 1984 and since then has written two books--a collection of short stories called Absent Without Leave, and a novel, And Give You Peace. She teaches creative writing at Emerson College.
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
Kurt Brown Reads at Hotel Marlowe
Wednesday, October 4, 2006
From 6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
(During Wine Hour, which begins at 5:30 PM)
Kurt Brown is the editor of Drive, They Said: Poems about Americans and Their Cars (1994) and Verse & Universe: Poems about Science and Mathematics (1998) both from Milkweed Editions. He is also co-editor, with his wife, of Night Out (Milkweed Editions). He has edited three books of lectures delivered at American writers' conferences, including Facing the Lion (Beacon Press), and a collection of essays, The Measured Word: On Poetry and Science (University of Georgia Press). His poetry publications are Return of the Prodigals (Four Way Books), More Things in Heaven and Earth (Four Way Books), and Fables from the Ark (WordTech), which won the 2003 Custom Words Prize. Forthcoming poetry books are Future Ship (Red Hen Press, 2007) and From Here (2008). Brown is also the author of five award winning poetry chapbooks, published by various presses, and was the Bruce McEver Visiting Chair in Writing at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia.
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
Barbara Wallraff Reads at Hotel Marlowe
Wednesday, September 6, 2006
From 6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
(During Wine Hour, which begins at 5:30 PM)
Barbara Wallraff is a contributing editor at The Atlantic Monthly, where she has worked since 1983. She also writes a nationally syndicated weekly newspaper column called Word Court, for King Features. Doing justice to the English language has long been a professional specialty of Barbara's. She has written for The New York Times Magazine's "On Language" column; she is a former commissioner of the Word Police; and National Public Radio's Morning Edition once asked her to copyedit the U.S. Constitution. Her name appears in a Trivial Pursuit question—but not in the answer. Wallraff is the author of the national best seller Word Court, Your Own Words, and Word Fugitives, which was published this spring.
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
Jennifer Rose Reads at Hotel Marlowe
Wednesday, August 2, 2006
From 6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
(During Wine Hour, which begins at 5:30 PM)
Jennifer Rose is the author of The Old Direction of Heaven (Truman State University Press) and Hometown for an Hour (Hollis Summers Award, Ohio University Press) and the recipient of awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Poetry Society of America, among others. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Nation, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. She lives in Waltham, Massachusetts, and works as a city planner specializing in downtown revitalization.
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
Afaa Weaver Reads at Hotel Marlowe
Wednesday, July 5, 2006
From 6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
(During Wine Hour, which begins at 5:30 PM)
Afaa Weaver has published nine collections of poetry, had two professional theater productions, published short fiction, and served as editor of Obsidian III, based at North Carolina State University. His short fiction appears in Gloria Naylor's Children of the Night, the sequel to Langston Hughes' anthology, Best Short Stories by Negro Writers. Books include Stations in a Dream (Dolphin Moon Press), Timber and Prayer (University of Pittsburgh), Talisman (Tia Chucha Press/Northwestern University), The Ten Lights of God (Bucknell University Press), Sandy Point (The Press of Appletree Alley) and Multitudes (Sarabande Books). He has given readings in the U.S., Great Britain, France, China, and Taiwan.
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
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
Jane Brox Reads at Hotel Marlowe
Wednesday, April 5, 2006
From 6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
(During Wine Hour, which begins at 5:30 PM)
Jane Brox's third book, Clearing Land: Legacies of the American Farm, was published by North Point Press/Farrar, Straus and Giroux in September 2004. The paperback edition is scheduled to appear in September 2005. Her second book, Five Thousand Days Like This One, published by Beacon Press, was a 1999 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction, and her first, Here and Nowhere Else, also published by Beacon, won the 1996 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award. Her essays have appeared in The Georgia Review and other journals and magazines, and have been selected for inclusion in many anthologies, including Best American Essays, The Norton Book of Nature Writing, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and is the recipient of the 2005 New England Book Award for nonfiction. She teaches nonfiction writing in the MFA program at Lesley College in Cambridge, MA, and lives in Maine.
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
Hotel Marlowe Reading Series: Special Reading in Honor of Women's History Month
Wednesday March 1, 2006
6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
(During Wine Hour, which begins at 5:30 PM)
Danielle Legros Georges
Author, Maroon (Curbstone Press)
Andrea Cohen
Author, The Cartographer's Vacation (Owl Creek Press)
Ruth Lepson
Author, Dreaming in Color (Alice James Books)
Danielle Legros Georges was born in Haiti and raised in the U.S. She's the author of Maroon, published by Curbstone Press. Her poems are widely anthologized and have also appeared in numerous journals, including Agni, The American Poetry Review, Black Renaissance Noire, and The Caribbean Writer. Her many awards for writing include a LEF Foundation Fellowship and a MacDowell Fellowship. She teaches at Lesley University.
Andrea Cohen's poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in journals such as The Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, and Provincetown Arts. She is the author of the poetry collection The Cartographer's Vacation and director of the Blacksmith House Reading Series.
Ruth Lepson's book of poems, Dreaming in Color, was published by Alice James Books. She is also the editor of Poetry from Sojourner: A Feminist Anthology, published by the University of Illinois Press. Lepson serves as Poet-in-Residence at the New England Conservatory of Music and is a member of the Adjunct Faculty at The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. In recent years Lepson has been collaborating with artists and other poets; an instance is a poem created with musician/poet James Carson, which was made into an artist's book and published online at dispatx.com
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 617.349.8113 or e-mail pen_ne@lesley.edu.
Jonatha Ceely Reads at Hotel Marlowe
Wednesday, February 1, 2006
6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
(During Wine Hour, which begins at 5:30 PM)
Jonatha Ceely grew up in Kingston, Ontario, and has lived in Turkey and Italy. For many years she taught literature, expository writing, and creative writing at the Winsor School in Boston. She and her husband, the composer Robert Ceely, now live and work in Brookline, Massachusetts, and in Blue Hill, Maine. Her two historical novels reflect her wide ranging interests in religion, myth, the literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, and cooking. She is presently working on a novel set in contemporary times,which explores issues of identity—genetic and psychological.
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.
Charles Coe Reads at Hotel Marlowe
Wednesday, January 4, 2006
From 6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
(During Wine Hour, which begins at 5:30 PM)
Charles Coe is the winner of an Artist Fellowship in Poetry from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. A volume of his poetry, Picnic on the Moon, has been published by Leapfrog Press. Charles also appears on two spoken-word CDs: Get Ready for Boston, a collection of stories and songs about Boston neighborhoods, and on One Side of the River, an anthology of Cambridge and Somerville poets. His poems have been set to music by composers Julia Carey, Beth Denisch and Robert Moran. In addition to poetry, Charles writes book reviews that have appeared in publications such as the Boston Phoenix, Ararat and Northeastern University Magazine. He is also co-chair of the National Writers Union Boston Chapter.
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
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.
Sue Standing Reads at Hotel Marlowe
Wednesday, October 5, 2005
From 6:15 PM to 7:30 PM
(During Wine Hour, which begins at 5:30 PM)
Sue Standing's most recent collection of poems is False Horizon (Four Way Books, 2003). Other books include: Gravida (1995), poems, Four Way Books; Deception Pass (1984), poems, Alice James Books; and Amphibious Weather (1981), poems, Zephyr Press.
Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Agni, Atlanta Review, The Atlantic Monthly, Denver Quarterly, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, Ploughshares, and Southwest Review. She directs the Creative Writing Program at Wheaton College (Norton, MA 02766) where she teaches poetry writing and African literature.
Porter Square Books is the bookseller for the PEN-Marlowe Series. A (fiercely) independent, full-service bookstore operated by a group of seasoned, dedicated booksellers, Porter Square Books offers a comprehensive selection of diverse titles in a welcoming environment.
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.
David Barber Reads at Hotel Marlowe
Wednesday September 7, 2005
6:15 - 7:30 PM
(During Wine Hour, which begins at 5:30 PM)
David Barber is the Poetry Editor of The Atlantic Monthly and teaches in the graduate writing program at Emerson College. His first collection of poems, The Spirit Level, received the Terrence Des Pres Prize and was published by TriQuarterly Books / Northwestern University Press. A second collection, Wonder Cabinet, will be published in 2005 by Zoo Press. He has received a Massachusetts state arts fellowship, a PEN/New England Discovery Award, the Ross Feld Award for Criticism from Parnassus: Poetry in Review, and two AWP
awards while completing the MA in English and Writing at Stanford
University. Poems from The Spirit Level and Diorama have appeared in Agni, Atlantic Monthly, Field, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, The New Republic, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Slate, Southwest Review, TriQuarterly Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. He has written essays and reviews for a variety of publications including Poetry, Parnassus, Boston Review, Boston Globe, Washington Post, and The New York Times Book Review.
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.
Ross Terrill Reads at Hotel Marlowe
Wednesday April 6, 2005
6:15 - 7:30 pm
(During Wine Hour, which begins at 5:30)
Hotel Marlowe
Ross Terrill is the author of seven books on China, including China in Our Time, Madame Mao, 800,000,000 Million, and Mao. He also wrote Socialism as Fellowship: R. H. Tawney and His Times, while on the faculty at Harvard, and later The Australians.
Winner of the National Magazine Award and the George Polk Award, he has published nineteen articles in The Atlantic Monthly and many in Foreign Affairs, The New Republic, National Geographic and other national magazines. A regular visitor to China for thirty-odd years, he has been a special commentator for CBS News, four times on the "Today Show," a number of times on ABC's "Nightline," and testified before the United States Congress. His current book, The New Chinese Empire, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Books will be for sale courtesy of Porter Square Books.
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 617.349.8113 or e-mail pen_ne@lesley.edu.
Ellen Steinbaum Reads at Hotel Marlowe
Wednesday February 2, 2005 from 6:15 - 7:00 PM
Ellen Steinbaum (Afterwords) in the Living Room of Hotel Marlowe during the Marlowe Wine Hour (5:30-6:30 p.m.)
Ellen Steinbaum is a poet and journalist. Her poetry collection, Afterwords, was published by Blue Unicorn Press in 2001, with a second printing in 2002. Her Boston Globe column, "City Type," is a series of conversations with Boston-area writers and poets. She also wrote, and performs, "CenterPiece," a one-person play that had its premier in Boston last spring.
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 617.349.8113 or send us e-mail.
Nancy Upper Reads at Hotel Marlowe
January 5, 2005: Nancy Upper (Ballet Dancers in Career Transition). Please join us in The Living Room at Hotel Marlowe, 25 Edwin Land Blvd. in Cambridge (adjacent to CambridgeSide Galleria Mall). For more information, please call 617.349.8113 or send us e-mail.