Perri Klass Reads at Porter Square Books
Porter Square Books welcomes Perri Klass, reading from her new novel, The Mercy Rule, with a book signing to follow.
Monday July 14, 2008 at 7:00 PM
Porter Square Books
Porter Square Shopping Center
25 White Street
Cambridge, MA
617-491-2220
Web site
"My First Time," a conversation with debut authors
Presented by Grub Street and PEN New England
Sunday, May 4, 2008, 6:30 p.m.
Borders Books
Back Bay (Boylston and Clarendon Streets)
Boston
CHRISTOPHER CASTELLANI (Moderator), Artistic Director & Executive Director, Grub Street
Castellani’s first novel, A Kiss from Maddalena, won the 2004 Massachusetts Book Award and has been published in five countries. His second novel, The Saint of Lost Things, was published in 2005. He has twice been a fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and teaches fiction writing at Swarthmore College, the Fine Arts Work Center, and the Warren Wilson MFA Program. He is currently at work on his third novel.
Featuring...
D.Y. BECHARD, Vandal Love
Béchard's novel Vandal Love won two Commonwealth Writers' Prizes, one for the best first book in Canada and the second for the best first book in the British Commonwealth, and has been translated into both French and Arabic. He is a MacDowell fellow, and his stories, translations and essays have appeared in a number of magazines. He is finishing a new novel.
YAEL GOLDSTEIN LOVE, Overture
Goldstein Love graduated from Harvard with a degree in philosophy. Her first fiction publication was the short story "When Skeptics Die", which appeared in Commentary. Since then, her fiction and essays have appeared in a number of national and international magazines, journals, and anthologies. Goldstein Love was the 2005 National Jewish Book Award winner for Who We Are: On Being (and Not Being) a Jewish American Writer, published in The Literary Review's 50th Anniversary Issue. Overture is her first novel.
MARGOT KAHN, Horses That Buck: The Story of Champion Bronc Rider Bill Smith
Kahn’s first book, Horses That Buck, has just been published. Her writing has appeared in Work Magazine, Ohioana Quarterly, and Publishers Weekly. Margot lives in Seattle, WA where she is the youth programs manager at Richard Hugo House and a writer-in-residence with the Seattle Arts and Lectures program Writers in the Schools.
KELLY McMASTERS, Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir of an Atomic Town
McMasters lost it with Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir of an Atomic Town. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post Magazine, Newsday, and Time Out NY. Kelly teaches at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and is co-director of the KGB Nonfiction Reading Series in the East Village.
This event is open to the public…
The Graduate Writers of Greater Boston Reading Series
Saturday, January 26th, 7:00 PM
Brookline Booksmith
279 Harvard Street, Brookline
Author Joyce Peseroff will introduce MFA fiction and poetry students from UMass, Boston’s new MFA writing program.
This Saturday’s featured student readers:
Lily Rabinoff-Goldman
Kris Evans
Jeffrey Taylor
George Kovach
For more information on how to join Greater Boston’s growing community of graduate writing students, or how you can participate in our reading series, please contact:
Barbara Perez, Project Director
barbaraperez@mac.com
(210) 912-7022
Writers and their Agents: Three Writers Tell All
Thursday, November 15 at 6:30 PM
Boston Public Library
Mezzanine Level
700 Boylston St.
Boston, MA
What do agents really do, and not do? How involved is the writer? How do agents and writers work together, or not? Prominent authors Steve Almond, Helen Elaine Lee, and John Sedgwick share insight and information. The panel and Q&A are a "joint-production" of PEN/New England and the National Writers Union/Boston Local. Charles Coe of the NWU, a clever man with a question, will moderate.
An Evening Without...Giving Voice to the Excluded
Presented by The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts & PEN New England
Tuesday, March 13, 2007, from 7 - 8:30 PM
First Church
129 Main Street
Northampton, MA
Some of this country's best known writers and an actor will be reading from the works of writers and activists who had, at one time or another, been barred from or pushed out of the United States because of their views or perceived associations.
Participating in this event honoring the First Amendment will be:
- Charles Coe, author of the volume of poetry Picnic on the Moon
- Martín Espada, author of 8 books of poetry including the recent Republic of Poetry
- Cathi Hanauer, author of My Sister's Bones, Sweet Ruin and editor of The Bitch in the House
- Dan Jones, author of After Lucy and editor of The Bastard on the Couch
- Elinor Lipman, author of 8 novels, most recently My Latest Grievance
- Robert Merullo, author of 6 books including Revere Beach Boulevard and Golfing with God
- Lesléa Newman, author of 50 books including Jailbait and Heather has Two Mommies
- Floyd Patterson II, musician and actor in one-man play about the life of Paul Robeson
- Pat Schneider, author of 9 books including Writing Alone & With Others and Another River
- Suzanne Strempek Shea, author of 5 novels among them Lily of the Valley and 2 memoirs
- Barry Werth, author of 31 Days, The Scarlet Professor, Billion-Dollar Molecule and Damages
- Jane Yolen, author of over 280 children's books, works of fantasy and science fiction
Two emcees will weave the readings and film clips into a tapestry of First Amendment betrayal that tells the story of how fear was used to subvert the Bill of Rights from the post World War I Palmer Raids to the post 9/11 "war on terror." They are Robert Meeropol, founder and executive director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children, who will also be reading from his memoir, An Execution in the Family, and Nancy Murray of the ACLU of Massachusetts.
The event is being organized by the ACLU of Massachusetts and PEN New England. Sponsors are the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, the Rosenberg Fund for Children, the Broadside Bookshop, the Odyssey Bookshop and WHMP-AM Radio.
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
For more information, contact Nancy Murray (617) 482 3170 x 314 or Bill Newman (413) 584 7331.
A Conversation with Dave Eggers, Valentino Achak Deng, and Samantha Power
The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University invites you to attend a conversation with Dave Eggars, Valentino Achak Deng, and Samantha Power on...
What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng
Monday February 26, 2007 at 6:30 PM
Memorial Church, Harvard Yard
Cambridge, MA
Dave Eggers is the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, You Shall Know Our Velocity! and How We Are Hungry. In 1998, he founded McSweeney's, an independent publishing house located in San Francisco that publishes books, a quarterly literary journal, The Believer, and a daily humor website.
Samantha Power, co-founder of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, is the Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Her book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction, the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award for general non-fiction, and the Council on Foreign Relations' Arthur Ross Prize for the best book in U.S. foreign policy.
Presented by
- The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University
- PEN New England
- The Sudanese Education Fund
For directions to Memorial Church visit the church's Web site.
Books will be available for sale by Harvard Book Store.
A Tribute to William Styron
Wednesday December 13, 2006 at 6:00 PM
Boston Public Library, Copley Square
Abbey Room (McKim Building)
From the publication of his lyrical debut novel, Lie Down in Darkness, to his death this fall, more than half a century later, Willam Styron exerted a powerful influence on American literature. His writing—including the subsequent novels Sophie's Choice and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Confessions of Nat Turner, as well as plays, essays, and a searing memoir, Darkness Visible—plumbed subjects disturbing and profound: slavery, the Holocaust, depression. He also worked avidly on behalf of human rights in America and abroad.
The evening will feature readings from his acclaimed (and often controversial) works, reminiscences by friends and colleagues, and a discussion of his lasting impact. Speakers will include Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer prize winning author and family friend; Robert Brustein, founding director of the Yale Repertory and American Repertory Theaters, and longtime friend of Mr. Styron; Gail Caldwell, Pulitzer Prize-winning chief book critic of the Boston Globe, who will speak about Darkness Visible and her conversations with Styron about that book; Kenneth Greenberg, editor of a definitive edition of Confessions of Nat Turner and co-producer of a PBS documentary on the book; Jennifer Haigh, award-winning author of Mrs. Kimble and Baker Towers; and Norman Mailer, Pulitzer prize winning author and friend of Mr. Styron.
PEN New England is proud to host a tribute to this eloquent artist and activist, and we hope you will attend.
Read Lynda Morgenroth's follow-up to this event in the News section.
An Evening WITHOUT...Giving Voice to the Excluded
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
6:00 - 8:00 PM
Boston Public Library
Rabb Lecture Hall
700 Boylston Street
Copley Square
Boston, MA
The First Amendment enshrines the free exchange of ideas, but our government has a long history of closing our doors to people whose ideas or associations it does not like.
PEN New England, ACLU of Massachusetts and the Boston Public Library are marking Constitution Day with an event featuring leading writers and actors reading from the works of writers, scholars and others whose voices have been, at one time or another, silenced, or they have been excluded from the country.
The program will proceed from the post-World War I Red Scare to the present, including writers who are excluded today based on their ideology. Please join us for this very important and timely event.
SPONSORED BY
PEN New England
American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts
Boston Public Library
Wainwright Bank