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
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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, 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
]]>Sunday, May 4, 2008 at 6:30 PM
The Amphitheater
University Hall, Lesley University
(1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA)
2008 Susan P. Bloom Award Winner
Jame Richards for her YA novel-in-verse, Three Rivers Rising
Honorable Mentions
Colleen Ellis for her picture book, The Alphabet: Looking Beyond the Letter
Tamara Ellis Smith for her middle grade novel, A Marble Looks Like Home
Tracy Miller Geary for her middle grade novel, The Summer of My Movie Star
Reception to follow… Please come and celebrate all four talented writers who will read from their promising works.
(Open to the Public. Parking is available behind the building.)
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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…
]]>Thursday, April 10, 2008, 7:30 PM
First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church
3 Church Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
The panel, moderated by Richard Hoffman, Memoirist, Poet, and Fiction Writer will feature:
Linda McCarriston, Poet and National Book Award finalist,
Mark Pawlak, Poet and Editor of Hanging Loose Press
Jill Petty, Editor and Publisher
Most of us are familiar with the trends in publishing favoring a few big-name authors at the expense of the lesser known perhaps riskier writer: big publishers taking a Hollywood blockbuster approach to deciding what books to publish and market. Profit being the index of success, publishers no longer seem to feel an obligation, as Andre Chiffron has pointed out, to publish, even at a loss, a modicum of important, risky books each year. Many serious or unknown authors must look more and more to small presses to publish their work, but systemic distribution challenges make it hard for these books to reach a wide audience. The rock-star argument even exists in the academy: often authors with books published at smaller presses find it much harder to get tenure than those with books from the big publishers.
But is there something more insidious than the market at work? In her The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters (short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award), Frances Stonor Saunders details how after World War II the CIA penetrated and influenced a vast array of cultural organizations, publishing and translating well-known authors who toed the Washington line, sponsoring abstract art to counter art with any social content, and subsidizing those journals that criticized revolutionary politics and defended or ignored violent and destructive U.S. policies at home and abroad.
The importance of politically challenging fiction and poetry throughout history is undeniable: from Turgenev’s powerful “A Sportsman’s Notebook,” which prompted Czar Alexander II to become the first world leader to free his country’s slaves, to the Lost Generation’s opposition to fascism, which led to U.S. involvement in the Great War; from Ginsburg’s “Howl” to Doris Lessing’s fiction to James Baldwin’s powerful and incisive essays. Has such writing been effectively denied its audience in our day? To what extent are the barriers to risky or oppositional writing real or imagined? What are the long-term societal and cultural dangers of a safe literature, of books as mere entertainment or escape? And what is the individual author, and the reader hungry for substance, to do?
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
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2008 Hemingway Foundation / PEN Award
Then We Came To The End, Joshua Ferris
Finalists
Like Trees Walking, by Ravi Howard
Twenty Grand, by Rebecca Curtis
2008 L.L. Winship / PEN New England Awards
Karma and Other Stories, by Rishi Reddi
American Band: Music, Dreams, and Coming of Age in the Heartland, by Kristen Laine
Beloved Idea, by Ann Killough
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
]]>PEN New England invites you to a celebration of new writers at our Annual Discovery Evening
Sam Cornish introduces Zvi Sesling
Edith Pearlman introduces Debbie Danielpour Chapel
Julian Houston introduces Kim Adrian
Champagne reception to follow.
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
]]>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
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 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
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