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ResourcesConference Schedule - Week 7 Wednesday, October 15: Thursday, October 16 Friday, October 17 8:30: Maureen D 3:00: (open) 8:30: Christine S 8:45: Jennifer C 3:15: Alex K 8:45: Ryan N 9:00: Barry N 3:30: Joanna R 9:00: Emily K 9:15: Abbey C 9:15: Danielle P 9:30: Henry D 9:30: Jackie K 9:45: Israel 9:45: Gregg 10:00: Zach H 10:00: Sarah N 10:15: Johnny O 10:15: Andriana Z 10:30: Evan H 10:30: Viva F 10:45: Ludny P 10:45: Brendan M 11:00: Ashley R 11:00: Breena S 11:15: Tyler L 11:15: Dinelia P.
Compiled Readings – Fall 2008
Monday September 15th 7pm - Brookline Booksmith Reading Series Amy Bloom – Away: A familiar American tale begins with the immigrant experience and quickly elevates into a sweeping crosscountry saga. The story of a Jewish woman's search to find her young daughter is laden with linguistic tricks and deftly wrought characters.
Wednesday September 17th 7pm - Brookline Booksmith Reading Series Adam Davies - Mine All Mine Brock Clarke - The Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
Two brilliant young novelists go toe to toe in our wrestling ring of words. With his hilarious, frenetic new novel Mine All Mine, the story of a security guard out to save his livelihood and his love from a master thief, Adam Davies delivers what is is surely his best work yet. Joining him is breakout writer Brock Clarke, who scintillates with a heartfelt tale of an accidental arsonist trying to clear his name.
Thursday September 18th 7pm - Brookline Booksmith Reading Series The Best American Poetry 2008 w/ Franz Wright, Maxine Kumin, and Dara Weir: These luminous contributors to the latest volume exemplify the virtues and continual innovations that are taking pace in American poetry.
Sun, Sept 21, 2PM: Yael Goldstein Love, author of THE PASSION OF TASHA DARSKY, and Pagan Kennedy, author of THE DANGEROUS JOY OF DR. SEX AND OTHER TRUE STORIES - Paperback Books & Brews (Newtonville Books Reading Series)
Sunday September 21 - Grub Street Writers Reading Series 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Dirty Water Reading Series The Dirty Water Reading Series, hosted by Redivider, Quick Fiction, Fringe, and Black Ocean Press, presents "Beer Steins and Frauleins: A Dirty Water Readingtoberfest", an Octoberfest-themed reading at Grub Street Headquarters. Featured readers will be Amy L. Clark (author of the story collection Wanting), Rauan Klassnik (author of the poetry collection Holy Land), Aimee Pokwatka, and Francine Rubin.
As with other installments of the Dirty Water Reading Series, the event promises to be more than your typical reading. There will be audience-participation mad-libs of famed German writers, raffle prizes, food, German beer and other drinks, and of course fiction and poetry by the authors.
Monday September 22nd 7pm - Brookline Booksmith Reading Series Brad Meltzer - The Book of Lies: Author of the best-selling novel The Book of Fate and the trailblazing graphic novel Identity Crisis, Brad Meltzer combines his talent for superhero narratives with his tale-spinning wizardry to craft the story of the quest to track down the lost weapon of Western history's first murder - the object Cain used to kill Abel.
Tuesday September 23rd 6pm at the Coolidge Corner Theatre - Brookline Booksmith Reading Series Dennis Lehane - The Given Day $5 Tickets on Sale at the Booksmith - call 617-566-6660
As the guru of gritty crime novels such as Mystic River and Gone, Baby, Gone, Dennis Lehane has single-handedly raised Boston's profile with his superbly crafted narratives of darkened hearts and challenged moralities. Set in 1918 Boston, his new book packs in the deep characters and multi-faceted plot on which his fans have come to depend.
Tuesday, September 23rd 7:00 PM ?@ Harvard Book Store DAVID EBERSHOFF reads from The 19th Wife: A Novel: Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome award-winning fiction writer and current editor-at-large for Random House It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, prophet and leader of the Mormon Church. Expelled and an outcast, Ann Eliza embarks on a crusade to end polygamy in the United States. A rich account of a family’s polygamous history is revealed, including how a young woman became a plural wife. Soon after Ann Eliza’s story begins, a second narrative unfolds—a tale of murder involving a polygamist family in present-day Utah. Jordan Scott, a young man who was thrown out of his fundamentalist sect years earlier, must reenter the world that cast him aside in order to discover the truth behind his father’s death. And as Ann Eliza’s narrative intertwines with that of Jordan’s search, readers are pulled deeper into the mysteries of love and faith.
Wednesday, Sept. 24—UMB Faculty member Askold Melnyczuk, 12:00 noon, W-6-47 Askold Melnyczuk's ninth book is The House of Widows, called by the LA Times “a mysterious, masterfully taut story.” His second novel, Ambassador of the Dead, was a Los Angeles Times Best Book for 2002. His first, What Is Told, was a New York Times Notable Book. He has also published a novella about Rimbaud titled Blind Angel. He edited three volumes of the Graywolf Take Three Poetry Series, as well as books on poet and activist Daniel Berrigan and Boston artist Gerry Bergstein. He was also co-editor of From Three Worlds, the first American anthology of contemporary Ukrainian literature, from which he has translated extensively. He has published in The New York Times, The Nation, The Boston Globe, Ploughshares, Poetry, APR and elsewhere. He is founder and director of Arrowsmith Press. GLOBAL VOICES READING SERIES
Thursday September 25th 6pm at the Coolidge Corner Theatre - Brookline Booksmith Reading Series Billy Collins - Ballistic: Poems $5 Tickets on Sale at the Booksmith - call 617-566-6660
America's best-selling poet and two-time Poet Laureate Billy Collins brings his trademark wit and transforming prose to a rare reading that is not to be missed.
Thu, Sept 25, 7PM: ONE STORY cofounder and editor Hannah Tinti, author of THE GOOD THIEF, and Amy MacKinnon, author of TETHERED - Books & Brews (Newtonville Books Reading Series)
Thursday, September 25th at 5 p.m. - BU Reading Series David Ferry Katzenberg Center, 3rd Floor, College of General Studies 871 Commonwealth Avenue
David Ferry is the author of Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations, winner of the 2000 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry and the Academy of American Poets’ Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. He is the translator of Gilgamesh (1992), The Odes of Horace (1998), The Eclogues of Virgil (1999), The Epistles of Horace (2001), winner of the Landon Translation Prize, and The Georgics of Virgil (2005), all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Ferry’s other awards include the Sixtieth Fellowship of The Academy of American Poets, the Teasdale Prize for Poetry, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the Ingram Merrill Award, and the William Arrowsmith Translation Prize from AGNI magazine. In 1998 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the Sophie Chantal Hart Professor Emeritus of English at Wellesley College and a Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing at Boston University.
Sun, Sept 28, 2PM: PLOUGHSHARES Release Party. Come celebrate the release of the current issue of PLOUGHSHARES with its editors and selected contributors, including new Executive Director Ladette Randolph. (Newtonville Books Reading Series)
Tuesday, September 30th 7:00 PM ?@ Harvard Book Store WILLIAM CORBETT reads from his new collection of poems?Opening Day: Harvard Book Store is most pleased to host poet WILLIAM CORBETT, a mainstay of the Boston poetry scene, a memoirist, and the Director of Student Writing Activities in MIT’s Program in Writing, for a reading from his new collection of poems.
Thursday October 2nd 7pm - Brookline Booksmith Reading Series Lynda Barry – What It Is: Ingenious, independent, and the creative mind behind The Good Times are Killing Me and Ernie Pook’s Comic, cartoonist Lynda Barry holds forth in her signature style with this memoir/workbook designed to get the creative juices flowing in every reader.
Thu, Oct 2, 7PM: MYSTERY NIGHT with Gary Braver, author of SKIN DEEP, Hank Phillippi Ryan, author of FACE TIME, Linda Barnes, author of LIE DOWN WITH THE DEVIL, and Roberta Isleib, author of ASKING FOR MURDER - Books & Brews (Newtonville Books Reading Series)
Friday, October 3rd 7:00 PM ?@ Harvard Book Store KELLY LINK reads from?Pretty Monsters: Stories: Harvard Book Store is jubilant to welcome Northampton-livin', Magic for Beginners-conjurin' KELLY LINK for a reading from her first Young Adult story collection.
Through the lens of Link’s vivid imagination, nothing is what it seems, and everything deserves a second look. From the multiple award-winning “The Faery Handbag,” in which a teenager’s grandmother carries an entire village (or is it a man-eating dog?) in her handbag, to the near-future of “The Surfer,” whose narrator (a soccer-playing skeptic) waits with a planeload of refugees for the aliens to arrive, Link’s stories are funny and full of unexpected insights and skewed perspectives on the world. Her fans range from Michael Chabon to Peter Buck of R.E.M. to Holly Black of Spiderwick Chronicles fame.
Sun, Oct 5, 2PM: Joshua Henkin, author of MATRIMONY, and Ellen Litman, author of THE LAST CHICKEN IN AMERICA - Paperback Books & Brews (Newtonville Books Reading Series)
Monday, October 6th 7:00 PM ?@ Harvard Book Store DEBORAH COPAKEN KOGAN reads from?Between Here and April: Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome photojournalist and Emmy Award-winning producer DEBORAH COPAKEN KOGAN for a reading from her first novel, Between Here and April. "How could a mother kill her children? This breathtaking first novel from photojournalist Kogan (Shutterbabe) attempts a heart-wrenching answer. Elizabeth Lizzie Burns Steiger, a 41-year-old TV producer/journalist, has a hallucination while watching a performance of Medea at a Manhattan theater; she sees her best friend in first grade, April Cassidy, who was killed by April's depressed mother, Adele, in 1972 in Potomac, Md., along with April's sister. In addition to exploring her memories in therapy, Lizzie interviews the Cassidys' former neighbor and others who knew the family for a proposed cable network documentary, but a priceless Pandora's box—tapes of Adele with her psychiatrist—provides the most startling revelations." —Publishers Weekly (starred)
Tuesday, Oct. 7—biographer Joshua Kendall, 5:30 pm, UMB Bookstore, UL Campus Center Author of The Man Who Made Lists, Joshua Kendall will talk about the obsessions and compulsions that drove Dr. Peter Mark Roget to create the world's first thesaurus. He will also discuss his own odyssey in search of Roget’s lists, which took him to archive libraries around the world. “A fascinating account of the transformation of obsession into inspiration.”--Peter Kramer, author of Listening to Prozac and Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind. GLOBAL VOICES READING SERIES
Thu, Oct 9, 7PM: SALAMANDER Magazine Release Party. Come celebrate the release of the current issue of SALAMANDER with its editors and selected contributors. (Newtonville Books Reading Series)
Friday, October 10th 7:00 pm – UMass- Boston Breakwater Reading Series (UMass MFA and Emerson MFA students) at Porter Square Books. Jenn DeLeon, UMass Boston (MFA, Fiction); Jeffrey Taylor, UMass Boston (MFA, Poetry); Matt Summers, Emerson (MFA, Poetry); Kendall Kyle Cyree, Emerson (MFA, Fiction). Followed by a half hour of open mic.
Friday Oct 10th 7pm - Brookline Booksmith Reading Series Sarah Vowell – The Wordy Shipmates: The armchair historian behind the best selling Assassination Vacation and NPR’s This American Life doles out another helping of her tremendously entertaining annalistic insights into American History, this time exploring the feisty Puritanical roots of our own New England.
Sun, Oct 12: Newtonville Books Tenth Anniversary celebration with Anita Diamant, Alice Hoffman, Sue Miller, Tom Perrotta, and Richard Russo. Schedule of readers TBA. (Newtonville Books Reading Series)
Tuesday Oct 14th 7pm - Brookline Booksmith Reading Series William Conescu – Being Written Diana Spechler – Who By Fire
The captivating and unpredictable Being Written puts you in the head of Daniel Fischer, a man caught in the crossfire of an omniscient author’s creative process. First time author Diana Spechler tells the story of a family’s endeavour to recover after a sibling’s unsolved disappearance.
Tuesday, October 14th 7:00 PM ?@ Harvard Book Store JONATHAN CARROLL reads from The Ghost in Love: A Novel
Alumni Reading Festival Wednesday, Oct. 15—Poets and alumni Glenn Sheldon, and Edie Aronowitz Mueller, 4:00 pm, UMB Bookstore Glenn Sheldon’s first book of poems is Bird Scarer (Cervena Barva Press, 2008). He grew up north of Boston and now lives in Ohio where he teaches Creative Writing at the University of Toledo.
The Fat Girl and Other Poems (Inkwater Press, 2008) is Edie Aronowitz Mueller’s first book. She has been a secretary, photographer, field worker, chicken egg collector, professor, liturgist, and student of the world around her. Her poems have won awards, been published widely, and translated into other languages. GLOBAL VOICES READING SERIES
Thursday, Oct. 16—Fiction writer and alumnus Steven Wingate, 3:00 pm, UMB Bookstore Steven Wingate’s first short story collection, Wifeshopping (Houghton Mifflin, 2008), won the 2007 Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize in Fiction from the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference. An honest, absorbing debut fiction collection, Wifeshopping centers on the ultimate human quest: the search for companionship, love, and understanding. These captivating stories feature American men, love-starved and striving, who try and often fail to connect with the women they imagine could be their wives. GLOBAL VOICES READING SERIES
Thursday, October 16th 7:30 PM ?@ Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall Cambridge READS JULIA ALVAREZ reads from How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent
Tickets are free and become available at noon on Sat., Oct. 4th.
Thu, Oct 16, 7PM: Douglas Bauer, author of PRAIRIE CITY, IOWA: THREE SEASONS AT HOME, and Sophie Gee, author of THE SCANDAL OF THE SEASON - Paperback Books & Brews (Newtonville Books Reading Series)
Thursday October 16th 7pm - Brookline Booksmith Reading Series Clayton Eshleman - Grindstone of Rapport: A Clayton Eshleman Reader: Author, poet, essayist, National Book Award winner, and translator of Cesar Vallejo’s magnificent The Complete Poems, Clayton Eshleman revisits the very best of his work from the last forty years.
Sun, Oct 19, 2PM: Wendy Mnookin, author of THE MOON MAKES ITS OWN PLEA - Books & Brews (Newtonville Books Reading Series)
Sunday, October 19, 2008 6-8pm (music starts at 5) - Four Stories Readings – Enormous Room, Central Square
The Big Trip: Stories of growing up, messing up, and everything along the way * Andre Dubus III, author of House of Sand and Fog, an Oprah's Book Club selection and finalist for the National Book Award; Bluesman; The Cage Keeper and Other Stories; and more * Margot Livesy, author of the novels Homework, Criminals, The Missing World, Eva Moves the Furniture, Banishing Verona and The House on Fortune Street; recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the N.E.A., the Massachusetts Artists’ Foundation and the Canada Council for the Arts; and current distinguished writer in residence at Emerson College and the John F. and Dorothy H. Magee writer in residence at Bowdoin College * Two writers-to-watch from Grub Street's YAWP Teen Writing Fellowship * Two young up-and-coming authors from Beacon Academy
Monday Oct 20th 7pm - Brookline Booksmith Reading Series Katie Goodman - Improvisation for the Spirit: Live a More Creative, Spontaneous, and Courageous Life Using the Tools of Improv Comedy First time author and improv comic will have the audience in the Writers and Readers Room questioning how they can deal with their everyday world with more humor and flexibility. They’ll need that flexibility while they’re rolling in the aisles.
Thursday Oct 23rd 7pm - Brookline Booksmith Reading Series Todd Hasak-Lowy – Captives: A misanthrope goes on the rampage, with revenge in mind for all the world’s ills and those he deems responsible. For those among us who feel impotent in the face of power, this first novel from the author of The Task of the Translator is a heady escape.
Sun, Oct 26, 2PM: Alice Mattison, author of NOTHING IS QUITE FORGOTTEN IN BROOKLYN, and Leah Hager Cohen, author of HOUSE LIGHTS - Paperback Books & Brews (Newtonville Books Reading Series)
Friday, October 31st 7:00 pm – UMass- Boston Breakwater Reading Series (UMass MFA and Emerson MFA students) at Porter Square Books. Readers: Kris Evans (fiction), UMB; others TBA
Sun, Nov 2, 2PM: Adam Braver, author of NOVEMBER 22, 1963, and Jenna Blum, author of THOSE WHO SAVE US - Paperback Books & Brews (Newtonville Books Reading Series)
Monday, November 3, 2008 6-8 (music starts 5pm) - Four Stories Readings – Enormous Room, Central Square Saints and Sinners: Stories of temptation, seduction, and redemption
* Robin Lippincott, author of the novels In the Meantime, Our Arcadia, and Mr. Dalloway, and the story collection The Real, True Angel, as well as fiction/nonfiction in Paris Review, Fence, American Short Fiction, Memorious, The Literary Review, and others; recipient of fellowships to Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony; and teacher of writing in Spalding's brief-residency MFA Writing Program and at Harvard University. * Yael Goldstein Love, author of the novels Overture and The Passion of Tasha Darsky (which are actually the same novel...). More @ www.yaelgoldsteinlove.com. * Joseph Olshan, award-winning author of the novels Clara's Heart, The Conversion, Nightswimmer, Vanitas, The Waterline, A Warmer Season, The Sound of Heaven, and In Clara's Hands; and essayist with pieces in the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, The Times, The Guardian , The Independent , The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and more. * Scott Pomfret, author of Since My Last Confession, the Romentics gay romance novels series, The Q Guide to Wine and Cocktails, and short stories in Post Road, New Orleans Review, Fiction International, and other places. More @ www.scottpomfret.com
Saturday, November 8th at 5:30 p.m. - BU Reading Series Nick Laird Jacob Sleeper Auditorium, Rm. 129 College of General Studies 871 Commonwealth Avenue
Nick Laird was born in 1975 in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, and studied English at the University of Cambridge, where he won the Quiller-Couch Award for creative writing. He has worked as a lawyer, has lived in Warsaw and Boston—where he was a visiting fellow at Harvard University—and now lives in London. He has also written a novel, Utterly Monkey. To a Fault won the 2005 Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, the 2005 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, and the 2005 Ireland Chair for Poetry Award; was shortlisted for the 2004 Forward Poetry Prize for First Collection; and was the only poetry book longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. Nick Laird's second collection of poetry is On Purpose (2007), winner of a 2008 Somerset Maugham Award. He is also working on a second novel, Glover's Mistake, due for publication in 2009.
Sun, Nov 9, 2PM: Julia Glass, author of I SEE YOU EVERYWHERE - Books & Brews (Newtonville Books Reading Series)
Wednesday November 12th at 5 p.m. - BU Reading Series Marie Howe Katzenberg Center, 3rd Floor College of General Studies 871 Commonwealth Avenue
Marie Howe is the author of two volumes of poetry, The Good Thief (1998), and What the Living Do (1997), and the co-editor of a book of essays, In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic (1994). Her third volume of poetry, Kingdom Of Ordinary Time is forthcoming. Stanley Kunitz selected Howe for a Lavan Younger Poets Prize from the American Academy of Poets. She has, in addition, been a fellow at the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College and a recipient of NEA and Guggenheim fellowships. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, Agni, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, and The Partisan Review, among others. Currently, Howe teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia, and New York University.
Thu, Nov 13, 7PM: Emerson College Creative Writing event. Come celebrate writing with readings by the faculty of the Emerson College creative writing department: Daniel Tobin, author of SECOND THINGS, and Lise Haines, author of SMALL ACTS OF SEX AND ELECTRICITY. (Newtonville Books Reading Series)
Friday, November 14th 7:00 pm – UMass- Boston Breakwater Reading Series (UMass MFA and Emerson MFA students) at Porter Square Books; Readers TBA
Sat, Nov 15, 2PM: Emily Franklin, author of AT FACE VALUE, and Brendan Halpin, author of FOREVER CHANGES - Lizard's Tale event. Ages 12 and up. (Newtonville Books Reading Series)
Shaun O’Connell Lecture Sunday, Nov. 16—Novelist Tom Perrotta, 2:30 pm, 1st fl. Atrium, Campus Center Author of six books including Election, Little Children, and, most recently, The Abstinence Teacher, Tom Perrotta has been praised for his “comic writing and moral seriousness.” The New York Times dubbed him "an American Chekhov whose characters even at their most ridiculous seem blessed and ennobled by a luminous human aura," and People called him "the rare writer equally gifted at drawing people's emotional maps...and creating sidesplitting scenes." He was nominated for an Oscar in 2007 for his screen adaptation of Little Children. GLOBAL VOICES READING SERIES
Thu, Nov 20, 7PM: Rick Moody, author of RIGHT LIVELIHOODS, and Wesley Stace, author of BY GEORGE. Moody and Stace will read and then sing together as Authros, doing covers of old and obscure pre-modern popular music in two-part harmony - Paperback Books & Brews (Newtonville Books Reading Series)
Sun, Nov 23, 2PM: UMASS-Boston Creative Writing event. Come celebrate writing with readings by the faculty of the UMASS-Boston creative writing department. (Newtonville Books Reading Series)
Monday, Nov. 24—Poet Kevin Young, 4:00 pm, UMB Bookstore, UL Campus Center Kevin Young is the author of six collections of poetry. Jelly Roll was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and won the Paterson Poetry Prize. His most recent collection won the 2007 Quill Award for poetry. For the Confederate Dead is a “lively and excellent collection” (Los Angeles Times) about the South and its legacy, about African-American griefs and passages, from a poet who has “set himself apart from his peers with his supple, variable, blues-inflected lines” (Publishers Weekly).He has also been the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, and is currently the Atticus Haygood Professor of English and Creative Writing and curator of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University in Atlanta. GLOBAL VOICES READING SERIES
Tuesday, Dec. 2—Short story writer Amy Hempel, 12:30 pm, Harbor Gallery Called “Pitch-perfect and unforgettable…One can think only of the great European voices, of Kleist of Chekhov,” in Rick Moody’s introduction, Amy Hempel’s The Collected Stories was named one the ten best books of 2006 by The New York Times. Hempel is the author of four previous collections praised in The New York Times Book Review for “effortless wit…showing us the larger shapes of our lives by capturing their most fleeting and fragmentary moments” (Elizabeth Glieck) and by Alan Cheuse as the author of “arguably the finest short story composed by any living writer.” She teaches in the Bennington MFA program and directs the graduate fiction program at Brooklyn College. GLOBAL VOICES READING SERIES
Thu, Dec 4, 7PM: AGNI Magazine Release Party. Come celebrate the release of the current issue of AGNI with its editors and selected contributors. (Newtonville Books Reading Series)
Friday, December 5th 7:00 pm – UMass- Boston Breakwater Reading Series (UMass MFA and Emerson MFA students) at Porter Square Books; Readers TBA
Friday December 05 – Grub Street Writers 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Rebecca Seiferle, Winner of the 2008 Grub Street Book Prize in Poetry We are proud to welcome acclaimed poet Rebecca Seiferle, visiting from Tucson, who will read from her most recent collection, Wild Tongue (Copper Canyon, 2007) winner of the 2008 Grub Street National Book Prize in Poetry. Seiferle is the author of three other books of poetry and two books of translations. Don’t miss this opportunity to see and meet one of the best poets at work today. A reception with fine food and drink will immediately follow the reading. Co-sponsored with Harvard Bookstore.
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