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Events
04 / 22
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Crawford is an American photograher over ninety years old. Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, she graduated from Smith College, after spending her Junior Year in France. She married Canadian-American painter Ralston Crawford, and from then on the Crawfords lived in many places. During World War II home was Washington DC, but afterwards, until Ralston died in 1978, they were basically New Yorkers. Their sons, Robert, Neelon and John are all artists. Crawford has traveled widely in Europe, China, Japan, Africa and the Middle East, including nine trips to the Republic of Yemen. | ||
04 / 23
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Brother of Simon and son of Frank, Nathaniel Rich carries on the family literary tradition with his own "hot book". The Mayor's Tongue, a debut novel, follows a widower and a young New Yorker whose paths vconverge in a small Italian town whose mayor is a supernatural evil force. Rich is a senior editor of The Paris Review. He has written for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Slate, and the Village Voice. He is the author of San Francisco Noir and lives in San Francisco. | ||
04 / 24
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm
All men have mothers is a hard truth that the newly unhyphenated Maisie Grey has learned the hard way. When she finally gets rid of the mama's-boy husband and happily settles down with her teenage son, Tommy, she's still stuck with her irascible mother-in-law, a woman who never liked her, criticized her every step of the way, and yet, as | ||
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04 / 30
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
In the nationally celebrated Consuming Kids, Susan Linn provided an unsparing look at how modern childhood is molded by commercialism. The resulting threat to children's play is the subject of her timely and fascinating new book. In The Case for Make Believe, Linn argues that, while play is crucial to human development, nurturing creative play in modern-day America is not only countercultural--it's a threat to corporate profits. | ||
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05 / 6
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Through four ingeniously interlocking narratives, Dara, a counselor; Cameron, Dara's father; Abigail, an aspiring actress; and Sean, an academic and boyfriend to Abigail, the reader gradually comes to understand how these characters' lives are shaped by both chance and determination. Whatever the source, there is no mistaking the tragedy that strikes the house on Fortune Street. | ||
05 / 7
Start: 7:00 pm
Rose Moss was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and has lived in the United States since 1964. She has published two novels, The Family Reunion, which was short-listed for a National Book Award, and The Terrorist, and a work of non-fiction, Shouting at the Crocodile. Her non-fiction has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Atlantic Monthly and other similar publications and in scholarly journals. Please note: This event is part of the monthly PEN/NE reading series and is held at the Hotel Marlowe in Cambridge. Start: 7:00 pm
In her funny and wistful new book, Reeve Lindbergh contemplates entering a new stage in life, turning sixty, the period her mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, once described as "the youth of old age." With a wry sense of humor, Reeve contemplates the infirmities of the aging body, as well as the many new drugs that treat these maladies. | ||
05 / 8
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05 / 9
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
The Espinosas will be celebrating the launch of their new picture book. They met while working as graphic designers in NYC. They now live in Cambridge with their family. | ||
05 / 10
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05 / 11
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 7:30 pm
Inspired by the true life experiences of Henry Winkler, the Hank Zipzer series, about the world's greatest underachiever, is funny, touching, and deals with learning differences in a gentle and humorous manner. The Life of Me is #14 in the Hank Zipzer series. | ||
05 / 12
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Hemon was born in Sarajevo. He and his family fled Bosnia soon after the violence began in 1992. They left behind not only relatives but a comfortable middle class existence. Hemon settled in Chicago due in large part to its substantial Bosnian population. He has assimilated through his passion for soccer and by teaching English to other immigrants. Before he became the success he is today he worked assiduously at his writing and knowledge of English. He wrote his first story in English in 1995 and has now completed three books. | ||
05 / 13
Start: 7:00 pm
Set at the turn of the twenty-first century in China along the Tumen River, which separates northeast China and North Korea, The Ginseng Hunter is an unforgettable portrait of life along a fragile border. While a lone ginseng hunter spends his days up in the mountains looking for ginseng and preparing for winter while tragic events unfold across the river. His story is based on actual events that are happening today in North Korea, also known as the DPRK, and along the Northeast border of China, to where many North Korean refugees are fleeing. | ||
05 / 14
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Bamber teaches English and creative writing at Tufts University. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in the Harvard Review, Ploughshares, Raritan, New York Times Book Review, and elsewhere. Metropolitan Tang is her first book of poetry. Rivard is the author of Bewitched Playground, Wise Poison, which won the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets, and Torque. He teaches at Tufts University and in the M.F.A. Writing program at Vermont College. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. More | ||
05 / 15
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
The year is 1880 and the place is Venice. Marian Evans--whose novels appear under the pen name George Eliot and have made her one of the most famous Englishwomen of her time--has come to this enchanted city on her honeymoon. Newly married to John Cross, twenty years her junior, she hopes to put to rest all of her guilt. The parallel story of a sculptress named Caroline Spingold brings us to Venice one hundred years later, in 1980. | ||
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05 / 19
Start: 7:21 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Katharine Hall Page is the author of fifteen previous Faith Fairchild mysteries. Her first book, The Body in the Belfry received the Agatha Award for Best First Mystery Novel, and her short story The Would Widower received the Agatha Award for best short story. Body in the Gallery is the latest in the Faith Fairchild series. | ||
05 / 20
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
The extraordinary Resistance movement of the Italian people in the Second World War is brought to life in Cooney's captivating, deeply moving story of a mother's search for her son. Cooney has drawn on her heritage as a third-generation Italian-American to invoke not only a country in crisis but also its literature, its moods, and, most of all, its music. | ||
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05 / 22
Start: 7:00 pm
Carlsson-Paige is a professor of early childhood education and conflict resolution at Lesley University. She is an ongoing consultant for several PBS kids' shows, as well as an active public speaker and guest lecturer across the country. Her work has been featured in Time, The Wall Street Journal, Parenting, Mothering, and USA Today, and on NPR, the Discovery Channel, and ABC. | ||
