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Mon, December 31, 2007 03:06:21 PMFrom:
Porter Square Books
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January @ Porter Square Books
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| Anne Bernays at the Hotel Marlowe |
Trophy House
Bernays is the author of the influential writing textbook
What If?: Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers. She is
perhaps best known for her stirring novels, including
Professor Romeo and Trophy House. Bernays
has been published widely in national magazines and journals
and is a long-time teacher of writing at Boston University,
Boston College, Holy Cross, Harvard Extension, Nieman
Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, and MFA Program at
Lesley University.
She is a founder of PEN/New England and a member of the
Writer's Union. She serves as chairman of the board of Fine Arts
Work Center in Provincetown and co-president of Truro Center
for the Arts at Castle Hill.
Note: This is the PEN/NE monthly reading series and is held at the Hotel Marlowe in Cambridge. See the website for directions. |
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| Glenn Hurowitz |
Fear and Courage in the Democratic Party
Hurowitz is the president of Democratic Courage, which works
to elect courageous and progressive candidates. He is also an
accomplished journalist and has contributed to The New
York Times, The American Prospect, The Politico, and
many others. He appears regularly on national television and
radio.
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| Louise Dunlap |
Undoing the Silence: Six Tools for Social Change Writing
Louise Dunlap is an activist writing teacher who travels the
country helping citizen groups and social justice-minded
scholars make their voices heard in the challenging debates of
our times. Louise received her doctorate in Literature from U.
C. Berkeley in 1976 and has lived and taught for forty years in
the Boston area.
Undoing the Silence is a comprehensive and engaging training book for both amateurs and professionals who want to influence the democratic process through letters, articles, proposals, and more. |
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| Margaret Cezair-Thompson |
The Pirate's Daughter
"A tropical adventure" (NYTBR); "a book-club-ready
saga...with a knockout ending" (People Magazine, Critic's
Choice); "the novel never stops for breath once" (O
Magazine); "unravels a surprising yarn that is rich, salty and
ultimately satisfying" (Washington Post). Cezair-
Thompson has written a fictionalized account of an episode in
the life of Errol Flynn and tells the tale through the lives of two
imagined women: a beautiful Jamaican teenager and the
daughter she bears fathered by Flynn.
Cezair-Thompson is the author of a widely acclaimed previous novel, The True History of Paradise. Born in Jamaica, West Indies, she teaches literature and creative writing at Wellesley College. |
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| Richard Lerner |
The Good Teen
In The Good Teen, Richard Lerner lays bare
compelling new data on the lives of teens today, dismantling
old myths and redefining normal adolescence. Overflowing
with real-life anecdotes and cutting-edge science, Lerner's
book encourages new thinking, new public policies, and new
programs that focus on teens' strengths.
Dr. Lerner is the Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science and the director of the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development, Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development, Tufts University. He has written extensively in the field of developmental psychology over the years. |
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| Sue Miller |
The Senator's Wife
The author of the iconic The Good Mother and the best-
selling While I Was Gone brings her marvelous gifts to a
powerful story of two unconventional women who unexpectedly
change each other's lives.
Sue Miller is also the best-selling author of the novels Lost in the Forest, The World Below, The Distinguished Guest, For Love, and Family Pictures; the story collection Inventing the Abbotts; and the memoir The Story of My Father. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts. |
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| Eliot Pattison |
Bone Rattler: A Mystery of Colonial America
Aboard a British convict ship bound for the New World, Duncan
McCallum witnesses a series of murders and seeming suicides
among his fellow Scottish prisoners that thrusts him into the
bloody maw of the French and Indian War.
Eliot Pattison is the author of The Skull Mantra--which one the Edgar Award and was a finalist for the Gold Dagger--as well as Water Touching Stone, Bone Mountain, and Beautiful Ghosts. Pattison is a world traveler and frequent visitor to China, and his numerous books and articles on international policy issues have been published around the world. Pattison resides in rural Pennsylvania. |
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| Kathleen Spivack and Ifeanyi Menkiti |
Moments of Past Happiness
Kathleen Spivack writes and teaches in Boston and Paris. An
international writing coach, she directs the Advanced Writing
Workshop, an intensive training program for professional
writers. She is the author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book
The Beds We Lie In, as well as a number of other books. Her
other work has been published in The New Yorker,
Plougshares, The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, and The
Paris Review. .
Ifeanyi Menkiti is author of Of Altair: The Bright Light and a professor at Wellesley College where he has taught for over thirty years. His poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, New Directions and the Massachusetts Review. He is a recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts award and his work has been aired on NPR and other radio stations. |
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| Don Metz |
Confessions of a Country Architect
Metz recounts his experiences in his new memoir,
Confessions of a Country Architect. The book contrasts
the sometimes loopy requests of wealthy clients with the earthy
wisdom of native contractors, and provides insight into a career
devoted to building dreams.
Award-winning architect and pioneer of sustainable architectural design, Don Metz has had his work appear in dozens of publications, including The New York Times. Other books include New Architecture in New Haven, Superhouse, The Compact House Book, and two novels, King of the Mountain and Catamount Bridge. He lives in Lyme, New Hampshire. |
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| Karl Iagnemma |
The Expeditions
In his debut novel, The Expeditions, Iagnemma takes us
on a remarkable journey through the wilderness of nineteenth-
century Michigan, where an estranged father and son trek
toward a bittersweet reunion.
Karl Iagnemma's work has won the Paris Review Plimpton Prize and been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories. He is a research scientist in the mechanical engineering department at M.I.T. He is also the author of On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction. |
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| Writers' Room of Boston |
Porter Square Books will be hosting a reading event with The
Writer's Room of Boston, where members of the Writer's Room
will read from their works.
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