Past Updates
May 2010 Update
Hello!
It's time to ponder your summer reading picks, and plenty of great ideas will be offered at the third annual "Are You a Bookie?" book club event June 13 from 2 to 4 p.m. at Bay Path College, 588 Longmeadow St., Longmeadow, Mass.
I'm writer-in-residence at Bay Path, and enjoyed helping assemble this year's Bookies event. It's open to book clubs, and readers in general (including those looking to join or begin a book club), and is free of charge. Readings will be given by Michael C. White, author of the newly released "Beautiful Assassin;" Edie Clark, veteran Yankee magazine columnist and author of one of my favorite books, "The Place He Made;" and Jaed Muncharoen Coffin, whose first memoir, "A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants," tells of his time as a monk in his mother's native village in Thailand. Keynote speaker will be Annamarie Kersten, one of the founders of www.bookcrossing.com, through which readers around the world share books.
If you'd like to attend, please register by visiting at Bay Path's website.
For those interesting in not only reading but writing, and in bringing their books to the next level, check out the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast MFA program in creative writing. I'll be teaching there from July 9 to 19.
The following month, I'll be leading workshops and doing a reading at the inaugural session of the New England Writing Institute, which will take place at Bridgewater State College, Aug. 1 to 7. This will be a retreat for those working on creative non-fiction, and those who loved the Blue Hills Institute at Curry College might spot some familiar faces during this week.
In between, the above, I'll be finishing a novel, keeping fingers crossed for an anthology proposal that's making the rounds, and researching a non-fiction book. I also continue to write regularly for Obit magazine (enter my name in the search box for a full list of my essays) and earlier this year I began a blog as part of a mass communications course I was teaching at Bay Path. Feel free to visit it at www.bondsvilleliterarysociety.blogspot.com.
And, of course, I'll be reading. I recently was lucky enough to meet Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author Nicholas D. Kristof - a moment I liken to meeting your favorite rockstar - at Bay Path's 15th annual Women's Leadership Conference and am reading "Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide," which he authored with his wife, Sheryl WuDunn.
I'd especially recommend the column titled "A Church Mary Can Love," which ran in the Times on April 17 and is included in the above link.
Another favorite recent Times piece was written by Elinor Lipman, a writer who literally changed my life through her help and support. Read her astounding Modern Love piece, "Sweetest at the End." Elinor's latest novel, "The Family Man," has just been released in paperback.
As always, thanks for reading!
Suzanne
It's time to ponder your summer reading picks, and plenty of great ideas will be offered at the third annual "Are You a Bookie?" book club event June 13 from 2 to 4 p.m. at Bay Path College, 588 Longmeadow St., Longmeadow, Mass.
I'm writer-in-residence at Bay Path, and enjoyed helping assemble this year's Bookies event. It's open to book clubs, and readers in general (including those looking to join or begin a book club), and is free of charge. Readings will be given by Michael C. White, author of the newly released "Beautiful Assassin;" Edie Clark, veteran Yankee magazine columnist and author of one of my favorite books, "The Place He Made;" and Jaed Muncharoen Coffin, whose first memoir, "A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants," tells of his time as a monk in his mother's native village in Thailand. Keynote speaker will be Annamarie Kersten, one of the founders of www.bookcrossing.com, through which readers around the world share books.
If you'd like to attend, please register by visiting at Bay Path's website.
For those interesting in not only reading but writing, and in bringing their books to the next level, check out the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast MFA program in creative writing. I'll be teaching there from July 9 to 19.
The following month, I'll be leading workshops and doing a reading at the inaugural session of the New England Writing Institute, which will take place at Bridgewater State College, Aug. 1 to 7. This will be a retreat for those working on creative non-fiction, and those who loved the Blue Hills Institute at Curry College might spot some familiar faces during this week.
In between, the above, I'll be finishing a novel, keeping fingers crossed for an anthology proposal that's making the rounds, and researching a non-fiction book. I also continue to write regularly for Obit magazine (enter my name in the search box for a full list of my essays) and earlier this year I began a blog as part of a mass communications course I was teaching at Bay Path. Feel free to visit it at www.bondsvilleliterarysociety.blogspot.com.
And, of course, I'll be reading. I recently was lucky enough to meet Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author Nicholas D. Kristof - a moment I liken to meeting your favorite rockstar - at Bay Path's 15th annual Women's Leadership Conference and am reading "Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide," which he authored with his wife, Sheryl WuDunn.
I'd especially recommend the column titled "A Church Mary Can Love," which ran in the Times on April 17 and is included in the above link.
Another favorite recent Times piece was written by Elinor Lipman, a writer who literally changed my life through her help and support. Read her astounding Modern Love piece, "Sweetest at the End." Elinor's latest novel, "The Family Man," has just been released in paperback.
As always, thanks for reading!
Suzanne