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SUMMARY:First Friday Book Talk & Reading with Pamela Petro
DESCRIPTION:Join Larksong Writers Place for a book talk and reading of The Long Field: Wales and the Presence of Absence\, A Memoir with Pamela Petro (Nonfiction\, Graphic Novels & Comics\, MFA Writing Faculty). Registration is required. \n\n\n\nSign ups are also available for Pamela Petro’s writing workshop “In Search of Home” scheduled for Saturday\, March 2\, 9 – 11 am CENTRAL TIME.  \n\n\n\nPamela Petro is an author\, artist\, and educator living in Northampton\, MA\, with her partner\, Marguerite\, and Pembroke Welsh Corgi\, Topaz. She has written four books of creative nonfiction including her latest\, The Long Field – Wales and the Presence of Absence\, a Memoir\, as well as Travels in an Old Tongue\, also about Wales; Sitting up with the Dead\, about the American South; and The Slow Breath of Stone\, about Southwest France. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times\, The Guardian\, The Sunday Telegraph\, The Atlantic\, Granta\, Guernica\, The Paris Review\, and others. The Long Field was shortlisted for The Wales Book of the Year Award and was named to Top Ten Travel Book lists by The Financial Times and The Sunday Telegraph. Pamela teaches creative writing at Smith College and on Lesley University’s MFA in Creative Writing Program\, and is co-Director of the Dylan Thomas Summer School at the University of Wales\, Trinity St Davids\, where she is also a Fellow. She has widely exhibited her photography and has also created an artist book\, AfterShadows – A Grand Canyon Narrative\, and a graphic script\, Under Paradise Valley.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/first-friday-book-talk-reading-with-pamela-petro/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
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SUMMARY:Michelle Knudsen launches new book\, in conversation with Tracey Baptiste
DESCRIPTION:Join New York Times bestselling authors Michelle Knudsen (WFYP\, MFA Writing Faculty) and Tracey Baptiste (WFYP\, MFA Writing Faculty) for a conversation and reception to launch Michelle’s new picture book\, Luigi\, the Spider Who Wanted to Be a Kitten. \n\n\n\nReaders and book lovers of all ages are welcome to join us as we mark the publication of this warm (and delightfully fuzzy) storybook about learning to be—and be loved for—exactly who you are. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCopies of the book and other titles by Michelle Knudsen will be available for purchase\, and the author will be on hand to sign them.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/michelle-knudsen-launches-new-book-in-conversation-with-tracey-baptiste/
LOCATION:Lofty Pigeon Books\, 743 Church Avenue\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11218\, United States
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SUMMARY:Chris Lynch\, author of Walkin' the Dog\, in conversation with Sara Farizan
DESCRIPTION:Porter Square Books welcomes Chris Lynch (WFYP\, MFA Writing Faculty) for the release of Walkin’ the Dog! Author Sara Farizan (WFYP\, January 2012) will join Lynch in conversation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA boy learns how to be a friend from man’s best friend in this funny and moving middle grade novel about humans being able to change and dogs changing us from acclaimed author Chris Lynch.In a family of strong personalities with very strong points of view\, Louis is what his mother lovingly calls “the inactivist\,” someone who’d rather kick back than stand out. He only hopes he can stay under the radar when he starts high school in the fall\, his first experience with public school after years of homeschooling.But when a favor for a neighbor and his stinky canine companion unexpectedly turns into a bustling dog-walking business\, Louis finds himself meeting an unprecedented number of new friends—both human and canine. Agatha\, a quippy and cagey girl his age always seems to be telling two truths and a lie. Cyrus\, a few years his senior\, promises he’s going to show Louis how to be a better person\, whether Louis wants him to or not. And then there are the dogs: misbehaving border terriers\, the four (possible stolen) sausage dogs\, the rest of Louis’s charges\, and a mysterious white beast who appears at a certain spot at the edge of the woods.Dogs and human alike all seem to have something they want to teach Louis\, including his menacing older brother who keeps turning up everywhere. But is Louis ready to learn the lesson he needs most: how to stop being a lone wolf and be part of a pack? \n\n\n\nChris Lynch is the award–winning author of several highly acclaimed young adult novels\, including Printz Honor Book Freewill\, Iceman\, Gypsy Davey\, and Shadow Boxer—all ALA Best Books for Young Adults—as well as Killing Time in Crystal City\, Little Blue Lies\, Pieces\, Kill Switch\, Angry Young Man\, and Inexcusable\, which was a National Book Award finalist and the recipient of six starred reviews. Chris is the author of middle grade novel Walkin’ the Dog. He holds an MA from the writing program at Emerson College. He teaches in the creative writing MFA program at Lesley University. He lives in Boston and in Scotland. \n\n\n\nSara Farizan is an Iranian American writer\, avid culture vulture\, and ardent basketball fan who was born in and lives near Boston. The award-winning author of If You Could Be Mine\, Here to Stay\, and Dead Flip\, she has an MFA from Lesley University and a BA in film and media studies from American University. 
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/chris-lynch-author-of-walkin-the-dog-in-conversation-with-sara-farizan/
LOCATION:Porter Square Books\, 1815 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02140\, United States
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SUMMARY:Chris Lynch presents Walkin' the Dog in conversation with Michael Mercurio
DESCRIPTION:Join Chris Lynch (WFYP\, MFA Writing Faculty) in conversation with Michael Mercurio (Poetry\, January 2017) as they discuss Chris’s new middle grade book\, Walkin’ the Dog at Broadside Bookshop. \n\n\n\nIn this charming middle-grade novel\, Louis\, a bit of an introvert in a family of assertive personalities\, has  been home-schooled up until now\, but is about to start high school in the fall. In the meantime\, what begins as a favor to a friend turns into a bustling dog-walking job.  Louis meets all kinds of people as he walks the dogs (who have as many varied personalities as the people). As he interacts with all these new influences\, Louis begins to re-think being a lone wolf. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChris Lynch is the award–winning author of several highly acclaimed young adult novels\, including Printz Honor Book Freewill\, Iceman\, Gypsy Davy\, and Shadow Boxer—all ALA Best Books for Young Adults—as well as Killing Time in Crystal City\, Little Blue Lies\, Pieces\, Kill Switch\, Angry Young Man\, and Inexcusable\, which was a National Book Award finalist and the recipient of six starred reviews. He holds an MA from the writing program at Emerson College. He teaches in the creative writing MFA program at Lesley University. He lives in Boston and in Scotland. \n\n\n\nMichael Mercurio  lives and writes in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. His poems\, critical essays\, and interviews have appeared in Palette Poetry\, the Common\, Sierra (the magazine of the Sierra Club)\, Lily Poetry Review\, Thrush Poetry Journal\, Sugar House Review\, Coal Hill Review\, and elsewhere. Michael curates What The Universe Is: A Virtual Reading Series\, which happens monthly on Zoom. He is the Director of Community Engagement for the Faraday Publishing Company\, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering discourse of enduring value rooted in the work and experiences of the global majority\, and he also serves as a member of the steering committee for the Tell It Slant Poetry Festival\, held each September at Emily Dickinson’s house.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/chris-lynch-presents-walkin-the-dog-in-conversation-with-michael-mercurio/
LOCATION:Broadside Bookshop\, 247 Main Street\, Northampton\, Massachusetts\, 01060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Great Middle Grade Reads with Chris Lynch
DESCRIPTION:Join Books of Wonder in-store to discover these terrific new titles that are full of heart\, courage\, and self-discovery (and dogs and chocolate chip cookies!)! \n\n\n\nStop in to check out: \n\n\n\n\nWalkin’ the Dog by CHRIS LYNCH (WFYP\, MFA Writing Faculty). When Louis\, a laid-back homeschooled boy accidentally starts a dog-walking business\, he learns how to stop being a lone wolf and be part of a pack\, and what it really means to be a friend — from man’s best friend.\n\n\n\nMaybe It’s a Sign by E. L. SHEN. After her father passes away\, Freya starts looking for signs from him everywhere. When she sees two lucky red birds on the way to a music lesson\, she takes it as him showing his approval that she’s still practicing. But when she’s assigned a project in home ec class and discovers that she loves baking even more than music\, she no longer sees any signs from him. With the help of family an a new friend\, Freya learns that to be her own person\, she might just have to make her own luck.\n\n\n\nThe World Divided by Piper by CAELA CARTER. Despite being diagnosed with early-onset puberty\, eleven-year-old Piper is way too busy to grow up. So\, when her doctor decides it’s time for her treatment to end\, Piper’s eyes are opened to a completely new world\, one that’s way more difficult. How is she supposed to balance the new experiences of puberty\, studying for the decathlon\, and growing up? Maybe\, with a little friendship and a lot of female solidarity\, Piper will be able to bring her world back together.\n\n\n\nLost Kites and and Other Treasures by CATHY CARR. Twelve-year-old Franny thinks more often than she would like of the charismatic\, troubled mom who left her years ago\, along the unaccountable things Mom did while she was still in the picture. Life with Nana is safe and secure\, and Franny’s innovative art projects keep her company. But when Nana has an accident and Franny’s estranged uncle comes home to help out for a while\, Franny has to reach deep down to come to terms with the discoveries she makes about her mother — and herself.\n\n\n\nMiracle by KAREN S. CHOW. Amie has spent her life perfectly in tune with Ba-ba\, her father\, especially since she plays the violin\, his favorite instrument. But after Ba-ba dies\, Amie feels distanced from everyone close to her\, like her mother and her best friends. More devastating still\, she loses her ability to play the violin. Will Amie ever find her way back to the music she once loved?
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/great-middle-grade-reads-with-chris-lynch/
LOCATION:Books of Wonder\, 42 West 17th Street\, New York City\, New York\, 10011\, United States
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