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SUMMARY:Bright Before Us\, Like a Flame Book Launch with Jason Reynolds
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Shout Mouse Press’s new anthology\, which features work from 10 years of SMP books & contributions from guest authors\, including Candice Iloh (WFYP\, June 2017).  #1 NYT best-selling author Jason Reynolds (WFYP\, MFA Writing Faculty) will join a panel of Shout Mouse youth authors for readings and conversation.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/bright-before-us-like-a-flame-book-launch-with-jason-reynolds/
LOCATION:Planet Word Museum | Friedman Family Auditorium\, 925 13th St.\, NW\, Washington D.C.\, District of Columbia\, 20005\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event,Mentor Event
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SUMMARY:Rachel Kadish's The Weight of Ink: A Theatrical Adaptation 
DESCRIPTION:Select scenes will be presented from a new theatrical adaptation of the National Jewish Book Award-winning novel The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish (Fiction\, MFA Writing Faculty)\, currently in development by Kate Kohler Amory and Tamara Hickey. These excerpts will be followed by a talk and Q&A session with Kadish and a reception at 6 pm. \n\n\n\nThis special event is open to all A+ ticket holders and those making a donation of $100 or more to the weekend. To make a donation\, visit shakespeare.org/donate and enter “weight of ink’ in the Donation Notes\, or email development@shakespeare.org for more information. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Weight of Ink is an historical novel and the winner of the Jewish National Book Award. The novel tells the story of two historians uncovering the secret history of a young Jewish woman living in London in the 1660s\, and features alternating storylines set in the 21st and 17th centuries. The novel explores themes of resilience\, agency\, and forbidden love. 
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/rachel-kadishs-the-weight-of-ink-a-theatrical-adaptation/
LOCATION:Tina Packer Playhouse & Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre\, 70 Kemble Street\, Lenox\, Massachusetts\, 01240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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SUMMARY:Hester Kaplan at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Hester Kaplan (Fiction\, MFA Writing Faculty)—award-winning author of The Edge of Marriage—for a discussion of her new book Twice Born: Finding My Father in the Margins of Biography. She will be joined in conversation by Megan Marshall—Pulitzer Prize-winning  historian and the Charles Wesley Emerson College Professor of Nonfiction Writing at Emerson College.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTwice Born is a deeply reflective memoir weaving together the personal story of Hester Kaplan’s acclaimed biographer father and his fraught effect on her artistic development with a rich portrait of twentieth century intellectual life and a meditation on family intimacy\, identity\, and the art of writing.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/hester-kaplan-at-harvard-book-store-2/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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SUMMARY:TWICE BORN Book Launch with Hester Kaplan
DESCRIPTION:Hester Kaplan (Fiction\, MFA Writing Faculty) will be in conversation with Taylor Polites to discuss her new novel\, Twice Born.  \n\n\n\nAll of Riffraff Bookstore’s events are free and open to the public. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTwice Born is a deeply reflective memoir weaving together the personal story of Hester Kaplan’s acclaimed biographer father and his fraught effect on her artistic development with a rich portrait of twentieth century intellectual life and a meditation on family intimacy\, identity\, and the art of writing.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/twice-born-book-launch-with-hester-kaplan/
LOCATION:Riffraff Bookstore\, 60 Valley Street\, Providence\, Rhode Island\, 02909\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mentor Event
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SUMMARY:2025 Boston Book Festival with Hester Kaplan
DESCRIPTION:Join Hester Kaplan (Fiction\, MFA Writing Faculty) and Pulitzer Prize-winner Megan Marshall in the session: Memoir: On Writing the Lives of Others and Ourselves at the Boston Book Festival. Together\, they explore the many facets of biography and memoir\, illuminating how writing about the lives of others helps us understand ourselves in deep and surprising ways.  \n\n\n\nAll sessions are free and general admission\, space permitting.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/2025-boston-book-festival-with-hester-kaplan/
LOCATION:Boston Public Library\, 700 Boylston St\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02116\, United States
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Hester Kaplan at Starr Library
DESCRIPTION:Hester Kaplan (Fiction\, MFA Writing Faculty) joins her sister\, Polly Kaplan\, to discuss their father Justin\, known for his award-winning biographies of Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. Despite his relatively prolific output\, Justin rarely wrote\, or said\, much about himself—even to his daughters. Standing at his open casket\, Hester has the realization that while alive\, her father never looked her in the eyes.  \n\n\n\nOrder copies of books by the author from Starr Library’s dedicated page on the Oblong Books website.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA deeply reflective memoir weaving together the personal story of Hester Kaplan’s acclaimed biographer father and his fraught effect on her artistic development with a rich portrait of twentieth century intellectual life and a meditation on family intimacy\, identity\, and the art of writing.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/author-talk-hester-kaplan-at-starr-library/
LOCATION:Starr Library\, 68 West Market Street\, Rhinebeck\, New York\, 12572\, United States
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