Nate Brodie's been given the chance of a
lifetime--especially for a thirteen-year-old star quarterback. Not to
mention the biggest Tom Brady fan around. He's won the chance to throw
a ball through a target at a Patriots game. On live TV! If he completes
the pass\, he'll win one million dollars. With his parents struggling to
pay the bills\, even just to keep their home\, Nate knows what this money
would mean\, and so the pressure is on.
Yet for Nate\, the true meaning of pressure is about to change in ways he never knew.
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Mike Lupica\, over the span of his successful career as a sports
columnist\, has proven that he can write for sports fans of all ages
and stripes. And as the author of multiple bestselling books for young
readers\, including Heat\, Travel Team\, and The Big Field\, Mr. Lupica has
carved out a niche as the sporting world's finest storyteller. Mr.
Lupica\, whose column for New York's Daily News is syndicated
nationally\, lives in Connecticut with his wife and their four children.
He can be seen weekly on ESPN's The Sports Reporters.
In this stunning story collection inhabited by dreams and
disappointments\, good intentions and small triumphs\, Keith Lee
Morris chronicles the lives of men lost in the liminal spaces
between adolescence and adulthood. For all their flaws—as husbands\, as
fathers\, as friends—Morris’s characters are portrayed with depth\,
tenderness\, and humanity. Call It What You Want balances realism with the surreal\, humor with sadness\, and explores all the hidden places in between.
"\;Steve
Almond had created a distinctive voice and literary persona.
Pleasure-obsessed\, self-deprecating\, horny\, hilarious\, and always
dedicated to parsing the messy terrain of the human heart."\;
Forward.com
Keith
Lee Morris is an associate professor of English and creative writing
at Clemson University. His short stories have been published in Tin House\, A Public Space\, Southern Review\, Ninth Letter\, StoryQuarterly\, New England Review\, The Sun\, and the Georgia Review\, among other publications. He has written three books\, The Greyhound God\, The Best Seats in the House\, and The Dart League King. His latest work is\, Call It What You Want.
Steve
Almond is the author of two short story collections\; My Life in
Heavy Metal and The Evil B.B. Chow\, the non-fiction book Candyfreak\,
the novel Which Brings Me to You\, co-authored by Julianna Baggot\, and
the collection of essays Not That You Asked. His short stories have
appeared in Tin House\, Zoetrope\, McSweeney's\, Ploughshares and
others\, and his other work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times\,
the Boston Globe\, the Believer\, and Boston Magazine.
"\;Anonymous Fox is
a book you can dive right into even though the familiar yet obscure
images keep you wondering what deftly sculpted insight you're about to
experience."\;
Barbara Bialick
"\;In
this slim and amiable book Ms. Thomas gathers a pile of small\, not
uninteresting observations about deer\, and in doing so she subtly
alters the way you look at them in a forest or from a window."\;
New York Times
Naomi
Chase's previous work has appeared in publications such as the Havard Magazine and
Iowa Review. She won the Flume Press poetry chapbook award and she's
published a variety of poetry books and chapbooks\,nonfiction books\, and
fiction.
One of
the most widely read American anthropologists\, Elizabeth Marshall
Thomas has observed dogs\, cats\, and elephants during her
half-century-long career. In the 1980s Thomas studied elephants
alongside Katy Payne—the scientist who discovered elephants'
communication via infrasound. In 1993 Thomas wrote The Hidden Life of Dogs\, a groundbreaking work of animal psychology that spent nearly a year on the New York Times bestseller list. Her book on cats\, Tribe of Tiger\,
was also an international bestseller. She lives in Peterborough\, New
Hampshire\, on her family's former farm\, where she observes deer\,
bobcats\, bear\, and many other species of wildlife.
Whether he’s reporting on the infiltration of the murderous Aryan
Brotherhood into the U.S. prison system\, tracking down a chameleon con
artist in Europe\, or riding in a cyclone- tossed skiff with a scientist
hunting the elusive giant squid\, David Grann revels in telling stories
that explore the nature of obsession and that piece together true and
unforgettable mysteries.
Each of the dozen
stories in this collection reveals a hidden and often dangerous world
and\, like Into Thin Air and The Orchid Thief\, pivots around the
gravitational pull of obsession and the captivating personalities of
those caught in its grip. There is the world’s foremost expert on
Sherlock Holmes who is found dead in mysterious circumstances\; an arson
sleuth trying to prove that a man about to be executed is innocent\; and
sandhogs racing to complete the brutally dangerous job of building New
York City’s water tunnels before the old system collapses. Throughout\,
Grann’s hypnotic accounts display the power—and often the willful
perversity—of the human spirit.
David Grann is the author of The Lost City of Z and a longtime staff writer at The New Yorker.
He has written about everything from New York City’s antiquated water
tunnels to the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang\, from the hunt for the
giant squid to the mysterious death of the world’s greatest Sherlock
Holmes expert. His stories have appeared in several Best American writing anthologies\, and he has written for The New York Times Magazine\, The Atlantic\, The Washington Post\, The Wall Street Journal\, and The New Republic.
Toby Lester is the author of The Fourth Part of the World and a contributing editor to and has written extensively for The Atlantic. His work has also been featured on the radio show This American Life.
A former Peace Corps volunteer and United Nations observer\, he lives in
the Boston area with his wife and three daughters. He is an invited
research scholar at Brown University’s John Carter Brown Library.
"\;A riveting emotional roller coaster into the behind the scenes life of a veterinarian."\;
Temple Grandin\, author of Animals in Translation
"\;Dr. Trout has given us a remarkable love story\, reminding us of the preciousness of every life\, human or animal."\;
Jeffrey Zaslow\, coauthor of The Last Lecture
Nick Trout graduated from veterinary school at the University of
Cambridge\, England\, in 1989. He is a diplomate of the American and
European Colleges of Veterinary Surgeons and a staff surgeon at the
Angell Animal Medical Center in Boston. He lives in Massachusetts with
his wife\, daughters\, and two dogs\: Meg\, a yellow Labrador\, and Sophie\,
a Jack Russell terrier.
Please Join Porter Square Books and PEN/New England for Stephen Burt at Upstairs on the Square.
Stephen Burt is a literary critic who teaches at Harvard University. Burt's most recent book\, Close Calls with Nonsense\,
was a 2009 National Book Critics Circle finalist. Burt writes books
about poetry\, essays on other people's poems\, books of his own poems\,
and shorter pieces about poems\, poets\, poetry\, comics\, science-fiction
writers\, political controversies\, obscure pop groups\, and the WNBA.
Please note\: this is an off-site event to be held at Upstairs on the Square in Cambridge\, MA.
About PEN New England
PEN (Poets/Playwrights\,
Essayists/Editors\, Novelists) New England is an organization of
published authors\, aspiring writers\, and all who love the written
word. Our mission is to advance the cause of literature in New England
and defend free expression everywhere. PEN New England is a branch of
PEN American Center\, and part of International PEN\, the oldest
international literary organization and also the oldest human rights
organization in the world.
"\;Dubus proves himself both an exquisitely careful craftsman and a painstaking recorder of society."\;
Boston Magazine
"\;A
Consummate exploration of the themes of violence\, religion in modern
Europe\, the rise of antisocial tendencies in the great social
democracies\, and love… [In the Company of Angels] lacks nothing … Kennedy is a master craftsman …"\;
Books Ireland
Andre Dubus III is the author of The Garden of Last Days\, Bluesman\, The Cage Keeper and Other Stories\, and House of Sand and Fog
(a National Book Award Finalist and Oprah Book Club Selection). His
writing has received many honors\, including a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a
National Magazine Award\, and a Pushcart Prize. He lives with his family
north of Boston. His memoir Townie is forthcoming in February 2011.
Thomas Kennedy
is the author of eight novels\, as well as several collections of short
stories and essays\, and has won numerous awards including the Eric
Hoffer Award\, the Pushcart Prize\, the O. Henry Prize and the National
Magazine Award. He teaches creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson
University. In the Company of Angels was first published in Ireland in
2004\, as Greene's Summer\, to rapturous critical acclaim. It is one of four novels comprising the Copenhagen Quartet.
The story centers on "\;The Lake Shore Limited"\;—a play Billy
has written about an imagined terrorist bombing of that train as it
pulls into Union Station in Chicago\, and about a man waiting to hear
the fate of his estranged wife\, who is traveling on it. Billy had
waited in just such a way on 9/11 to hear whether her lover\, Gus\, was
on one of the planes used in the attack.
How
Billy has come to create the play out of these emotions\, how it is then
created anew on the stage\, how the performance itself touches and
changes the other characters’ lives—these form the thread that binds
them all together and drives the novel compulsively forward.
\;
\;
Sue Miller is the best-selling author of the novels The Senator's Wife\, Lost in the Forest\, The World Below\, While I Was Gone\, The Distinguished Guest\, For Love\, Family Pictures\, and The Good Mother\; the story collection Inventing the Abbotts\; and the memoir The Story of My Father.
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"\;In this siular
book\, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot introduces a new stage of life\,
delineates its intriguing and unexpected contours\, and draws lessons
that are meaningful for every human being."\;
Howard Gardner\, author of Good Work\: When Excellence and Ethics Meet
\;
\;
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot\, a MacArthur Prize-winning sociologist\, is the
Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education at Harvard University\,
where she has been on the faculty since 1972. Educator\, researcher\,
author\, and public intellectual\, Lawrence-Lightfoot has written nine
books\, including Respect\: An Exploration and The Essential
Conversations\: What Parents and Teachers Can Learn from Each Other. Her
book Balm in Gilead\: Journey of a Healer won the 1988 Christopher Award.
\;
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"\;The Raven's
Gift is a compelling story of deep\, authentic adventure into the far
reaches of the world and the human spirit. Jon Turk is a true explorer\,
a curious traveler\, and a gifted writer who shares his remarkable
journeys with wisdom\, insight\, and compassion."\;
Maria Coffey\, author of Where The Mountain Casts Its Shadow
Jon
Turk is the author of twenty-five environmental and earth science
textbooks and two adventure travel books. He is a world-class
adventurer who\, in addition to his kayak expeditions\, has climbed big
walls in the Canadian Arctic\, mountain-biked across the Mongolian Gobi\,
and skied high peaks throughout the world. He writes frequently for
many different magazines and alternates his time between Fernie\,
British Columbia and Darby\, Montana.
Lawrence Millman is the author of 14 books\, including such titles as Last Places\, Lost in the Arctic\, A Kayak Full of Ghosts\, Northern Latitudes.
A Fellow of the Explorers Club\, he has made 35 expeditions to the
Arctic and Subarctic. He will be talking about several of his northern
books\, including the just published Wolverine the Trickster\, a collection of ribald Innu stories from Labrador. and
The Porter Square Books Book Club will be discussing The Yacoubian Building. Visit the Book Club page for more information.
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Like to knit\, quilt\, felt\, bead\, crochet\, or
practice some other handicraft. Keep the cold off and join us in our free heat for Knit
One\, Read Too\, On the second Sunday of each month from 1 to 3 p.m. we host an in-store handwork session for
knitters\, quilters\, crocheters\, and other handwork enthusiasts.
The Porter Square Books Book Club will be discussing The Yacoubian Building. Visit the Book Club page for more information.
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Since
its first publication\, The Things They Carried has become an
unparalleled Vietnam testament\, a classic work of American literature\,
and a profound study of war that illuminates the capacity\, and the
limits\, of the human heart and soul.
Margot Livesey's acclaimed
novels include Eva Moves the Furniture\, Banishing Verona\, Homework\, and
The House on Fortune Street. Her fiction has appeared in The New
Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly. Born in Scotland\, she lives
in Cambridge and teaches at Emerson College.
"\;An inspiring and riveting tale."\;
Patrick Henry Bass\, Senior Editor\, Essence
Gerald
M. Boyd was the first black managing editor at the New York
Times. During his 20-year tenure with the Times\, he served various
roles\, including White House correspondent. Prior to his work at the
Times\, he had a career at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A Neiman
Fellow at Harvard\, he was a board member of the American Society of
Newspaper Editors and was named the Journalist of the Year by the
National Associated of Black Journalists. Gerald M. Boyd passed away on
November 23\, 2006.
Robin
D. Stone is the author of No Secrets\, No Lies\: How Black Families
Can Heal from Sexual Abuse\; a former deputy editor of Health magazine\;
a former executive editor of Essence magazine\; and the founding
editor-in-chief of www.essence.com. She has written articles for the Boston Globe\, Detroit Free Press\, and the New York Times.
"\;I could NOT put Sweater Quest
down! I felt as though I was knitting the sweater along with Adrienne\,
felt her pain and her joy. Once I even thought\, as I was packing the
car\, 'Now WHERE is that Alice Starmore sweater I was working on?' The
book became that insinuated into my psyche. I love this book."\;
Annie Modesitt\, author of Confessions of a Knitting Heretic
"\;Adrienne
Martini combines her passion for knitting with her astonishing
ambition\, bringing to her lovely new memoir an enthusiasm which is
infectious. Sweater Quest will have you reaching for your needles to knit your own dream sweater\, and it belongs on every knitter's bookshelf."\;
Rachael Herron\, How to Knit a Love Song
\;
Adrienne Martini\, a former editor for Knoxville\, Tennessee's Metro
Pulse\, is an award-winning freelance writer and college teacher. Author
of Hillbilly Gothic\, she lives in Oneonta\, New York\, with her husband\,
Scott\, and children\, Maddy and Cory.