The Power of Story Telling
Authors Kristen Miller, Daniel Lavery, and Betsy Lerner will explore how storytelling can and the power of imagination can transcend circumstances ... as complex as they may be.
| Where: | Student Union Tucson Room (Seats 110)  |
| When: | Sat, Mar 15, 11:30 am - 12:25 pm |
| Signing area: | Sales & Signing Area - UA Campus Store Tent (following presentation)
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| Genre: | Fiction / Literature |
| Moderator: | Caitlin Schmidt |
| Sponsor: | Session made possible courtesy of Family of Marcia Peters |
Panelists
Daniel LaveryDaniel M. Lavery is a former Dear Prudence advice columnist at Slate, the cofounder of The Toast, and the New York Times-bestselling author of "Texts from Jane Eyre," "The Merry Spinster" and "Something That May Shock and Discredit You....
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Betsy Lerner Betsy Lerner is the author of the bestselling nobel, "Shred." She received an MFA in poetry from Columbia, where she was selected as one of PEN’s Emerging Writers. She also received the Tony Godwin Publishing Prize for Editors....
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Kirsten MillerKirsten Miller grew up in North Carolina and moved to New York City to attend Barnard College. After graduation, she spent more than two decades in the advertising industry. Kirsten is the author of more than a dozen novels for young people, including the critically acclaimed Kiki Strike trilogy and "How to Lead a Life of Crime....
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Books:
Women's Hotel
Daniel Lavery
Fiction / Literature
HarperCollins
October 2024
ISBN 9780063343535
Hardcover, 272 pages
Buy nowFrom the New York Times bestselling author and advice columnist, a poignant and funny debut novel about the residents of a women’s hotel in 1960s New York City.
The Beidermeier might be several rungs lower on the ladder than the real-life Barbizon, but its residents manage to occupy one another nonetheless. There’s Katherine, the first-floor manager, lightly cynical and more than lightly suggestible. There’s Lucianne, a workshy party girl caught between the love of comfort and an instinctive bridling at convention, Kitty the sponger, Ruth the failed hairdresser, and Pauline the typesetter. And there’s Stephen, the daytime elevator operator and part-time Cooper Union student.
The residents give up breakfast, juggle competing jobs at rival presses, abandon their children, get laid off from the telephone company, attempt to retrain as stenographers, all with the shared awareness that their days as an institution are numbered, and they’d better make the most of it while it lasts.
As trenchant as the novels of Dawn Powell and Rona Jaffe and as immersive as The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Lessons in Chemistry, Women’s Hotel is a modern classic—and it is very, very funny. More/less
Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
A Novel
Kirsten Miller
Fiction / Literature
HarperCollins Publishers
June 2024
ISBN 9780063348691
304 pages
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Shred Sisters
A Novel
Betsy Lerner
Fiction / Literature
Grove Press
October 2024
ISBN 9780802163707
272 pages
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