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<b>ORDINARY EVENING READING SERIES<br>
WELCOMES LAURA M. MACDONALD AND AMY BLOOM<br>
Tuesday, October 16, 7-8pm</b></font><font size=2><br><br>
</font><b>The Anchor Bar's Mermaid Room (downstairs)<br>
272 College Street at Chapel, (203) 865-1512</b><font size=2><br><br>
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"She has never been in a cafe like this, theater people, women
wearing makeup and spangled hats and waving cigarette holders, blowing
bright-red kisses and smoke at men in velvet caps who are laughing as if
they've heard something fresh and funny and possibly obscene. . . ."
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--Amy Bloom, from <i>Away<br><br>
</i>"Barrels from the Mont Blanc's foredeck were hurtling into the
air by some mysterious force, bursting first into smoke and then into
fire with a great roar. More barrels ripped from their strappings and
catapulted into the sky, sending balls of smoke three hundred feet into
the air before stretching into a sheet of lurid pink and green
flame."<br>
-- Laura M. Macdonald, from <i>Curse of the Narrows<br><br>
</i><b>Laura M. Macdonald</b>'s most recent book, <i>Curse of the
Narrows</i>, won the 2005 Dartmouth Book Award and was a finalist for the
2006 Charles Taylor Prize for Non-Fiction, the Evelyn Richardson
Non-Fiction Prize, and the John W. Dafoe Prize. It was also featured as
Barnes and Noble New Voices selection. She is the co-author of one novel.
Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, she now lives in New York. Her website is
<a href="http://www.laurammacdonald.com/">Laura M.
Macdonald.com</a>.<br><br>
<b>Amy Bloom </b>is the author of two novels – including her latest,
<i>Away</i>, a
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/books/review/Thomas-t.html?ref=review">
<i>New York Times</a></i> bestseller – as well as two collections of
short stories, and a book of essays.<b> </b>She's been nominated for both
the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her
stories have appeared in <i>Best American Short Stories</i>, <i>Prize
Stories: The O. Henry Awards</i>, and numerous anthologies here and
abroad. She has written for the <i>New Yorker</i>, the <i>New York Times
Magazine</i>, the <i>Atlantic Monthly</i>, <i>Vogue</i> , <i>Slate</i>,
and <i>Salon</i>, among many other publications, and has won a National
Magazine Award. She lives in Connecticut and teaches at Yale
University.<br><br>
<b>MARK YOUR CALENDARS<br>
</b>This season's lineup offers an eclectic mix of poetry, fiction,
non-fiction and drama from local and further-flung writers, including
Judith Baumel and Martha Cooley (11/13); and Robert Ackerman and Tom
Gavin (12/11). For biographies, links to poems and other information,
visit
<a href="http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/">
http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/</a>.<br>
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<b>ABOUT THE ORDINARY EVENING SERIES <br>
</b>Started in spring 2005, the
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<a href="http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/"><font size=2>eries</a>
features both emerging and established writers in a monthly reading at
the Anchor Bar Mermaid Room, downstairs. Borrowing its name from the poem
"An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" by Wallace Stevens, the
series aims to bring writers and audiences together in a no-fuss,
informal environment to enjoy a little storytelling on a work-night.
Readings are always on a Tuesday at 7pm, free of charge, both drinkers
and teetotalers welcome. <br>
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<a href="http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/">
http://ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/</a><br>
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