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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#29303B'>The Ordinary Evening
Reading Series presents </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#29303B'>Robin Abrahams and Susan
Barr-Toman</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#29303B'>Tuesday March 23, 7 PM </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#29303B'>at the Anchor Bar & Restaurant,
New Haven CT</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#29303B;font-weight:normal'> </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#29303B;font-weight:normal'> </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#29303B;font-weight:normal'>Spring into the new season with the Ordinary
Evening Reading Series, when Robin Abrahams and Susan Barr-Toman read at 7 PM
on Tuesday March 23, in the Anchor Bar & Restaurant’s Mermaid Room, 272
College St., in New Haven.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#29303B;font-weight:normal'> </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"ITC Legacy Serif Std Medium","serif";
font-weight:normal'>“Nowadays, the problems that flummox people are the
dilemmas that live in the gray area between ethics (the big rules) and protocol
(the little ones) and reflect the modern explosion of social complexity.
Problems like:</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"ITC Legacy Serif Std Medium","serif";
font-weight:normal'>- Is it polite to say ‘Bless you’ to a sneezing atheist?</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"ITC Legacy Serif Std Medium","serif";
font-weight:normal'>- Is there a good way to request ‘No Barbies or Disney
princesses, please’ for a four-year-old's birthday party?</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"ITC Legacy Serif Std Medium","serif";
font-weight:normal'>- What, if anything, can be said to an otherwise
health-conscious friend who is tanning himself into jerky?</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"ITC Legacy Serif Std Medium","serif";
font-weight:normal'>- Can a group of women properly be addressed as ‘you
guys’?”</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"ITC Legacy Serif Std Medium","serif";
color:#29303B;font-weight:normal'> </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;
text-indent:-.25in'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#29303B;font-weight:normal'>-</span></strong><strong><span
style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#29303B;font-weight:normal'>
</span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"ITC Legacy Serif Std Medium","serif";
color:#29303B;font-weight:normal'>Robin Abrahams, <i>Miss Conduct's Mind over
Manners</i></span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:
27.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
center'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"ITC Legacy Serif Std Medium","serif";
color:#29303B;font-weight:normal'> </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:
27.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
center'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"ITC Legacy Serif Std Medium","serif"'>“Lucy
took the oxygen tubes out of her mother's nose and turned off the tank so they
could share a last cigarette together. Marge's last cigarette. It was October
30, Mischief Night, the night her mother Marge had chosen in the hope of being
buried on All Souls' Day. She chose the time, around eleven fifteen p.m., so
that she could watch the lead story on the eleven o'clock news; she no longer cared
to hear the five-day forecast.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:
27.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
center'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"ITC Legacy Serif Std Medium","serif"'>
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:
27.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
center'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"ITC Legacy Serif Std Medium","serif";
color:#29303B;font-weight:normal'>–Susan Barr-Toman, </span></strong><i><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"ITC Legacy Serif Std Medium","serif"'>When
Love Was Clean Underwear</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#29303B;font-weight:normal'> </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#29303B'> </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>
Robin Abrahams</span></strong> writes the popular “Miss Conduct” social advice
column for the <em>Boston Globe</em> Sunday magazine. <em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Miss Conduct’s Mind Over Manners </span></em>is
her first book. A Cambridge resident with a PhD. in research psychology from
Boston University, Robin also works as a research associate at Harvard Business
School. Previous jobs include theater publicist, organizational-change
communications manager, editor, stand-up comedian, and professor of psychology
and writing. She occasionally writes for the science-humor magazine <em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Annals of Improbable Research</span></em>
and performs in Improbable Research cabarets. Robin blogs six days a week at <a
href="http://robinabrahams.com/"><span style='color:#473624'>robinabrahams.com</span></a>
and at <a href="http://boston.com/missconduct"><span style='color:#473624'>boston.com/missconduct</span></a>,
and conducts online chats at <a href="http://boston.com/"><span
style='color:#473624'>boston.com</span></a>. <br>
<br>
<strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Susan Barr-Toman</span></strong>
was born and raised in Philadelphia where she still lives with her husband and
two children and where she teaches writing at Temple University. <em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>When Love Was Clean Underwear</span></em>,
her debut novel, was selected by Ann Hood as the winner of the Many Voices Project's
Fiction Prize 2007. Currently, she’s working on a collection of connected
stories called <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Breathing
Water</span></em>. She just completed <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Mary
Mulgrew, What Did You Do?</span></em> a children's book with her sister artist <a
href="http://www.sarahbarrstudio.com/"><span style='color:#473624'>Sarah Barr</span></a>.
Her blog <a href="http://phillywordofmouth.blogspot.com/2009_10_01_archive.html"><span
style='color:#473624'>Philly Word of Mouth</span></a> features information
about author readings and events in the Philadelphia area.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#29303B'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b>Mark your calendars! Our next reading is Tuesday, April
20th</b>. The Ordinary Evening Reading Series presents readings by poets,
novelists, and non-fiction writers. We welcome drinkers and teetotalers alike
and hope you can join us for what the New Haven Independent called "one of
those unofficial civic ventures that make New Haven such a vibrant place."
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<p class=MsoNormal>Check our full spring schedule, read writers' biographies,
send us an email, and more at <a href="http://www.ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/">http://www.ordinaryevening.blogspot.com</a>
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about poetry and fiction readings, send the full text of the announcement,
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