[Yale-readings] Tuesday October 20: Debby Applegate and Adam Braver

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Ordinary Evening Reading Series Presents
Debby Applegate and Adam Braver
at the Anchor Bar, New Haven
Tuesday, October 20th, 7 PM

As the autumn leaves fall, gather 'round with us for readings by novelist Adam Braver and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Debby Applegate 7PM on Tuesday October 20th in the Anchor Bar's Mermaid Room, 272 College Street in New Haven.

"The silence of the writer's study was terrifying compared to the glory of a standing ovation. He was addicted to the adulation, to the testimony of being wanted, to the love that overwhelms the man standing alone onstage, surrounded by laughing, weeping, cheering crowds who want nothing but more of him. Beecher had sought this adulation his whole life, and he found it. Yet still he was not sated."

--from The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate

"But mostly she saw the defiance of righteousness, of a boy's decision to refuse to have his right to play taken.  He threw down the skateboard, stepped aboard, bent his knees, and clumsily sailed it off the lawn toward the narrow strip of crumpled sidewalk that 111 bordered.  The leaves broke under his wheels.  In near darkness, on a deteriorated sidewalk, the boy was barely in control of the board as the cars sailed beside him."

--from Crows Over the Wheatfield: A Novel by Adam Braver

Debby Applegate's first book, The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, was the product of 20 years of research. It won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. It was widely acclaimed as one of the best books of 2006.

Debby holds degrees from Amherst and Yale and has taught at Yale and Wesleyan Universities. She currently teaches a master class on writing biography and memoir at the Writing Center at Marymount Manhattan College in New York. She lives in New Haven with her husband, the business writer Bruce Tulgan, and serves on the governing boards of the New Haven Review, the Yale Summer Cabaret and the Friends of the Amherst College Library. Debby is currently researching a cultural biography of Polly Adler, Manhattan's most infamous madam from the 1920s through the 1940s, and whose 1953 autobiography, A House is Not a Home, became a best-selling book and a Hollywood film starring Shelley Winters.
Adam Braver is the author of Mr. Lincoln's Wars, Divine Sarah, Crows Over the Wheatfield, and November 22, 1963. His books have been selected for the Barnes and Noble Discover New Writers program, Border's Original Voices series, the IndieNext list, and twice for the Book Sense list; and have been translated into Italian, Japanese, and French. His work has appeared in journals such as Daedalus, Ontario Review, Cimarron Review, Water-Stone Review, Harvard Review, Tin House, West Branch, and Post Road. He is on the faculty and writer-in-residence at Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI. He also teaches in the Stonecoast MFA, and at the NY State Summer Writers Institute.

Mark your calendars! Our next reading is Tuesday, November 17. The Ordinary Evening Reading Series features 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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