[Yale-readings] Tuesday 3/23 at 7 PM: Robin Abrahams and Susan Barr-Toman

[Kuhl, Nancy]

The Ordinary Evening Reading Series presents
Robin Abrahams and Susan Barr-Toman
Tuesday March 23, 7 PM
at the Anchor Bar & Restaurant, New Haven CT


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.

"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:
- Is it polite to say 'Bless you' to a sneezing atheist?
- Is there a good way to request 'No Barbies or Disney princesses, please' for a four-year-old's birthday party?
- What, if anything, can be said to an otherwise health-conscious friend who is tanning himself into jerky?
- Can a group of women properly be addressed as 'you guys'?"

-          Robin Abrahams, Miss Conduct's Mind over Manners

"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."

-Susan Barr-Toman, When Love Was Clean Underwear


     Robin Abrahams writes the popular "Miss Conduct" social advice column for the Boston Globe Sunday magazine. Miss Conduct's Mind Over Manners 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 Annals of Improbable Research and performs in Improbable Research cabarets. Robin blogs six days a week at robinabrahams.com<http://robinabrahams.com/> and at boston.com/missconduct<http://boston.com/missconduct>, and conducts online chats at boston.com<http://boston.com/>.

    Susan Barr-Toman was born and raised in Philadelphia where she still lives with her husband and two children and where she teaches writing at Temple University. When Love Was Clean Underwear, 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 Breathing Water. She just completed Mary Mulgrew, What Did You Do? a children's book with her sister artist Sarah Barr<http://www.sarahbarrstudio.com/>.  Her blog Philly Word of Mouth<http://phillywordofmouth.blogspot.com/2009_10_01_archive.html> features information about author readings and events in the Philadelphia area.


Mark your calendars! Our next reading is Tuesday, April 20th. 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."

Check our full spring schedule, read writers' biographies, send us an email, and more at http://www.ordinaryevening.blogspot.com<http://www.ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/>


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