Archive for January 2015
An Excerpt from “Layla”
Chapter One MY NAME IS LAYLA. My mother said my father insisted they call me that as soon as they knew I was a girl. He thought the song by Eric Clapton, when he was with Derick and the Dominos, was the best R&R single of all time. I loved knowing it meant so much…
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An Excerpt from “Play for Me”
Chapter One Lily watched her son walk away, the loose, jaunty shamble of him, the brave uptilt of his head, and felt just as she had when she abandoned him to kindergarten what seemed such a short time ago. “Oh, sweetheart,” her husband said. Around them families bunched, kissing and parting in kaleidoscopic movement. Stephen…
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2015 Events
Venues included: Bluestocking Café (Allen Street, NYC); Stony Brook Southampton College (Southampton, NY); Book Culture Book Store (NYC); Harbor Books (Sag Harbor, NY); Annie Bloom’s Bookstore (Portland, OR); Third Place Books (Seattle, WA); Tivoli Artists Gallery (Tivoli, NY): Greenlight Books (Brooklyn, NY); Bookhampton (East Hampton, NY); Brookline Booksmith (Brookline, MA); Big Blue Marble Bookstore (Philadelphia, PA): Montauk Library (Montauk, NY); Books & Books (Coral Gables, FL); The Golden Notebook (Woodstock, NY); Inquiring Minds Bookstore (New Paltz, NY); Northshire Bookstore (Saratoga Springs, NY); Barnes & Noble (Burlington, NY); Art of Vermont Gallery (Randolph, VT); Word Up Bookstore (NYC); Write Angles Conference, Panel (Mount Holyoak College, South Hadley, MA); Bank Square Books (Mystic, CT); Toadstool Bookstore (Peterborough, NH); Books on the Square (Providence, RI)
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