Every writer is a bit of a ham. I love to read my own work – to groups of any size, on occasions when selling books is encouraged and on occasions when it is not allowed, I love to read in auditoriums, hotel lobbies, living rooms, and bars.
| 2013 | |||
| Paul Pratt Memorial Library, Sunday Author Talk Google Map |
Jan 6 | 4pm | Cohasset, MA |
| St. John’s College, Worrell Lecture, Great Hall Google Map |
Jan 25 | 7:30pm | Santa Fe, NM |
| Sweet Briar College, Art Gallery Google Map |
Feb 13 | 8pm | Sweet Briar, VA |
| Hollins University, Reading with John Rybicki Google Map |
Feb 14 | 4:30pm | Roanoke, VA |
| Jewish Book Week ~ Conversation – Kings Place ~ Reading - Keats House Google Map |
Feb 27 Feb 28 |
5:30pm 7pm |
London, UK |
| AWP Convention Google Map |
March 6-9 | Boston, MA | |
| Writers at Newark, Rutgers Google Map |
March 12 | 5:30pm | Newark, NJ |
| Bowdoin College Google Map |
April 1 | 5pm | Brunswick, ME |
| Brandeis Conversations Google Map |
April 9 - 10 | Waltham, MA | |
| Brookline Adult and Community Education, Brookline High School Google Map |
May 6 | 6:30pm | Brookline, MA |
| Univ of Oregon, Alder Building Google Map |
May 15 | 3pm | Eugene, OR |
| Brandeis Conversations | June 6 | TBA | Stamford,CT |
T0 encourage other hams I’ve run several reading series in which both emerging and established writers have read from their works. Introducing these writers – which involves reading their current and past work, and thinking about their talents and their places in literature – is, in that tired but honest phrase, a Great Pleasure. A more melancholy pleasure is talking in public about writers who have died.
As part of this continuing engagement with my colleagues, and as an opportunity to read books I might otherwise overlook, I do book reviews.
Finally, I like to discuss the craft of writing from a podium or as part of a panel. The subjects I’ve talked about and would be glad to talk about again include: resemblances between short fiction and short non-fiction; Writing as an Amateur Sport; the Superiority of the typewriter over the computer; Taking the Time to be Brief. I think the rules of grammar and syntax – following them, choosing among them, flouting them – are essential to good writing, and that writers should understand and employ rhetorical devices; but nobody has yet asked me to talk on this topic.
Edith Pearlman is available for readings, introductions, book reviews, lectures, and panels.