Pine Manor College announces its
June Reading Series
as part of its Solstice Summer Writing Conference

Featuring authors Andre Dubus III, Dennis Lehane, A. Manette Ansay,
Julia Glass, Tom Perrotta, Sandra María Esteves, and others

June 18-26, 2005

Pine Manor College announces its June Reading Series, taking place as part of its Solstice Summer Writers’ Conference, which runs from June 18 through June 26, 2005, at its Chestnut Hill campus.

The following writers will read from their work at 7:30 p.m. in the Founder’s Room of Pine Manor College, located at 400 Heath Street (not far from the Atrium Mall) in Chestnut Hill. The readings are free and open to the public. Copies of the authors’ books will be for sale before and after the readings.

Saturday, June 18, 7:30 p.m.: poet Kathleen Aguero (The Real Weather, Thirsty Day, and, most recently, Daughter Of) & nonfiction writer Michael Steinberg (Peninsula: Essays and Memoirs from Michigan and Those Who Do, Can: Teachers Writing, Writers Teaching, and, most recently Still Pitching)

Sunday, June 19, 7:30 p.m.: poet Terrance Hayes (Hip Logic, Muscular Music) & Special Guest fiction writer Andre Dubus III (House of Sand and Fog, The Cage Keeper and Other Stories, Bluesman)

Monday, June 20, 7:30 p.m.: fiction writer and memoirist A. Manette Ansay (Vinegar Hill, Midnight Champagne, Read This and Tell Me What It Says, Limbo) poet Meg Kearney (An Unkindness of Ravens, forthcoming The Secret of Me), & fiction writer/memoirist Roland Merullo (Revere Beach Boulevard; Leaving Losapas, A Russian Requiem; In Revere, In Those Days; Revere Beach Elegy)

Tuesday, June 21, 7:30 p.m.: novelist Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Shutter Island, A Drink Before the War), novelist and short fiction writer Lee Hope (“Recreational Biting,” nominated for a 2004 Pushcart Prize), & poet Dzvinia Orlowsky (A Handful of Bees, Edge of House, Except for One Obscene Brushstroke)

Thursday, June 23, special morning reading (10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Halden Hall #126) featuring Solstice Conference associate fiction and nonfiction faculty Chris Gleason, Eric May, Patty McNair

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Thursday, June 23, 7:30 p.m.: memoirist, poet, and playwright Anne-Marie Oomen (Pulling Down the Barn) & Special Guest novelist Tom Perotta (Little Children, The Wishbones, Joe College, and Election: A Novel)

Friday, June 24, 7:30 p.m.: fiction writer Julia Glass (Three Junes) & Special Guest poet Sandra María Esteves (Bluestown Mockingbird Mambo; Tropical Rain: A Bilingual Downpour; and Finding Your Way, Poems for Young Folks)

Saturday, June 25, 7:30 p.m.: novelist Sterling Watson, (Weep No More My Brother, The Calling, Blind Tongues, Deadly Sweet, Sweet Dream Baby), poet Kurt Brown (Return of the Prodigals, More Things in Heaven and Earth, Fables from the Ark, Future Ship), & fiction writer Valerie Wilson Wesley (Playing My Mother’s Blues, Always True to You in My Fashion, Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do, and the Tamara Hayle Mysteries series)

Directions to Pine Manor College, a campus map, complete bios of our authors,
and more information about the Solstice Creative Writers’ Conference can be found at www.pmc.edu/solstice.