About This Show
On Monday, April 4th, Harvard Book Store hosts the kickoff of the First Fiction Tour–an event that brings a hip factor to literary readings. For the third year in a row, leading independent bookstores around the country have partnered with local bars, clubs, and restaurants for events in celebration of first-time fiction authors. This year Miranda Beverly-Whittemore, Matthew Carnahan, Marya Hornbacher, and Edward Schwarzschild will be traveling to Ann Arbor, Iowa City, Seattle, Los Angeles, Austin and Boston to read from their respective first novels The Effects of Light, Serpent Girl, The Center of Winter, and Responsible Men.
The Effects of Light is the story of two beautiful sisters whose lives are forever altered by a series of photographs. Author Miranda Beverly-Whittemore has worked for the 92nd Street Y’s Utenberg Poetry Center and has been a figurative model for a number of internationally known photographers. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Serpent Girl propels readers into a world of freaks, geeks, and petty thieves through a robbery gone dangerously awry. Author Matthew Carnahan is a third-generation Californian and a filmmaker and playwright. He divides his time between New York and Southern California. The Center of Winter explores the way in which both children and adults experience tragic events, discover solace and hope in each other, and survive. Author Marya Hornbacher is a Senior Editor at Minneapolis-St. Paul Magazine and the author of Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Responsible Men is about a charming, ethically challenged salesman, who returns to Philadelphia on the eve of his son’s Bar Mitzvah in a last-ditch effort to become a better father and a better son. Author Edward Schwarzschild was a recent Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University and teaches at the University at Albany, SUNY. He lives in Albany, New York.
Harvard Book Store co-hosts the First Fiction Tour with Jimmy Tingle’s OFF BROADWAY Theater, a multi-use venue for both established and aspiring performers and productions founded by comic, actor and writer Jimmy Tingle, who will be the MC for the evening. Jimmy Tingle is regarded as one of the top social commentators and humorists in the country. Selected credits include two seasons with 60 Minutes II on CBS as the humorist/commentator in the Andy Rooney spot, work as a contributor and satirist for MSNBC and appearances on Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, The Tonight Show, Larry King Weekend, The Late Show with Conan O’Brien, The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder, The American Comedy Awards, as well as his own HBO comedy special.
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