You are cordially invited
PEN New England / Hotel Marlowe Reading Series
PEN New England
invites you to a reading with
SUSAN POLLACK
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
6:15 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
during the Hotel Marlowe’s Wine Hour, beginning at 5:00 p.m.
Susan Pollack is an award-winning journalist and author of the recent Gloucester Fishermen’s Wives Cookbook: Stories and Recipes (Twin Lights Publishers, 2005). Her essays and feature articles have appeared in publications including Orion, Sierra, The Boston Globe Magazine, Ms., Mademoiselle, Amicus Journal, New Age, National Fisherman, Writing Nature, The East Hampton Star, International Herald Tribune, Gloucester Daily Times, and the Virginia Woolf Bulletin, as well as anthologies such as Best Spiritual Writing. She is now working on a collection of essays about landscape and imagination, which includes pieces on Virginia Woolf’s Sussex, a Florentine pensione, and the women of Gloucester, where she and her husband, a poet and boat builder, have made their home in a 1735 fisherman’s cottage.
About PEN New England
PEN New England is an organization of writers and all who love the written word. Our mission is to advance the cause of literature in New England and defend free expression everywhere. PEN New England is one of five regional branches of PEN American Center, and part of International PEN, the oldest human rights organization in the world, and also the oldest international literary organization. PEN NE is honored to collaborate with the Marlowe Hotel and Porter Square Books to produce the PEN-Marlowe Reading Series, now in its fourth year. The monthly reading series is programmed by two PEN NE board members: fiction writer, Edith Pearlman, and essayist/photographer, Emily Hiestand. For more information, visit the PEN New England website www.pen-ne.org.
The Hotel Marlowe is located at 25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge. Inexpensive parking is available in the Cambridgeside Galleria garage with direct entry into the hotel from Levels A and C. Enter the garage from the Land Boulevard entrance, directly next to the Hotel Marlowe entrance. The hotel is closest to the Lechmere T-stop, and is within walking distance of Charles and Kendall Square.