THE SARGENT HOUSE MUSEUM invites you to join us for cocktails and
                  hors d’oeuvres at the home of Dana Hawkes. This historic home, once the
                  Summer residence of T.S. Eliot, will be the setting of this year’s silent auction
                  and raffle to benefit educational programs at the Museum.
  DATE: August 9th
                                TIME: 6 PM
                                COST: $50 pp 
                                PLACE: 18 Edgemoor Road, Gloucester, MA. 01930
Purchase your tickets on line @ sargenthouse.org

Hi Joey,

Can you help us spread the word on this month’s book club event at Duckworth’s Bistrot? Last month we had a packed house for JoeAnn Hart’s discussion of The Botany of Desire. Ken Duckworth made a breathtaking spread. Great food, excellent wine, and killer discussion.

I’ve attached a Word doc with details on this month’s shindig taking place on July 14. Hope that works.

Thank you for EVERYTHING!

Chris

Hi Joey,

Can you help us spread the word on this month’s Eastern Point Lit House & Press book club event at Duckworth’s Bistrot? Last month we had a packed house for JoeAnn Hart’s discussion of The Botany of Desire. Ken Duckworth made a breathtaking spread. Great food, excellent wine, and killer discussion.

On Sunday, July 14 author Tim Horvath will be leading a discussion of the National Book Award winning novel Mating by Norman Rush. You can find more details and buy tickets here: http://www.easternpointlithouse.com/#!events/c1vw1

Tim Horvath is the author of Understories, (Bellevue Literary Press) and Circulation(sunnyoutside). His stories have appeared in journals such as Conjunctions, Fiction, The Normal School, and elsewhere. His story “The Understory” was selected by Bill Henderson, founder and president of the Pushcart Press, as the winner of the Raymond Carver Short Story Award. He teaches creative writing in the BFA and low-residency MFA programs at the New Hampshire Institute of Arthttp://www.nhia.edu/, and has previously worked as a counselor in a psychiatric hospital, primarily with adolescents and children and young adults with autism. He received his MFA from the University of New Hampshire, where he won the Thomas Williams Prize. He is the recipient of a Yaddo Fellowship, occasionally blogs for BIG OTHER, and is an assistant prose editor for Camera Obscura. 

Mating by Norman Rush: The narrator of this splendidly expansive novel of high intellect and grand passion is an American anthropologist at loose ends in the South African republic of Botswana. She has a noble and exacting mind, a good waist, and a busted thesis project. She also has a yen for Nelson Denoon, a charismatic intellectual who is rumored to have founded a secretive and unorthodox utopian society in a remote corner of the Kalahari—one in which he is virtually the only man. What ensues is both a quest and an exuberant comedy of manners, a book that explores the deepest canyons of eros even as it asks large questions about the good society, the geopolitics of poverty, and the baffling mystery of what men and women really want.

Future book club events include Anna Solomon leading a discussion of Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (August 18) and Steve Almond discussing Stoner by John Williams. These are sure to sell out, so I’d suggest buying tickets early.

Thank you for EVERYTHING!

Cheers,

Chris
Eastern Point Lit House & Press