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EPL Author Reading: Christine Sneed & Julia Sweeney
April 9, 4PM, 1st Floor Community Meeting Room / Come meet authors Christine Sneed and Julia Sweeney as they share their latest books.
Author Reading: Christine Sneed & Julia Sweeney
Saturday, April 9th, 4 PM
1st Floor Community Meeting Room, Main Library
Come meet authors Christine Sneed and Julia Sweeney as they share their latest books. Sneed will read from her forthcoming story collection The Virginity of Famous Men and her recent novel Paris, He Said which the NY Times called "absorbing, original..., and unexpectedly poignant." Sweeney will share from If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother - her recent essay collection described by author Maria Semple as "intimate and hilarious." Copies of both books will be available to purchase courtesy of Bookends & Beginnings.
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Please register online or by calling (847) 448-8620 to guarantee your seat.
Christine Sneed's story collection Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry won the Grace Paley Prize and was an LA Times Book Prize finalist. Her debut novel Little Know Facts was named a Top 10 Debut of 2013 by Booklist. She teaches at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois and lives in Evanston.
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Julia Sweeney is best known as a comedienne on Saturday Night Live where she portrayed an androgynous character called "Pat." She has also worked as a television writer for Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives, performed in television and film productions including Frasier, Mad About You, and Pulp Fiction, and starred in three acclaimed one-woman shows that have played in theaters in Los Angeles and New York City.
