Water Street Bookstore Hosting Stephen King

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Water Street Bookstore, located at 125 Water Street in Exeter, is thrilled to be hosting Lauren Grodstein in conversation with Stephen King on Sat., March 3 at 7 p.m. at the Cooperative Middle School auditorium in Stratham.

Mr. King will not be signing copies or answering questions specifically about his books, as he will focus on interviewing Ms. Grodstein and highlighting her work.

Lauren Grodstein is the author of A Friend of the Family, a riveting story of suburban tragedy, in which Lauren Grodstein charts a father's fall from grace as he struggles to save his family, his reputation, and himself. Pete Dizinoff, a skilled and successful New Jersey internist, has a loving and devoted wife, a network of close friends, an impressive house, and, most of all, a son, Alec, now nineteen, on whom he has pinned all his hopes. But Pete hadn't expected his best friend's troubled daughter to set her sights on his boy. When Alec falls under her spell, Pete sets out to derail the romance, never foreseeing the devastating consequences. 

Lauren Grodstein’s books include the novels A Friend of the Family and Reproduction is the Flaw of Love and the story collection The Best of Animals. Her pseudonymous Girls Dinner Club was a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age. Her work has been translated into German, Italian, French, Turkish, and other languages, and her essays and stories have been widely anthologized. Lauren teaches creative writing at Rutgers-Camden, where she helps administer the college’s MFA program. She lives with her husband and son in New Jersey.

Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Among his most recent are 11/22/63, Full Dark No Stars, Blockade Billy, Under the Dome, Just After Sunset, the Dark Tower novels, Cell, From a Buick 8, Everything’s Eventual, Hearts in Atlantis, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Lisey’s Story,and Bag of Bones. His acclaimed nonfiction book, On Writing, was recently re-released in a tenth anniversary edition. King was the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2007 he was inducted as a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America. He lives in Maine with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

This event is put on by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, an independent publisher specializing in literary fiction and non-fiction, and is the publisher of such noted bestsellers as Water For Elephants, A Reliable Wife, Last Child in the Woods, and many others. The Algonquin Book Club puts on four literary events a year, live-streamed from their website, in which one of their authors is interviewed by a notable writer. 

This event is free and open to the public. Seats are first come first serve. Please call (603) 778-9731 or visit www.waterstreetbooks.com for more information.