Tea and Conversation with Kamy Wicoff at Bernardsville Library

Join us for tea and conversation as Julie Maloney, Director of Women Reading Aloud, conducts an up-close and personal interview with Kamy Wicoff, the Brooklyn-based author of the new novel “Wishful Thinking,” at Bernardsville Public Library on Sunday, November 1 at 2:00 pm. Audience members will have a rare opportunity to ask the author questions about her work and her writing process. A book signing will follow the interview; books will be available for purchase at the event.

“Wishful Thinking” is about a divorced, stressed-for-time, working mother of two boys who gets an app on her phone that lets her be in two places at the same time. Christina Baker Kline, best-selling author of “Orphan Train,” described the book as “a thought-provoking, gimlet-eyed satire of contemporary motherhood in the guise of a romantic comedy… a Trojan horse of a novel, delivering incisive social commentary while it entertains and delights you. I devoured every word of this funny, brilliant book.”

Kamy Wicoff is also the author of the nonfiction book “I Do but I Don’t: Why the Way We Marry Matters,” a Los Angeles Times bestseller. Here, through poignant and funny personal experience, eye-opening conversations with other brides, and scholarly and popular research, she strives to find both the personal and cultural meaning of all the trappings and traditions–from the proposal to the ring, to the dress, and even the bachelorette party. To keep our sanity, our integrity, and our relationships intact, the author says, “the way we marry matters.”

Ms. Wicoff is the co-founder of one of the world’s largest communities for women writers, www.shewrites.com. She is also cofounder, with Brooke Warner, of She Writes Press. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.

Interviewer Julie Maloney has worked in the arts as a performer and educator her entire life. She is a poet and writer and founder/director of Women Reading Aloud (WRA), a not-for-profit organization that promotes women writers in New Jersey and beyond. WRA holds workshops, special events, writing retreats, conferences and an on-going writing workshop series each spring and fall during which women writers of all genres hone their work in a salon type setting. The annual Writer’s Weekend Retreat is held each April in Sea Girt, NJ. In June, WRA returned to the island of Alonnisos in the North Sporades for its fifth Greece Writer’s Retreat. Ms. Maloney is a frequent speaker on “Writing as a Life Tool.”

There is no charge to attend the program at the library, but advance sign-up is requested. Register online at www.bernardsvillelibrary.org and follow the link from Adult Programs, or call the library at 908-766-0118 to sign up.