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Anna Holmes, Founder of the blog Jezebel.com, to Talk at Spoken Interludes Program
Holmes will read from an essay she wrote — one of 16 appearing in a newly published collection.
Anna Holmes will be a guest speaker along with ex-presidential candidate Gary Hart at the Spoken Interludes season-ending program in Hastings-on Hudson on Tuesday, June 30, 2015. The essay she will read from appears in Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: 16 Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids, released in April, 2015. Spoken Interludes’ book-reading program will resume in the fall, 2015.
Holmes is the founder of the blog/website Jezebel.com.
She edited Hell Hath No Fury: Women’s Letters from the End of the Affair (published in December, 2013) — composed of letters sent by women reaching the end of a relationship and she edited The Book of Jezebel: An illustrated Encyclopedia of Lady Things (published in October, 2013).
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She is a columnist for the New York Times Book Review and has written for the Washington Post, Newsweek, InStyle and The New Yorker online. She is a 2012 recipient of a Mirror Award for Best Commentary.
Gary Hart, former Colorado senator (1975-1987) and presidential candidate (1988 primary campaign), will read from his new book The Republic of Conscience, The Light in the Ruins at the June 30 program. His talk takes place the same day that his new 240-page book will be released in hard cover by Blue Rider Press.
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The program is hosted at the RiverView in Hastings-on-Hudson by DeLauné Michel, novelist, former actress and founder of Spoken Interludes.
The program:
6 p.m. Indian buffet dinner prepared by Chef Navjot Arora of Chutney Masala, an Irvington, NY restaurant. Ends at 7:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m. Comments and brief readings by authors with questions-and-answers.
8:30 p.m. Book signings by authors.
On-site representatives of The Village Book Store of Pleasantville, NY, will be present. Books it sells can be paid for by cash, check or credit card.
The cost to attend is $30, payable by check or cash at the event. Checks should be made out to Chutney Masala.
To make a reservation, send an inquiry to rsvp@spokeninterludes.com.
The RiverView is located at 1 Warburton Ave., Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, www.riverviewcaterers.com.
Parking is free and a large parking lot is located directly across the street from the hall entrance. Free street parking is also available.
Spoken Interludes, www.spokeninterludes.com
Photo: Anna Holmes
