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Buttonwood Books & Toys will host its semi-annual event, “Coffee with the Authors,” on Tue. Jun. 7, 9:45 – 11:30 AM at the Atlantica Restaurant in Cohasset. Enjoy a continental breakfast while three contemporary authors discuss their latest works. Sue Miller discusses “The Lake Shore Limited, ... (more)“Kevin O’Hara discusses “A Lucky Irish Lad” and Sally Ryder Brady discusses “A Box of Darkness: The Story of a Marriage.” Reservations and Tickets ($16 per person) are required. Please call Buttonwood at 1-781-383-2665 to reserve or visit our website, www.buttonwoodbooks, for additional information.

Miller’s visit to campus marks a return for the writer. She taught advanced-level creative writing at Smith as the Elizabeth Drew Professor of English Language and Literature for two years, from 2008-10. The event is free, open to the public, and wheelchair accessible. Miller, who is known as a chronicler ... (more)of family, marriage and friendship, is the author of nine novels as well as a collection of short stories and a memoir about her father and his death from Alzheimer’s disease. Her latest title, The Lake Shore Limited, published this year, follows the popular The Senator’s Wife and While I was Gone, which was an Oprah’s Book Club selection. Search by author to locate in the Five College Library Catalog. A recipient of Guggenheim and Bunting fellowships, Miller has also taught at Tufts University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University and Amherst College.

Four unforgettable characters beckon you into this new novel from Sue Miller, author of the 2008 best seller The Senator’s Wife. The story centers on The Lake Shore Limited, a play written about an imagined terrorist bombing of a train as it pulls into Union Station in Chicago, and about ... (more)a man waiting to hear the fate of his estranged wife who is traveling on it. The novel is driven forward as the play’s creation and performance touches and changes the lives of the characters involved.

Local favorite and international bestselling author Sue Miller follows up The Senator's Wife with a novel that will knock your socks off. The Lake Shore Limited follows a playwright, her work, and the way it intersects with her own experiences on September 11th. Not to be missed!

(The original evening with Sue Miller was snowed out in January 2009.) All Evenings start at 7:30 p.m. Tickets purchased in advance are $18 general admission, $15 students and senior citizens. Season Subscriptions and Mini-Series (3 dates of your choice) are also available Tickets can be purchased either ... (more)online at www.thurberhouse.org, or calling (614) 464-1032. Tickets will be available at the door, $20 general admission, $18 students and senior citizens.

Beloved New York Times bestselling author, Sue Miller, returns to Thurber House this anniversary year, and will read from her latest novel, The Senator's Wife, a mesmerizing portrait of two imperfect marriages and two women who unexpectedly change each other's lives. She is the author of ten books including ... (more)the iconic, The Good Mother.

Best-selling author Sue Miller reads from and talks about her work, which includes the novels While I Was Gone, The Good Mother, and most recently, The Senator’s Wife. Miller, who lives in Cambridge, has taught fiction at Amherst, Bennington, Tufts, and MIT, among other schools. Her publications also ... (more)include the short story collection Inventing the Abbotts, the memoir Story of My Father, and five additional novels. She has won a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and the Carl Sandburg Prize from the Chicago Public Library and been nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award and for The Orange Prize. A committed advocate for writers’ engagement with society at large, she has worked actively with PEN New England.

PEN New EnglandReadings at the Hotel Marlowe

Sue Miller's latest novel, The Senator's Wife takes us deep into the private lives of women with a mesmerizing portrait of two marriages. The author of the iconic The Good Mother and the best-selling While I Was Gone brings her astonishing gifts to ... (more)a powerfully uplifting story of two unconventional women confronting the cost of their deepest and most complicated allegiances. Sue Miller is also the author of the novels Lost in the Forest, The World Below, and The Distinguished Guest, the short story collection Inventing the Abbots, and the memoir The Story of My Father.Please note: this is an off-site event to be held at the Hotel Marlowe in Cambridge, MA. Directions to the Hotel Marlowe.

For info or questions, contact:

Emily Hiestand, / 617-497-1225.

About PEN New England

PEN New England is an organization of writers and all those who love the written word. Our mission is to advance the cause of literature in New England and defend freedom of expression everywhere. PEN New England is one of five regional branches of PEN American Center, and part of International PEN, the oldest human rights organization in the world, and also the oldest international literary organization. PEN NE is honored to collaborate with the Marlowe Hotel and Porter Square Books to produce the PEN-Marlowe Reading Series, now in its fourth year. The monthly reading series is programmed by two PEN NE board members and award-winning authors: fiction writer, Edith Pearlman, and essayist/photographer, Emily Hiestand. For more information, visit the PEN New England website.