Meg Wolitzer

Incite: An Exploration of Books and Ideas
A program for adults | Wednesday May 22 | 7:30 pm-9:00 pm | Free
Alice MacKay Room, Lower Level

Join us as bestselling author Meg Wolitzer is interviewed on stage about her new novel, The Interestings and Jim Lynch talks about his latest book, Truth Like the Sun.

Meg Wolitzer's novel, The Interestings is wide in scope, ambitious, and populated by complex characters who come together and apart in a changing New York City. It explores the meaning of talent; the nature of envy; the roles of class, art, money, and power; and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously.

Meg Wolitzer's previous novels include The Uncoupling; The Ten-Year Nap; The Position; and The Wife. Wolitzer's short fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize.

Jim Lynch is the author of three novels set in Western Washington. His first novel, The Highest Tide, won the Pacific Northwest Bookseller Award, was adapted for the stage and became an international bestseller. His second novel, Border Songs, was also adapted for the stage and won the Washington State Book Award as well as the Indie's Choice Honor Book Award. Lynch's latest book is Truth Like the Sun. Truth Like the Sun - A classic and hugely entertaining political novel, the cat-and-mouse story of urban intrigue in Seattle both in 1962, when Seattle hosted the World's Fair, and in 2001, after its transformation in the Microsoft gold rush.

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This event will be held at Oblong Books & Music, 6422 Montgomery St., Rhinebeck, NY.

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Join us for a Hudson Valley YA Society event as we celebrate Children's Book Week! We'll be joined by Meg Wolitzer (The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman), Kate Klimo (Daughter of the Centaurs), & Sarah Darer Littman (Want to Go Private?).

A monthly series, the HVYAS brings the best and brightest YA authors to the Hudson Valley in a memorable and fun party-like "literary salon" atmosphere, with refreshments, conversation, and giveaways for attendees. Sign up for the HVYAS Newsletter!

Meg Wolitzer's novels include The Uncoupling; The Ten-Year Nap; The Position; The Wife; and Surrender, Dorothy, among others. Wolitzer, whose short fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize, lives in New York City with her family.

Kate Klimo has two horses of her own and is an avid rider (as well as writer). She is the author of the Dragon Keepers series.

Sarah Darer Littman, writer, mother, and unpaid chauffeur, is a living example of the cliche, "Life Begins at 40." After spending much of her adult life doing things she didn't really plan to, including such diverse occupations as financial analyst and farmer's wife, she at long last found her true calling as a writer.

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Meg Wolitzer discusses The Uncoupling.

When the new drama teacher at Stellar Plains High School chooses the classical Greek play Lysistrata for the school performance, a strange spell seems to be cast over the school. A comedy by Aristophanes, the play depicts the women of Greece withholding sex to bring an end to war. One by one throughout the high school community, healthy, normal women and teenage girls turn away from their husbands and boyfriends in the bedroom for reasons they do not understand. As the women worry over their loss of passion and the men become unhappy, offended, and confused, both sides are forced to look at their shared history and at their sexual selves in a new light. Meg Wolitzer is the bestselling author of Surrender, Dorothy: A Novel, The Wife: A Novel, and The Ten-Year Nap, among others. She has taught writing at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and Skidmore College. (jasbro)… (more)