We’re starting off the summer season with three readings over the next three weeks, and I hope you’re going to want to come to each and every one of them.
They’re all on Wednesdays at 5 pm, as mid-week seems to be the best time for us, and I hope it will be for you, too.
This coming Wednesday June 10th, we welcome Lita Moses, author of “The Red Hotel: Tribute to a Lost World” . Lita, a retired psychoanalyst now living here in Lenox, grew up at The Arrowhead Lodge in the Catskills, a left-wing Borscht-Belt hotel that she knew was special, even if she didn’t completely understand what made it so. It was a singular moment in time, the late 1940s and early 50s, of historical dimensions that are uncomfortably parallel to today’s headlines.
Lita will read from and discuss passages from her memoir, and then take questions from the audience. As with all our events, this is free and open to the public.
I’ll be sending messages for the following two events each week, but I’ll just tell you right now who’s next: On Wednesday June 17 we’ll welcome Ellen Meeropol for her new novel “Sometimes an Island” and on Wednesday June 24 we’ll host Barbara Viniar and her first novel “Little Bird”.
And just in case you want to mark your calendar, I’ll be going on Joe Donahues’s Bookpicks program on WAMC a week from Tuesday, the 16th (which also happens to be Bloomssday, for all you James Joyce enthusiasts) at 11:30 am.
But first, Lita Moses, The Red Hotel, 5 pm June 10th.
Thanks for reading,
Matt