Professionally Published Writers

Speaker: TBA
Date: Sunday, July 20, 2008
Time: 3:30 - 5 PM
Location: TBA

Speaker: Catherine Watson
Date: Monday, July 21, 2008
Time: 7-9 PM
Location: TBA

Catherine Watson is an award-winning writer, photographer and teacher. The former travel editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, she is the author of two collections of travel essays, the new Home on the Road—Further Dispatches from the Ends of the Earth (Syren, 2007), and Roads Less Traveled—Dispatches from the Ends of the Earth (Syren, 2005), which Booklist called “travel reading at its best.” Her new book has just been named a finalist in the memoir category of the Minnesota Book Awards.

Speaker:Wayne Koestenbaum
Date: Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Time: 5-7 PM
Location: TBA

Wayne Koestenbaum has published five books of non-fiction prose: Andy Warhol;  Cleavage: Essays on Sex, Stars and Aesthetics;  Jackie Under My Skin: Interpreting an Icon; The Queen’s Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire;  and Double Talk: The Erotics of Male Literary Collaboration.  He has also published a novel, Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes, and five books of poetry: Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films, Model Homes, The Milk of Inquiry, Rhapsodies of a Repeat Offender, and Ode to Anna Moffo and Other Poems.  He wrote the libretto for the opera Jackie O (music by Michael Daugherty). The Queen’s Throat was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award; Koestenbaum won a Whiting Writer’s Award in 1994.  He is a Professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He received a B.A. in English from Harvard, an M.A. in Creative Writing from John Hopkins, and a Ph.D. in English from Princeton.

SPEAKER: TBA
Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Time: 7-9 PM
Location: TBA