Tuesday, November 3, 7 p.m.: Carla Panciera, winner of the Grace
Paley Prize in Short Fiction and author of Bewildered: Stories. Carla
Panciera is the author of two collections of poetry, One of the
Cimalores and No Day, No Dusk, No Love. A high school English
teacher, she lives with her husband and three daughters in Rowley,
Massachusetts.
Tuesday, November 10, 7 p.m.: Bruce Laurie, author of Rebels in Paradise:
Sketches of Northampton Abolitionists. Bruce Laurie is
professor of history emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and
author of Beyond Garrison: Antislavery and Social Reform.
Thursday, November 19, 7 p.m.: Chris Appy and Clark Dougan, editors
of the series Culture, Politics, and the Cold War, discuss the genesis of
the UMass Press Cold War series, writing about the American war in Vietnam, and
Appy’s newest book, American
Reckoning (Viking).
Tuesday, November 24, 7 pm: John Bracey, James Smethurst, and
UMass Amherst Afro-American Studies students read from SOS—Calling
All Black People: A Black Arts Movement Reader. Bracey and
Smethurst are both professors of Afro-American studies at the University of
Massachusetts Amherst.
Please join us!
Free and open to the public. For more information, please
contact Janet Ryan at 413/259-3223.
