CPL Presents: Nina MacLaughlin, Joan Wickersham, and Lucy Ives (Main/Virtual) In-Person / Online
Join the Cambridge Public Library in welcoming three award-winning authors—Nina MacLaughlin, Joan Wickersham, and Lucy Ives—for readings from their latest books.
Nina MacLaughlin—a recent winner of a Massachusetts Book Award—will read from Winter Solstice.
Joan Wickersham—whose memoir The Suicide Index was a finalist for the National Book Award—will read from No Ship Sets Out to Be a Shipwreck.
Lucy Ives—a poet, novelist, and essayist—will read from An Image of My Name Enters America.
After the reading, there will be a short audience Q&A and book signing.
Registration is required for in-person and virtual attendance.
- Date:
- Wednesday, January 29, 2025
- Time:
- 6:00pm - 7:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Lecture Hall
- Branches:
- Main Library
- Audience:
- Adult
- Categories:
- Author Event City Event Feature
Nina MacLaughlin is the winner of the 2024 Massachusetts Book Award for Winter Solstice, which was a Boston Globe and LA Times Bestseller. Her book Wake, Siren was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the Massachusetts Book Award and her acclaimed memoir Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter wasa finalist for the New England Book Award. Formerly an editor at the Boston Phoenix, she worked for nine years as a carpenter, and now writes the New England Literary News column for the Boston Globe. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Joan Wickersham is the author of The News from Spain and The Suicide Index, a National Book Award finalist. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in magazines including One Story, AGNI, Hudson Review, Ploughshares, Boulevard, Poetry, and The Kenyon Review, and her work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories and Best American Nonrequired Reading. Wickersham writes a regular op-ed column for The Boston Globe and her essays have run on NPR and in the International Herald Tribune. She has taught fiction and memoir at Harvard, UMass Boston, and the Bennington Writing Seminars. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Lucy Ives is a novelist and critic. Her books include Life Is Everywhere: A Novel and, most recently, An Image of My Name Enters America: Essays, both published by Graywolf Press. Her writing has appeared in Aperture, Artforum, Harper's, The Paris Review, and Vogue. She teaches at Brown University.
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This program is co-sponsored by the Cambridge Public Library Foundation.