Next Reading – July 21

In July, I go back to my hometown of Swampscott Massachusetts for a reading in the town library. It is the same library where I had my first job in high school, shelving books and learning how to glue the spines back on books needing repair. The Spirit of ‘76 book store of Marblehead will be selling books.

Links:
The Spirit of '76 Bookstore
Swampscott Public Library

Current Media

A very good interview about the book was done on “Books of Our Times,” an interview show sponsored by the Massachusetts School of Law. It is is currently airing on various Comcast channels and I will post some excerpts on You Tube, soon. The extremely well-prepared interviewer is Lawrence Vervel, Dean of the School, whose questions were so thorough, I had to reread the book ahead of time. (Lawrence has been in the news lately, and appeared on Frontline, for his role in unraveling the Bernie Madoff scandal.)

Paperback Launch

June 11, 2009

Thank you Norwich Bookstore and Nancy Crumbine (Dartmouth professor extraordinaire) for a GREAT launch for the paperback edition of THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND. It was wonderful to see a standing room-only crowd on June 10th. Book store owner Penny McConnell sent me a note saying that the store sold out of books. Most of all I was struck by the quality and thoughtfulness and intelligence of questions that people asked – about America’s political culture, about where we are in history, about how and why the spirit of activism died out. And most of all about grass roots politics. The bigger story is how the 60s shaped us all.

It was a wonderful crowd and an auspicious beginning for the paperback life of the book. I brought my camera but forgot to take pictures so you will have to take my word for it. If you find yourself in Norwich Vermont (a beautiful town, just across the Connecticut River from Hanover NH) be sure to visit the Norwich Bookstore (291 Main Street, Norwich) and say hello to Penny McConnell, the owner.