Join
us at Westchester Road Runner’s White Plains store for a reading by acclaimed
novelist Benjamin H. Cheever from Strides: Running Through History with
an Unlikely Athlete, just published by Rodale. Cheever has traveled the world
writing features for Runner’s World magazine. In Strides, he explores
the role of running in human history and intersperses this account with revelations
of his own decades-long devotion to the sport.
“Cheever...melds reportorial skills, literary talent and a wicked sense of humor to capture the irony and indefatigable spirit of running in the 21st century. With more than a passing nod to his father and their own complicated past, and with pointed barbs at an even more personal antagonist, mortality, Cheever weaves real and imagined history with his own anecdotes collected over decades of running around the world.” —Jim Hage, The Washington Post, September 9, 2007
Cheever’s most recent book of nonfiction, Selling Ben Cheever (Bloomsbury USA 2001), was excerpted in The New Yorker, Gourmet and The New York Times Book Review. His last novel, The Good Nanny (Bloomsbury USA 2004) was selected as a new and notable book by The New York Times Book Review. He has been a reporter for a daily newspaper (5 years), and an editor at The Reader’s Digest (10 years). He has taught at Bennington College and The New School for Social Research.
Admission free; donations gratefully accepted
Programs and events of The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center are made possible, in part, by grants from the Bydale Foundation, the David G. Taft Foundation, the Orchard Foundation, and the Thendara Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts; and by the Basic Program Support Grant of the Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government.