The
Hudson Valley Writers' Center presents a reading with
Gwendolyn Bounds
Lyn
Miller-Lachmann
Wednesday, July 19, 2006, 7:30 pm
Safe Havens
Scary
times—like 9/11—and scary trends—like rising cancer rates among local
children and the real possibility of illegal contamination—spotlight the
value of community in books by Lyn Miller-Lachmann from the Upper
Hudson Valley and Gwendolyn Bounds, now of Garrison, NY.
Readers fall in love with Bounds’ non-fiction book, Little Chapel on the River (HarperCollins, 2005), which transports them to Guinan’s, the bar in Garrison that became a haven to this Wall Street Journal columnist when her home near Ground Zero was being repaired after the 2001 attack.
Miller-Lachmann’s novel Dirt Cheap (Curbstone Press, 2006), chronicles an idealistic but flawed professor who risks his relationships with his wife and neighbors when he dares to suggest that their well-to-do suburb may not be the haven they think it is. Miller-Lachmann is editor-in-chief of MultiCultural Review and author of Our Family, Our Friends, Our World: An Annotated Guide to Significant Multicultural Books for Children and Teenagers.
Suggested Donation: $5 ($3 for HVWC members and those under age 18)
Programs and events at 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.