HVWC - Wayne Coffey and David Lida

Although David Lida grew up in Manhattan, he fell in love with Mexico on a week's vacation in 1983 and began spending as much time there as possible. He now divides his time about evenly between Mexico and New York, and his 2001 debut collection of stories, Travel Advisory, has been widely praised for capturing the modern-day Mexico. National Public Radio called it "a wonderful, painful revelation of a book." It is fiction, but Lida derived one story from his experience of being robbed and kidnapped in a Mexico City cab, and others from conversations with street kids in Acapulco and Veracruz and strangers in bars. Throughout, Lida holds the reader with engrossing details, humor and an easy narrative style. Lida is currently completing his first novel, tentatively titled God Bless America, and he also writes for journals and newspapers.

The Hudson Valley Writers' Center presents a reading with *Wayne Coffey* and David Lida Thursday, July 11th, 7:30 pm

Wayne Coffey will read from Winning Sounds Like This: A Season with the Women's Basketball Team at Gallaudet, the World's Only Deaf University. Coffey is both an award-winning journalist and a former girls' basketball coach. Not long after his stint as a coach, he was hired by the New York Daily News, where he still works 17 years later. He was recently honored as one of the top sports feature writers in the nation by the Associated Press Sports Editors. He has written over thirty books, including When Your Parent Drinks Too Much, written under the pseudonym, Eric Ryerson, which was named an outstanding nonfiction book of the year in 1985 by both the New York Public Library and the American Library Association. A former Upper West Side and Riverdale resident, he now lives in Sleepy Hollow.	Although David Lida grew up in Manhattan, he fell in love with Mexico on a week's vacation in 1983 and began spending as much time there as possible. He now divides his time about evenly between Mexico and New York, and his 2001 debut collection of stories, Travel Advisory, has been widely praised for capturing the modern-day Mexico. National Public Radio called it "a wonderful, painful revelation of a book." It is fiction, but Lida derived one story from his experience of being robbed and kidnapped in a Mexico City cab, and others from conversations with street kids in Acapulco and Veracruz and strangers in bars. Throughout, Lida holds the reader with engrossing details, humor and an easy narrative style. Lida is currently completing his first novel, tentatively titled God Bless America, and he also writes for journals and newspapers.

*Suggested Donation: $5 ($3 for members)* The readings at the HVWC are made possible in part by grants from the Bydale Foundation and the Gannett 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 Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government, corporations and individuals. Return to HVWC Calendar The Hudson Valley Writers' Center - Home