The
Hudson Valley Writers' Center presents a reading with
Sheila Kohler
Sasha
Troyan
Porter Shreve
Susan Shreve
Friday, June 2, 2006, 7:30 pm
Writing: A Family Business
What
does it mean to share the “family business” of writing? Sheila Kohler
of NYC, Sasha Troyan of Montclair, New Jersey, and Porter Shreve
of West Lafayette, Indiana, should know. Troyan is Kohler’s daughter and
Shreve is son of novelist and children’s author Susan Shreve, who
is also a long-time friend of Kohler’s.
They
will all read from their recent work as well as talk about being—or raising—
the child of a writer.
Kohler’s most recent novel is Crossways (Ontario Review Press, 2004) and she has written four other novels, including the dark and haunting Cracks and Children of Pithiviers, and three story collections. Troyan’s second novel, The Forgotten Island, published by Bloomsbury/Tin House in 2004 follows Angels in the Morning (Permanent Press, 2003). Porter Shreve has followed up his 2000 debut novel, The Obituary Writer, with Drives Like a Dream (2005), both published by Houghton Mifflin. Susan Shreve has written both adult and children's fiction, publishing over twelve titles in both categories. Her latest, A Student of Living Things, is a thriller just published by Viking Penguin.
Whether you are, or are not, the child or parent of a writer, you’ll enjoy hearing these writers share their work and their family stories.
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.