The
Hudson Valley Writers' Center is pleased to present local fiction writers
DeLauné Michel
Jamie Malanowski
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008, 7:30 pm
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The
Hudson Valley Writers' Center is pleased to present local fiction writers
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008, 7:30 pm |
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Two local fiction writers join us to read from their latest novels.
The reading will include a question & answer period and a reception with books by the author(s) for sale.
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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. |
DeLauné
Michel was raised in South Louisiana in a literary family that includes
her uncle André Dubus, her mother Elizabeth Nell Dubus, and her cousin
James Lee Burke. An award-winning short story writer, Ms. Michel’s first
novel, Aftermath of Dreaming, was published by William Morrow in
2006. Her second novel, The Safety of Secrets, was published in
May by Avon A / HarperCollins. In 1996, Ms. Michel created Spoken Interludes,
a critically acclaimed reading series where award-winning, best-selling,
and up-and-coming writers read their own work. The series has been heard
on NPR and presents readings in Westchester and Los Angeles. (www.spokeninterludes.com)
In 2001, she developed Spoken Interludes Next, a writing program for at-risk
teenagers in L. A.. Ms. Michel has worked as an actor in theatre, television,
and film. She lives in Irvington with her family, and is currently working
on her third novel.
Jamie
Malanowski has been a writer and editor at Spy, Time,
and Esquire, and is currently the managing editor at Playboy.
He is the author of the novels The Coup (Doubleday, 2007) and Mr.
Stupid Goes to Washington (Birch Lane, 1992), and co-author (with
Kurt Andersen and Lisa Birnbach) of the play and book Loose Lips
and, with Martyn Burke, the HBO film Pentagon Wars. His articles
have been anthologized in Spy: The Funny Years, by Kurt Andersen,
Graydon Carter and George Kalogerakis; Killed: Great Journalism Too
Hot To Print, edited by David Wallis; Mirth of a Nation, Volume
II: The Best Contemporary Humor, edited by Michael J. Rosen; The
Playboy Book of True Crime; and The Fun Never Stops!: An Anthology
of Comic Art 1991-2006. He and his wife, Ginny Jackson, have made
their home and raised their daughters Molly and Cara in Briarcliff Manor
since 1989.