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Trying to Get it Right: Fiction About Marriage

Wed. March 26th, 2008 6:00 PM

Jenny Gardiner (Sleeping with Ward Cleaver), James Collins (Beginner's Greek ), and Joshua Henkin (Matrimony) offer fictional perspectives of twenty-first century marriages.


Moderator: Jeanne Siler

 

Location:

New Dominion Bookshop
404 East Main St.
(434)295-2552
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Featuring:

James Collins, author of Beginner's Greek, writes for The New Yorker and has been an editor at both Time and Spy magazines. He lives in Orange County, Virginia, with his family.

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Jenny Gardiner's debut humorous novel is Sleeping with Ward Cleaver. Her work has appeared in Ladies Home Journal, the Washington Post and on NPR’s Day to Day.  She honed her fiction writing skills working as a publicist for a US Senator.

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Joshua Henkin's new novel, Matrimony, is a Booksense pick, a Borders Original Voices pick, and a New York Times Notable Book. His first novel, Swimming Across the Hudson, was a Los Angeles Times Notable Book.

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