A reading to raise funds for
Doctors
Without Borders
in Gaza and Palestine
We are
all familiar with the heroic work of Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres) working with
Ebola patients in West Africa. However it is not the only area in which these
amazing men and women work to better the health of millions. The recent destruction in Gaza and nearby
territories is also an area where Doctors Without Borders are healing the minds
and bodies of the trauma victims of recent battles in that region. Doctors
Without Borders have a motto: “Compassion Knows NO Boundaries.”
It is in
their spirit that we are giving a reading to raise funds for this group’s
indefatigable work.
WHERE: Book
Culture
536
W. 112 St, NY, NY 10025
212
865 1588
WHEN: December
4th 2014 7PM
The following writers have generously agreed to
participate they are:
CARA HOFFMAN
is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Be Safe I Love You
(Simon and Schuster 2014) and So
Much Pretty (Simon and Schuster 2011). She has lectured at Oxford,
Columbia and St. John's Universities. Her essays appear in The New York
Times, Salon, NPR, and Marie Claire.
CAROLINE LEAVITT is
the New York Times and USA Today bestselling
author of Is This Tomorrow, Pictures of You, Girls In
Trouble, Coming Back To Me, Living Other Lives, Into Thin Air, Family,
Jealousies, Lifelines, Meeting Rozzy Halfway. Various titles were optioned
for film, translated into different languages, and condensed in magazines. Her ninth novel, Pictures of You, went into
three printings months before publication and is now in its fourth printing.
A New York Times bestseller.
LEORA SKOLKIN-SMITH was born in Manhattan in 1952
and spent her childhood between Pound Ridge, New York, and Israel, with regular
visits to her mother’s birthplace in Jerusalem. She earned her BA, MFA, and a
teaching fellowship from Sarah Lawrence College. As a writer, she has received
numerous awards and honors, including a PEN/ Faulkner Grant, a Robert Gage
Foundation Grant, and a PEN American Center Grant. In addition to her debut
novel, Edges, she is the author of Hystera, winner of
the 2012 USA Book Award and 2012 Global E-books Award, as well as an International
Book Awards and National Indie Excellence Awards finalist. She has written
essays for The Washington Post, Psychology Today, and
The National Book Critics Circle’s Critical Mass blog, and is
currently a contributing editor to ReadySteadyBooks.com.
BEVERLY GOLOGORSKY is author of the
recent novel Stop Here, an Indie Pick and Reader’s Digest Pick, as well as
of the acclaimed novel The Things We
Do to Make It Home, a NY Times Notable Book, a Los Angeles Times Best
Fiction Book, and a finalist for the Barnes and Nobles Discover Great Writers
Award, which the NY Times described as "stunning and completely
persuasive." Her work has appeared in anthologies and magazines, including
the NY Times, Newsweek, The Nation and the Los Angeles Times. Former editor of
two political journals, Viet-Report and Leviathan, noted for her
historical contribution to Feminists
Who Changed America, Gologorsky's essays appear in Patriots: The Vietnam
War Remembered from All Sides and The Friend Who Got Away, Twenty
Women's True Life Tales of Friendships that Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away,
among others.
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