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The Dire Literary Series

May 5, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

$55

The Dire Literary Series, hosted by Timothy Gager, is pleased to welcome Christine Reilly, Olivia Cerrone, and Ray K. Anderson. 

Christine Reilly has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, the Dalton School, City and Country School, and Collegiate School. She received her Bachelor’s degree from Bucknell University and her Master’s degree in writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Sunday’s on the Phone to Monday is her debut novel. Christine lives in New York City.

Olivia Kate Cerrone’s Pushcart Prize-nominated fiction won the Crab Orchard Review’s 2016 Jack Dyer Fiction Prize. A regular contributor to The Rumpus, she is at work on a novel called DISPLACED. Her essays have appeared in The Huffington Post, xoJane, Luna Luna Magazine and elsewhere.

The Hunger Saint, a historical novella will be published by Bordighera Press in April 2017. Her short stories have appeared in various literary journals, including New South, the Berkeley Fiction Review, The MacGuffin, War, Literature and the Arts, JMWW, Word Riot, Quiddity and Paterson Literary Review. She serves as an associate editor for CONSEQUENCE Magazine, and as a creative writing workshop facilitator for Writers Without Margins, a nonprofit organization dedicated to marginalized voices.

​She is the recipient of fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Ragdale Foundation, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, Starry Night Retreat, Gloucester Writers Center , Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, The Noepe Center Residency, Art Farm and the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, where she was awarded a “Distinguished Fellowship” from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a member of the PEN American Center. Cerrone earned an MFA in fiction from New York University and a BFA from the Writing, Literature and Publishing program at Emerson College.

Ray Anderson began hiking in New Hampshire and has climbed all the 4,000-footers in New England. He’s thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail, hiked all of the Pacific Crest Trail, and hiked parts of the Continental Divide Trail. When not hiking or writing, he spends his time with family and friends in Massachusetts and Florida.

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Date:
May 5, 2017
Time:
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Cost:
$55
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Website:
http://www.direreader.com

Venue

Out of the Blue Gallery Too
541 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02118 United States
Website:
http://www.direreader.com

Did You Know?

Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.