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The Four Stories fundraiser for the Tohoku region of
Japan, from which 100% of the proceeds were donated to the hundreds of children orphaned in the recent tsunami and earthquake in
Northeastern Japan.
Watch the Event on Video!
The bad news: this video only contains hour one of the event. The good
news: we now know how to work the video camera and will be recording full events
from now on! Plus, we have MP3s from the full event below, listed by each
author's name, so please enjoy!
With readings from:
Andre Dubus III, author of The Cage Keeper and Other Stories, Bluesman, House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days, and the new memoir, Townie;
recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, The National Magazine
Award for fiction, and The Pushcart Prize; and Finalist for the
Rome Prize Fellowship from the Academy of Arts and Letters (MP3)
Elyssa East, author of Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town, winner of the 2010 L. L. Winship/P.E.N. New England Award in non-fiction, a Boston Globe Bestseller, an Editors' Choice selection from The New York Times Book Review,
and a "Must-Read Book" by the Massachusetts Book Awards (MP3)
Elizabeth Searle, author of a new novel due put in the fall, Girl Held in Home, and three previous books of fiction : Celebrities in Disgrace, a novella which was produced as a short film in 2010; A Four-Sided Bed, a novel nominated for an ALA book award; and a story collection, My Body to You, winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Prize, as well as the theatrical work Tonya and Nancy: The Rock Opera
(MP3)
Joan Wickersham, author of nonfiction book The Suicide Index, a National Book Award Finalist; the novel The Paper Anniversary; and fiction in Agni, Glimmer Train, The Hudson Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Story, and
The Best American Short Stories (MP3)
MC'd by special guest Four Stories founder
Tracy Slater, in from Japan for the event, with the awesome Steve Brykman, and featuring the usual mingling, eating, and drinking, plus a literary auction and the Four Stories style of intellectual inquiry: Ask the best question, win a free drink!
Monday, May 23, 2011
The Enormous Room
7-9pm (music starts @ 6)
567 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139
(Central Square, Red Line subway stop)
Thanks to everyone who joined this event for helping us raise
$1,411! 100% of these proceeds were donated to
Ashinaga.org, a Japan-based charity supporting children orphaned in
Japan, with the message "You are in are hearts always -- The
Four Stories Boston community."
