Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill

Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill

Sunday – November 5, 2017

3:00–5:00 pm.

10 Norton Hill Road, Ashfield, MA

FEATURED READER: Eric Laursen

Eric Laursen will talk about his upcoming publication, The Duty to Stand Aside, Nineteen Eighty-four and the Wartime Quarrel of George Orwell and Alex Comfort. 
Eric is an independent journalist, activist, and commentator. He is the author of The People’s Pension: The Struggle to Defend Social Security Since Reagan (AK Press, 2012), a BookList Editor’s Choice selection; and co-author of Understanding the Crash (Soft Skull Press, Spring 2010), which tells the story of the 2008 economic meltdown in text-and-graphics format. His work has appeared in a wide variety of publications, including The Nation, The Village Voice, In These Times, Z Magazine, The Indypendent, HuffingtonPost.com, and The Arkansas Review. He is currently writing a biography of Alex Comfort. A graduate of Columbia University, he lives in Buckland, Massachusetts.

Bring Your Poetry! Bring Your Prose! Find Your Public! Uplift Our Souls!

Hosted by Jane Roy Brown

The featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication, followed by Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers. If you want to read, put your name in the hat before 3:15. (Hint: you get about three minutes.)

Co-sponsored by Straw Dog Writers Guild, Elmer’s Store & The Inn at Norton Hill.