Sob Sisters Unite!
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 @ 7:00 pm
Bar Nancy
2007 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL 33135 United States
Reclaiming "Sob Sisters," the old-timey name for female tabloid reporters, this Brooklyn reading series founded by three nonfiction authors –Ada Calhoun (Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give), Susannah Cahalan (Brain on Fire), and Karen Abbott (Liar Temptress Soldier Spy)–will bring laptops and cocktails together for a night of readings, talking shop, gossiping about agents and editors, and drinks. The night will also feature Anna Clark, Kim Brooks, Kristal Zook, Daniela J. Lamas, Gil King and more readings from new works. This is a celebration of female journalists and nonfiction writers (regardless of experience), but all are welcome!
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Ada Calhoun
Ada Calhoun has written for the New York Times, New York magazine, and the New York Post. Her book St. Marks Is Dead was named a New York Times Editors' Choice and a Boston Globe Best Book of the Year. She is the author of Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give (W. W. Norton & Company), a collection of seven essays celebrating the beauty of the imperfect marriage. Calhoun's funny, poignant personal essays explore the bedrooms of modern coupledom for a nuanced discussion of infidelity, existential anxiety, and the many other obstacles to staying together. Both realistic and openhearted, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give offers a refreshing new way to think about marriage as a brave, tough, creative decision to stay with another person for the rest of your life. "What a burden," Calhoun calls marriage, "and what a gift."
Karen Abbott
Karen Abbott is the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City, and American Rose. She has written for the New York Times Book Review, Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian magazine, Salon, and other publications. In her most recent book, Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War (Harper Perennial), the "pioneer of sizzle history" (USA Today), tells the spellbinding true story of four women —a socialite, a farmgirl, an abolitionist, and a widow—who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War. Using a wealth of primary source material and interviews with the spies' descendants, Abbott seamlessly weaves the adventures of these four heroines. With a cast of real-life characters including Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, General Stonewall Jackson, detective Allan Pinkerton, Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, and Emperor Napoleon III, Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy draws you into the war as these daring women lived it.
Susannah Cahalan
Susannah Cahalan is a news reporter at the New York Post whose award-winning work has also been featured in The New York Times. She is the author of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (Simon & Schuster), an award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one woman's struggle to recapture her identity. When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak, she had no memory of how she'd gotten there. Days earlier, she had been on the threshold of a new, adult life: at the beginning of her first serious relationship and a promising career at a major New York newspaper. Now she was labeled violent, psychotic, a flight risk. What happened? In a swift and breathtaking narrative, Susannah tells the astonishing true story of her descent into madness, her family's inspiring faith in her, and the lifesaving diagnosis that nearly didn't happen. Brain on Fire is an unforgettable exploration of memory and identity, faith and love, and a profoundly compelling tale of survival and perseverance that is destined to become a classic.
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