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SUMMARY:Concord Festival of Authors: Carla Kaplan\, Author of Troublemaker
DESCRIPTION:Join Carla Kaplan for a discussion of her newest book Troublemaker: the Fierce\, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford. \nTroublemaker tells the wild and unlikely story of Jessica Mitford\, fifth of the six famous Mitford Girls\, a British aristocrat-turned-American Communist\, famous for exposés like The American Way of Death; this biography brings her astonishing self-transformation to life with a riveting\, often hilarious account of trading wealth and status for a life of radical activism. \nWho could predict that a British aristocrat would so energize American antifascist and civil rights struggles that Time magazine would crown her “Queen of the Muckrakers”? Jessica Mitford\, always known as Decca\, was brought up by an eccentric English family to marry well and reproduce her wealth and privilege\, not to advocate for the rights of others. Her beautiful sisters have been subjects of books and movies dedicated to their naughty\, glamorous lives. Decca ran away to America to forge a rebel’s life. \nAs this richly researched book details\, Decca broke the Mitford mold. Instead of settling for life as a professional Beauty\, she fought fascism in the Spanish Civil War\, became an American Communist and pioneered witty\, hugely popular journalism\, including her 1963 blockbuster The American Way of Death. \nDecca dedicated her life to social justice and proved herself an immensely effective ally\, but she also injected laughter into all her political work\, annoying some activists with her relentless antics but encouraging many others to find joy in the struggle. From famed baby doctor Benjamin Spock to best friend Maya Angelou\, her anti-authoritarian irreverence had a profound impact on American culture. \nMining extensive\, untapped sources\, and with nearly fifty new interviews\, Kaplan’s passionate biography beautifully illuminates how Decca’s hard-won and self-taught social empathy offers a powerful example of female freedom\, the dramatic\, novelistic story of an extraordinary woman of her time who is remarkably relevant and resonant today. \nBio: Carla Kaplan is the Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature at Northeastern University. She has published seven books\, including Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance and Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters—both New York Times Notable Books—and has written for such publications as The Los Angeles Times\, The New York Times\, Slate\, andThe Nation. \nKaplan has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities \, among others. She serves on the board of Biographers International Organization and isa Society of American Historians Fellow. Kaplan earned her PhD in English from Northwestern University. She divides her time between Boston and Cape Cod. \nFor more information\, please visit https://carlakaplan.com/. \nTo learn more about the Concord Festival of Authors\, please visit www.concordfestivalofauthors.org.
URL:https://www.livingconcord.com/event/concord-festival-of-authors-carla-kaplan-author-of-troublemaker/
LOCATION:Concord Free Public Library\, 129 Main Street\, Concord\, MA\, 01742\, United States
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SUMMARY:Concord Festival of Authors: Steve Edwards\, author of Rare Good
DESCRIPTION:Join Steve Edwards\, the 2025 Concord Free Public Library Writer-In-Residence\, for a discussion of his new book Rare Good: Essays on Art Autism\, and Astonishment. \nSteve Edwards was diagnosed with autism in his mid-thirties\, altering his relationship to writing and family. He discovered what he had always known but never said: His compulsion to create was more than just a pursuit of self-expression. Faced with a mix of belief and disbelief from those who knew him\, and full of questions himself\, he committed to a new sense of wonder and pursuit of revelation. \n​Rare Good offers insights into Edwards’s experience of the awe that only art\, disability\, and loved ones can bring. Raising a disabled child and delving into acknowledging his own mindedness\, he explores the struggles of communicating and finding care\, the joy of gathering as community\, and the astonishing gifts that art and education offer us\, especially when we acknowledge the contributions of disabled artists past and present. Drawing on times of heartbreak transformed into determination\, Edwards describes his ongoing desire to find a way together. A singular work of lyric nonfiction\, Rare Good is a reminder and balm for all who might feel different. \nBio: Steve Edwards is the author of the memoir Breaking into the Backcountry\, the story of his seven months as caretaker of a remote homestead along the federally designated “Wild and Scenic Rogue River” in Oregon during the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency. His second book Rare Good: Essays on Art\, Autism\, and Astonishment is forthcoming in October 2026. Steve’s essays have most recently appeared in The Yale Review\, The Sun\, Orion Magazine\, Literary Hub\, and Longreads. His essay “Yellow Band” was one of the most-read prose works in The Yale Review in 2024. He is the recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Fiction/Nonfiction. He was the 2025 writer-in-residence at the historic Concord Free Public Library. Steve lives in Metrowest Boston with his wife and son. \n​Though the number astonishes him\, Steve has been teaching college writing for twenty-five years\, with stops along the way at Purdue University\, Emerson College\, Simmons College\, and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln\, and\, for more than a decade\, he has been a professor of English Studies at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts. A highlight of his teaching career has been leading the original course Neurodiversity in Literature and Life at Tufts University’s Experimental College. Steve has led workshops with 27 Powers and Larksong Writers Place. \nFor more information\, please visit https://www.steveedwardswriter.com/ \nFor more information on the Concord Festival of Authors\, please visit www.concordfestivalofauthors.org.
URL:https://www.livingconcord.com/event/concord-festival-of-authors-steve-edwards-author-of-rare-good/
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SUMMARY:Concord Festival of Authors: Steve Edwards\, author of Rare Good
DESCRIPTION:Join Steve Edwards\, the 2025 Concord Free Public Library Writer-In-Residence\, for a discussion of his new book Rare Good: Essays on Art Autism\, and Astonishment. \nSteve Edwards was diagnosed with autism in his mid-thirties\, altering his relationship to writing and family. He discovered what he had always known but never said: His compulsion to create was more than just a pursuit of self-expression. Faced with a mix of belief and disbelief from those who knew him\, and full of questions himself\, he committed to a new sense of wonder and pursuit of revelation. \n​Rare Good offers insights into Edwards’s experience of the awe that only art\, disability\, and loved ones can bring. Raising a disabled child and delving into acknowledging his own mindedness\, he explores the struggles of communicating and finding care\, the joy of gathering as community\, and the astonishing gifts that art and education offer us\, especially when we acknowledge the contributions of disabled artists past and present. Drawing on times of heartbreak transformed into determination\, Edwards describes his ongoing desire to find a way together. A singular work of lyric nonfiction\, Rare Good is a reminder and balm for all who might feel different. \nBio: Steve Edwards is the author of the memoir Breaking into the Backcountry\, the story of his seven months as caretaker of a remote homestead along the federally designated “Wild and Scenic Rogue River” in Oregon during the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency. His second book Rare Good: Essays on Art\, Autism\, and Astonishment is forthcoming in October 2026. Steve’s essays have most recently appeared in The Yale Review\, The Sun\, Orion Magazine\, Literary Hub\, and Longreads. His essay “Yellow Band” was one of the most-read prose works in The Yale Review in 2024. He is the recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Fiction/Nonfiction. He was the 2025 writer-in-residence at the historic Concord Free Public Library. Steve lives in Metrowest Boston with his wife and son. \n​Though the number astonishes him\, Steve has been teaching college writing for twenty-five years\, with stops along the way at Purdue University\, Emerson College\, Simmons College\, and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln\, and\, for more than a decade\, he has been a professor of English Studies at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts. A highlight of his teaching career has been leading the original course Neurodiversity in Literature and Life at Tufts University’s Experimental College. Steve has led workshops with 27 Powers and Larksong Writers Place. \nFor more information\, please visit https://www.steveedwardswriter.com/ \nFor more information on the Concord Festival of Authors\, please visit www.concordfestivalofauthors.org.
URL:https://www.livingconcord.com/event/concord-festival-of-authors-steve-edwards-author-of-rare-good-2/
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SUMMARY:Concord Festival of Authors: Poetry Panel with Nate Klug and Catherine Stearns
DESCRIPTION:Join the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library for an in-person afternoon with poets Nate Klug and Catherine Stearns who will read and engage in a Q & A about their inspirations and craft. \nNate Klug reads from his collection\, Hosts and Guests: poems. Klug is a poet and the author of Rude Woods\, a modern translation of Virgil’s Eclogues (The Song Cave\, 2013)\, Anyone (Chicago\, 2015)\, and Hosts and Guests (Princeton\, 2020). His poems have appeared in The Nation\, The New York Review of Books\, Best American Poetry\, and elsewhere. His writing has been supported by fellowships from the James Merrill House\, MacDowell\, and the Poetry Foundation. A Congregationalist minister\, he works at the First Parish in Lincoln and lives in Concord\, Massachusetts. \nCatherine Stearns holds an MFA in Poetry from the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa\, and a Ph.D. in American Literature from Brandeis University. Her first book\, The Transparency of Skin (New Rivers Press)\, was selected as a finalist for the Minnesota Book Awards\, and a later chapbook\, Then & Again\, was published by the regional book-arts press\, Slate Roof. Her most recent collection\, Out Toward Morning\, was released this fall by Grid Press. She taught writing and literature for many years at Belmont Hill School\, where she headed the English Department\, and was Writer-in Residence at the Roxbury Latin School before she retired. She and her husband\, Richard Klug\, live in South Natick\, Massachusetts. \nFor more information about the Concord Festival of Authors\, please visit www.concordfestivalofauthors.org.
URL:https://www.livingconcord.com/event/concord-festival-of-authors-poetry-panel-with-nate-klug-and-catherine-stearns/
LOCATION:Concord Free Public Library\, 129 Main Street\, Concord\, MA\, 01742\, United States
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SUMMARY:Concord Festival of Authors: Julie Carrick Dalton\, author of The Forest Becomes Her
DESCRIPTION:Join author Julie Carrick Dalton for a discussion of her new book The Forest Become Her. This event is part of the 2026 Concord Festival of Authors. \n“In historic\, bucolic Concord\, Massachusetts\, a centuries-old forest has been removed to make way for a new\, eco-friendly housing development. The locals are upset by the destruction\, but out-of-towners like Hazel Stoddard are flocking to put down roots in their new guilt-free dream homes. Soon a tragedy leaves Hazel unmoored in her new life\, and she begins to feel the pull of the absent forest. Hazel is not alone—her neighbors\, real estate agent Stella Flint and teenage environmentalist Polly Bauer\, each have their own traumas and their own relationship to the land. The three women are drawn together to save the last remaining oak tree\, or they risk losing themselves to lingering shadows that only they can see.” In The Forest Becomes Her\, Julie Carrick Dalton brings hope and reverence to this lush celebration of multigenerational female relationships\, the ever-evolving female form\, humanity’s connection to our changing world\, and the mysteries that still exist in nature. \nAuthor Bio: Julie Carrick Dalton is the author of The Forest Becomes Her\, The Last Beekeeper\, and Waiting for the Night Song. She is the winner of the New Hampshire Book Awards’ People’s Choice for Best Novel\, and was a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award\, the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature\, and the ASLE Book Award. Her novels have been named to Most Anticipated lists from CNN\, Newsweek\, USA Today\, Parade\, and others\, and were selected as an Amazon Editor’s Pick for Best Book of the Month. A former organic farmer\, forest manager\, and beekeeper\, and a TEDx speaker\, she is a frequent speaker on the topic of fiction in the age of climate crisis at universities\, museums\, and conferences\, nationally and internationally. She currently serves on the teaching faculty of Drexel University’s Creative Writing MFA program and is a frequent guest lecturer at Harvard. When she isn’t reading or writing\, you can probably find Julie kayaking\, skiing\, swimming\, gardening\, or trying to track down her four children and two dogs. \nFor more information\, please visit https://juliecarrickdalton.com/ \nFor more information on the Concord Festival of Authors\, please visit www.concordfestivalofauthors.org.
URL:https://www.livingconcord.com/event/concord-festival-of-authors-julie-carrick-dalton-author-of-the-forest-becomes-her/
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SUMMARY:Concord Festival of Authors: Mystery Night 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Friends of the Library present Mystery Night 2026\, featuring Joseph Finder\, Jule Selbo\, and Janet Raye Stevens! The panel will be moderated by long-time Mystery Night Moderator Kate Flora. \nKate Flora’s fascination with people’s criminal tendencies began in the Maine attorney general’s office. Deadbeat dads\, child abusers\, and employment discrimination aroused her curiosity about human behavior. The author of twenty-four books spanning genres including crime fiction\, true crime\, memoir\, nonfiction\, and short stories\, Flora’s been a finalist for the Edgar\, Agatha\, Anthony\, and Derringer awards and twice won the Maine Literary Award for crime fiction. She’s a former international president of Sisters in Crime\, and a founder of the New England Crime Bake and Maine Crime Wave mystery conferences. She blogs with the Maine Crime Writers. When not conducting research for her novels and nonfiction\, Kate can often be found in her garden\, waging war against the woodchucks and her husband’s lawnmower. She divides her time between Maine and Massachusetts. The CFA Team thanks Kate for her many years leading Mystery Night! \nJoseph Finder is the New York Times bestselling author of 17 suspense novels\, most recently The Oligarch’s Daughter (2025). His previous novel\, House On Fire\, is the fourth featuring “private spy” Nick Heller. His books have won numerous awards\, including the Strand Critics Award for Best Novel for Buried Secrets (2011)\, the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Novel for Killer Instinct (2006) and the Barry Award for Best Thriller for Company Man (2005). The Boston Globe has called him a “master of the modern thriller.” Two of his novels have been made into major motion pictures\, including High Crimes\, adapted into the hit 2002 movie starring Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman; and Paranoia\, the 2013 film starring Harrison Ford\, Gary Oldman\, and Liam Hemsworth. A founding member of the International Thriller Writers\, as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Association of Former Intelligence Officers. Joe is a graduate of Yale and the Harvard Russian Research Center. He lives in Boston. \nJule Selbo is the author of the Dee Rommel Mystery Series (10 DAYS\, 9 DAYS\, 8 DAYS\, 7 DAYS\, 6 DAYS) and\, yes\, the plan is to get down to 1 DAY. They have received starred Kirkus reviews and multiple awards (including the Silver Falchion\, Clue and Foreword\, and Maine Literary Award nominations). She has also written three historical fiction books\, Find Me in Florence\, Breaking Barriers – The Life of Laura Bassi\, and Dreams of Discovery – The Life of John Cabot. Her short stories can be seen in Thriller Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock Magazine. She was a writer/co-executive producer on multiple TV series and has written features for Disney\, Paramount\, Fox and other studios\, including The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles\, Hercules\, Melrose Place\, and many more. A native of Fargo\, North Dakota\, Jule now lives in Portland\, Maine. \nMeet award-winning author Janet Raye Stevens/Evie Kelley – mom\, tea-drinker (okay\, tea guzzler)\, and weaver of smart\, suspenseful\, stealthily romantic tales. As Janet Raye Stevens\, she writes both short- and novel-length mysteries and historical suspense\, including the WWII-set Daphne du Maurier award-winning A Moment After Dark and the Beryl Blue\, Time Cop series. Writing as Evie Kelley\, she’s recently released the first in a young adult sci-fi suspense series\, The Nascent Bloom: Book 1 Caught\, a Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award finalist and Claymore Award Top Pick. Janet/Evie lives\, writes\, and drinks copious amounts of tea at her home in central MA. \nFor more information on the Concord Festival of Authors\, please visit www.concordfestivalofauthors.org.
URL:https://www.livingconcord.com/event/concord-festival-of-authors-mystery-night-2026/
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