Where:
CCAE
56 Brattle Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Admission:
$3
Categories:
Meetup
Event website:
https://ccae.org/happenings/events/blacksmith-house-poetry-series-jayne-anne-phillips-and-jennifer-haigh
Jennifer Haigh reads from her new novel, Mercy Street, with Jayne Anne Phillips, whose most recent books are Quiet Dell and Lark and Termite
Purchase Quiet Dell: A Novel, Lark and Termite
Purchase Mercy Street: A Novel
Founded in 1973, the award-winning Blacksmith House Poetry Series brings established and emerging writers of poetry and fiction to Harvard Square. In person readings will take place at 56 Brattle on Mondays at 8pm. Admission is $3. Please register in advance.
Jennifer Haigh
Jennifer Haigh is the author, most recently, of Mercy Street. Her other novels include Mrs. Kimble, Baker Towers, The Condition, Faith And Heat And Light, and a book of short stories, News From Heaven. Her books have won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Massachusetts Book Award, and the PEN New England Award in Fiction. She is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and has received a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Jayne Anne Phillips
Jayne Anne Phillips is the author of five novels, Quiet Dell, Lark And Termite, MotherKind, Shelter, and Machine Dreams, as well as two widely anthologized collections of stories. Knopf will publish her new novel, ConaLee’s Journey, in Fall, 2023. Phillips’ works are published in nine languages. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Bunting Fellowship, the Sue Kaufman Prize and an Academy Award in Literature.