by Sean Strub I’m looking forward to interviewing John Berendt on Saturday morning at the Milford Theatre for the Milford Readers and Writers Festival. We’ll talk about Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, of course, and The Lady Chablis (see John’s post about The Lady Chablis here). We’ll also talk about the new … Read More
by Suzanne Braun Levine There will be a lot said about books at The Milford Theatre on Saturday, October 1. In keeping with the Festival’s mission of igniting conversations between those who love books and those who write them, the three authors, John Berendt, MK Asante, and Gloria Steinem, who are individually featured in the … Read More
(Image by Lee Steffen. Used with permission) by Amy Ferris MK Asante, author of the widely acclaimed best-selling memoir Buck, will sit down with me for a one-on-one conversation on Saturday, October 1st, at the Milford Readers & Writers Festival. Asante is an author, a filmmaker, a hip-hop artist, and a professor of creative writing … Read More
by Edson Whitney While Gloria Steinem, John Berendt and MK Asante are the “headliners,” and the more well-known personalities at the first ever Milford Readers and Writers Festivalthis September 30 – October 1 and 2, I am equally excited about the folks on the free panels around town. Trails with Robert Moor Robert Moor, on … Read More
by Alexia LaFortune Kotodama no sakiwau kuni: “the land where the mysterious workings of language bring bliss.” It takes courage for me to write. Dara Marks calls it the “feminine heroic.” It takes grit and trust to descend into the darkness. To remember, to discover. To surrender into the dark language between body and soul … Read More
by Amy Ferris She is an editor, a writer, an author, a mother, a wife, a speaker, a producer, a warrior, a Goddess, a SHEro, a feminist, a girlfriend and a grand woman. She was the first editor of Ms. magazine. She won a Peabody Award for producing the amazing documentary She’s Nobody’s Baby: American … Read More