BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20251116T200000Z DTEND:20251116T210000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Some Bright Nowhere: An Afternoon with Ann Packer DESCRIPTION:The Book Stall (811 Elm Street in Winnetka) welcomes bestselling author Ann Packer to the store on Sunday\, November 16 at 2:00 pm for a discussion featuring her highly anticipated new book\, Some Bright Nowhere. The beloved author makes a triumphant return with this powerful novel that is tender and raw\, visceral and unexpected. Emotionally vibrant and complex\, Some Bright Nowhere explores the profound gifts and unexpected costs of truly loving someone\, and the fears and desires we experience as the end of life draws near. Ms. Packer will be in conversation with author Christie Tate. \n\n\n\nMeg Wolitzer says\, "Some Bright Nowhere is a novel that draws you in deeply and holds you there. Wonderful."\n\n\n\nAnn Packer is the author of five previous works of fiction\, including the bestselling novels The Children's Crusade and The Dive from Clausen's Pier\, which received the Kate Chopin Literary Award\, among many other prizes and honors. Her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and in the O. Henry Prize Stories anthologies\, and her novels have been published around the world. She divides her time among New York\, the Bay Area\, and Maine.\n\n\n\nOur conversation partner Christie Tate is an essayist and author who writes creative nonfiction and memoir. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Group\, which was a Reese's Book Club selection and has been translated into 19 languages. She is also the author of B.F.F.-- A Memoir of Friendship Lost & Found. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Chicago Tribune\, McSweeney's Internet Tendency\, and elsewhere. Her essays have been nominated for Puschcart Prizes\, and Kiese Laymon selected her essay\, Promised Lands\, as the winner of the New Ohio Review's 2019 nonfiction contest. She writes about addiction\, eating disorders\, friendship\, alienation\, recovery\, and her Grandma's farm in Forreston\, Texas. She grew up in Dallas and now lives in Chicago with her family. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Book Stall (811 Elm Street in Winnetka) welcomes bestselling author \;Ann Packer \;to the store on Sunday\, November 16 at 2:00 pm for a discussion featuring her highly anticipated new book\, \;Some Bright Nowhere. The beloved author makes a triumphant return with this powerful novel that is tender and raw\, visceral and unexpected. Emotionally vibrant and complex\, \;Some Bright Nowhere \;explores the profound gifts and unexpected costs of truly loving someone\, and the fears and desires we experience as the end of life draws near. Ms. Packer will be in conversation with author \;Christie Tate. \;
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\nMeg Wolitzer says\, &ldquo\;Some Bright Nowhere \;is a novel that draws you in deeply and holds you there. Wonderful.&rdquo\;
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\nAnn Packer \;is the author of five previous works of fiction\, including the bestselling novels \;The Children&rsquo\;s Crusade \;and \;The Dive from Clausen&rsquo\;s Pier\, which received the Kate Chopin Literary Award\, among many other prizes and honors. Her short fiction has appeared in \;The New Yorker \;and in the O. Henry Prize Stories anthologies\, and her novels have been published around the world. She divides her time among New York\, the Bay Area\, and Maine.
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\nOur conversation partner Christie Tate \;is an essayist and author who writes creative nonfiction and memoir. She is the author of the \;New York Times \;bestseller \;Group\, which was a Reese&rsquo\;s Book Club selection and has been translated into 19 languages. She is also the author of \;B.F.F.-- \;A Memoir of Friendship Lost &\; Found. \;Her writing has appeared in \;The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Chicago Tribune\, McSweeney&rsquo\;s Internet Tendency\, and elsewhere. Her essays have been nominated for Puschcart Prizes\, and Kiese Laymon selected her essay\, \;Promised Lands\, as the winner of the New Ohio Review&rsquo\;s 2019 nonfiction contest. She writes about addiction\, eating disorders\, friendship\, alienation\, recovery\, and her Grandma&rsquo\;s farm in Forreston\, Texas. She grew up in Dallas and now lives in Chicago with her family.
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