Thursday, December 8, 6 pm
Catherine Newman

Join us for a series of provocative and entertaining discussions with some of today’s most talented and creative authors. In a series of live, one-hour Zoom events, host Karen Dukess, author of The Last Book Party, will interview acclaimed, debut, and award-winning authors of fiction and non-fiction about their new books and their paths to publication. Available individually or as a series, the interviews will include time for questions from the audience. Events are FREE although donations greatly appreciated!

Catherine Newman’s work has appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers, and online publications, including the New York Times, O the Oprah Magazine, More, The Boston Globe, Self, The Huffington Post, FamilyFun and Redbook.  She is the etiquette columnist at Real Simple, editor-in-chief of the James-Beard-Award-winning nonprofit kids' cooking magazine ChopChop and her essays have appeared in numerous books and anthologies, including On Being 40, the fabulous Unbored series, The Bitch in the House, Oprah's Little Book of Happiness, and the Full Grown People collections. Her New York Times Motherlode columns twice appeared on “best of the year” lists. She is also the author of Waiting for Birdy (Penguin, 2005), Catastrophic Happiness (Little, Brown, 2016), the middle grade novel, One Mixed-Up Night (Random House Children’s, 2017) and Nautilus Award winner for How to Be a Person (Storey, 2021). 

About the host
Karen Dukess is the author of The Last Book Party, "a spare, bittersweet page-turner (NYTimes)," which was an IndieNext and Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. She has been a tour guide in the former Soviet Union, a newspaper reporter in Florida, a magazine publisher in Russia and a speechwriter on gender equality for the United Nations Development Programme. She has blogged on raising boys for The Huffington Post and written book reviews for USA Today. She has a degree in Russian Studies from Brown University and a Master's in Journalism from Columbia University. She lives with her family near New York City and spends as much time as possible in Truro.