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October 14, 2005
The Writing Center Celebrates Women Authors with Two Upcoming Literary Events
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 (New York, NY) Next week the Writing Center at Marymount Manhattan College will host two engaging literary programs. Conversations With Mary Gordon, MMC's current Writer-in-Residence, will be held on Monday, October 17 at 6:30 pm. The Jack Burstyn Memorial Lecture, featuring a panel on the new literary genre "Chick-Lit," will take place on Wednesday, October 19 at 6:00 pm. Both events will be held in the College's Regina Peruggi Room (Second Floor, Main).
Mary Gordon, Marymount Manhattan College's 2005-2006 Writer-in-Residence, is an award-winning author of novels such as The Company of Women, Men and Angels, and The Other Side. She has also written Temporary Shelter, a book of short stories, as well as a book of essays, Good Boys and Dead Girls, and a memoir about her father entitled The Shadow Man. She is the recipient of the Lila Acheson Wallace-Reader's Digest Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Gordon currently is the chair of the English Department at Barnard College. There will be a question and answer session to follow her program, as well as a book signing.
The Chick-Lit panel will consist of several well-known and accomplished writers. They include author of The Best of Everything, Rona Jaffe, dubbed "the pioneer of Chick-Lit" by The New York Times. Erica Jong, highly regarded for her classic Chick-Lit novel, Fear of Flying, and her daughter, Molly Jong-Fast, will provide insight on the older and newer forms of Chick-Lit. Best selling authors of The Nanny Diaries, Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin, as well as She's Got Issues author Stephanie Lessing, will also contribute their expertise. The panel will be moderated by author, radio host and Director of the Writing Center, Lewis Burke Frumkes. The works of these acclaimed authors will be for sale following the program, when enthusiasts will have the opportunity to have copies inscribed by their favorite authors.
The Writing Center, which opened in February 1995 at Marymount Manhattan College, encourages the craft of writing through instruction, programs, and user-friendly facilities. Writers of every level receive expert assistance from Writing Center Director Lewis Burke Frumkes and additional members of the MMC faculty. The Center's resources include a literary library, publications, audio and video archives and writing carrels equipped with personal computers. In addition to the Writers' Conference and Writing Intensive, the Writing Center also features many unique events, courses and workshops throughout the year, including the Best Selling Authors Series; monthly workshops celebrating various aspects of the writing business and craft; and clinics designed to assist writers with works-in-progress.
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