[Daviscenter-list] TODAY: Book Reading at 6:15 pm

You are cordially invited.. PEN New England / Hotel Marlowe Reading Series PEN New England invites you to a reading with MAXIM D. SHRAYER Wednesday, May 6, 2009 6:15 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. during the Hotel Marlowe's wine hour, beginning at 5:00 p.m. Maxim D. Shrayer will read from his most recent book, the literary memoir Waiting for America: A Story of Emigration. He is the author of The World of Nabokov's Stories, Russian Poet/Soviet Jew and other books and is the recipient of a 2007 National Jewish Book Award. His collection of stories, Yom Kippur in Amsterdam, is forthcoming. Shrayer was born in 1967 in Moscow and immigrated to the United States in 1987. He is a Professor of Russian and English at Boston College, a bilingual writer and translator and lives in Chestnut Hill, MA, with his wife and two daughters. Porter Square Books will be selling books at this reading. The Hotel Marlowe is located at 25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge. Inexpensive parking is available in the Cambridgeside Galleria garage with direct entry into the hotel from Levels A and C. Enter the garage from the Land Boulevard entrance, directly next to the Hotel Marlowe entrance. The hotel is closest to the Lechmere T-stop, and is within walking distance of Charles and Kendall Square. About PEN New England PEN (Poets/Playwrights, Essayists/Editors, Novelists) New England is an organization of distinguished and accomplished writers, aspiring authors, and all who love the written word. Our mission is to advance the cause of literature in New England and defend free expression everywhere. PEN New England is one of three regional branches of PEN American Center, and part of International PEN, the oldest human rights organization in the world, and also the international literary organization. PEN NE is honored to collaborate with the Hotel Marlowe and Porter Square Books to produce the PEN/Marlowe Reading Series, now in its sixth year. The monthly reading series is co-chaired by essayist/photographer, Emily Hiestand, and fiction writer, Edith Pearlman. PEN New England Lesley University 29 Everett Street Cambridge, MA 02138 617) 349-8113 pen-ne(a)lesley.edu