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
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