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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T154010Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100611T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100612T000000Z UID:http://www.riverreadbooks.com/event/lucy-wilson-sherman-essayist URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.riverreadbooks.com/event/lucy-wilson-sherman-essayist SUMMARY:Essayist Lucy Wilson Sherman Reading and Book Signing DESCRIPTION:Lucy Wilson Sherman is the author of the memoir Laying Foundations\: A Year Building a Life While Rebuilding a Farmhouse\, the story of an unlikely couple—mismatched intellectually\, socially\, racially—who renovate an abandoned farmhouse in northeast Pennsylvania. She is also the author of Uncommon Appetites\, a collection of personal essays that alternate between humor and gravity\, from descriptions of many failed attempts at homesteading to a passion for goats and mowing\, and a keenness to come to terms with mortality. Two of her essays have been published in the journal Creative Nonfiction\; another is coming out in the next edition of the on-line magazine Ragazine. She holds an MFA degree from Goddard College. She lives with her husband on the farm they rebuilt in Susquehanna\, PA\, where\, after twenty-five years of nearly continuous home improvement\, they are launched once more on a whole new renovation project.
MARILYN JOHNSON is the author of This Book is Overdue! How Librarians And Cybrarians Can Save Us All and The Dead Beat\: Lost Souls\, Lucky Stiffs\, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries She has been a staff writer for Life and an editor for Esquire. Her articles and poetry have appeared in many publications\, and her reviews and essays about books appear every week on AARP Online. She lives in Briarcliff\, New York.
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