Arlington Author Salon Tonight: 3 Authors 'Make Waves'

Arlington MA

08 January, 2021

5:32 PM

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Your Arlington Last Updated: 07 January 2021 Written by Arlington Author Salon Here comes the winter Arlington Author Salon, in support of three local authors. It is set for Thursday, Jan. 7, at 7:30 p.m. online. Register here >>(You will receive the Zoom link and password automatically, via Eventbrite, before the event.) We look forward to returning to Kickstand Café, our regular venue, as soon as it is safe to gather again. In the meantime, Kickstand is open for takeout, and outdoor dining for intrepid souls. Order the presenters' books any time before or after the event through our own Book Rack. Spotlight on "Making Waves." Winter Author Salon January 7 Winter Author Salon with Dolores Johnson, Steven Beeber and Carol Newman Cronin E. Dolores Johnson is the author of the award-winning Say I'm Dead, A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets and Love and essays on mixed race, racism and identity in Narratively, the Buffalo News, Hippocampus, Pangyrus and others. Johnson also consulted on diversity with colleges, corporations and non-profits. A graduate of Howard University and Harvard Business School, Johnson is a former executive who directed the digitization of John F. Kennedy's papers at his Presidential Library. Carol Newman Cronin is an award-winning author, editor, and Olympian. She's written fiction since childhood, and all her stories share three common elements: a coastal setting, boats, and a happy ending. In 2004, she crowned a lifetime of competitive achievement by winning two races for the USA at the Olympics in Athens—the homework needed to finish her third novel. Her weekly blog Where Books Meet Boats attracts a wide range of readers, and she also writes award-winning content for the marine industry. Steven Lee Beeber is the author of The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's: A Secret History of Jewish Punk (Chicago Review Press), the editor of AWAKE! A Reader for the Sleepless (Soft Skull Press) and the associate editor of the literary journal Conduit. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper's, The New York Times and elsewhere. He has an MFA in Fiction from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and teaches creative writing and creative nonfiction at Lesley University and GrubStreet. YourArlington.com has provided news and opinion about Arlington, Mass., since 2006. Publisher Bob Sprague is a former editor at The Boston Globe, Boston Herald and Arlington Advocate. Read more at https://www.yourarlington.com/about.