Author Literary Luncheon Series

at the Wequassett Inn Resort

We are thrilled to announce the Summer 2010 Author Lineup!

 Tickets are $50 all-inclusive unless otherwise noted

                                   and available at the bookstore.

We are excited to offer this series for a third summer, and are grateful to the authors who take the time our of their busy personal summers and writing schedules to include us on their book tours. The list below was cultivated with care and reflects a nice mix of debut and bestselling authors, knock-your-socks-off thrillers, and captivating stories, both imagined and true. As always, the authors will be seated at tables with the guests, and will speak to the larger group after lunch and will personalize books after dessert.

We do ask that you buy books for these events from our bookstore - your support is crucial to the continuation of the series. Independent bookstores - a beautiful space for browsing books in a tactile way - will continue to exist only with your patronage. Thank you for your support. 

 

Friday, June 25th	Check-in 12 Lunch 12:30
	Maggie Pouncey Perfect Reader       In the aftermath of her famous academic father's death, Flora Dempsey quits her big-city magazine job and returns to her childhood home, where she discovers a cache of love poems written by her father to an unknown girlfriend. A first novel.
	Dwayne Raymond Mornings with Mailer: A Recollection of Friendship    The young man who worked as Norman Mailer's personal assistant during the last five years of the author's life offers an intimate, revealing memoir that recasts the literary lion in a new light, not as combative and verbose as his legend dictated, but rather as a temperate man who taught his assistant how to navigate his own personal challenges.
	Lynne Kiele Bonasia Summer Shift    While trying to run the Cape Cod clam bar she owns, 44-year-old widow Mary Hopkins must rely on her diverse and dependable staff to weather the sudden death of a young waitress, her beloved great aunt's struggle with Alzheimer's and Mary's own sense that life is passing her by. By the author of Some Assembly Required.
Thursday, July 8th	Check-in 11:30 Lunch 12
	Claire Cook Seven Year Switch    After the re-emergence of her husband and the introduction of a new love interest in her life, Jill Murray uses a Costa Rican vacation to figure out what his best for her and her 10-year-old daughter and whether she truly wants to live a man-free life for the rest of her days. By the author of Must Love Dogs.
	Corinne Demans The Writing Circle    A richly engaging tale of love, betrayal, and literature: the story of six members of an elite writing circle who share much more than their works-in-progress.The Writing Circle will appeal to anyone who has ever imagined being a writer or wondered what it is like to be one, with a compelling cast of characters who are passionate, ambitious, flawed, and unpredictable.
	Linda Greenlaw Seaworthy: A Swordfish Captain Returns to the Sea    A sequel to the best-selling The Hungry Ocean picks up 10 years after the events of The Perfect Storm and recounts how the financially strapped author accepted a job captaining a swordfishing boat, a voyage marked by the challenges of the vessel's poor condition, bad weather and an inadvertent arrest.
Thursday, July 22nd	Check-in noon Lunch 12:30
	Richard Russo That Old Cape Magic    That Old Cape Magic is a novel of deep introspection and every family feeling imaginable, with a middle-aged man confronting his parents and their failed marriage, his own troubled one, his daughter’s new life and, finally, what it was he thought he wanted and what in fact he has. The storytelling is flawless throughout, moments of great comedy and even hilarity alternating with others of rueful understanding and heart-stopping sadness, and its ending is at once surprising, uplifting and unlike anything this Pulitzer Prize winner has ever written.    This ticket for this luncheon does include a signed copy of the new paperback release of That Old Cape Magic, and the tickets are $66 all-inclusive.
Thursday, August 5th	Check-in 11:30 Lunch 12
	Heidi Jon Schmidt The House on Oyster Creek    Charlotte Tradescome moves her work-obsessed husband and three-year-old daughter from Manhattan to a newly-inherited property on Cape Cod, where she is dismissed by the locals as a "washashore" and makes a connection with an open-hearted oyster farmer.
	Carol McCleary The Alchemy of Murder    At the 1889 World's Fair in Paris, reporter Nellie Bly teams up with the likes of Jules Verne, Oscar Wilde and Louis Pasteur to find the connection between a series of killings and an epidemic that is wiping out Parisians by the thousands. Historical mystery that made the top 5 shortlist for Europe's highest mystery CrimeFest Prize.
	Holly LeCraw The Swimming Pool    Seven years after the end of an affair with a married man culminated in the unsolved murder of his wife, Marcella Atkinson struggles with guilt and the decimation of her own family life before a chance discovery leads her into an emotionally charged relationship with her former lover's son.
Thursday, August 12th	Check-in 11:30 Lunch 12
	Jennifer Weiner Fly Away Home    A latest work by the author of Best Friends Forever and Good In Bed finds a politician's wife retreating with her grown daughters to a Connecticut beach house after a painful public betrayal, an escape marked by new beginnings and her younger daughter's pregnancy.    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a novel about a family of women who seek refuge in an old beach house.    $80 Ticket includes a personalized copy of her new book Fly Away Home.

Thank you to both the guests at our Author Literary Luncheon Series over the past few years, and to the authors who make it possible by coming to speak about their new books. We have been charmed by all of their entertaining, informative, inspiring, and open talks.  A full list of past participating authors is available here.