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SUMMARY:Author Talk with Tom Piazza
DESCRIPTION:Noted author Tom Piazza will discuss The Auburn Conference\, his new historical novel that features Herman Melville\, Mark Twain\, Frederick Douglass\, Walt Whitman\, Harriet Beecher Stowe\, and other notable figures appearing at a fictionalized tiny upstate New York college in 1883.\nTom Piazza is celebrated both as a novelist and as a writer on American music. His twelve books include the novels The Auburn Conference and City Of Refuge\, the short-story collection Blues and Trouble\, the post-Katrina manifesto Why New Orleans Matters\, and the essay collection Devil Sent The Rain: Music and Writing in Desperate America.\nHe was a principal writer for the innovative New Orleans-based HBO drama series Treme\, and the winner of a Grammy Award for his album notes to Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey.\n$10 BCHS members\, $15 non-members\nUse the BOOK NOW button to reserve tickets. \nThis event is sponsored by Greylock Federal Credit Union\, Massachusetts Cultural Council. \nRead Elvis Costello’s interview with Tom here. \nRead Library of American interview with Tom here.  \nPhoto by Mary Howell
URL:https://berkshirehistory.org/event/author-talk-with-tom-piazza/
LOCATION:Arrowhead\, 780 Holmes Road\, Pittsfield\, MA\, 01201\, United States
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