East End Ink

We present a celebration of Afro-American writers recorded in February 2020  at Canios Books, Sag Harbor. The readers were members of the community including: Nancy Myers reading Haiku for Harriet Tubman by Sonia Sanchez. Gloria Brown reading the work of Zora Neale Hurston Lora Tucker reading from Jazz in Jail by Luis Reyes Rivera Eda Lorello reading the poetry of Everett Hoagland and Canios’ Maryann Calendrille reading from The Street by Ann Petry  Listen here  

Tonight we present author, editor, and writing teacher Suzanne McConnell talking about Pity the Reader, the art and craft of writing by Kurt Vonnegut, co-written by McConnell, his former student.  Suzanne McConnell was a student of Kurt Vonnegut’s at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop from 1965 to 1967, when Vonnegut was in residence and finishing his masterpiece,  Slaughterhouse-Five Suzanne McConnell was recorded at Canios Books, Sag Harbor in November 2019.. l listen here: The book was published in 2019 by Seven Stories Press.