SPECIAL FALL & WINTER EVENTS
Long Island LitFest Presents Lee Child
Wednesday, December 5, 7:30 pm at Cinema Arts Centre, Huntington
Your $35 ticket ($30/Cinema Arts Members) includes a copy of his latest thriller, Past Tense, author talk, audience Q&A and book signing reception.
Lee Child is the author of twenty-one New York Times bestselling Jack Reacher thrillers, twelve of which have reached the #1 position. All have been optioned for major motion pictures—including Jack Reacher (based on One Shot) and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. Foreign rights in the Reacher series have sold in one hundred territories. A native of England and a former television director, Lee Child lives in New York City.
Take a look at Newsday’s recent feature on Lee Child.
Child will be in conversation with Reed Farrel Coleman, the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-nine novels, short stories, essays and poetry. Along with his own Moe Prager and Gus Murphy series, he writes the Jesse Stone novels for the estate of the late Robert B. Parker. Reed is a four-time winner of the Shamus Award for Best Private Eye Novel of the Year and is a four-time Edgar Award nominee. He lives with his wife on Long Island.
Long Island LitFest Presents
Donna Gaines, author of Why the Ramones Matter
Sunday, January 13, 3:00 pm at Cinema Arts Centre, Huntington
In conversation with Bill German, author of Under Their Thumb: How a Nice Boy from Brooklyn Got Mixed Up with the Rolling Stones (and Lived to Tell About It), plus live performance by The Young Rochelles!
Your $35 ticket ($30/Cinema Arts Members) includes a copy of Why The Ramones Matter, author talk, audience Q&A, book signing and live performance by The Young Rochelles!
Donna Gaines has written for Rolling Stone, MS, the Village Voice, Spin, Newsday and Salon. Her work has been published in underground fanzines, numerous trade and scholarly collections, professional journals and textbooks. Subjects have included music, tattoos, youth, guns, pornography, TV talk shows, suburbia, spirituality, gender culture, technology and intergenerational love. Her photographs, liner notes, lyrics and poetry have been published or shown as well.
Donna Gaines’ first book, Teenage Wasteland: Suburbia’s Dead End Kids was published in 1991. Rolling Stone declared Teenage Wasteland “the best book on youth culture.” A sociologist, journalist and New York State Master Licensed Social Worker, Dr. Gaines grew up in Rockaway Beach, Queens, a surf town made famous by the Ramones.
Gaines will be in conversation with author Bill German. His book, Under Their Thumb details his unlikely friendships with Keith Richards and Mick Jagger and reveals how the Stones’ sausage is made. German is currently working on another memoir, titled “We’re a Happy Family.” It’s set during his teenage years in Brooklyn (late 1970s-early 1980s) and is about surviving chaos, knishes, the Stones and Ramones.
And this afternoon includes a special, live performance by The Young Rochelles — The band was born in Long Beach, New York in January 2013. The pop-punk trio has recorded several EPs including Cannibal Island, Know the Code, and Organ Trade, various splits and compilation tracks – the latest being a full-length CD/LP for Sounds Rad. The band aims to deliver levity through short bursts that rarely pass the two-minute mark and remain in your head long after they’ve ended.
My friends and I want to hear the authors but aren’t interested in workshops. How are the authors being scheduled? Is there a talk and then a workshop and then a talk, etc?
Thanks for asking. The workshops are FREE with admission and optional. They are running at Noon, before LitFest begins at 1 pm. Our author reading schedule runs in two sessions, with a book signing break in between. Please take a look at the schedule of events, here. We look forward to seeing you and your friends! It’s going to be an amazing day!
Typo in my name. My fault.
Is there an essay contest this year?
Thank you.
Pamela, We have opted not to include an essay contest this year.
I wanted to come to the Long Island LitFest 2017 for a couple of reasons: 1 of them is that I am in the process of what I hope to be a book about my experience with life in the past 10 or so years. I’ve experienced extraordinary circumstances and I believe that I could be of use to people out there if they read my story period I dealt with most of my tragedies and my dealings by being sober and by believing in something other than nothing. And I wasn’t really too much of understanding of the readings but I was very much interested in the workshops. Unfortunately my financial situation is such that I don’t even have that money to put aside for this function today. What I would like to know is if they offer free workshops anywhere and what do I have to do to sign up for those? Thank you very much for taking the time to read this and I hope to get a reply from you soon period thank you so much Toni Ann lettenberger
Please sign up for updated news and events. We may hold workshops in the future…
I’d love to hear Nelson DeMille, Kristin Hannah, Jodi Picoult, and Lisa Genova. Loved listening to Anna Quinlan- thank you!
Thank you, Maureen! Great suggestions — and we loved Anna Q. also. She was fantastic. Thanks for attending that!
Maureen, have you heard? We are hosting an event with Nelson DeMille on Oct. 10th!
Johnathan Goldsmith. The Most Interesting Man in the World. New Book: “Stay Interesting”
Thank you for that suggestion, Dean! We’ll work on it!
I cannot wait for the book! The tee shirt is awesome.
All the best,
Matt
CONGRATULATIONS, YOU WON A TEE SHIRT! Please email your address to cgc@ClaudiaCopquin.com and we’ll send it to you right away.
Hey, Matt. Please send us an email with your address. cgc@ClaudiaCopquin.com
Anxiously awaiting for your trip to The Poisoned Pen in Scottsdale, AZ. Can’t wait to read your book.