Four Stories Boston: "Conspicuous Consumption" October 5, 2009

Conspicuous Consumption: Stories of eating, shopping, spending, taking
# Erica Ferencik, award winning writer, screenwriter, filmmaker and standup comedian; former featured guest on NPR's Morning Stories; and author of the novel Cracks in the Foundation
# Ru Freeman, creative and political writer with work appearing internationally, and author of the novel A Disobedient Girl
# Tracy McArdle, author of Confessions of a Nervous Shiksa, Real Women Eat Beef, and essays in Premiere, The Boston Globe, and more
# Amy Yelin, writer with work in the Boston Globe Magazine, the Boston Globe, the Gettysburg Review, and Literary Mama; and recipient of a notable essay mention in the Best American Essays 2007 and an MFA in creative writing from Lesley University.

Plus mingling, eating, drinking, and the Four Stories style of literary investigation: ask the best question; win a free drink!
The Enormous Room
7-9pm (music starts @ 6)
569 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139
(Central Square, Red Line subway stop)

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