April 4, 2019 6:30 pm at Sherrill Library, on the Brattle campus of Lesley University, 89 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA 02138

 Whose story is it?: The Choices, Dilemmas and Ethics of Writing Memoir about Others

Memoir, by its very definition, is about the self. But what do you do when you want to write a memoir that is not about you? How do you write about people you don’t know, a culture that’s not your own, events you didn’t witness? Join Caroline Heller, author of Reading Claudius, Janet Pocorobba, author of The Fourth String, and Julie Wittes Schlack, author of This All-at-Onceness as they discuss how they wrote their memoirs and read from the works in question. In particular, they will address obstacles they encountered in navigating the tricky terrain between self and other, memory and fact.
Free and open to the public

June 4, 2019 7:00 pm at the Trident Booksellers and Café, 338 Newbury Street, Boston MA 02115

Strangers and Cousins by Leah Hager Cohen and This All-at-Onceness by Julie Wittes Schlack: Readings and Conversation.

These two authors will read from their new books – one a novel, one an essay collection — and discuss the all-too-porous boundaries between the fiction and nonfiction. They’ll converse about how they choose their genre when writing about broader societal issues, and the ethical quandaries introduced by intermingling what’s documented vs. what’s imagined.
Free and open to the public

June 6, 2019 7:00 pm at Belmont Books, 79 Leonard St, Belmont, MA 02478 

 Strangers and Cousins by Leah Hager Cohen and This All-at-Onceness by Julie Wittes Schlack: Readings and Conversation.

These two authors will read from their new books – one a novel, one an essay collection – and take questions from attendees.
Free and open to the public

June 17, 2019 7:00 pm at Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

This All-at-Onceness by Julie Wittes Schlack and Replay Earth by Mark Schlack: Readings and Conversation

If This All-at-Onceness, a cultural memoir, is about “how did we get here,” climate fiction novel Replay Earth is about “where do we go from here,” and both books are about the double-edged sword of perpetual connectedness. The two authors will each do a short reading, take questions, and converse about where the themes of their books intersect and hand off to one another. And they can, of course, talk about how two-writer marriages survive 🙂
Free and open to the public