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Featuring Celia Bland, Harriet Brown, and Sarah Towers

A reading featuring nonfiction writer Harriet Brown, author of Brave Girl Eating: A Family’s Struggle with Anorexia, and short fiction writer Sarah Towers, hosted by Bard College Writer-in-Residence Celia Bland, author of the poetry collection Soft Box. “When we talk about mortality,” Joan Didion recently wrote, “we are talking about our children.” These works—stark but optimistic, conferring excitement and promise—celebrate mothers and children and, by inference, mortality.

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Major funding for the 2012 Berkshire Festival of Women Writers is provided by the local cultural councils of the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, including the towns of Alford-Egremont, Dalton, Great Barrington, Monterey, Mt. Washington, New Marlborough, Pittsfield, Richmond, Stockbridge, Washington and West Stockbridge.