Pig Candy Reading with poet Lynn Levin!
A reading by Lynn Levin and Lise Funderburg
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe
Kelly Writers House
University of Pennsylvania
3805 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA
co-sponsored by: Creative Writing
Poet, writer, and translator, Lynn Levin is the author of three collections of poems, Fair Creatures of an Hour (2009), Imaginarium (2005)/, and A Few Questions about Paradise (2000), all published by Loonfeather Press. Imaginarium was a finalist for ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Award. Lynn Levin’s poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Washington Square Review, 5 AM, Peregrine, and Boulevard. She teaches creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania and at Drexel University, where she also produces the award-winning TV show, The Drexel InterView.
Pig Candy Speed Reading — See it now!
Six minutes. Three Excerpts. Can’t get much better than that. This video is from a recent 6-person reading at Big Blue Marble Bookstore in the beautiful Mt. Airy section of Philadelphia, brought to you by Philadelphia Stories’ PS Reads series. Fellow readers: Christine Weiser, Nathan Long, Brian Patrick Heston, David Sanders, Colleen Baranich, and Marc Schuster. Click here for video.
Unbelievably Cute Button Giveaway
And by “cute” we mean the buttons, not the giveaway. Although it is clever. If your book group chooses Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home as one of its next reads, our people will send your people enough of these little wamma jammas for every member. Send in name of club, month of selection, contact address, and number of buttons needed. Limited time offer while supplies last. Or until postage rates go up again.
Yet another bestseller list!
That’s right. Pig Candy is now officially a bestseller among the Flourtown Swim Club’s morning water aerobics class, thanks to the marketing genius of Maggie Funderburg (aka, “Mom”).
Pig Candy Hits the Bestseller List!
After a BBQ-filled week of touring great indie bookstores in North Carolina, Pig Candy made it to the SIBA Bestseller List.
Keynote Speech at upcoming 10/17 Push to Publish Conference
Philadelphia Stories is hosting Push to Publish 2009: Strategies and Techniques to Get Your Work in Print and Online at Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA on October 17, 2009, 9 am to 5 pm. Lise Funderburg gives the conference’s kickoff speech. To see a profile of Lise on PS’s website, click here.
September 15: Pig Candy Reading at Chemical Rd. Barnes & Noble Tonight
At 7:30 tonight, Lise Funderburg will lead a discussion and sign books at the Chemical Road Barnes & Noble in Plymouth Meeting, PA. While she can’t guarantee the return of the crazy man who interrupted her last reading by asking, “Do you plan to read the whole book? Because I have a comment to make,” she can guarantee that the bookstore’s mall also has a Ross Dress for Less, a Target, a PetSmart, an Old Navy, a Lowe’s, and a Best Buy. She’s just saying.
Pig Candy on About.com
In her 8/1/09 review, hospice and palliative care nurse Angela Morrow describes Pig Candy as “a beautifully told story that is as much about completing relationships as it is about the beauty of the rural Georgia landscape and its people…. [Funderburg's] story reminds us that there is yet much to do as one nears the end of life.”
Pig Candy on Bukisa.com!
A new review just went up on Bukisa.com, in which member CarlaPW writes: “Funderburg masterfully brings a small Southern community to life through not only her father’s eyes but hers as well - northern eyes, informed and perhaps prejudiced by the painful experiences of an older generation, yet curious and open to fully seeing what it is about the people, culture (food plays a major role, as the title promises) and environment that soothes her father so.” Click here to read full review.
Bookalicious calls Pig Candy “a real gem.”
From the Canadian YummyMummy Club website. website Full review here.
THE SILVER PLANET
Here’s a recent review on www.silverplanet.com, an interesting boomer women’s site. Lots to explore on these pages.