Carol Hebald and
Eunice Lipton :
An Evening of Memoir

Where: Westbeth Community Room
When: Thursday, May 5 2016 at 7:30pm
Address: 55 Bethune Street, New York, NY 10014
or enter through courtyard at 155 Bank Street and go up the steps/ramp. Community Room is on your left.
Subway: A, C, E, 14th and 8th Avenue

Carol Hebald will read from her memoir, The Heart Too Long Suppressed. Eunice Lipton will read from her new book, A Distant Heartbeat: A War, A Disappearance, and a Family’s Secrets.

Carol Hebald

CAROL HEBALD will be reading from her memoir, THE HEART TOO LONG SUPPRESSED: A Chronicle of Mental Illness (Northeastern University Press, 2001), in which she tracks the development of her former mental illness, and place within a historical context of her helpers’ errors in judgment. She pinpoints what went wrong, so that readers in similar situations, might avoid her pitfalls.

EUNICE LIPTON will read from her new book, “A Distant Heartbeat: A War, a Disappearance, and a Family’s Secrets.” It’s about a boy who slips away from his family and crosses an ocean to fight in a foreign war—the Spanish Civil War. His jealous brother, the author’s father, sabotages him and leaves a trail of prickly questions that many years later send the author in search of a packet of missing letters, the boy’s Communist comrades and her father’s treachery.

Where to purchase Eunice Lipton books: http://eunicelipton.com/
Book trailer: https://youtu.be/GCMpNPS47Go

CAROL HEBALD was an actress for twelve years on the New York stage before enrolling as an English Major at the City College of CUNY, from where she graduated magna cum laude in 1969. Subsequently awarded a Teaching and Writing Fellowship in fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she received her MFA in 1971. A former associate professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Kansas, she is the author of three poetry collections, Colloquy, Spinster by the Sea and Little Monologs; the memoir, The Heart Too Long Suppressed; and the novella collection, Three Blind Mice. Her book-length poem, Delusion of Grandeur is forthcoming in May, 2016, and her novel, A WARSAW CHRONICLE, will be out next December.

EUNICE LIPTON was born in the Bronx, is a fervent New Yorker, but lives half the year in Paris. She writes memoir, cultural history and art criticism. Lipton received her Ph.D. in art history from NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts. Her interests lie in the social history of art.

WESTBETH HOME TO THE ARTS
55 Bethune Street
(b/w Washington and West Sts.)
New York, NY 10014

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MEMOIR AND HISTORY
Carol Hebald and Eunice Lipton
Book Reading
Where: Westbeth Community Room
When: Thursday, May 5 2016 at 7:30pm
Address: 55 Bethune Street, New York, NY 100
Subway: 14th and 8th Avenue