Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Events

On Tuesday, April 21, 2009, at 7 p.m., Lynne Sharon Schwartz will read from her new book, Not Now, Voyager, at the Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024.

Another reading from Not Now, Voyager, will take place at Stony Brook Southampton College, on Long Island, April 29, 2009, at 7 p.m.

On May 13, 2009, The New York Society Library and Thirteen/WNET will host a reading by Lynne Sharon Schwartz from Not Now, Voyager, at Temple Israel, 112 E.75th St., New York City, at 7 p.m.

On May 19, 2009, at 7 p.m., Lynne will be appearing at the Ordinary Evening Reading Series, Mermaid Room, Anchor Bar, 272 College St., New Haven, CT.

May 20, 2009, 7.p.m. reading from Not Now, Voyager, at the Morningside Bookstore, Broadway and 114th St., New York City.

Click on the link below to view a video of Lynne Sharon Schwartz's March 25, 2008, reading at the University of Pennsylvania's Kelly Writers' House, as well as her March 26 interview with Director Al Filreis.


Selected Works

Anthology
The Emergence of Memory: Conversations With W.G. Sebald
Selection of interviews with and essays on the late writer, W.G. Sebald
Children's book
The Four Questions
This classic children's book retells the Passover story. With beautiful original paintings by Ori Sherman.
Memoir
Not Now, Voyager
Part memoir, part exploration of the idea of travel, this peripatetic book asks what travelers are seeking, what they are fleeing, and what they find. A contrarian view, both serious and whimsical.
Ruined by Reading
A memoir that explores what the habit of reading means and how it can shape a life.
Novel
Leaving Brooklyn
A precocious adolescent finds unusual ways to escape Brooklyn conformity and explore the wider world.
Disturbances in the Field
A rich tapestry of tragic loss and the complicated struggle to find a path through darkness.
The Writing on the Wall
"The first fiction to weave the shock of 9/11 into ordinary lives... Worth a thousand pictures."
--Dan Wakefield
In the Family Way: an Urban Comedy
"Schwartz takes deadly aim at contemporary mores in this hilarious comedy of manners." Chicago Tribune
Short stories
Referred Pain
"No one reads us better than Lynne Sharon Schwartz. Her precise, unflinching stories discover meaning in our pain." Frederick Busch

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