Pen Parentis Literary FOODIE NIGHT! Set for Nov 12

Calling all lovers of literature, good food, and literature about good food, Pen Parentis has a wonderful Literary Salon planned for November, featuring four excellent food writers! Caroline M. Grant, co-editor of The Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage: True Tales of Food, Family, and How We Learn to Eat, will read from her anthology, along with contributing food journalists Aleksandra Crapanzano and Edward Lewine.

Joining them will be John Donohue, editor of the New York Times bestselling collection Man With a Pan: Culinary Adventures of Fathers Who Cook for Their Families. While these writers feed your spirit, The hotel Andaz Wall Street will provide delectables to munch on, along with happy hour specials on beer and wine. The free Salon takes pace on Tuesday, November 12th, 2013, at the elegant Andaz Wall Street (75 Wall at Water Street) at 7:00 pm. http://penparentis.org

Now in its tenth season, Pen Parentis has been welcoming avid readers as well as novice and professional writers to its monthly Literary Salons, a series of free readings open to the public. Each author will read from new work, discuss their writing life and process in a Q&A, and then mingle over drinks. Books will be available for purchase from Bluestockings Books.

November 12th's Literary Salon features:

Aleksandra Crapanzano is a screenwriter and food journalist. She was awarded the M. F. K. Fisher Award for Distinguished Writing from the James Beard Foundation for her work in Gourmet; she has written for The New York Times Magazine, Food and Wine, Saveur,Travel & Leisure and Marie Claire and she has a dessert column in The Wall Street Journal. She is currently writing a feature film on the life of Alinea chef Grant Achatz and she has a film on John Ruskin in pre-production in the U.K.

The cartoonist and writer John Donohue, an editor at the New Yorker, has been passionate about food all his life. He is the editor of Man with a Pan: Culinary Adventures of Fathers Who Cook for Their Families. John lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters and blogs about the writing he does for his family at www.stayatstovedad.com.

Caroline M. Grant is co-editor, with Lisa Catherine Harper, of The Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage: True Tales of Food, Family, and How We Learn to Eat. She is also Editor-in-Chief of Literary Mama, named one of Writer's Digest's Best Websites for Writers, and the Associate Director of the Sustainable Arts Foundation. She co-edited the anthology Mama, PhD: Women Write about Motherhood and Academic Life and has published many essays. She grew up in suburban New York, eating only produce grown in the backyard and now, with her two young sons, raises what vegetables she can in San Francisco. She blogs regularly about food and books at her website, carolinemgrant.com

Edward Lewine writes regularly for the New York Times, Smart Money, Salon, Glamour, Premiere, Stuff, Arena, Detroit News, Newark Star-Ledger, the Art Newspaper, and Golf & Travel. He is the author of Death and the Sun and lives in Brooklyn with his family.

More info at penparentis.org.