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Learning to Live Without Hair

Reading from the Middle Place:

The Guess Jeans Fight of 1984

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C H I C A G O

Wednesday, July 9 * 10am
Clarendon Hills Library
7 North Prospect
Chicago, IL
contact: Lucy Tarabour or Lisa Newlin

Wednesday, July 9 * 5:30pm
Irish Times Pub and Restaurant
8869 Burlington Avenue, Brookfield, IL
Contact Missi Cundari at mcundari@realbenefits.org

Wednesday, July 9 * 7pm
At the home of Mary Jurgen in Riverside
Chicago, IL

Thursday, July 10 * Morning Coffee
At the home of Carolyn McHugh
For details, contact carolynmmchugh@comcast.net
Kenilworth, IL

Thursday, July 10 * 7pm
Art Therapy Fundraiser
At the home of Amy Itaya
Chicago, IL
Contact: Carolyn Collins

C A L I F O R N I A
Tuesday, July 22 * 7:30pm
Los Altos Library
Los Altos, CA

Thursday, July 31 * 7:30pm
Saratoga Library
Saratoga, CA

P O R T L A N D
Wednesday, August 13 * 7pm
At the home of Katy Disbrow
Portland, OR
email me for more information: kelly@circusofcancer.org


C A L I F O R N I A
Wednesday, August 20 * 7:30pm
with special guest Kimberly Ford
reading from her newly released book, HUMP
Gilroy Library
Gilroy, CA


A R K A N S A S
Friday, September 19 * 10am
Fort Smith, AR


N A S H V I L L E
Friday, September 26 * Lunch
Minnie Pearl Foundation Annual Luncheon
Nashville, TN


P H I L L Y
Monday, September 29 * 7:30pm
St. Thomas of Villanova
Rosemont Auditorium
contact: Ann Murphy
Rosemont, PA

Tuesday, September 30* noon
Easttown Library
720 First Avenue
Berwyn, PA
contact: Mary Ravenfeld
mravenfeld@ccls.org

O C T O B E R
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I will be reading and speaking in Little Rock, Philly, Baltimore , Seattle, Phoenix, Long Beach and Connecticut. Details emerging.

Wednesday, October 1 * Lunch
The Elite Foundation's Annual Breast Cancer Fundraiser
Aronomink Golf Club
Newtown Square, PA

Wednesday, October 1 * 7pm
Fundraiser with Alessandra Rose
Bedford, NY

Thursday, October 2 * Morning Coffee
Darien, CT

Thursday, October 2 * Evening
Mt. Sinai Hospital Fundraiser
Baltimore, MD

Friday, October 3 * Morning Coffee
At the home of Noel Burch
Baltimore, MD

Friday, October 3 * Evening
Living Through Cancer Fundraiser
Details through Deb and Chris Massaro
Philadelphia, PA

Friday, October 10 * Afternoon
High Tea for March of Dimes Fundraiser
Little Rock, AR

Friday, October 10 * Dinner
Pasta Dinner for Komen for the Cure
Little Rock, AR

Saturday, October 11 * Lunch
Komen for the Cure Survivor Lunch
Little Rock, AR

More October events coming...please check back.


P H O E N I X

November 18 + 19
Details to come
Contacts: Tami Lee and Jackie Hutt

N E W S

The Middle Place has been on the New York Times Bestseller list for four weeks. The Middle Place is still holding on, 5 months and counting, to the Bay Area Bestseller List as well as the Little Rock Arkansas Bestseller list [thanks to Edward and his family].

Circus of Cancer just crossed the 250,000 mark. Over a quarter of a million people have used the site to learn how to help a friend with cancer.

SF Chronicle Reviews The Middle Place "Rarely has someone described the infinite small moments of parenting so imaginatively yet so precisely...so, come for the writing, stay for the life-and-death drama. Or vice versa. Either way, you won't regret it." Regan McMahon, SF Chronicle Deputy Book Editor

Kelly has essays in recent issues of Glamour and Good Housekeeping and the May issue of O, The Oprah Winfrey Magazine.

The Middle Place has been chosen as a Booksense pick for January 2008. Booksense is the largest association of independent booksellers in the US.

The Middle Place
was profiled in O, The Oprah Winfrey Magazine's January issue. The Middle Place was also recommended by Glamour , Family Circle, People, Blueprint, Good Housekeeping and ELLE Magazine.

For two days I ignored my family while I devoured Kelly Corrigan's memoir, The Middle Place. I spent a good part of that time crying, but mostly I was laughing. In the tradition of the best memoirists (Anne Lamott and Anna Quindlen come to mind) she captures our hearts and teaches us something new about family, love, and yes, even death.

— Ayelet Waldman, author of Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

I haven't become so immediately caught up in or so compelled by a book in ages…Kelly Corrigan's lightning-fast ability to establish that rare, mysterious bond between book and reader overwhelmed me. There are all sorts of things to be said about her bravery, and about what she can explain to many of us about illness, but this is a wonderful book about being alive.

— Robb Forman Dew, author of The Truth of the Matter and The Time of Her Life

The Middle Place is inspiring, luminous, and true. Reading this memoir, I felt like an honorary member of the Corrigan family . . . Kelly Corrigan is a wonderful writer.

—Luanne Rice, author of What Matters Most