Spotlight Lecture Series: Laura Van Den Berg talks about The Third Hotel with Lewis Robinson

Tuesday, September 25 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Location: Portland Public Library - Main Library
Audience: Adults

Portland Public Library hosts Laura Van Den Berg in conversation with a Lewis Robinson about her new book, The Third Hotel. 

About the book
Shortly after Clare arrives in Havana, Cuba, to attend the annual Festival of New Latin American Cinema, she finds her husband, Richard, standing outside a museum. He’s wearing a white linen suit she’s never seen before, and he’s supposed to be dead. Grief-stricken and baffled, Clare tails Richard, a horror film scholar, through the newly tourist-filled streets of Havana, clocking his every move. As the distinction between reality and fantasy blurs, Clare finds grounding in memories of her childhood in Florida and of her marriage to Richard, revealing her role in his death and reappearance along the way. The Third Hotel is a propulsive, brilliantly shape-shifting novel from an inventive author at the height of her narrative powers.

About the authors
Laura van den Berg is the author of two story collections, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us and The Isle of Youth, and the novel Find Me. She is the recipient of a Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Bard Fiction Prize, an O. Henry Award, and a MacDowell Colony fellowship. Born and raised in Florida, she lives in Cambridge, MA, with her husband and dog.

Lewis Robinson is the author of the novel Water Dogs (Random House, 2009), a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and Officer Friendly and Other Stories (HarperCollins, 2003), winner of the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award.  His short fiction and essays have appeared in Sports Illustrated, Tin House, The Baffler, The New York Times Book Review and on NPR’s program Selected Shorts.  A popular teacher of the writing craft, Robionson has taught at the University of Iowa, Colby College, the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA program, Stanford University’s Continuing Studies program, and was the writer-in-residence at Phillips Academy.  He lives in Portland, Maine.

About the Series » Spotlight Lecture Series

Portland Public Library and Longfellow Books present the Spotlight Lecture Series in conjunction with Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance.  The Spotlight Lecture Series celebrates new works by notable authors from around the country.  This series is sponsored by the Press Hotel.

For more information:

https://www.portlandlibrary.com/events/spotlight-lecture-series-laura-van-den-berg/