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CelebSalon: Alice McDermott, Author

When:
Wednesday, October 23, 2019, 7:00 PM until 9:00 PM
Where:
Hosted by Kathy Price
2030 16th St NW
Additional Info:
Event Contact(s):
Ann V Talty
(202) 436-5252 (p)
Category:
Celeb Salon
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Alice McDermott is an award-winning writer known for her raw and sensitive portrayal of Irish American family life. Her 1998 novel Charming Billy won an American Book Award and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. She lives in Bethesda and is currently the Richard A. Macksey Professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

Alice McDermott’s other novels include A Bigamist’s Daughter; That Night, a finalist for the National Book Award, the Pen/Faulkner Award, and the Pulitzer Prize; At Weddings and Wakes, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Child of My Heart; After This; and, most recently, The Ninth Hour, a finalist for the 2017 Kirkus Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

The New York Times wrote of The Ninth Hour that “what McDermott achieves most splendidly is the hyper-realistic portrayal of the grim…aspects of illness and death among the poor”. “This achievement situates the life of a nun where it ideally belongs, in the difficult, often conflicting world that embraces practical competence, a commitment to giving more than could reasonably be asked and a lived belief not only in the goodness but, in Sister Jeanne’s words, the “fairness” of God, which demands “that grief should find succor, that wounds should heal, insult and confusion find recompense and certainty … that every living person God had made should not, willy-nilly, be forever unmade.”

In February 2019, Alice McDermott wrote an important and timely article for the New York Times on “Why the Priesthood Needs Women.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/opinion/sunday/women-catholic-priests.html


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