A Reading from a chapter of Hoffman's Forthcoming Novel, The Off Season (Free Lunchtime Seminar)

The Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) kicks off its fall
lunchtime seminar series October 10th with

“A Reading from a chapter of Hoffman's Novel-in-progress,
The Off Season,” presented by Amy
Hoffman, M.F.A.

In this
presentation, Hoffman, editor-in-chief of Women's
Review of Books, will read an excerpt from her novel-in-progress, The Off Season. The novel is set in the
lesbian community in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and is about relationships
coming together and falling apart, art, environmentalism, and mid-life crises.

Hoffman is also
the author of Lies about My Family, about
issues of continuity and discontinuity between generations, immigration, and
family bonds, Hospital Time, about
taking care of friends with AIDS, published by Duke University Press in 1997, and
An Army of Ex-Lovers, about Boston's
Gay Community News and the lesbian and gay movement of the late 1970s, published
by the University of Massachusetts Press.

Lunchtime
seminars are held Thursdays, 12:30-1:30 p.m. at the Centers' Cheever House
location, 828 Washington Street, Wellesley, MA. The programs are free and open
to the public. Guests are invited to bring their lunches, WCW will provide tea
and coffee. To confirm program line-up, call 781 283 2500 or visit www.wcwonline.org/calendar.

The
Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College is one of the largest
gender-focused research-and-action organizations in the world. Scholars at the
Centers conduct social science research and evaluation, develop theory and
publications, and implement training and action programs on issues that put
women’s lives and women’s concerns at the center. Since 1974, WCW’s work
has generated changes in attitudes, practices, and public policy.