Susanna Sonnenberg Storms Louisville! (Go InKY!)

So author Susanna Sonnenberg is doing two events in town next week. The first is the final event in the Fall 2008 Anne and William Axton Reading Series at UofL next Thursday night.

Thursday, November 13th at 7:30pm in the Bingham Poetry Room, Ekstrom Library, University of Louisville (Belknap Campus). Sonnenberg's critically acclaimed memoir, Her Last Death, was a Book Sense Pick and a New York Times bestseller.  Her essays have appeared in Elle, Parenting, and O, The Oprah Magazine, among other magazines.  Her work appears in three recent anthologies,  About What Was Lost, Behind the Bedroom Door and The Currency of Love.  She lives in Missoula, Montana, with her husband and two children.

Then our favorite indie reading series will be featuring her on Friday night. Way to score InKY!

Susanna Sonnenberg is the author of a memoir, Her Last Death, a New York Times and LA Times best seller. She was born in London in 1965 and grew up in New York. Her essays have appeared in Elle, O, the Oprah Magazine and Parenting, among other magazines. She lives in Montana with her husband and two sons.

Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times says: "Her Last Death recounts 'the true calamity of being daughter to this mother,' and the wonder of this memoir is that the author survived her traumatic childhood and found a way of turning her memories into a fiercely observed, fluently written book.... Writing in sharp, crystalline prose, Ms. Sonnenberg... plung(es) readers into a sort of perpetual present tense in which we are made to experience, almost firsthand, the inexplicable and perverse behavior of an impossible woman from the point of view of her aghast, bedazzled - and immensely gifted - daughter."Copies of Her Last Death will be available for sale at InKY thanks to Carmichael's Bookstore, Louisville's oldest independent bookseller. Carmichael's Bookstore celebrated its 30th anniversary as Louisville's oldest and largest independent bookstore this year. Both Carmichael's locations, one on Bardstown Road and one on Frankfort Avenue, are open seven days a week.

Open mic at 7:00
Music at 7:30
Featured readers at 8:00
Free

The Rudyard Kipling (home to one of PETA's 10 favorite vegan pizzas by the way)
422 W. Oak Street
Louisville, KY