Concord and Lowell, Massachusetts
Two weeks of talks, readings, and discussion celebrating the written and the spoken word.
Roy Blount Jr.
Carole Boston Weatherford
James Wood
Jennifer Haigh
How You Can Participate
- Attend: Most events are free. All events are open to the public. Events that require a ticket are so indicated and include information about how and where to obtain tickets.
- Donate: The festival is produced by a non-profit foundation and depends greatly on individual support. Tax deductible donations in any amount are encouraged and can be made online.
- Sponsor: Corporate sponsorship is welcomed and is available. For information please .
Susan Cheever
Events: Sex Meets Addiction
Book: Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction
Susan Cheever presents an intimate, provocative meditation on love, sex — and addiction. Exploring the boundaries between passion and addiction, desire, and need, she raises important questions about how we love and why. While Desire is not a confessional memoir, it is the story of Cheever’s search for some meaning in her own behavior as well as in the signals our culture gives young women.
Susan Cheever is the author of five novels and several works of nonfiction, including American Bloomsbury, My Name Is Bill, the definitive biography of the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, and Home Before Dark, a biographical memoir about her father, the novelist John Cheever. Her work has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and has won the Boston Globe Winship Medal. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, a member of the Corporation of Yaddo, and a member of the Author’s Guild Council. She writes a weekly column for Newsday and teaches in the Bennington College M.F.A. program.