Writers talking about writing

TUXEDO PARK — The Tuxedo Park Library will host a conversation between the acclaimed fiction writer Amy Hempel and the noted biographer Patricia Bosworth on Saturday, May 5, at 3 p.m.

The event will be moderated by two publishing professionals and Tuxedo residents - Glenn Young and Gerald Howard.

Expect a lively, candid and free-ranging discussion of the many joys and hazards of the writing life, including finding inspiration, success and failure, surviving reviews good and bad, making money, the eternal quest for recognition and the peculiar ways of publishers.

Hempel is widely recognized as a contemporary master of the short story. She is the author of several books, including the collections “Reasons To Live” and “The Dog of the Marriage,” and most recently “Collected Stories.” She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Bosworth is the author of widely praised biographies of Montgomery Clift, Diane Arbus, Marlon Brando and, most recently, “Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman.” She is a contrbuting editor at Vanity Fair.

For more information, call the Tuxedo Park Library at 845-351-2207 or visit online at www.tuxedoparklibrary.org.