Scheduled Readings & Appearances

Updated 09/07/2010

(Dates and locations subject to change. Please contact individual venues for details.)

October 2010

October 7 — Guest Speaker, Friends of the Weston Library Lunch, Henderson House, 99 Westcliff Rd., Weston, MA. Book signing at 10:30; Talk at 11:00; Lunch at 12:00.

August 2010

August 26 — Writers' Series, Union Church, Biddeford Pool, Maine.

June 2009

June 9 — "Authors Amongst Us: An Evening of Books, Brie & Beaujolais," sponsored by the Beacon Hill Civic Association, The Oak Room, The Hampshire House, 84 Beacon Street, Boston, MA at 5:30 PM

Refreshments followed by 6:00-7:00 pm Author's Lecture. Please RSVP to the BHCA office at 617-227-1922 to reserve seating. Fee of $10.00 per lecture per person in advance or $15.00 at the door of each lecture. Books sold by Porter Square Books.

News

2009

July

Of Men and Their Mothers has been featured as a book of particular interest in Paperback Row the New York Times Book Review, Sunday, July 12, 2009

May

Of Men and Their Mothers made the Boston Globe's bestseller list for the week of May 10!
Of Men and Their Mothers is a new "featured book" on ReadingGroupChoices.com. Also, catch this interview with Mameve, also featured on that site.

March

Mameve has published a new essay, "Confessions of a Faux-Food Fanatic" online at Gourmet.com. Check out the slideshow!

2008

August

An interview with Mameve was featured in the August 10 edition of the Cape Cod Times.

June

"Serious About Funny," a Q&A with the Portland Press Herald (Maine), was featured on June 15. Read the full article

May

Listen to Mameve read from and discuss Of Men and Their Mothers on Utah Public Radio.
Of Men and Their Mothers is a Denver Post Editor's Choice for the week of May 2.
The Chicago Sun-Times has selected Of Men and Their Mothers as a Mother's Day book recommendation.

2007

July

How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life is number 4 on The Boston Globe's paperback fiction bestsellers for the week of July 8!

April

How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life has been selected as an Honor Book for the 2007 Massachusetts Book Awards.

March

The paperback edition of How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life has gone into its second printing!

2006

December

Mameve's essay, "Oh Lord, Oh Lourdes, Alors!" will appear in How to Spell Chanukah to be published by Algonquin in November 2007.
The paperback edition of How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life will be available March 2007.
Mameve's new novel, Men and Their Mothers, will be published in hardcover by William Morrow in May 2008.
A new paperback edition of The End of an Error will be published in April 2008.

June

A profile of Mameve and her good friend Elinor Lipman, "Writers, readers and best friends forever," appeared in the June 23 issue of The Cape Codder. [Read the full article]
Mameve's April 27th lecture and reading at the Boston Athenæum is now available online courtesy of the WGBH Forum Network. (Presented by the Boston Athenæum.)

May

How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life has gone into a second printing!

April

How Elizabeth... has made the Boston Globe Local Bestseller List again for the week of April 23.
Listen to Mameve on Maine Public Broadcasting Network as she discusses How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life.
A story and interview with Mameve was featured in the April 16 edition of Newsday. [Read the full article]
The new book is #4 on the Boston Globe Local Bestseller List for April 16.
How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life is now #3 on the Boston Globe Local Bestseller List.
How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life has been selected by Nancy Pearl (Book Lust and More Book Lust) as recommended reading for the week of April 9.

March

How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life is #4 on the Boston Globe Local Bestseller List for March 26!

February

The Polish rights to How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life have been sold to Muza Publishing, Warsaw.
BookSense has named How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life one of their Top 20 picks for April.
How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life has been selected by Boston magazine as its Book Club pick for March 2006!

Past Events

Milwaukee, WI 5/8/09, Boswell Book Company "Best Buddies Night," with Elinor Lipman and Anita Shreve
Methue, MA 5/6/09, Nevins Library
Boston, MA 4/25/09, Simmons Club at Hampshire House
Groton, MA 10/28/08, Groton Public Library
Dennis, MA 8/16/08, Armchair Bookstore
Bar Harbor, ME 6/27/08, Sherman's Books and Stationery
Portland, MA 6/20/08, Portland Public Library
Newton, MA 6/12/08, Newtonville Books
Boston, MA 6/10/08, Boston Athenæum
Boston, MA 6/4/08, The Literati Scene (TV)
Boston, MA 6/3/08, Boston Public Library
South Hadley, MA 5/22/08, Odyssey Bookstore
Salt Lake City, UT 5/15/08, King's English
Cohasset, MA 5/13/08, Buttonwood Books and Toys
Swampscott, MA 5/12/08, Swampscott Public Library
Concord, MA 5/11/08, Concord Bookshop
Falmouth, MA 5/7/08, Massachusetts Library Association annual conference
Brookline, MA 5/5/08, Brookline Booksmith
Carmel, IN 5/3/08, Carmel Clay Public Library Foundation 2008 "Book Marks" Event
New York, NY 5/1/08, Corner Bookstore
Boston, MA 4/27/08, The Muse and the Marketplace
Newburyport, MA 4/25, 4/26/08, Newburyport Book Festival
Cambridge, MA 4/24/08, Porter Square Books
Cambridge, MA 4/23/08, Harvard Bookstore
Boston, MA 4/22/08, WBNW "Pages to People" (Radio)
Boston, MA 4/2/08, Grub Street Benefit for The Writers Room
Boston, MA 2/7/08, Massachusetts Book Awards
Boston, MA 12/2/07, WNBA Annual Tea
Newton, MA 11/27/07, Newtonville Books
Cambridge, MA 11/2/07, Dire Literary Series
Newton, MA 9/5/07, Brandeis University Annual Book and Author Luncheon
Cambridge, MA6/27/07, Porter Square Books with Heidi Pitlor
Cambridge, MA 5/6/07, Harvard Book Store
Boston, MA 4/18/07, Simmons College with Elinor Lipman
Kennebunk, ME 3/29/07, Kennebunk Free Library
Charlottesville, VA 3/25/07, Virginia Festival of the Book
Belmont, MA 3/8/07, Belmont Public Library
Swampscott, MA 3/6/07, Swampscott Public Library
Dover, MA 1/17/07, Talk and book signing, Dover Town Library
Brookline, MA 11/30, Brookline Mental Health Center, talk on "Comedy"
Reading, MA 11/3, Reading, Q&A and book signing at Reading Public Library with Elinor Lipman
Duxbury, MA 10/29, Reading, talk, signing at Antiques Roadshow-themed event, Duxbury Public Library
Boston, MA 9/19, Boston Public Library, "An Evening Without..." writers and actors reading from the works of banned writers, sponsored by ACLU Massachusetts, PEN New England and BPL
Chatham, MA 6/26, Cabbages & Kings Literary Brunch, Wequassett Inn (With Elinor Lipman, Stephen McCauley and Sebastian Stewart)
Dennis, MA 6/26, Cape Cod Museum of Art (With Elinor Lipman)
Boston, MA 6/21 Literati Scene TV show with Smoki Bacon and Dick Concannon
Newton, MA 6/13 Newton Free Library
Framingham, MA 6/11 Barnes & Noble
Newton, MA 5/23 Newton Public Library Television
Boston, MA 3/16 Porter Square Books
New York, NY 3/20 Corner Bookstore
Westchester, NY 3/21 Spoken Interludes
Boston, MA 3/23 Public Library Association Annual Conference, Hynes Convention Center
Portland, ME 3/24 Maine Public Radio Maine Things Considered
Brunswick, ME 3/25 Bookland Bookstore
Brookline, MA 3/30 Brookline Booksmith
Newton, MA 4/4 Newtonville Books
Washington, DC 4/20 Ferris-Peter-Levin/Weichert Realtors
Cambridge, MA 4/26 Cambridge Center for Adult Education
Boston, MA 4/27 Boston Athenæum
Wilkes-Barre, PA 4/30 Best Western Genetti Hotel
South Hadley, MA 5/2 Odyssey Bookshop
Boston, MA 5/4 Burns & Levinson