WLP Faculty Book Celebration

**Registration is required by the end of the day on Sun, Nov 1.

We will email a Zoom link to registrants on the morning of the event.**

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Join us for a Faculty Book Celebration for WLP Faculty Alden Jones, Bill Beuttler, Jessica Treadway, and Susanne Althoff on Mon, Nov 2, 6-7:30pm ET on Zoom.

Free and open to the public. Alumni and friends of Emerson, please join us. Please note that the reading will be recorded and live streamed to Facebook (WLP Town Crier).

Order the faculty's titles from Porter Square Books: https://www.portersquarebooks.com/wlp-faculty-book-celebration

If you’d like a signed book, put a note in your order comments that you’d like a signed copy and who you’d like it signed to. Personalized book requests due by end of the day on Wed, Nov 4. Books will begin to be shipped two weeks after the event.

Alden Jones is the author, most recently, of the critical memoir The Wanting Was a Wilderness. Her previous books are The Blind Masseuse, a travel memoir, and the story collection Unaccompanied Minors. She was the 2016 recipient of the Alan Stanzler Award for Excellence in Teaching, and, in addition to teaching at Emerson College, is core faculty in fiction and nonfiction writing at the low-residency Newport MFA program. Her essays and stories have appeared in Agni, The Cut, New York Magazine, Prairie Schooner, the Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, The Rumpus, Psychology Today, Post Road, The Believer, and the Best American Travel Writing.

Associate Professor Bill Beuttler directs Emerson College's graduate program in Publishing and Writing, and teaches courses in magazine writing, editing, and publishing. His journalism appears regularly for the Boston Globe, Boston magazine, and other publications. His first book, Make It New: Reshaping Jazz in the 21st Century, was published by Lever Press. DownBeat magazine’s review called Make It New “a rewarding book that examines some of the key voices directing contemporary jazz.”

Jessica Treadway has published four novels and two story collections, the most recent of which, Please Come Back To Me, received the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her novel The Gretchen Question came out in June, and that’s what she’ll be reading from tonight. Her previous books are the novels How Will I Know You?; Lacy Eye; and And Give You Peace, and her first story collection is Absent Without Leave.

Susanne Althoff is the author of LAUNCHING WHILE FEMALE: Smashing the System That Holds Women Entrepreneurs Back (Beacon Press, October 2020). She’s an assistant professor in Emerson's WLP Department, where she teaches the business of publishing, publishing entrepreneurship and women’s media. Before joining Emerson in 2015, Althoff worked for 22 years as a magazine editor, including six years as the editor of the Boston Globe Magazine. Her writing has appeared in WIRED, the Boston Globe, and other publications.

Co-sponsored by the Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson College.

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