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Join us on Zoom Saturday, August 29, 2020, at 5 pm as we launch issue 4 of ABQ inPrint, in which our theme is “Playing with Noir.” Several contributors will read from their fiction, nonfiction, or poetry pieces, and we’ll be showcasing images from the issue. To attend, email rsvp@bkwrks.com.
Interview by Joan Schweighardt • Five Directions Press • December 31, 2019
Lynn C. Miller is a writer, a playwright, a performer, an instructor, the cofounder of a magazine, and so much more. Her life in the performing and literary arts shines a bright light not only on her own creativity but also on the creativity of the several women whose stories she has written and/or converted into stage adaptions. Hers is the kind of curious and empathetic mind that makes such feats possible—and such a pleasure for readers and theatre audiences.
What is your new novel about and when will it launch?
The new novel, The Unmasking, interweaves mystery, women’s history, and academic satire. Its main characters also appeared in two of my other novels, The Fool’s Journey and Death of a Department Chair. In this one, the characters journey to Silver City, NM to participate in performances of famous women from history: Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton (here those two appear again getting back to your second question!), Virginia Woolf, Mabel Dodge Luhan, and Victoria Woodhull. Hanging over them is the suspicious death of their college dean, an event they conclude was a murder. Complications ensue when the dean’s widow and her lover attend the festival. The book is a lively twist on the locked-room mystery as the characters are thrown together in the close confines of the lodge. The figures in the past have conflicts that shadow the characters in the present.
[Read more…] about Spotlight on Lynn C. MillerLynn’s adaptation of Gertrude Stein’s “Miss Furr & Miss Skeene” will be part of the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival in Ireland May 13 – 18, 2019. This word portrait is thought to be the first use of “gay” to mean homosexual in print (1922 in Vanity Fair).
Reading/signing for ABQ inPrint and bosque 8 in Albuquerque at Organic Books, our newest independent used bookstore. Local author Steve Brewer is hosting the reading at 3 pm, Sunday March 17, 2019. Organic books is in the heart of Nob Hill at 111 Carlisle SE, near the Herb Store.
“Celebrating Women Writers,” a reading and discussion by Albuquerque-area writers Lynn C. Miller, Hilda Raz, and Phyllis Skoy at the Corrales Library, 84 W La Entrada Rd, Corrales, NM 87048, on Thursday, March 13, at 6 pm. During this free event, the three writers read from their work and talked about women writers who inspired them.
bosque 2019, issue 9, launches at Bookworks, Thursday, December 5, 2019.”