A book talk to run to
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Ben Cheever, author of “Strides: Running Through History With an Unlikely Athlete” will be at the Westchester Road Runner in White Plains at 7 p.m. this Friday in an event promoted by the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center in Sleepy Hollow and sure to please those with literary or running interests.
The acclaimed writer will read from his Rodale Press book and talk about his passion for running and how the sport has contributed to civilization. Cheever has traveled the world writing features for Runner’s World magazine. In Strides, he explores the role of running in human history and intersperses this account with revelations of his own decades-long devotion to the sport, says HVWC.
“Cheever…melds reportorial skills, literary talent and a wicked sense of humor to capture the irony and indefatigable spirit of running in the 21st century. With more than a passing nod to his father and their own complicated past, and with pointed barbs at an even more personal antagonist, mortality, Cheever weaves real and imagined history with his own anecdotes collected over decades of running around the world.â€? —Jim Hage, The Washington Post, September 9, 2007
Other Cheever titles: “Selling Ben Cheever” (Bloomsbury USA 2001), was excerpted in The New Yorker, Gourmet and The New York Times Book Review. His last novel, “The Good Nanny” (Bloomsbury USA 2004) was selected as a new and notable book by The New York Times Book Review, and he is also the author of “The Plagiarist,” “The Partisan,” and “Famous After Death.”
He has been a newspaper reporter, an editor at Reader’s Digest and has taught at Bennington College and The New School for Social Research.
The event is Jan 25 at Westchester Road Runner, 179 East Post Road, White Plains.Admission is free.
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