The Writer’s Center welcomes author Caroline Bock to our monthly Fiction Book Club for a discussion of her most recent collection, The Other Beautiful People, at The Writer’s Center! Caroline is joined by Book Club Host, Hannah Grieco.
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Caroline Bock is the author of The Other Beautiful People, a workplace love story, inspired by her two-decade career at AMC, Bravo, IFC, and IFC Films. She is also the author of the young adult novels LIE and Before My Eyes from St. Martin’s Press, as well as the award-winning short story collection Carry Her Home from the Washington Writers’ Publishing House. She is the co-president/prose editor at the Washington Writers’ Publishing House. She lives in Maryland with her family, but when she first moved to the area fourteen years ago, she found her writing community at The Writer’s Center. More at carolinebockofficialauthor.site
About The Other Beautiful People
In the entertainment world, the spotlight shines on the beautiful—but behind the scenes are those who make the magic happen. Amy Greene is one of them. As head of marketing and public relations at the Cinema Channel, a beloved yet struggling cable network, Amy is at the height of her career, and torn between work, family, and the secrets she’s kept locked away. A dazzling cinematic novel about love, loss, and the search for meaning in work, family, and the spaces in between.
“Aaron Sorkin, move over. Caroline Bock’s beautiful people are fast-talking, witty, and driven. Old-movie references pepper the prose and fuel both the humor and the warmth of this gorgeous novel. No-nonsense New Yorker Amy Greene tries to keep her balance in a time of societal and personal tumult as she navigates a choice of three loves and two crucial voices from her past. The book is an unstoppable ride, a thrilling read.”–Virginia Hartman, author of The Marsh Queen
“With a traumatized and ailing husband in the Washington DC suburbs, and a beloved job working for a classic film network in midtown Manhattan, Amy Greene spends her days traversing the Northeast corridor trying to make sense of her complicated family life. Set against the backdrop of a forever changed post-9/11 landscape, Caroline Bock’s The Other Beautiful People is an ode to New York City in all its manic grittiness. It is also an ode to work families and nuclear families as well as a testament to the power of a single aching, forbidden, cinematic kiss.” —Susan Coll, author of eight novels, most recently, The Literati, Bookish People and Real Life and Other Fictions
About Book Club
This is no run-of-the-mill book club. Visiting writers will read excerpts, join the discussion, and answer your questions about craft, process, the publishing industry, and getting advice for our own writing! We’ll hang and eat snacks with the authors and escape your doomscrolling.
Poetry Book Club will meet on Zoom every second Wednesday of the month with a new poet.
Fiction Book Club will meet every third Sunday of the month in person at The Writer’s Center with a new author.
Come build community and read amazing books that the Big 5 didn’t have the sense to publish!
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