Breakfast with the Authors
Breakfast with the Authors is a program open to the community hosted by the CCWC in the winter, spring, summer and fall. A favorite of Cape Cod’s readers, this lively program features three popular authors who talk about their books for 15 minutes each. Afterwards, the authors answer questions from the audience and sign books.
Join us for our next Breakfast with the Authors at 9:30 AM Friday, March 23 at the Cape Codder Resort and Spa.
The authors presenting are Chip Bishop, John Paul DeMilio, and Irene Paine.
The cost is $12 for CCWC Members, and $15 for non-Members. The Cape Codder Resort and Spa is located on Route 132 in Hyannis.
Irene Paine’s novel Eva and Henry: A Cape Cod Marriage is based on the author’s great- grandaunt , Eva Paine, and her marriage to Captain Henry Smith in Wellfleet, and won the Independent Publishers 2011 Silver Award for Best Regional Fiction for the North-East. Ms. Paine resurrects an entire Wellfleet neighborhood of actual people who lived more than one hundred years ago, and deftly describes the intricate and complicated social world as experienced by a young sea captain’s wife whose challenges include submerging her take-charge personality when her husband is home from the sea and transitioning into the modern Machine Age from the world of horse and buggy, wind and sail.
Voices From Prison: Memoir of a White Hatted Cape Cod Librarian is a moving look at our prison system through the eyes of John Paul De Milio while he was a librarian for the Massachusetts Department of Corrections. “White Hat” is a phrase that refers to what the corrections officers use to explain the behavior of any of the staff whom they believe to be soft on inmates. Mr. De Milio takes the reader behind the walls of the prisons to see life of the men incarcerated for felonies we only read or hear about in the news. Few staff and inmates can leave a modern correction facility and not be changed.
Researched and written by Chip Bishop, The Lion and the Journalist is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt, accidental president, and newspaper editor Joseph Bucklin Bishop (the author’s great -granduncle). The two men met when the future Rough Rider was police commissioner of New York City. Bishop hitched his wagon to the politician’s star and used his editorial pages in New York papers to buttress Roosevelt’s initiatives first as police commissioner, then as governor and president. Here is a new and important look at one of America’s most important leaders and the man who helped him achieve his goals.
The Cape Cod Writers Center is supported in part by contributions by its members, and by the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, the Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation, The Edward Bangs Kelley and Elza Kelley Foundation, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Schiff Foundation.
