Upcoming Events
A Termination Reading
Honor will be on a panel with the following authors:
Jill Clement : Consent: A Memoir
Francine Prose : 1974: A Personal History
Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus
300 NE 2nd Avenue3
Auditorium (Bldg. 1, 2nd Floor)
Miami, FL 33132
A Termination Reading
Women, Politics and Power
Dawn Tripp, Gioia Diliberto, Honor Moore,
Moderator: Debby Applegate
Honor Moore Presents Her New Memoir "A Termination"
Join us on Thursday, October 3rd at 7:00pm when noted author HONOR MOORE comes to the store to share her new memoir A Termination, her vibrant and personal portrait of how women's lives have continually been reframed over the last 50years. Honor will read from and discuss her new work and will sign copies after the presentation. (Honor's photo by Spencer Ostrander)
This is a free event, but you must pre-register on Eventbrite or in the store to ensure seating. Click Here to preorder a copy of A Termination
"Fierce, riveting and true, A Termination is Honor Moore's memoir not only of her abortion (in the time before Roe v. Wade), but of the legacies of that choice. A lyric palimpsest of her years and various lives, real and imaginary, it forms a rich account of self-determination. We need this book now." —Claire Messud, author of This Strange Eventful History
Not my lover, not my parents, and they said I couldn't tell a friend. . . In 1969, Honor Moore was twenty-three, a theater student yearning for love and working for radical change, but studying administration and keeping secret, even from herself, her wish to imagine the world by becoming a poet. There was an older lover, a professor, and, with another man, an unwanted sexual encounter. That spring, she had an abortion.
A Termination is the story of the young woman who made that decision, and of how that act of resistance, then shrouded in fear and silence, has reverberated throughout her life since. Angry, nostalgic, questioning, and romantic, the memoir pursues the associations of memory, moving from the New Haven of Yale Drama School, the Living Theatre and the Black Panthers; to the New York City of theater, jazz, and the Chelsea Hotel; the Berkshires of rock and roll at Tanglewood, and Chicago in the wake of the 1968 Democratic Convention.
Framing the story is a self-portrait of the author fifty-five years later, a woman with a sexual past, a poet who has made her own way. A lyric, searching memoir, A Termination asks what it means to write with full honesty about one's life—to explore who we were, and how our choices shape and allow who we become.
THIS EVENT is free but pre-registration is requested. Registration ends at 5:30 pm on October 3rd.
BECAUSE SEATING is limited, please register only if you plan to attend.
DUE TO SPACE limitations, we may not be able to accommodate every person at an event, so early registration is encouraged.
WALK-INS will be accommodated only if space allows.
WE ASK that attendees arrive between 6:45 and 7:00 PM for the event.
PLEASE leave your non-support companion animals at home.
OUR shared restrooms are not accessible after 6:30 PM, please plan accordingly.
Honor Moore discusses and signs "A Termination"
Join us on Tuesday October 1st at 6:30 pm as we welcome Honor Moore to the store to discuss and sign A Termination. Joining her in conversation will be Victoria Rue.
This event is free to attend and will be held in the courtyard at DIESEL, A Bookstore in Brentwood.
Free seating is limited. To reserve a seat, please purchase one copy of a book for one seat.
Not my lover, not my parents, and they said I couldn't tell a friend. . .
In 1969, Honor Moore was twenty-three, a theater student yearning for love and working for radical change, but studying administration and keeping secret, even from herself, her wish to imagine the world by becoming a poet. There was an older lover, a professor, and, with another man, an unwanted sexual encounter. That spring, she had an abortion.
A Termination is the story of the young woman who made that decision, and of how that act of resistance, then shrouded in fear and silence, has reverberated throughout her life since. Angry, nostalgic, questioning, and romantic, the memoir pursues the associations of memory, moving from the New Haven of Yale Drama School, the Living Theatre and the Black Panthers; to the New York City of theater, jazz, and the Chelsea Hotel; the Berkshires of rock and roll at Tanglewood, and Chicago in the wake of the 1968 Democratic Convention.
Framing the story is a self-portrait of the author fifty-five years later, a woman with a sexual past, a poet who has made her own way. A lyric, searching memoir, A Termination asks what it means to write with full honesty about one's life—to explore who we were, and how our choices shape and allow who we become.
Honor Moore, "A Termination"
Join us in welcoming author Honor Moore for the release of her memoir A Termination, in conversation with Clara Bingham, author of The Movement.
Donations to Planned Parenthood of Northern NJ will be welcomed at this event.
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Not my lover, not my parents, and they said I couldn't tell a friend. . .
In 1969, Honor Moore was twenty-three, a theater student yearning for love and working for radical change, but studying administration and keeping secret, even from herself, her wish to imagine the world by becoming a poet. There was an older lover, a professor, and, with another man, an unwanted sexual encounter. That spring, she had an abortion.
A Termination is the story of the young woman who made that decision, and of how that act of resistance, then shrouded in fear and silence, has reverberated throughout her life since. Angry, nostalgic, questioning, and romantic, the memoir pursues the associations of memory, moving from the New Haven of Yale Drama School, the Living Theatre and the Black Panthers; to the New York City of theater, jazz, and the Chelsea Hotel; the Berkshires of rock and roll at Tanglewood, and Chicago in the wake of the 1968 Democratic Convention.
Framing the story is a self-portrait of the author fifty-five years later, a woman with a sexual past, a poet who has made her own way. A lyric, searching memoir, A Termination asks what it means to write with full honesty about one's life—to explore who we were, and how our choices shape and allow who we become.
A Termination at McNally Jackson Seaport
On September 5, 2024, join Honor Moore for a reading and conversation in person at McNally Jackson Seaport to celebrate her new memoir, A Termination, from A Public Space Books. Moderated by Vivian Gornick.
Author Honor Moore in Conversation with Carol Gilligan: A Termination
On Wednesday, August 7th, at 4:30pm, the West Tisbury Library presents a book talk with Honor Moore in conversation with Carol Gilligan. Join us for a discussion of Honor’s memoir, A Termination (released August 6, 2024). Books will be available for purchase and signing. Free and open to the public.
About the book:
“In 1969, Honor Moore was twenty-three, a theater student yearning for love and working for radical change, but studying administration and keeping secret, even from herself, her wish to imagine the world by becoming a poet. There was an older lover, a professor, and, with another man, an unwanted sexual encounter. That spring, she had an abortion.
A Termination is the story of the young woman who made that decision, and of how that act of resistance, then shrouded in fear and silence, has reverberated throughout her life since. Angry, nostalgic, questioning, and romantic, the memoir pursues the associations of memory, moving from the New Haven of Yale Drama School, the Living Theatre and the Black Panthers; to the New York City of theater, jazz, and the Chelsea Hotel; the Berkshires of rock and roll at Tanglewood, and Chicago in the wake of the 1968 Democratic Convention.
Framing the story is a self-portrait of the author fifty-five years later, a woman with a sexual past, a poet who has made her own way. A lyric, searching memoir, A Termination asks what it means to write with full honesty about one’s life—to explore who we were, and how our choices shape and allow who we become.”
Honor Moore’s previous six books include a biography, two memoirs, and three collections of poems. The Bishop’s Daughter was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and was an LA Times Favorite Book of the Year. Our Revolution was featured on the New York Times Paperback Row. She has edited six anthologies, including Poems from the Women’s Movement and, with Alix Kates Shulman, also for the Library of America, Women’s Liberation: Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution and Still Can! Among her awards are fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation in nonfiction and the National Endowment of the Arts in poetry. She lives in New York City and teaches in the MFA program at the New School.
Carol Gilligan is the author of In a Different Voice, “the little book that started a revolution,” and most recently, Why Does Patriarchy Persist? (with Naomi Snider). Her new book, In a Human Voice, was published last fall.
Ragdale Talks featuring authors Michelle D. Bowdler and Honor Moore
Join us for a Women's History Month celebration, featuring authors Michelle D. Bowdler and Honor Moore. They will discuss their recent work and the ways in which women's history is expressed through art.
https://www.ragdale.org/
In conversation with Shelly Tuttle
Live via Zoom:
Tuesday, March 2, 7:30 PM ET
Book Launch: Sherry Turkle presents The Empathy Diaries
In conversation with Honor Moore
Sherry Turkle, MIT psychologist and bestselling author of Reclaiming Conversation and Alone Together, reflects on her coming-of-age and path-blazing career in her new memoir, The Empathy Diaries. Turkle charts her interest in empathy across her life, from her turbulent childhood in post-war Brooklyn, to her college days at Radcliffe and in Paris, to her struggles to achieve tenure at MIT as a woman and a humanist, offering a master class in finding meaning through a life's work. For decades, Turkle has shown how we remake ourselves in the mirror of our machines; here, she illuminates our present search for authentic connection in a time of uncharted challenges. Honor Moore, acclaimed author of the memoirs Our Revolution and The Bishop’s Daughter, joins Turkle in conversation at this virtual book launch!
Boston Book Fest
These three authors were launched from situations and families that were out of the ordinary. Poet, playwright, and memoirist Honor Moore, after having written a memoir about her extraordinary father, turns to examining her relationship with her mother in Our Revolution. This mother of nine lived among the poor with Moore’s father, the Archbishop of New York, was a published author and playwright, and died young of cancer while racing to finish a memoir. In My Captain America, Megan Margulies writes lovingly about her close and formative relationship with her grandfather, the man who created the superhero comic Captain America. And Mikel Jollett, frontman for the indie band Airborne Toxic Event, describes in Hollywood Park a harrowing childhood in a cult where he barely knew his parents until the day his mother arrived to rescue him and his brother. Richard Hoffman, author of the poetry collection Noon Until Night and the memoirs Half the House and Love & Fury, hosts this session.
Our Revolution Virtual Reading & Workshop - New York
Reading on Thursday evening; Generative Workshop: The Uses of Memory on Sunday
Our Revolution Virtual Reading
HOUSE OF BOOKS
Roxana Robinson & Honor Moore: In Conversation
Co-presented by Kent Memorial Library and Cornwall Library!
