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Essayist David Bouchier reads at Canio’s Books
May 7, 2016 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Free
On Saturday, May 7 at 5 p.m. Canio’s hosts essayist David Bouchier, who will read from his latest publications, Not Quite a Stranger: Essays on Life in France and Lucky Man. Bouchier has spent extended time in the south of France over the last several years, where his gift for the humorous essay has flowered.
David Bouchier is an award-winning weekly essayist for National Public Radio in New York and Connecticut. His commentaries have appeared in The Atlanta Journal & Constitution, Newsday, The Los Angeles Times, and dozens more newspapers through syndication. Bouchier’s humor column “Out of Order” appeared in the regional Sunday edition of the New York Times for ten years. He is an instructor at the University of Iowa Summer Writing Festival.
Previous books include The Accidental Immigrant, The Song of Suburbia, A Few Well Chosen Words, and The Cats and the Water Bottles and Other Mysteries of French Village Life, with drawings by Diane Bouchier. David lives in Stony Brook and in a village nearUzès, France, with his wife who is a professor at Stony Brook University, and two cats.