Nin Andrews has interviewed me for CavanKerry’s blog. You can find it here:
Part 1: Nin Andrews Interviews Joan Cusack Handler
Part 2: Nin Andrews Interviews Joan Cusack Handler
Sunday evening was magical—(le) poisson rouge gallery bar was bursting with good friends, applause, and copies of Confessions everywhere. Thanks to Donna, my assistant, her husband Steve, and my sister Catherine (the same Catherine Joan so admired as a girl), the room was filled with tulips and … and...
I had the good fortune on Monday night to attend Judi Hannan’s splendid reading from her powerful memoir, Motherhood Exaggerated, at (le) poisson rouge on Bleecker St in NY. It was unusual for a literary event in that it also included music performance. Judi was joined by cellist, Sebastian Baverstam,...
And so…Confessions has made her way into the world. In fact, I hold her in my hands this very moment. And as any quelling Mom would say of her newborn, she is beautiful; I am so happy and proud.
Seeing one’s work in print is magical for a writer. Until the point of publication, the words are just black...
Confessions of Joan the Tall
By Joan Cusack Handler
Channeling the indelible voice of her 11-and-three-quarters year-old self, poet and psychologist Joan Cusack Handler travels back to her Irish-Catholic Bronx childhood, circa 1954, in her candid, poignant, and witty new memoir, CONFESSIONS OF JOAN...
Judi is an excellent writer and reader–this should be a lovely event . I hope you’ll be able to join us.
-Joan
Concert Artists Guild and LWC present: Words and Music
with author Judith Hannan and cellist Sebastian Bäverstam
Monday November 12th, 2012
THE GALLERY BAR AT LPR
(le) poisson rouge
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In The Red Canoe: Love in Its Making Joan Handler brings both honesty and balance to the intricate world that is a marriage. Her means are consistently inventive as her lines enact feelings and thoughts. Her focus is unremitting as she makes the reader feel how much pain and glory can go into two people...
Several people have asked me if I plan to write a sequel to Confessions—they want to know what happens to Joan and the rest of the Cusack clan—particularly Sonny, the bad boy of the book. The truth is that I’ve already written a Confessions II, but before you put ink to paper to try to advance order...