Emrys Reading Room featuring Susan Hasler and Lou Dischler January 24, 2011

The Emrys Reading Room series features regional writers and poets who are published and read nationally.We invite you to hear poets, novelists, and essayists of the Southeast read from their work, ask questions of them, and enjoy fellowship with other friends of the arts. When possible, Fiction Addiction bookstore will be on hand to sell the authors' books. This event is free for members, $4.00 for non-members.

Susan Hasler grew up in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, went to work for the Central Intelligence Agency in 1983, where she spent the next twenty-one years. Her jobs at the CIA included: foreign documents officer, speechwriter, editor, and counter-terrorism analyst. Intelligence is her first novel.
A former inventor and senior scientist with an international manufacturing business, Lou Dischler made a stand one day, refused to wear the safety glasses, resigned, and dedicated himself to writing fiction. Cajun by birth, he now makes his home in Spartanburg. His first novel, My Only Sunshine, published by Hub City Press, follows nine-year-old Charlie Boone, his gravel-eating younger brother Jute, his bank-robbing uncle Dan and girlfriend, and his Memaw and Papaw through their misadventures in this hilarious Cajun comedy set in Red Church, Louisiana, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis.

Official Website: http://www.emrys.org/reading-room/