Virtual Premiere - Author Event with Ellen Meister and Daniel Paisner

In case you missed it, the Author Event with Ellen Meister and Daniel Paisner (recorded on 10/9/22) is now available on the Library's YouTube page.

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The Library hosted not one, but two Long Island authors.  Both Ellen Meister and Daniel Paisner have just released new books and will discuss their new novels as well as interview each other about their craft and what it's like to be an author in 2022.  

Released in August 2022, Ellen Meister's latest book Take My Husband, will appeal to anyone who’s been driven up a wall by their spouse.  This dark domestic comedy is the perfect post-pandemic read, especially for those who made it through lockdown with a significant other and sometimes thought, “One of us has got to go.”  Ellen Meister is the author of several novels including The Rooftop Party, Love Sold Separately, Dorothy Parker Drank Here, The Other Life and others. Ellen is also an editor, book coach, ghostwriter, and frequent contributor to Long Island Woman Magazine. She teaches creative writing at Long Island University Hutton House Lectures and previously at Hofstra University.

Daniel Paisner, who is a fellow Port Washington resident, released his latest novel, Balloon Dog, in June 2022, which tells the story of an art heist gone wrong, and a series of midlife crises gone sideways.  It’s “darkly funny and painfully true,” according to best-selling novelist Laura Zigman, and it seems to have something to say about art and what it means to matter.  Balloon Dog is Mr. Paisner’s fourth novel, but he is perhaps best known for his work as a best-selling ghostwriter.  He has collaborated with such celebrities as Whoopi Goldberg, Serena Williams, John Kasich, Denzel Washington and Ron Darling, as well as longtime Port Washington resident Krystyna Chiger, co-author of the haunting (and, ultimately, hopeful) Holocaust memoir The Girl in the Green Sweater.  He is also the host of the popular podcast “As Told To,” which features conversations with his fellow ghostwriters. (Sponsored by the Friends of the Library)