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Lauren Acampora discusses "The Animal Room" in conversation with Heidi Pitlor

Name: Lauren Acampora discusses "The Animal Room" in conversation with Heidi Pitlor
Start: 2026-09-23T23:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-09-24T00:00:00+00:00
Location: Newtonville Books

Newtonville Books

10 Langley Rd

Newton, MA, United States

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Please join us on Wednesday, September 23rd, at 7pm, when Lauren Acampora presents "The Animal Room" in conversation with Heidi Pitlor. "The Animal Room" is a set of linked stories spotlighting human-animal relations — and revealing the tensions that threaten to fracture a suburban New England community. (via Newtonville Books)

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Lauren Acampora

Lauren Acampora is the author of The Wonder Garden, The Paper Wasp, and The Hundred Waters. Her work has won or been nominated for the GLCA New Writers Award, the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, the Story Prize, and the New England Book Award, and she's been named an Artist Fellow in Fiction by The New York Foundation for the Arts. Her fiction has appeared widely, including in The Paris Review, Guernica, and Story.