Authors Laura Bonazzoli and Jodi Paloni to discuss short story cycle

Place-based short-story cycles play a historic role in American fiction, and two Maine authors, Laura Bonazzoli and Jodi Paloni, will discuss this genre and read from two of their collections.

Both authors create fictional studies of New England communities and the lives of their inhabitants. Jodi Paloni’s linked short stories in They Could Live with Themselves take place in the fictional town of Stark Run, Vermont. A similarly fictional locale in rural Maine is the setting for Laura Bonazzoli’s Consecration Pond.