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Reading at Northampton's Pride & Joy bookstore Friday

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Ron Suresha to Read at Pride & Joy this Friday

Providence-based author Ron Suresha will read from his latest collection of stories, Bear Lust, as well as other works, on Friday, March 18, 7pm.

For more information, call 413-585-0683 or go to http://www.nohoprideandjoy.com/

The main intersection in Northampton is the intersection of Main Street (Rt.9) and Pleasant Street (Rt.5). From here, go west on Main Street, towards Smith College, about 2 blocks. Main Street will bend to the right, and City Hall will be on your left. Here, turn left onto Crafts Avenue, which is a one-way street going down a small hill, right next to City Hall. Pride & Joy is half way down this block, on the left, #20 Crafts Avenue.

Published by Ron Suresha

Ron Jackson Suresha is an editor, anthologist, and writer. He is considered an authority on emergent queer masculinities, in particular the subcultures of gay and bi male Bears and of male bisexuality. For Ron's service to the bear community, he was named "Bear of the Year" 2008. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Suresha attended the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, 1976-8), where he studied creative writing, and Vista College (Berkeley, Cal., 1989-92), where he studied American Sign Language. For more than two decades, he has worked as a freelance proofreader for trade book publishers such as Shambhala Publications. He was married in October 2004 to Rocco Russo. He is also a licensed Justice of the Peace in Connecticut, an ordained minister, ULC, and a member of the New London Green Party. Nonfiction works include Bears on Bears: Interviews & Discussions; Bi Men: Coming Out (coeditor, with Pete Chvany); Bisexual Perspectives on the Life and Work of Alfred C. Kinsey (editor). His latest book is The Uncommon Sense of the Immortal Mullah Nasruddin: Stories, jests, and donkey tales of the beloved Persian folk hero, published by Lethe Press.