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National columnist will take questions on VP debate

Novelist will be in Hickory tonight

WANT TO GO?

Who: Newsweek columnist Anna Quindlen

What: Speaks as part of the Visiting Writers Series and Q&A session after the vice presidential debate

When: 8 tonight

Where: P.E. Monroe Auditorium, Lenoir-Rhyne University

Cost: Free

What she’s said

From Anna Quindlen’s Newsweek columns:

“Considering whether a tanning bed was installed in the governor’s mansion in Alaska amounts to holding a barbecue on the lip of the volcano.”

“The right no longer holds the patent on cyberbull. It is everywhere.”

“To try to suggest Sarah Palin might garner the Hillary Clinton vote, that one woman is just the same as another, that biology trumps ideology, is the ultimate evidence of true sexism.”

“Here’s what I don’t understand: is there so much love and commitment in the world that we can afford, as a society, to be contemptuous of some portion of it?”

From staff reports

Published: October 1, 2008

HICKORY - Lenoir-Rhyne University is getting double duty out of Pulitzer-prize-winning political columnist and best-selling novelist Anna Quindlen tonight.

Quindlen, who writes for Newsweek, will talk about her work and writing as the second author in the school's Visiting Writers Series. She also will join audience members to watch tonight's vice presidential debate on the big-screen. A question and answer session with Quindlen will follow.

The columnist was the third woman in the history of The New York Times to write a regular column for its opinion page when she began the nationally syndicated "Public and Private," for which she won the Pulitzer.

Her five novels include "Blessings," "One True Thing," "Rise and Shine" and "Black and Blue," an Oprah's Book Club selection. She also is the author of seven non-fiction books and two children's books.