05/21/2026
TONIGHT! Come hear Rebecca Chace and Doug Hood read at 7pm at Best Video! Please join us afterward for Writers’ Happy Hour. All are welcome! Overflow parking is available at Spring Glen Church. Check out Rebecca and Doug’s inspiring bios below:
REBECCA CHACE’s “Talking to the Wolf,” has just been published. Booklist has called it “brilliant, heartbreaking, and hopeful. . . a deeply empathetic novel with friendship at its core.” Rebecca’s previous novels are “Leaving Rock Harbor”—a New York Times Editor’s Choice, New England Books Award Finalist, and Indie Notable Book—and “Capture the Flag,” the subject of an award-winning film. She’s also written two memoirs. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Yale Review, LA Review of Books, Guernica, LitHub, The Brooklyn Rail, Bookpost, and many other publications.
DOUG HOOD, a retired Lecturer in Neurology at Yale University, now does clemency work for the incarcerated at York Correctional Institute. His book, “Daughter of Song,” was featured on NPR with Colin McEnroe and in The New York Times Book Review, Connecticut Magazine, Yale Medicine, and the Phnom Penh Post. Born in Michigan, he lives in North Haven with his wife and two children.
