Pink Pages

The Hoffman Breast Center at Mount Auburn Hospital invites you to Pink Pages!

Monday, June 8, 2026

VIP Reception (Sponsorship or VIP ticket purchases only) 5:00 p.m.

General Admission 5:45 p.m.

The American Repertory Theater

Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Mass.

Join Alice Hoffman for an evening featuring personal stories and readings from beloved authors: Chris Bohjalian, Meredith Goldstein, Wally Lamb, Ann Leary, Jill McCorkle, and Liz Walker. Emmy Award-winning arts and entertainment critic Joyce Kulhawik will serve as the evening's emcee and all proceeds will benefit the Hoffman Breast Center.

For questions, please contact Olivia Washesky at 617-499-5099 | [email protected]

Business Casual Attire

To purchase the authors' books, please visit the Harvard Book Store.

More information about the evening's participants...

Alice Hoffman is the author of more than 30 works of fiction, including When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary; The World That We Knew; The Marriage of Opposites; The Red Garden; The Museum of Extraordinary Things; The Dovekeepers; Here on Earth (an Oprah's Book Club selection); and the Practical Magic series, including Practical Magic, Magic Lessons, The Rules of Magic (a selection of Reese's Book Club), and The Book of Magic. She lives near Boston.

Chris Bohjalian is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 26 books, including Midwives, Hour of the Witch, and The Flight Attendant, which was an HBO MAX TV series starring Kaley Cuoco. His novels Midwives, Secrets of Eden, and Past the Bleachers were made into movies, and his work has been translated into more than 35 languages. His novels have been selections of Oprah's Book Club and the Barnes & Noble Book Club. He is also a playwright (The Club, Midwives, and Wingspan). His new novel, The Amateur, arrives this August. 

Meredith Goldstein is an associate editor at The Boston Globe where she writes an advice column and hosts the Love Letters narrative relationship podcast. She is also the author of the young adult novels Things That Grow and Chemistry Lessons; the memoir Can't Help Myself: Lessons and Confessions from a Modern Advice Columnist; and The Singles, a novel about a wedding. Worth noting: Meredith interviewed Alice Hoffman for The Boston Globe during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, and it was one of the most comforting hours during a very difficult time. Magical, one might say.

Ann Leary is The New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Foundling, The Children, The Good House, and Outtakes from a Marriage. She also wrote the memoir An Innocent, a Broad and the essay collection I've Tried Being Nice. She has written for numerous publications including Ploughshares, NPR, Real Simple, and The New York Times. Her novel The Good House was adapted as a motion picture starring Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline and was released in 2022. Ann and her husband, Denis Leary, live in New York.

Wally Lamb is the award-winning author of seven New York Times bestselling novels: She's Come Undone; I Know This Much is True; The Hour I First Believed; Wishin' & Hopin'; We Are Water; I'll Take You There; and, most recently, The River is Waiting. Lamb also edited Couldn't Keep It to Myself, I'll Fly Away, and You Don't Know Me, three volumes of essays from students in his writing workshop at York Correctional Institution, a women's prison in Connecticut where he was a volunteer facilitator for 20 years. Three of Lamb's novels were featured as Oprah's Book Club selections. Lamb and his wife, Christine, live in New York City and in northeastern Connecticut. They are the parents of three sons and have five grandchildren.

Jill McCorkle is the author of seven novels and five story collections. Her latest novel, Hieroglyphics, was published in 2020, and her new collection, Old Crimes, was published in January 2024. Her work has appeared in numerous periodicals and four of her short stories have been selected for Best American Short Stories. She has taught at Harvard University, Brandeis University, NC State University, and in the Bennington College Writing Seminars.

Liz Walker is the founding director of the CAN WE TALK… Network, a nationwide collective of spiritually inspired, community-based, clinically supported programs addressing America's epidemic of post-traumatic stress and grief through the healing power of sharing personal stories. Reverend Walker took on this healing ministry full-time after retiring as pastor of Roxbury Presbyterian Church in Boston, Massachusetts. However, to most of New England, she is still best known as one of the region's most popular television news anchors-she was the first African American woman to anchor a Boston weeknight newscast, a position she held for more than 20 years. Reverend Walker just released her first book, No One Left Alone: How Community Helps Us Heal.

Emcee

Joyce Kulhawik, best known as the Emmy Award-winning arts and entertainment anchor for CBS-Boston (WBZ-TV 1981-2008), is an arts critic/advocate and cancer crusader as a 3X survivor. She gave journalistic stature to arts reporting, covering local and national events including the Oscars, Emmys, and Grammys live from the red carpet, from Boston and Broadway to Hollywood. Kulhawik is currently President of the Boston Theater Critics Association, a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics and Boston Online Film Critics Association, and appears on Boston's local NPR station's The Culture Show. Kulhawik was inducted into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame and received the N.E. Emmys Governor's Award. Find her reviews at JoycesChoices.com. 

Thank you to our 2026 sponsors!

Pulitzer Sponsors

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Nobel Sponsors

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Newbery Sponsors 

Boston Children's Hospital

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General Optical Co.

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