Pam Belluck's Blog, page 3

Condoms in The New York Times

The Rubber Match: seeking a condom that men will want to use. (You can contribute your own ideas on our web site)
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06...

ISLAND PRACTICE Bike Tours!

ISLAND PRACTICE on wheels! I’m excited to have been asked to partner with Nantucket Bike Tours to create a bicycle tour based on my book, Island Practice! Join this terrific bike tour company on an easy two-hour tour of beautiful Nantucket, highlighting the fun and eccentric stories in the book, which is the true tale of the colorful adventures of Dr. Timothy Lepore, Nantucket’s jack-of-all-trades doctor. Follow in the footsteps of the hermit Underground Tom, see where Dr. Lepore solved a homicide that stumped police, and more. For these first two tours, Dr. Lepore and I will be along for the ride, telling stories and answering questions. And I’m thrilled that proceeds will go to the Nantucket Book Festival, which sponsors wonderful book-related events and programs. June 21 – 3 PM. June 22 – 10 AM. http://www.nantucketbybike.com/tours/...

Gorgeous ISLAND PRACTICE spread in N Magazine!

I was honored to be asked to write about ISLAND PRACTICE's Dr. Timothy Lepore for the award-winning N Magazine (they just won another PINE award)! And when I saw the display, with jaw-droppingly wonderful photos by Kit Noble and Maria Carey, I was especially thrilled. You can see one of Kit's photos here http://www.n-magazine.com/arts-entert... and there are more here https://www.facebook.com/islandpractice.
Special thanks to Robert Cocuzzo, the imaginative managing editor of N!

Tweet Chat tonight!

Tonight - May 14, 8:30 PM - a TweetChat about music, journalism, and Island Practice! Sponsored by the Healthcare Leadership blog.#HCLDR Looking forward to a lively discussion. Feel free to tweet in!
http://hcldr.wordpress.com/2013/05/12...

Literary New England Radio show

Excited to be on the Literary New England Radio show, speaking with host Cindy Wolfe Boynton about Island Practice, music, and writing, and the music-and-book events I've been doing. Other guests on the show were Douglas Kennedy, Cathie Pelletier, and Leah Stewart. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/literary...

ISLAND PRACTICE and Jazz on TV

Thanks so much to WTNH News Channel 8 and Connecticut Style for inviting me and Elliot Honig on to play jazz and talk about Island Practice! http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/ct_style/stag...
We had so much fun! (Plus, after the show, we got to eat the delicious results of the cooking segment: Nutella French toast in vanilla custard.) Looking forward to our May 18th event at an incredibly cool Massachusetts bookstore/cafe/wine bar: The Book Shack. https://www.facebook.com/events/16771...

SPECIAL MUSIC & LITERARY EVENT!

Join me for a very special MUSIC & LITERARY event! Live jazz performance and literary conversation on Saturday, May 18th, 7PM, at the amazing OnStage performance space at The Book Shack in Massachusetts! This new and creative bookstore is hardly a shack -they even have a cafe with wine and beer. Join Pam Belluck, New York Times staff writer and author of ISLAND PRACTICE, a true tale about an eccentric and colorful doctor, which is being developed into a TV series by Imagine TV and 20th Century Fox. Pam, who is also a jazz flutist, will play jazz with terrific musicians led by the fantastically talented Boston pianist/composer Mark Shilansky. Pam will also have a conversation with Alicia Anstead, editor of The Writer magazine, about Island Practice, music and writing. More info here: https://www.facebook.com/thebookshack...
And here: http://www.perseusbookspromos.com/doc...

NYT story on Dementia today

Here's a piece I did on the sobering costs of caring for someone with Alzheimer's or dementia, and why the situation is going to get harder:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/04/hea...

Island Practice television series

CBS is busily developing a television series based on my book, ISLAND PRACTICE. Very excited to have such a great team: Imagine Television (Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's production company), 20th Century Fox Television, CBS, and, as the screenwriter, the wonderful feature film writer Amy Holden Jones (Amy wrote "Mystic Pizza," "Indecent Proposal," the "Beethoven" movies, among others.)
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118...
http://www.deadline.com/2012/08/cbs-b...

Island Practice event in New Jersey

ISLAND PRACTICE in the Garden State! Saturday evening, November 10th, 7:30 p.m., at Words Maplewood's Bookstore! I'll be interviewed by John Straus, who teaches writing at Rutgers - we'll talk about the book, about journalism, and maybe about music too. 179 Maplewood Avenue, Maplewood, New Jersey. Looking forward to it! http://www.facebook.com/events/459524...