Book Launch Celebration with Award-Winning Journalist Carrie Seidman

A Place at the Table: Memories of a Life Well-Fed

In the tradition of such beloved food writers as Ruth Reichl, Laurie Colwin, and Calvin Trillin, Carrie Seidman, an award-winning newspaper journalist for 45 years, has written A Place at the Table , a collection of essays that explore the intersection between what sustains us physically and how it binds us emotionally. Join us as we celebrate her book’s release with a Q&A, reading, and book signing.
A Place at the Table will strike chords of remembrance and nostalgia in readers at a time when health and heritage have assumed a high priority and food has become an avenue for creativity, solace, and connection.
About the author:

Carrie Seidman is an award-winning career newspaper journalist who has served on the staffs of The New York Times , The Los Angeles Herald-Examiner and the Albuquerque Journal and Albuquerque Tribune . Since 2010 she has served as a columnist, dance critic and arts writer for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune on Florida’s Gulf coast.
Seidman’s columns, reviews and long-form narratives have earned honors from local, state and national journalism and mental health organizations, including Mental Health America’s National Media Award and the Florida Society of Newspaper Editor’s Gold Medal for Public Service. Her previous book, FACEing Mental Illness: The Art of Acceptance , showcased profiles and artwork from her award-winning year-long mental health fellowship project for the Carter Center for Mental Health Journalism.
A graduate of Barnard College and the Columbia University School of Journalism, Seidman is the mother of an adult son who lives with genetic and mental health disorders. A two-time breast cancer survivor and lifelong dancer, she enjoys ballroom dancing, yoga and long-distance walking.
About the illustrator:
Tracy Seidman (1951-2023) was an award-winning artist and illustrator, as well as the longtime manager of a working cattle ranch for 50 years. She is renowned for her pine needle baskets, embellished with beadwork, flint and porcupine quills, created in the authentic Native American tradition, as well as for uniquely creative maps of Southwestern ranches.
The divorced parent of two adult children, she spent most of her adult life on the Wagon Mound Ranch in remote northeastern New Mexico, outside the small village of Wagon Mound. It is there she was buried after succumbing to an inoperable brain cancer in August 2023, just before this book was completed. These illustrations are among the last works of art she created.
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Registration will end 1 hour before the event’s scheduled time.
Tickets may be purchased that include a copy of A Place at the Table , or you may register to attend free of charge.
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