{"id":295426,"date":"2026-09-28T08:38:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T08:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/295426\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T08:38:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T08:38:24","slug":"penn-bookstore-hosts-college-alum-author-to-discuss-new-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/295426\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn Bookstore hosts College alum, author to discuss new novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, the Penn Bookstore hosted 2005 College graduate and author Lindsey Palmer to discuss her new book.<\/p>\n

Palmer spoke about her newest novel \u2014 \u201cSalt Sisters\u201d \u2014\u00a0and shared advice for aspiring novelists at Penn during the Sept. 24 event. Fellow 2005 College graduate Jamie-Lee Josselyn organized the discussion, which was moderated by College senior Sophia Hall.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In an interview, Josselyn \u2014\u00a0associate director of recruitment for the Creative Writing Program at the Kelly Writers House \u2014 expressed hope that students would leave \u201cthinking about what it can mean to maintain a creative life outside of college.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

She also highlighted the opportunity to engage with Palmer, who she described as a \u201cgreat example of a product of our creative writing community at Penn who has done the thing as a writer.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

“Salt Sisters” was published on July 14. Palmer began the event by reading the novel\u2019s prologue aloud, before shifting to a discussion of its themes of grief, motherhood, and friendship.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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She also spoke about how Cape Cod, Mass. \u2014 the novel\u2019s primary setting and Palmer\u2019s home for the past few years \u2014 served as a source of inspiration in her creative process.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope that people who read the novel eventually see that it’s really a love letter to Cape Cod,\u201d she said. \u201cIt didn’t surprise me that after living there for a few years that I wanted to set a novel there.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the event, Palmer also expressed that she has \u201calways loved writing from different perspectives\u201d and shared her experience writing in different voices \u2014 as the novel switches between two protagonist points of view.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When discussing how different places shaped her life, Palmer reflected on her experience at Penn and highlighted the impact of KWH \u2014 calling it \u201ca special gem of a place.\u201d She added that the creative writing workshops she engaged with at Penn taught her \u201cthe importance of writing from space.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Palmer\u2019s current writing workshop group consists of Penn alumni she met in a first-year creative writing course with professor Max Apple in KWH.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Her appreciation for KWH is shared by Hall, who expressed that \u201cit\u2019s really nice to see how the same experience translates across generations and different years at Penn.\u201d<\/p>\n

The event concluded with an audience question and answer session. Following the discussion, Palmer signed copies of \u201cSalt Sisters\u201d that the bookstore had on display for attendees.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hall described the opportunity to speak with Palmer as \u201cextremely exciting,\u201d adding that \u201cI think it\u2019s really valuable to show the Penn community that there\u2019s success in other fields.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Penn really markets itself as a preprofessional school with a focus on the same few professions like finance, pre-med, and consulting,\u201d Hall added. \u201cThere are writers and artists and museum curators who come from Penn and are equally, if not more successful, than those with careers in the big three as they are pursuing a passion that was cultivated at Penn, and are now sharing it with the broader world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday, the Penn Bookstore hosted 2005 College graduate and author Lindsey Palmer to discuss her new book.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-295426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}