Jim Phillips interviews author Catherine McLaughlin about her new novel, Blue Collars, on this episode of Townsquare Sunday. Townsquare Sunday is a weekly radio show hosted by Jim Phillips and produced by Townsquare Media for WBSM 1420 New Bedford. Video © 2018 Townsquare Media.
Paul Santos interviews Catherine McLaughlin about her new novel, Blue Collars, on this episode of New Bedford Connections. New Bedford Connections is produced by New Bedford Cable Network; the official public, educational, and government access channels for the cable system of the City of New Bedford.
Coming late Spring 2018 Blue Collars a novel by Catherine McLaughlin McLaughlin’s work never fails to leave the reader enthralled. Blue Collars is no exception. In this book, we journey the streets, backyards, and factories of New Bedford in the late 1950s throughout the fevered ‘60s as seen by McLaughlin’s Read more…
Coming late Spring 2018 Blue Collars a novel by Catherine McLaughlin Catherine McLaughlin’s novel, Blue Collars, is a powerful work of fiction. From the first page to the last, the story is both real and relatable. Finn Kilroy and her supporting cast of characters jump right off the page, making Read more…
Blue Collars, a compelling story about growing up during the late 1950s and 1960s in a New Bedford, Massachusetts working-class family, by writer and artist Catherine McLaughlin will be published by Spinner Publications in April. Check out the excerpt below and be sure to follow Catherine on GoodReads and Read more…
What lead you to write Blue Collars? Several people have asked why I wrote this novel. It’s a fair question. Let me try to answer it. By 2009, I had lost my dad, one of my brothers and his wife, and now my mother was 96. I spent a lot Read more…
Catherine McLaughlin grew up in New Bedford, Massachusetts. After graduating from Southeastern Massachusetts University (now UMass Dartmouth), she received graduate degrees from the University College Dublin and Bowling Green State University. As a graduate student at Bowling Green State University, Catherine was assigned to be the assistant of writer-in-residence James Read more…