Springfield native Mark Oppenheimer reads from his new memoir, Wisenheimer: A Childhood Subject to Debate, at South Hadley’s Odyssey Bookshop tonight at 7 p.m.
Wisenheimer tells the story of the angst Oppenheimer experienced as a hyper-articulate kid whose precocity was not exactly embraced by his teachers or his peers—and of the salvation he found through his middle-school debate club. In a rave review, Booklist called Wisenheimer a “wise, witty shout-out to geek culture.”
Oppenheimer is the former editor of the Valley Advocate’s one-time sister paper in New Haven.
