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# Author Connie Constant to read from "Austin Lunch" at Barnes & Noble Sept. 3
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/090205-story-20050902/
- Published: 2005-09-02T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T07:39:00.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Entertainment, Promenade, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

Author Constance “Connie” Constant is scheduled to read from her work “Austin Lunch, Greek-American Recollections,” on Saturday, Sept. 3, at 2 p.m. at the Barnes & Noble bookstore on the Third Street Promenade.

The meet-the-author event, book reading and signing is free and open to the public. “Austin Lunch, Greek-American Recollections” re-creates Depression-era Chicago and a Windy City neighborhood near the famous “Loop” using details culled from the author’s older siblings and mother.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 2, 2005.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/090205.pdf?ref=smdp.com)