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For the Week of August 25thOne of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
-A. A. Milne
This Friday, August 29th, McLean & Eakin is shooting for a double-header to usher Summer out with a bang! From 1-3 pm we are hosting Sleeping Bear author Denise Brennen-Nelson who will be leading a workshop on creativity based on her beautiful children’s book, Willow. From 6-8 pm Michael Harvey, producer of t.v’s Cold Case Files and Random House author of The Chicago Way will be speaking about his new book, The Fifth Floor. A wine & cheese reception will follow. If you are interested in either of these events, please call 231-347-1180 to reserve your seat today!
Author Events This Week
Creativity Workshop with the always delightful Denise Brennan-Nelson based on her book, Willow . Children, parents and teachers are invited Friday, August 29 from 1-3 pm. Please call ahead to reserve your seat for this event.
Cold Case File’s Michael Harvey speaking and signing his newest book, The Fifth Floor Friday, August 29 from 6-8 pm. Please call ahead to reserve your seat for this event.
September Events at a Glance
Locals Susan Gopigian (author) & Susan Bolt (illustrator) will be signing their beautiful children’s folk tale, Gadoo Thursday, September 4 from 1-3 pm
Peg Herring will be signing her book, MacBeth’s Niece Friday, September 5 from 1-3 pm
Mary Ellen Lapp will be signing her book, Color of Success Saturday, September 13 from 1-3 pm
Back by Popular Demand, Publisher’s Rep. Night! Thursday, September 18 from 6:30-8 pm. Please call 231-347-1180 to reserve your seat for this free event!
Brisingr Release Party. From 10:30 to midnight Friday, September 19. Call 231-347-1180 ahead to reserve your seat for the party! Pre-paid books will be released at 12:01 am.
Boni Ashburn signing Hush Little Dragon Thursday, September 25 from 4-6 pm.
…and now, Marion Bright recommends two new books from W. W. Norton & Co. . . .
Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts by Clive James
Clive James is a funny man. He used to have a t.v. talk/game show in
England. Since those days, he's written for the New York Times Book
Review, TLS, and plenty of other outlets for cultural criticism. This
pulpy pack of observations covers Goebbels and W.C. Fields, Fitzgerald
and Satie. From Dubravka Ugresic to Alexandra Kollontai and other
people I've never heard of, James writes casually, yet intelligently,
and humourously (with the English "u"). Here's an example, regarding
Ricarda Huch, a former vixen turned anti-Nazi "first lady of German
humanism in modern times"-- "All it took was courage. But courage is
hard to come by: as Ricarda's rococo c.v. suggests, to have buckets
of guts you need to be a little bit mad."
The Size of the World by Joan Silber Joan Silber was one of five women nominated for the National Book Award in 2005 for her short story collection, Ideas of Heaven. Her adeptness at short stories is apparent in The Size of the World, a novel told in inter-connected stories beginning with one set in Vietnam. There, a disillusioned soldier immigrates to the country he
had hated, to the people he had fought. It sounds like ideological
peach ice cream, but Silber's characterizations are anything but
smooth down the gullet. She has an ability to enlarge an
idiosyncrasy, a tick or thought, into a full breath of life;
hyperbole—maybe, but the point is, her stories are expansive—whole
worlds and eras into ink and edges.
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