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The Hartford Book Club Meetup Group
2008 is One Book for Greater Hartford’s seventh year to gather the
community around a work of contemporary fiction.
Please visit One Book
for Greater Hartford 2008 for the complete list of activities and
events
honoring this year’s selection The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri.
Author Events:
Breast Cancer Awareness Program, Author Laura
Fitzpatrick-Nager
Monday, October 6, 2008
6:00 PM, Downtown, Third Floor Program Room
Laura Fitzpatrick-Nager, author of Swimming
on My Wedding Day: My Cancer Journey Through the
Seasons, relates her inspiring story.
One Book for Greater Hartford Author Manil Suri
Friday, October 24, 2008
7:00 PM, Downtown
Born in 1959, in what was then Bombay
India (now Mumbai), Manil Suri came to the United States as a student at Carnegie Mellon University in 1979, where
he received a Ph.D in mathematics. He has been a
professor of mathematics at the University
of Maryland, Baltimore County
since 1983. The Death of Vishnu, his first novel, was a
finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award and is still an international bestseller. One Book for
Greater Hartford.
Minders of Make-Believe: Author Talk and Book Signing with Leonard Marcus
Sunday, November 9, 2008
2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Hartford History Center, 3rd Floor, Hartford Public Library, 500 Main Street, Hartford
What should children read? That’s the three-hundred year old question addressed in Leonard Marcus’ provocative new book Minders of Make-Believe (Houghton Mifflin Company: 2008). Join the author for a Sunday afternoon author talk and book signing as he shares with you the history of the visionaries whose passion for books transformed American childhood and American culture and learn of Hartford ’s role in this literary revolution. Marcus is the leading historian on American children’s books and one of the field’s most respected critics. In Minders of Make-Believe, he chronicles the fierce turf wars fought among pioneering editors, progressive educators and librarians and charts the emergence and growth of the major publishing houses in this country and the distinctive children’s literature they shaped. The author’s many books include Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon and Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom. Marcus is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post Book World, Parenting Magazine, the Horn Book and Publishers Weekly. This program is free and open to the public; parking available on the parking deck adjacent to the library on Arch Street. For more information, call Hartford History Center at (860) 695-6297 or visit online at Hartford History Center
Albany Branch Readers
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
5:30 PM, Albany Branch
We read and discuss books that add to our understanding of current events, that
make us laugh and cry and that bring the diversity of the African American
experience to life. Call 695-7380 for information on selections.
The Downtown Book Club
Saturday, November 8, 2008
2:00 PM , Downtown, The Peters Reading Place
Join friends and neighbors to talk about the international bestseller, The
Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
Writing
Workshops
Albany Branch Writers Collaborative
Tuesdays, October 28 and November 25, 2008
5:30 PM, Albany Branch
Share your creative work with other aspiring and published writers. Give and
receive useful critiques and support for your work. Please come prepared with
several copies of your manuscript.
