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Greetings!
Marc, who receives all the books here,
is opening the stacks of boxes from the UPS trucks as fast as
he can. Lots of new good things to read overflow our ware
carts and shelves. I love this time of
year when so much is published and the darkening evenings
invite reading until it's late.
Martín Espada has a new book of poems The Republic of
Poetry which I just finished. In it he celebrates poetry
and poets. The book ends with the powerful The Caves of
Camay in which he honors his wife and Clemente Soto
Vélez for whom he named his son. If you are a fan, you have
been waiting for this book to arrive. If you haven't read
Espada yet, this is a good time to begin.
On the top of the precarious to-read piles in the office are
The Adventures of a Cello by Carlos Prieto, a
combination memoir and history of the cello and History
in the Making: An Absorbing Look at How American History
Has Changed in the Telling over the Last 200 Years by
Kyle Ward. I'm eager to read both. If only we could read two
books at once (after all, we have two eyes).
Cheers,
Suzy
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Cathy Sultan
Talks About Her Life in Lebanon and Her Interviews with Palestinians and Israelis
Thursday, September 28 at 4 pm
In 1969, Cathy Sultan left the US and moved to Beirut with
her Lebanese husband and their two babies. She fell in love
with the beautiful old city, its “mansions, city parks, ancient
souks, its bougainvillea, wisteria, its eucalyptus-lined
boulevards.” A Beirut Heart: One Woman’s War is
her intensely personal memoir of her love affair with this
grand old metropolis and the deep pain and disruption that
she and her family suffered as the horrors of civil war
engulfed them. She watched helplessly as Beirut was
destroyed, finally leaving it behind in 1983. Little could she
have suspected how timely this book would be with the
recent devastation in her adopted land.
In 2002, Sultan returned to the Middle East in order to better
understand the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. She interviewed
citizens on both sides: refugees, soldiers, peasants, scholars,
politicians, and ordinary people. Israeli and Palestinian
Voices: A Dialogue with Both Sides is the result of this
work.
Sultan sits on the Executive Board of the National Peace
Foundation and worked with Partners for Peace.
Talk & Booksigning
Click here to order Cathy Sultan's books.
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