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 November 2008
Greetings,
Did you watch Senator Obama's speech last night? I had to chuckle when first, his younger daughter would not let go of him on stage, and then, barely into his thank you's he promised her and her sister a puppy in the White House. I do wish he could bring them to the Connecticut Children's Book Fair this weekend to meet Steven Kellogg and get a copy of Pinkerton Behave to read while they are training their new pup (see the art above).
 We are very excited to be launching the much anticipated new novel by Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, next Tuesday, November 11. More details below. It's not too late to sign up, though we are expecting a crowd so don't delay. Remember, this is a benefit for the two schools in New Orleans where his sons work. We have a video interview with Wally Lamb on our website that you will want to view.
Cheers,
Suzy
Autumn Readings & Talks
Friday, Amy Goldman will talk about her book Heirloom Tomatoes.
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Wally Lamb Launch Party & Benefit Tues. Nov. 11, 6:00 pm
Join us in celebrating the publication of Wally Lamb's much-anticipated new novel, The Hour I First Believed. The Hour I First Believed is a richly complex yet fast paced novel populated with characters so deeply conceived that you will think of them and their lives long after you have finished reading the book. In The Hour Lamb has captured the essence of modern America through the events of the past decade. Though sweeping, the story resonates in a powerfully intimate and personal way. It is at once heart wrenching and hopeful. We expect The Hour I First Believed to win all the major literary prizes.
You Can Help
Fundraiser for New Orleans Schools
Lamb's reading will be a fundraiser for the purchase of books for the library at Langston Hughes Academy located in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans and for the KIPP to College Program of the KIPP McDonogh 15 School, which opened in 2006 to serve students and families rebuilding in New Orleans. Lamb's sons work in the schools, Justin Lamb at Langston Hughes Academy and Jared Lamb at KIPP McDonogh. They are open enrollment schools servicing a majority of low-income families. New Orleans suffered terribly from Katrina and still very much needs our help. Because this is a fundraiser, we ask that you pre-purchase at least one book to attend. The purchase of a book will give you two tickets for this very special reading. The bookstore profits from the sale will go to the schools.
Please call 860-486-5027 to sign up.
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Ross Miller on Philip Roth
Thursday, November 13, 4:00 pm
 Ross Miller, who is writing the official biography of Philip Roth (with Roth's cooperation), will update us on the progress of this project to be published by Houghton Mifflin. Roth, one of the most honored writers working today, has won two National Book Awards, two Book Critic's Circle Awards, three PEN/Faulkner Awards, a Pulitzer and more. He is often hailed as the most important novelist in America. The Library of America continues publishing the definitive editions of Philip Roth's novels with its fifth volume Novels and Others Narratives: The Counterlife, The Facts, Deception, Patrimony edited by Ross Miller. A professor of English and Comparative Literature at UConn, Miller has taught at Wesleyan, Yale and Trinity and published widely, including two books on Chicago.
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Jill Bialosky on Writers Who Edit
Thursday, November 6, 4:00 pm
UConn Co-op
Fiction Writer. Poet. Editor. Jill Bialosky wears all three hats gracefully. She is the author of two novels, House Under Snow, and The Life Room, and three books of poetry, The End of Desire (1998), Subterranean and Intruder. Executive Editor and Vice President at W.W. Norton & Company, she lives and writes in New York. In describing The Life Room, "Booklist" praises Bialosky's prose for its remarkable "insights into erotic compulsion and the unbearable awkwardness and pain of flawed and failed love." Bialosky will read from her newest poetry and fiction and hold a discussion on the challenges of doing both creative and editorial work. Co-sponsored with the Soloman Foundation Fund and Creative Writing.
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