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Fall 2008 Events
Luke Dempsey
A Supremely Bad Idea
Three Mad Birders and Their Quest to See It All
Tuesday, September 9
6.00 - 8.00p
Join us to celebrate the publication of Luke Dempsey's first book,
A Supremely Bad Idea, a hilarious account of his discovery
of and quickly all-consuming mania for birding. Along with his
two friends, Don and Donna Graffiti, Luke travels about America in search
of birds and to add to his life-list, writing about the
mad quest as well as the mad characters he meets along the way.
Luke Dempsey will be speaking about the book and signing copies.
Refreshments will be served.
David Ebershoff
The 19th Wife: A Novel
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Brenda Wineapple
White Heat:
The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Thursday, September 25
7.00p
Join us for an evening with friends and fellow
Columbia University graduate writing professors,
David Ebershoff and Brenda Wineapple, as they read
from, discuss, and sign copies of their respective
books.
In The 19th Wife, David Ebershoff, author of the
novels PASADENA and THE DANISH GIRL, has written two compelling
stories threaded together, one the historical novel of a young
wife separated from her husband, Brigham Young, the founder
of the Mormons, and the second a modern-day gritty murder
mystery set within a polygamous Mormon sect.
Brenda Wineapple's White Heat explores one of the
most dynamic friendships in American letters,
that of Emily Dickinson, the reclusive poet, and Thomas
Wentworth Higginson, minister, literary figure and active abolitionist.
The friendship began in 1862, as the Civil War was raging,
when Wentworth, a frequent contributor to "The Atlantic Monthly,"
receives a scrawled letter that includes four poems.
Wineapple recreates the extraordinary friendship that developed
between the two writers and the publication of Dickinson's
masterworks.
David Ebershoff will read from his novel and sign copies.
Brenda Wineapple will discuss her book and sign copies.
Events are first come first served, please arrive early.
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