Looking for something to do on Wednesday evening? Check out bestselling author Wesley Stace (By George and Misfortune) as his alter ego, rockstar John Wesley Harding as he performs at the MFA.
John Wesley Harding with Chris Garneau
7:30 — 9 pm
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Calderwood Courtyard
He puts on an excellent show, so please check it out!
Newsweek is the latest to put together a “Top 100 Books” list. They’ve compiled titles from the Top 10 lists from the Modern Library, the New York Public Library, St. John’s College reading list, Oprah’s reading list, and other sources.
Top Ten
1. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
2. 1984 by George Orwell
3. Ulysses by James Joyce
4. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
5. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
6. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
7. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
8. The Illiad and The Odyssey by Homer
9. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
10. Divine Comedy by Dante
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This is technically only a temporary order, but a judge has ruled that Fredrik Colting’s unauthorized sequel to Catcher in the Rye cannot be published in the United States. A full hearing could occur at a later time.
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6668654.html?desc=topstory
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_us/us_books_salinger
Inclusion in the nation’s most prestigious collection of short fiction is usually a pretty good sign that a short story is worth reading, and the 2009 selections are even more excellent than usual. Featuring works from well-known writers like Ha Jin, Nadine Gordimer, and Junot Diaz, as well as pieces from up-and-coming younger authors like Mohan Sikka, the 2009 collection encompasses a diverse array of literary talent. It’s a must read for any lover of literary fiction.
If Alex Rider and The Clique had a baby book it might just be Ally Carter’s The Gallagher Girls series staring Cammie Morgan, a fifteen year old student at the prestigious and top secret boarding school, Gallagher Academy. Cammie is well versed in 14 different languages and studies “covert operations, culture and assimilation, and advanced encryption” at school. Though much more innocent than other YA series such as The Clique and Gossip Girl, The Gallagher Girlsdoes feature minor romance as well as lots of spying, mystery and adventure. A smart, witty and endearing heroine, Cammie Morgan will delight teen readers who are looking for a fun, fast and smart summer read. The third book in the series, Don’t Judge a Girl by Her Cover was released in early June but don’t miss books one and two, I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You, and Cross my Heart and Hope to Spy.
The Fence: A Police Cover-Up Along Boston’s Racial Divide by Dick Lehr is a riveting expose on police brutality on one of their own men in 1995. White Boston Police officers mistook Michael Cox, a black plainclothes officer, as a suspect and shot him in the head and repeatedly kicked him while he was down, even though Cox had just been pursuing the real suspect over a fence. Following this incident was a blatant cover-up orchestrated by the BPD; in fact, news of Cox getting injured only appeared in The Boston Globe a full 10 days after the beating, and the information released was evasive and vague at best. Lehr shares an illuminating, fastidiously researched window into police loyalty and culture, the dynamics of race and politics, and the exceptionally long and hard journey to justice for one police officer.
MONTREAL - A small Montreal publishing house appears to have struck a gold mine with the death of pop superstar Michael Jackson.
Transit Media Inc. will start the presses rolling Tuesday morning on what is expected to be a 354-page, hardcover biography of the freshly deceased entertainment icon.
About 50 pages are being added during a frantic rewrite by author Ian Halperin following Jackson’s death at his Los Angeles home last Thursday afternoon, Pierre Turgeon said Saturday.
Turgeon, who is the book’s publisher and president of Transit Media, said the book had been prepared in the run-up to Jackson’s series of 50 London concerts.
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Mezrich and wife. Can't go wrong with paisley...
Ben Mezrich, author of the colorfully embellished (to put it mildly) book about an MIT blackjack ring that “took Vegas for millions,” “Bringing Down the House,” continues his run of commercial success. His forthcoming book, “The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal,” due out next month, has already attracted the interest of Hollywood. Aaron Sorkin, creator of “The West Wing,” has written a script and, according to Variety, Columbia Pictures is trying to recruit David Fincher, director of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” to direct. The picture is slated to be called “The Social Network.”
Last year, presented with evidence that certain happenings in “Bringing Down the House” were essentially made-up, Mezrich responded: “I took literary license to make it readable.” He also said, “The idea that the story is true is more important than being able to prove that it’s true.”
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If the first thing you do upon opening The New Yorker is flip to the back page to see the contenders for the week’s caption contest, then the editors at The New Yorker have a wonderful treat for you.
The Rejection Collection, volumes I and II contain 272 pages of cartoons drawn by New Yorker cartoonists that never made it into the print magazine. Some were too weird, non sequitur, or too risqué, but all are worth checking out. Both volumes make for great coffee table discussion starters, and are always good for a laugh.
Maybe you have seen all the history books that have been coming out recently and maybe you thought - those look interesting buuutttt I don’t know if I can handle a history book right now. Well, with July 4th, Independence Day, right around the corner - why not pick up one that you have had your eye on to prepare for the holiday? As an added bonus, when you go to cookouts and fireworks you can impress people with your new found facts! There are plenty of good selections here at the bookstore but here are a few to get you inspired:
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
Give Me Liberty by Naomi Wolf
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