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Bookstock is This Weekend - July 28, 29, 30
The Norman Williams Public Library has a full schedule of author presentations during Bookstock weekend, as well as our much-anticipated vintage book sale. Below are the authors who will be presenting at the Norman Williams Library throughout the weekend.
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Vintage Book Sale
Fri & Sat 9:00 - 6:00, Sun 9:00 - 2:00
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Friday, July 28, 11:00 a.m.
Brooke Herter James
Brooke Herter James is the debut author of Why Did the Farmer Cross the Road?, a picture book for young children, as well as The Widest Eye, a collection of poems for adults. She is an active member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, a student of the Gotham Writers Workshop, and a graduate of the Yale Writers' Conference. She lives in a very old house in Vermont with her husband, two donkeys (actually, the donkeys live in the barn), and a dog named Mack. Following a reading of Why Did the Farmer Cross the Road?, Brooke will happily recount the story of her book's circuitous and somewhat improbable path to publication. Spoiler: It all started one summer afternoon when her donkey quite unexpectedly showed up on the kitchen stoop!
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Friday, July 28, Noon - 12:40 p.m.
New England Sisters in Crime
Connie Hambley, Robbie
Harold,
Kate George
Authors from Sisters in Crime, a national organization of mystery and thriller authors, will talk about how great fiction starts in the real world.
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Friday, July 28, 1:00 - 1:40 p.m.
Northern Woodlands Magazine
Dan Lambert, Declan McCabe, & Howard Krum
The Center for Northern Woodlands Education has formed a community of writers who share their curiosity about nature in Northern Woodlands magazine and in a series of weekly articles featured in Twin State newspapers since 2002. The Center's assistant director, Dan Lambert, will introduce the second compilation of these articles, The Outside Story: Local Writers Explore the Nature of New Hampshire and Vermont. Two of the authors will then read from the book.
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Friday, July 28, 2:00 - 2:40 p.m.
Richard Hawley
Richard Hawley's The Three Lives of Jonathan Force explores the experience of its protagonist from his first sense impression to his last breath. In the course of that journey the youthful Jonathan's vivid spiritual connectedness to the natural world and to intimate others is nearly chafed out of him by prevailing cultural expectations. Improbably-and impressively-Jonathan emerges as a famous and widely published interpreter of cultural events. His eponymous books-Force Fields, The Uses of Force, Reasonable Force-elevate him to the status of a contemporary Freud or Margaret Mead or Marshall McCluhan, to the extent that the culture comes to think as much with his ideas as about them. In late middle life he is visited by a life-changing revelation that carries him to a surprising spiritual renewal. A lifelong teacher and writer, Richard Hawley has published more than twenty books, including several novels, collections of poetry, and literary non-fiction, primarily about children and schools.
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Friday, July 28, 3:00 - 3:40 p.m.
Roland Merullo
Roland Merullo is the author of 13 novels and 6 books of non-fiction, as well as numerous articles, stories, essays, and Op Ed pieces in the NY Times, Boston Globe, Newsweek, Yankee, and many other publications. He has won Massachusetts Book awards in both fiction and non-fiction, and his work has been translated into Spanish, German, Portuguese, Korean, Croatian, Chinese, and Turkish. His 2005 novel, Golfing with God is under film option with Gem Films. A former professor at Bennington and Amherst Colleges, he now teaches only in the Lesley University low-residency MFA program. He will speak about his newest novel, The Delight of Being Ordinary (Doubleday, April, 2017), and happily discuss and take questions and comments on his bestselling Breakfast with Buddha series and any of his other work. A native of Revere, Massachusetts, Merullo now lives with his wife and two daughters in the hills of Western MA.
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Friday, July 28, 4:00 - 4:40 p.m.
Sandra Gartner
Sandra Gartner is one of two producing directors of Vermont Actors' Repertory Theatre. She has performed with ART, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Vermont Stage and Lost Nation Theatre, among others. A freelance writer for magazines and newspapers, her articles have appeared in Lady's Circle, The Monitor, Vermont Life, Vermont Magazine and Yankee.She is a frequent contributor to Rutland Magazine and co-authored the book To Life! A Celebration of Vermont Jewish Women, which accompanied the touring exhibits of the oral history project. President Clinton appointed her to serve on the Presidential Advisory Committee on the Arts for the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Sandra worked as a production coordinator for international art photographer Gregory Crewdson. Their work is part of the permanent collection at the Guggenheim in NYC. Wild Angels Film recently released an independent short narrative film, "UnSpoken" based on Sandra's true story and article, "Exploding the Baby Myth," originally published in Lady's Circle Magazine.
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Saturday, July 29, 12:00 - 12:40 p.m.
Jack Mayer
Jack Mayer is a Vermont writer and pediatrician who established Rainbow Pediatrics in Middlebury in 1991 where he continues to practice pediatrics. His first non-fiction book His new novel, Before the Court of Heaven, explores how Germany's Weimar Democracy became the Third Reich - a cautionary tale. In Germany, after World War I, Ernst Techow, son of a magistrate, joins the violent right-wing response to Germany's defeat, a clandestine assassination network, early Nazis, trying to destroy Germany's fledgling democracy. He helps murder Walther Rathenau, Germany's highest-ranking Jew. While on trial for his life, Ernst receives an unfathomable offer of forgiveness that jolts his surety in the fascist cause and sets him on a complex and harrowing journey of redemption. Before the Court of Heaven considers how ordinary people became complicit in extraordinary crimes. It explores the complexity of redemption, and the power of forgiveness. Dr. Mayer will show Power Point slides of Weimar as part of his presentation, as well as read from his book. www.jackmayer.net
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Saturday, July 29, 1:00 - 1:40 p.m.
Jean Hanff Korelitz
Jean Hanff Korelitz is the author of the novels You Should Have Known, Admission (adapted as the 2013 film starring Tina Fey), The White Rose, The Sabbathday River, and A Jury of Her Peers. She has also written a novel for children, Interference Powder, and a collection of poetry, The Properties of Breath. Born and raised in New York City and educated at Dartmouth College and Clare College, Cambridge, Korelitz lives in New York City with her husband, Irish poet Paul Muldoon. Her most recent novel, The Devil and Webster, takes place on the campus of Webster College, where the institution's first female president must grapple with a student protest that quickly evades her control and even her understanding. Touching on some of the most topical and controversial concerns at the heart of our society, The Devil and Webster examines the fragility that lies behind who we think we are - and what we think we believe.
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Saturday, July 29, 2:00 - 2:40 p.m.
Jabari Asim
Jabari Asim is an associate professor of creative writing at Emerson College. He has written 13 books, including The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, And Why; A Taste Of Honey: Stories; and Only The Strong, a novel. The N Word explores the role of language in the shaping of both this republic and the African-American culture that flourishes at the heart of it. The "n word" merits particular attention because it functions as a metaphor for this country's history of tangled relations between blacks and whites. If America remains a noteworthy, international symbol as a melting pot and laboratory of interracial experiment, then the persistence of the "n word" must be the yardstick by which progress (or lack of it) is measured. The N Word examines both the power and the curious popularity of this notorious and dangerous slur, from its historical origins to its modern-day ubiquity.
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Saturday, July 29, 3:00 - 3:40 p.m.
Sarah Prager
Sarah Prager (www.sarahprager.com) is the author of Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World. In what a starred Kirkus review called a "breezy, conversational tone that will engage teens and make them laugh while they learn," Sarah profiles both famous and obscure heroes from history while looking at their genders and sexualities as important pieces of their lives. From a transgender Roman emperor through 20th century LGBTQ athletes and artists, these true stories that never made it into history textbooks inspire readers of all ages. Sarah Prager is a speaker and writer on LGBTQ history and the creator of the free mobile app Quist (www.quistapp.com). She lives in Connecticut with her wife and daughter. Her presentation at Bookstock will include a reading from Queer, There, and Everywhere, brief discussion of little-known pieces of LGBTQ history, and Q&A.
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Saturday, July 29, 4:00 - 4:40 p.m.
John Rousmaniere
Writer's remorse and sanity: How to write about shipwrecks without becoming a wreck yourself. Writing strategy is a writer's problem all the time, but never more than in calamities. How does the writer express sympathy without throwing away objectivity? John Rousmaniere will discuss and illustrate the problem of writing about bad news - from personal accidents to weather disasters - using his career as an example. John has written thirty books on maritime history, seamanship, boating safety, business history and New York history. He has taught courses on sailing safety and reviews of serious boating accidents. His work on maritime history earned a Mystic Seaport W.P. Stephens award. A veteran of more than 40,000 miles under sail, John has headed the media operation for the Newport Bermuda Race. He is the author of The Annapolis Book of Seamanship, the standard sailing instructional manual, After the Storm, about several maritime incidents and Fastnet Force 10 is his first person study of the fatal 1979 Fastnet Race storm in which he sailed.
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Saturday, July 29, 5:30 p.m. --
Poet/Author Reception
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Sunday, July 30, 12:30 p.m.
Jarvis Green
Jarvis Green, director JAG Productions, will be exploring race and heritage, bringing attention to the black experience in theater. During two decades, starting in the 1980's, August Wilson wrote a cycle of 10 plays (The American Century Cycle) charting the African-American experience through the twentieth century with each play set in an iconic decade of American culture. When he began writing the cycle there wasn't anything else like it - not only in African-American theater but in American theater period. And though his characters may have a different social status, they can be found in the tragedies of ancient Greece, comedies of Shakespeare, and even grand opera.
In April JAG Productions staged Wilson's Pulitzer Prize winning play
Fences
as the inaugural presentation of our 10-year commitment to staging The American Century Cycle.
Jarvis Antonio Green is the Producing Artistic Director of JAG Productions. He's the Founder of BarnArts Center for the Arts and was responsible for conceiving & developing the theatre arts program at ArtisTree Community Arts Center
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Vintage Book Sale
Fri & Sat 9:00 - 6:00, Sun 9:00 - 2:00
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The Norman Williams Public Library makes space available to a variety of organizations regardless of political or philosophical beliefs. Use of library space for these events does not imply endorsement or sponsorship by Norman Williams Public Library.
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