Salutations!
March is a great month, isn’t it? It’s the month
of the Cleveland International Film
Festival, the new Tim Burton film of Alice in
Wonderland, my birthday, Mid-America
Theatre Conference, the hope for warmer weather, finishing your thesis, St. Patrick’s Day mayhem, a new restaurant on Larchmere, and other great
reasons to celebrate. Enjoy!
Recent Acquisitions
·
the rare Mossy Green Theatre
by Mary Dunn
·
Leonard Kessler’s Art is Everywhere
·
Castles and
Castletowns in Japan (Shiro to
Jokamchi)
·
Fortune Magazines
·
Heritage edition of Grimms’ Fairy Tales
·
Amphigorey and Amphigorey Too
·
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Farmer Boy first edition with Helen
Sewell illustrations
·
A collection of first edition young adult fiction in
dust jackets
·
Art books on Erte,
Charles Demuth, Aubrey Beardsley and more…
Annex Gallery
Village Art Studio: Pastel Paint Wax
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 4, 6-8pm
~ first Thursdays ~
Ronnie Jeter, Melinda Placko, and Shelley Robinson meet weekly at the Village
Art Studio. As mixed media artists, they create images which unite a
variety of materials including pencil, paint, paper, pastel, wax, charcoal,
photo collage, and fabric. By pushing the limits of creativity and
material, they are discovering natural textures, gutsy landscapes, southwest
color, and the meditation of silence. Come and join the
exploration. Show continues through April 3.
Gene's Jazz Hot
Gene's Jazz Hot
Thursday, March 11, 7-9pm
~ second Thursdays ~
Winter? What winter? Warm up with the happy swing band
known as Gene's Jazz Hot. Dancers, dinners, drinks and other merriment
welcomed. CDs for sale. Gene's homemade cookies are free. Donations for the band appreciated.
Stump the Bookseller Selection of
the month
[I quote these verbatim, you know. Sometimes the
human mind is sketchy…]
T490: Tombstone
Published before 1980. Two
children find a tombstone and think its a person. Later find out
its a racehorse. Setting near the ocean...find out what mussels and
cockles are. Something about a mirror and a ribbon hidden behind
it. Wish I had more to go on.
N.O.B.S. Forums
A Panel on Self-Publishing
Thursday, March 18, 7pm
~ third Thursdays ~
Self-publishing is a field that has exploded in recent years, as the definition
evolves and expands itself. Join us for a panel of speakers on this
growing industry. Panelists (so far) include LaVora Perry, Kelly Ferjutz,
Harriett Logan, and others, speaking about their experiences as self-published
authors, printers, and booksellers, using various technical printing platforms.
$3 suggested donation.
Praise the Unsung Book Club
Tony Earley: Jim the
Boy
Thursday, March 25, 7pm
~ fourth Thursdays ~
From its title to its closing sentence, Tony Earley's first novel
returns to basics, back to modernness in the old sense of the word. It's not a
big book, just a good one -- and in this instance ''good'' is higher praise
than ''great.'' At a time when the latest, most souped-up version of something,
a car or a computer program, say, is by reflex regarded as the best, Earley has
had the courage to return to artistic first principles: clarity, balance, ease.
Set in Depression-era North Carolina, his year-in-the-life story of a rural
boyhood unmarked by parental abuse, erotic turmoil or domestic dysfunction
seems strangely brave and new. Jim the Boy is a novel that does one thing memorably
instead of many things forgettably. [-New York Times Book Review]
Austeniana Book Club
Jane Austen:
Northanger Abbey
Thursday, March 25, 7pm
~ fourth Thursdays ~
We wrap up our second round of reading Jane Austen with Northanger Abbey.
Northanger Abbey
was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication, although
it did not actually get published until after Jane's death, some 20 years
later. Come discuss Austen's most overt criticism of the popular Gothic
novel trend, while enjoying her own sharp satire of Victorian society. In
April, we'll delve off into newer fields with Jane Austen in Scarsdale or Love, Death, and the SATs
by Paula Marantz Cohen
(2006).
peace,
Harriett
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