Book Club Luncheon on Campus
featuring
JANET SKESLIEN CHARLES
author of MOONLIGHT IN ODESSA
The world of eastern European mail-order brides and the men who finance them is the subject of this darkly comic novel. Daria, a savvy, English speaking secretary in Odessa, Ukraine, thinks that her boss will fire her after she refuses his sexual advances. Fearing unemployment, Daria takes a second job at Soviet Unions, an Internet dating service that connects Western men with available Ukrainian women. Her romantic life swirls between a suitor in California, a Ukrainian gangster and her manic boss. Views of East and West overlap and conflict when it comes to love, marriage, and money.
12:00 to 1:30
University Center Room 332
Sponsored by F&F University Center
$16 paid reservation due September 19
Book Group with Penny
Discussion of
IN THE WOODS and THE LIKENESS
by Tana French
7:00 pm
F&F Downtown
Open to all readers!
As part of the University of Montana's Creative Writing Fall Series 2009, Poet Annie Finch will talk about her poetry fieldwork with the Glacier Park wolves and read from her recent work Thursday, Sept. 24, 7 p.m. at the Poetry Corner of the Mansfield Library (NW corner of the fifth floor), University of Montana.
More about Annie Finch . . .
Annie Finch is the author or editor of fifteen books of poetry, translation, and criticism. Her books of poetry include Eve, Calendars, The Encyclopedia of Scotland, and the forthcoming Among the Goddesses: A Narrative Libretto. Her
music, art, and theater collaborations include two operas. Her poems
appear in anthologies, textbooks, and journals including Agni, Fulcrum, Kenyon Review, Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, and Yale Review, and her books on poetics include A Formal Feeling Comes, An Exaltation of Forms, The Ghost of Meter, The Body of Poetry, and the forthcoming A Poet’s Craft. Her book of poetry Calendars
was shortlisted for the Foreword Poetry Book of the Year Award and in
2009 she was awarded the Robert Fitzgerald Award. She has performed her
poetry across the U.S. and in England, France, Greece, Ireland, and
Spain. Finch earned a BA from Yale University, a MA in Creative
Writing from the University of Houston, and a PhD in English from
Stanford University. She lives in Maine where she directs Stonecoast,
the low-residency MFA program of the University of Southern Maine.
PHIL CONDON
Reading & Signing
Fri, September 25th 7:00 pm
NINE TEN AGAIN
NINE TEN AGAIN is a spellbinding gathering of narratives in which people in difficult circumstances face moments of decision and revelation, while the shadow of the United States' military involvements abroad often fall heavily over them. —-RT Smith, a judge for the Elixir Press Fiction Award
POETRY READING
Tues, September 29th
7:00 pm
Join us for an evening with two long time Montana
residents reading from their new collections.
DAN GRAVELEY reads from APPLE MOON
RON MOSER reads from HEY DUKE!
As part of the University of Montana's Creative Writing Fall Series 2009, Humorist and non-fiction writer Michael Perry will read from his award-winning memoirs about life in rural Wisconsin and sign books Friday, Oct. 2, 7 p.m.at the Dell Brown Room, Turner Hall of the University of Montana.
More about Michael Perry. . .
Michael Perry is a humorist and author of the bestselling memoirs Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time and Truck: A Love Story, the essay collection Off Main Street, and the upcoming memoir Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs and Parenting. Perry has written for Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Outside, Backpacker, Orion and Salon.co and is a contributing editor to Men’s Health. His essays have been heard on NPR’s All Things Considered; he has performed and produced two live audience recordings (I Got It From the Cows and Never Stand Behind a Sneezing Cow). Perry lives in rural Wisconsin , where he remains active with the local volunteer rescue service. He can be found online at www.sneezingcow.com
BOOK CLUB LUNCHEON
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3rd
11:30—1:30 Holiday Inn Downtown at the Park
$16 paid reservation due September 29
Featuring Heather Barbieri
author of THE LACE MAKERS OF GLENMARA
"You can always start again," Kate Robinson's mother once told her, "all it takes is a new thread." Overwhelmed by heartbreak and loss, the struggling twenty-six-year-old fashion designer follows her mother's advice and flees to her ancestral homeland of Ireland, hoping to break free of old patterns and reinvent herself. She arrives on the west coast, in the seaside hamlet of Glenmara. In this charming, fading Gaelic village, Kate quickly develops a bond with members of the local lace-making society. Under Glenmara's spell, Kate finds the inspiration that has eluded her, and soon she and the lace makers are creating a line of exquisite lingerie.
This lecture series, "Put Your Writing to Work", will feature three different professionals who use writing in their various careers. The lectures will take place on the second Thursdays of October, November, and December.
The talk on October 8th will feature Jeff Hull, a magazine writer. Join us as he talks about his career in writing!
Visit this page to learn more about Jeff Hull: http://www.umt.edu/Journalism/about_the_jschool/Faculty_pages/hull.html
Kevin Canty
Reading & Signing
Friday, October 9th 7:00 pm
WHERE THE MONEY WENT
Few writers are as praised as Kevin Canty, a master of the short story whose work has been compared to that of Flannery O'Connor and Raymond Carver. In Where the Money Went, he has crafted a luminous collection bursting with intensity of emotion, evoking at its core the very human need to make sense of a nonsensical world.
From the narrator who struggles with his abiding loyalty to his ex-wife when he finds love with another woman to the newly divorced man who learns more than he wants to know about his friends' long-term marriages, these nine stories incisively touch on the complex nature of love from a male perspective. Canty, whose writing has been praised as, “smart, gritty, unsentimental” (The New York Times), “lovely and unforgiving” (The Boston Globe), “enchanting and painful” (USA TODAY), powerfully conveys both the bitterness that can afflict romantic relationships, and the moments of tenderness that cut through it.
Fact and Fiction book club discusses
THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD by
Elyn R. Sacks
7:00pm Fact and Fiction Downtown
A memoir of paranoid schizophrenia by an accomplished professor and
researcher recounts the first manifestations of her symptoms at the age
of eight, her efforts to hide the severity of her condition throughout
her educational years, and the obstacles she has overcome in the course
of her treatment and marriage. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.
Claude Alick
Reading & Signing
Friday, October 16th 7:00 pm
DANCING WITH THE YUMAWALLI
You hold in your hand a murky slice of paradise-the Caribbean beyond white sand beaches and palm trees. Dancing With the Yumawalli is a conversation with a slate of diverse characters, colloquial in the tradition of sitting next to a fire, and listening to voices talking about death, superstition and human growth. Do shipbuilders practice human sacrifice to give vessels souls? Look through the eyes of the teenager narrator and see for yourself. In Dancing With the Yumawalli, you will be required to decipher a treasure map laced with trace elements of:
Voodoo
Sex
Prejudice
Thalidomide
Leprosy
Ayahuasca
A journey into the heart of the Amazon
A yachtsman sinking his vessel for insurance money.
Come on in. Surrender to the magical spells cast by this author through language as captivating as the islands.
BEN STEELE
Talk and Signing
TEARS IN THE DARKNESS
Tuesday, October 20th
5:00 pm
F&F On Campus
ANDREW SEAN GREER
Author Lecture/Reading
"How to Live Backwards"
Wednesday, Oct 21
7:30 pm
University Theatre
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