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Ray Bradbury comes to Stony Brook University

Bradbury is the recipient of the 2008 I-CON 27 Gallum Award.  The award will be presented to Mr. Bradbury via conference call by Harlan Ellison.  The conference is April 4-6 and some of the guest speakers will be Charlaine Harris, Debra Doyle, Elizabeth Bear, Jeff and Ann VanderMeer, Norman Spinrad and Terry McGarry.  Don’t miss out on this opportunity to attend stimulating panel discussions, intimate readings, lots of autograph sessions and to interact with some of your favorite writers.  For more information visit the  website at http://iconsf.org or call (631)382-8297.

10 Best Books of 2007

According to the New York Times, with links to our catalog:

Fiction

MAN GONE DOWN
By Michael Thomas.  This first novel explores the fragmented personal histories behind four desperate days in a black writer’s life.

OUT STEALING HORSES
By Per Petterson. Translated by Anne Born.  In this short yet spacious Norwegian novel, an Oslo professional hopes to cure his loneliness with a plunge into solitude.

THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES
By Roberto Bolaño. Translated by Natasha Wimmer.  A craftily autobiographical novel about a band of literary guerrillas.

THEN WE CAME TO THE END
By Joshua Ferris.  Layoff notices fly in Ferris’s acidly funny first novel, set in a white-collar office in the wake of the dot-com debacle.

TREE OF SMOKE
By Denis Johnson.  The author of “Jesus’ Son” offers a soulful novel about the travails of a large cast of characters during the Vietnam War.

Nonfiction

IMPERIAL LIFE IN THE EMERALD CITY: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone.
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran.  The author, a Washington Post journalist, catalogs the arrogance and ineptitude that marked America’s governance of Iraq.

LITTLE HEATHENS: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression.
By Mildred Armstrong Kalish. Kalish’s soaring love for her childhood memories saturates this memoir, which coaxes the reader into joy, wonder and even envy.

THE NINE: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court.
By Jeffrey Toobin.  An erudite outsider’s account of the cloistered court’s inner workings.

THE ORDEAL OF ELIZABETH MARSH: A Woman in World History.
By Linda Colley.  Colley tracks the “compulsively itinerant” Marsh across the 18th century and several continents.

THE REST IS NOISE: Listening to the Twentieth Century.
By Alex Ross.  In his own feat of orchestration, The New Yorker’s music critic presents a history of the last century as refracted through its classical music.

Jane Austen fans mark your calendar

Beginning in January, PBS will air The Complete Jane Austen, which are new adaptations of all six novels.  It begins on Sunday January 13 at 9pm.  The schedule is:

                January 13   Persuasion

                January 20   Northanger Abbey

                January 27   Mansfield  Park

                February 10 to 24     Pride and Prejudice

                March 23   Emma

                March 30 & April 6    Sense and Sensibility

         

On February 3 there will a new drama based in Austen’s bittersweet love life called “Miss Austen Regrets.”   What a great way to start the new year!

              

Toys For Tots

Toys For Tots drive 2007

Another year of great success – thank you to all our generous patrons!

Foreign Correspondent

The Lives of Others (2006)
Starring: Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Mühe Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Rating: R
Run Time: 138 minutes

This film takes place in East Germany during the 1970’s. The filmmakers convey through effective lighting and setting the soullessness of communism during the Cold War era. The Stasi (East Germany’s secret police) monitor the lives of all those perceived to be subversive. Weisler is the archetypical agent assigned to watch Georg a prominent author and his actress girlfriend Christa. Weisler’s superior sees exposing Georg as way of advancing their careers. As Weisler’s surveillance of Georg, Christa and his cronies progresses he learns every intimate detail of their lives. Georg is the antithesis of the repressive East German regime. Weisler inexplicably begins to admire Georg and goes to lengths to protect him. Weisler is faced with few options, none of them to his liking.

Chris Garland

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