If you want to join our In-Store Lit Group discussion of Nicole Dennis-Benn's Here Comes the Sun, we're meeting Tuesday, September 5, 7 pm, instead of the normal Monday.
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Matthew Flynn, author of Bernie Weber and the Riemann Hypothesis
Matthew Flynn is a lawyer and politician based out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His first book was Pryme Knumber, the first book in the Bernie Weber series. At that point, Weber was a high school math prodigy.
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Flynn gives you a glimpse of the inner workings of Milwaukee in this love letter to his home city and brilliant send-up of espionage thrillers. Everything is fair game for Flynn's wit. The escapades of Bernie and Audrey may be fictional, but Flynn captures the true heart of the city and its citizens.
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A ticketed event Nancy Pearl, author of George and Lizzie, in conversation with Kathleen Dunn. Here's a ticket link.
Boswell and Wisconsin Public Radio presents a special evening with Nancy Pearl, in conversation with Kathleen Dunn. You've loved Pearl and Dunn's conversations on the radio, and now here's your chance to enjoy an evening of book talk live at Boswell. Pearl is coming to Milwaukee for the publication of her very first novel, George and Lizzie. The book goes on sale September 5 and our ticketed event is Saturday, September 9.
Nancy Pearl is known as “America’s Librarian.” She speaks about the pleasures of reading at library conferences, to literacy organizations and community groups throughout the world, comments on books regularly on public radio stations around the country, and hosts a monthly television show, Book Lust with Nancy Pearl. Among her many honors and awards are the 2011 Librarian of the Year Award from Library Journal; and the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association.
Tickets are $29 and include admission and a book. $5 of each ticket will be donated back to Wisconsin Public Radio. We'll have a $19 Boswell Book Company gift card available in lieu of the book on the night of the event only, but don't forget, a signed Nancy Pearl book makes a great gift. Pearl will sign backlist and pose for photos. And if you're not able to come, we'll hold your copy of George and Lizzie for up to six months.
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Seaman: "You are the book maven extraordinaire; no one has read more widely in the world of novels. Did any writers in particular inspire George and Lizzie? I have to say that I took great pleasure in that hilariously inappropriate moment in which Lizzie brings up Julie Hecht!" (Note to readers: Hecht's most famous work is Do the Windows Open?)
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I went through looking for the books to add to our Nancy Pearl recommends display. So sad that both Heart, You Bully, You Punk (which I also read) and several others are not currently available in print form as new copies, meaning that of course you can find them second-hand.
This event is cosponsored by Wisconsin Public Radio. WPR's Gretchen will be at the event with public radio swag!
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Bill Goldstein, author of The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forester and the Year that Changed Literature, now in conversation with me (Daniel Goldin).
Bill Goldstein, the founding editor of the books site of The New York Times on the Web, reviews books and interviews authors for NBC's "Weekend Today in New York." He is also curator of public programs at Roosevelt House, the public policy institute of New York's Hunter College. He received a PH.D in English from City University of New York Graduate Center in 2010, and is the recipient of writing fellowships at MacDowell, Yaddo, Ucross, and elsewhere.
As Boswell's Conrad Silverberg wrote: "As Willa Cather reflected in 1936, "The world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts." Goldstein's book is a lively, nuanced, and utterly enthralling tale of how this break affected four writers in particular: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forester and D.H. Lawrence, who all struggled with and found renewed inspiration from this new world."
Tom Zelman in the Star Tribune wrote: "Goldstein’s insightful and graceful prose reveals four authors during troubled moments of their careers, and he is fortunate in having a trove of writings from which to draw. Forster, Woolf and Eliot knew each other very well, read one another’s writings with an eye to what might be artistically useful, and reviewed one another’s work in journals. This year-in-the-life chronicle gives us a remarkable look at the gestation of literature."
I hope somewhere in the United States that Nancy Pearl is in conversation with Bill Goldstein. Talk about one great event in the making.
Hope to see you at one of our events. Don't forget to check out the upcoming events page.
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