Words on Words

Welcome to Fran's latest updates on the literary / theater / writing / cinema scene.

                                        WINTER  NEWSLETTER

                                                           Happy New Year.

 Coming up:

     We will have opportunity to meet Alyson Richman, the author of THE LOST WIFE, the 2012 choice for LONG ISLAND READS. Alyson will be speaking on Sunday, April 22, 2012 at the Plainview-Old Bethpage Public Library at 2 pm.

Reservations are needed.   Long Island Reads

    June 5-7 BOOK EXPO at the Javitts Center, NYC.www.bookexpo.com

   Check out One Day University

    If you read THE PARIS WIFE by Paula McLain, follow up with Hemingway's A MOVEABLE FEAST and Woody Allen's movie, MIDNIGHT IN PARIS.  One of my all time favorite books of this period is Amanda Vaill's EVERYBODY WAS SO YOUNG.

    Very much enjoyed Alan Rickman and SEMINAR on Broadway, a comedic and eviscerating play about writers.

   The latest trend - books becoming series or features on HBO rather than being scooped up by Hollywood.   Look for THE PARIS WIFE and THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS.

    From the critic David Ulin's book THE LOST ART OF READING - Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time:

            Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction...it

        returns us to a reckoning with time.  In the midst of a book, we have

        no choice but to be patient, to take each thing in its moment, to let

        the narrative prevail.   We regain the world by withdrawing from it

        just a little, by stepping back from the noise.

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       LOOKING FORWARD TO READING:

          THE HAIR WITH THE AMBER EYES: A Hidden Inheritance-

                                                                          Edmund de Wall

           SALVAGE THE BONES - Jesmyn Ward

           SURRENDERED  - Change Rae Lee

           THE MARRIAGE PLOT  - Jeffrey Eugenides

           THE ART OF FIELDING - Chad Harbach

        RECENTLY READ:

            THE NIGHT CIRCUS - Erin Morgenstern

            THE TIGER'S WIFE  - Tea Olbrect

             MAN IN THE DARK - Paul Auster

             UNBROKEN -   Lauren Hillenbrand

       "When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched.   But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold."

                     Henry Miller, THE BOOKS IN MY LIFE

                           HAPPY READING

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  LOOKING FORWARD TO READING:  

THE NIGHT CIRCUS - Erin Morgenstern

SOMEDAY I WILL WRITE ABOUT THIS PLACE: a memoir-

            Binyavanga Wainaina

THERE BUT FOR THE:a novel - Ali Smith

THE MARRIAGE PLOT - Jeffrey Eugenides

                    RECENTLY READ:

 CALEB'S CROSSING - Geraldine Brooks

  TABLOID CITY - Pete Hamill

  BUDDA IN THE ATTIC  - Julie Otsuka

  STATE OF WONDER - Ann Patchett

  THE SURRENDERED - Change-Rae Lee

  THE GOON SQUAD - Jennifer Egan

                     HAPPY READING