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Selected by Granta as one of America's best young writers and featured in The New Yorker's best young fiction issue, Tony Earley [in Jim the Boy] now gives us a luminous portrait of a ten-year-old boy growing up in the Depression-era town of Aliceville, North Carolina. At once delightful and wise, Jim the Boy brilliantly captures the pleasures and fears of youth at a time when America itself was young and struggling to come into its own. Jim the Boy will appeal to the readers who loved classics like To Kill a Mockingbird, Ellen Foster, and A Member of the Wedding. Download a printable version of the reader's guide here. Download a printable calendar of events here. To listen to clips from Paul Burch's album based on the characters of Jim the Boy, click here: http://www.paulburch.com/albums.htm
Comments from reviews of Jim the Boy: Tony Earley has a wonderful gift for deep observation, exact and wise and often funny. —The New York Times Jim the Boy is a delight. A sweet, graceful novel that charms the reader with marvelous language, honest emotion, and authentic characters who are no less human, no less complex, for being sincere and straightforward, and good…. Earley is a wonderful writer. —Alice McDermott, author of Charming Billy With the calm, measured quiet of a writer who knows absolutely what he is about, Tony Earley renders luminous one boy, one family, one very small town--and, by delicate implication, the wide world just beyond that charmed circle. —Andrea Barrett, author of The Voyage of the Narwhal
Author Tony Earley will be in Rochester March 25-27, 2009 for school and library visits and other public events
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First Fridays / Wide Open MicSept. 3, 7:00 pm Along with other local galleries and performance spaces, W&B will be open on the first Friday evenings of each month hosting Wide Open Mic, and a series of other readings and performances in our Verb Café and Performance Space. Known for its eclectic mix, Wide Open Mic welcomes poets, performers, and writers of all kinds. It is Rochester’s longest running open mic, hosted by Norm Davis, poet and editor of HazMat Review. The Bertrand Russell SocietyThurs, Sept. 9 The Bertrand Russell Society was formed shortly after Russell’s death in 1970. Russell was born in 1872 and worked in fields such as mathematical logic; philosophy; social, religious, and educational reform; anti-war protests and politics. An accomplished writer, Russell received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. This ongoing lecture series promises to enlighten and entertain. Monthly meetings are open to everyone, not just to members of the society. Visiting Writer Series: Nancy Agabian and Cathy SalibianThurs. Sept. 9: The Visiting Writer Series brings together Writers from out of town as well as from the Greater Rochester Area. Monthly Story Slam Signup: 6:30 pm An open mic of true loose and spontaneous stories based on one’s own life! Each performer gets approximately 5 minutes. Signup list at front desk 1/2 hour before or sign up by emailing Carol Roberts at crobert8@rochester.rr.com with “Monthly Sign Up” in the subject line. Genesee Reading SeriesSept. 14: Steve Lewandowski and Lori Nolasco Now in its 26th year, the Genesee Reading Series presents writers from the greater Genesee Valley region reading in the W&B Performance Space. Click here to learn more. Click here for more August Events...
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| Writers & Books, Rochester's community literary center, inspires and instructs over 25,000 people each year through a wide array of offerings in nearly every literary genre. Believing that the written and spoken word are central to our lives and culture, Writers & Books celebrates, promotes and works to make them available to all. Writers & Books is located at 740 University Avenue, near Atlantic Avenue in the Neighborhood of the Arts. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
For its 9th annual Spring community reading program, “If All of Rochester Read the Same Book...,” Writers & Books has selected the 2000 novel Jim the Boy by Tony Earley.