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Director’s Notebook June, 2008 Some writers are identified with...

Tue, 06/17/2008 - 4:19pm -- KChin



Director’s Notebook

June, 2008

Some writers are identified with a particular country or  region, others with a specific period in history. Willa Cather is known for both. When I think of her, I think of the prairie states, especially Nebraska, and I think of the days of the intrepid pioneers of the prairies, struggling to make a life for themselves that was tenuous, at best. 

Before there was Carrie Bradshaw writing her column for Sex And...

Thu, 03/06/2008 - 2:17pm -- KChin



Before there was Carrie Bradshaw writing her column for Sex And the City, there was Dorothy Parker.  As early as the 1920’s Parker was writing sexy, sardonic, stilletto-tipped stories about the battle of the sexes for such respected magazines as Vogue and Vanity Fair.  In Parker’s ascerbic world, the women usually come across looking obsessive, silly, and shallow; but the men, shown usually as either clueless or feckless, don’t fare very much better.

Library Director’s NotebookFebruary, 2008This year Lauri...

Wed, 02/06/2008 - 11:31am -- KChin



Library Director’s Notebook

February, 2008

This year Lauri Burke and I will be leading book discussion groups focused around the Reading Across Rhode Island  (RARI) selection Water For Elephants by Sarah Gruen.  As part of our yearly participation, we like to pair discussion of the RARI selection with a fiction or non-fiction choice of our own that somehow relates to or expands upon the RARI theme.

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