Just reminding you about some nerdtastic book related events.
I’ll definitely be at the Etgar Keret event on Sunday night. Hope to see you there.
Etgar Keret
is a preeminent Israeli author. He’ll be reading/discussing I would
guess among other things, his most recent collection of very, very
short stories The Girl on the Fridge.
I’ve heard a couple of his surreal short stories read aloud recently
and found them really interesting. I’m looking forward to hearing him
speak.
Sunday October 26, 2008
7:00PM
Free, Congregation Adath Jeshurun
Scott Lasensky is the author of Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East.
Thursday November 13, 2008
7:30PM
$7, Jewish Community Center
Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein are the authors of Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited. Here’s the Publishers Weekly blurb about this really interesting sounding book:
In this transfixing memoir, Bernstein, a freelance writer, and Schein,
a filmmaker, take turns recounting the story of how each woman, at age
35, discovered she had an identical twin sister, and the reunion that
followed. Despite disparate upbringings, education and work
experiences, the twins share matching wild hand gestures, allergies,
speech patterns and a penchant for the same art movies. Louise Wise
Services, the adoption agency, will reveal only that their biological
mother was schizophrenic and unaware of who their father was. Records
of the study the agency conducted about them are sealed, so the authors
spearhead their own research project by poring over birth records,
tracking down their birth mother’s brother and interviewing
researchers, who claim that twins raised apart are more similar than
those raised together. Much of the book is devoted to fascinating
stories of other twins and triplets who, when reunited as adults, are
shocked by how much they have in common with one another. Bernstein and
Schein’s relationship becomes extremely close and also fraught with
expectation. Once you find someone, Bernstein writes, you can’t unfind
her.
Thursday November 20, 2008
7:30PM
$7, Jewish Community Center
For tickets or more information about any of these events call 459-0660.
October 23, 2008
Books, Festival, Literary