The Amagansett Free Library
invites you to our 2011
Authors After Hours Series
Come spend five very special Saturday evenings with us:
July 16th at 6PM:
James Frey
July 23 at 6PM:
Hilary Thayer Hamann
July 30 at 6PM:
Carol Muske-Dukes
August 6 at 6PM:
Gary Reiswig
August 20 at 6PM:
Neal Gabler
The Amagansett Free Library
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Amagansett, NY 11930
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James Frey: July 16 / The Final Testament of the Holy Bible
James Frey, author of A Million Little Pieces, My Friend Leonard and Bright Shiny Morning has been called a liar. A cheat. A con man. A revolutionary. A genius. Now he has written his greatest work, his most revolutionary, his most controversial. The Final Testament of the Holy Bible? What if the Messiah were alive today? Living in New York. Euthanizing the dying, and healing the sick. Defying the government, and condemning the holy. If you met him, and he changed your life, would you believe?
Hilary Thayer Hamann: July 23 / Anthropology of an American Girl
This ambitious work explores the sexual and intellectual awakening of a young American woman struggling to remain true to herself as she encounters love, passion, and death amid the challenges and heartbreaks of growing up. Anthropology Of An American Girl is being compared to Catcher in the Rye, but the book’s heroine is no virginal Holden Caulfield, though like him she has a capacity “for extremes” and an ardent, if ambivalent, desire to be understood.
Carol Muske-Dukes: July 30 / Twin Cities
Carol Muske-Dukes is the author of seven books of poetry, four novels, and two collections of essays. She was appointed Poet Laureate of California in 2008. Twin Cities is an emotionally rich book of poems about how things double-by reflection, by reproduction, by severance. The poems embark from the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, divided by a legendary river. Lit by loss, these moving poems navigate between the poles of love and grief, curse and blessing, abandonment.
Gary Reiswig: August 6 / The Thousand Mile Stare
The Thousand Mile Stare: One Family’s Journey through the Science and Struggle of Alzheimer’s. For generations Gary’s family has suffered the horrible fate of early on-set Alzheimer’s. Gary was one of less than a handful of family members who did not carry the gene. The Reiswig’s genetics are so meaningful to the study of the disease they became a study themselves to help understand the disease, the causes and hopefully help lead scientists to the direction of a cure.
Neal Gabler: August 20 / The Art Of Biography
Neal Gabler is a distinguished author, cultural historian and television commentator who has been called ”one of America’s most important public intellectuals.” Author of An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity, Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality and Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination, He is currently working on a book on the late Sen. Edward Kennedy.