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As the places and people most affected by the climate change crisis face existential threat, freeing environmental writing from the gaze of the “Lone Enraptured Male” (London Review of Books) is crucial. Kerri Arsenault, Meehan Crist, Bathsheba Demuth, John Freeman, Emily Raboteau, and Meera Subramanian will consider the formal, structural elements environmental writers can bring to storytelling, how to handle or tell stories that support political stances, and examine the stories out there that can foster a better understanding of our environmental crisis. This event is co-sponsored by Orion magazine and the National Book Critics Circle. (karenb)… (lisätietoja)

EVENT OVERVIEW: Famed Book Critic and former Granta Editor John Freeman is used to asking the questions when he deals with Authors. But in this Presentation, Kansas City Author Whitney Terrell and Novelist Frank Bill (both of whom have been reviewed by John Freeman) will turn the tables and grill John Freeman on his interviewing and reviewing techniques.

ABOUT John Freeman: John Freeman is former President of the National Book Critics Circle and Author of How to read a novelist, a collection of interviews with 55 world-class Novelists like Salman Rushdie, Phillip Roth, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson and Jonathan Franzen.

ABOUT Frank Bill: Frank Bill is the Author of the Short Story Collection Crimes in southern Indiana, which has been compared to the crime yarns of Cormac McCarthy and Daniel Woodrell. In 2013 he published his first Novel, Donnybrook.

Event: John Freeman and Frank Bill will appear In Conversation with Kansas City Novelist Whitney Terrell. Co-Sponsored by Rainy Day Books, The Kansas City Public Library, the English Department at the University of Missouri - Kansas City and the Writers at Work Round Table.

Time & Location: This Event is Thursday, February 6, 2014 at 6:30 PM at Kansas City Public Library, Central Branch, Helzberg Auditorium, 14 W 10th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64105.

Admission: Complimentary and OPEN House to the Public. Reservations requested, please call the Kansas City Public Library at 816-701-3407 or visit www.KCLibrary.org

John Freeman's and Frank Bill's Books will be available for purchase at this Event from Rainy Day Books. Facebook Google Google Buzz LinkedIn SlashDot StumbleUpon Twitter Yahoo

Location: Street: Kansas City Public Library, Central Branch, Helzberg Auditorum Additional: 14 W 10th Street City: Kansas City, Province: Missouri Postal Code: 64105 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (lisätietoja)

For the last fifteen years, whenever a novel was published, John Freeman was there to greet it. As a critic for more than two hundred newspapers worldwide, and the onetime president of the National Book Critics Circle, he has reviewed thousands of books and interviewed scores of writers. In How to read a novelist, which pulls together his very best profiles (many of them new or completely rewritten for this volume) of the very best novelists of our time, he shares with us what he’s learned. From such international stars as Doris Lessing, Haruki Murakami, Salman Rushdie, and Mo Yan, to established American lions such as Don DeLillo, Norman Mailer, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Philip Roth, John Updike, and David Foster Wallace, to the new guard of Edwidge Danticat, Dave Eggers, Jonathan Franzen, and more, Freeman has talked to everyone. What emerges is an instructive and illuminating, definitive yet still idiosyncratic guide to a diverse and lively literary culture: a vision of the novel as a varied yet vital contemporary form, a portrait of the novelist as a unique and profound figure in our fragmenting global culture, and a book that will be essential reading for every aspiring writer and engaged reader—a perfect companion (or gift!) for anyone who’s ever curled up with a novel and wanted to know a bit more about the person who made it possible. John Freeman is an award-winning writer and book critic who has written for numerous publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and The Wall Street Journal. Freeman won the 2007 James Patterson Pageturner Award for his work as the president of the National Book Critics Circle. He was the editor in chief of Granta and lives in New York City. Laura van den Berg was raised in Florida and earned her M.F.A. at Emerson College. Her first collection of stories, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, was a Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection, longlisted for The Story Prize, and shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Award. Her second collection of stories, The Isle of Youth, will be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in November 2013. Laura lives in the Boston area and is at work on a novel.

Location: Street: Porter Square Shopping Center Additional: 25 White Street City: Cambridge, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02140 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (lisätietoja)

Freeman--award-winning writer, critic, former president of the National Book Critics Circle, editor in chief of Granta--joins writer Aleksandar Hemon to discuss his collection of criticism and author profiles, and to discuss why the novel is far from dead.

For the last fifteen years, whenever a novel was published, John Freeman was there to greet it. As a critic for more than two hundred newspapers worldwide, the onetime president of the National Book Critics Circle, and the current editor of Granta, he has reviewed thousands of books and interviewed scores of writers. In How to read a novelist, which pulls together his very best profiles (many of them new or completely rewritten for this volume) of the very best novelists of our time, he shares with us what he’s learned. From such international stars as Doris Lessing, Haruki Murakami, Salman Rushdie, and Mo Yan, to established American lions such as Don DeLillo, Norman Mailer, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Philip Roth, John Updike, and David Foster Wallace, to the new guard of Edwidge Danticat, Dave Eggers, Jonathan Franzen, and more, Freeman has talked to everyone. What emerges is an instructive and illuminating, definitive yet still idiosyncratic guide to a diverse and lively literary culture: a vision of the novel as a varied yet vital contemporary form, a portrait of the novelist as a unique and profound figure in our fragmenting global culture, and a book that will be essential reading for every aspiring writer and engaged reader—a perfect companion (or gift!) for anyone who’s ever curled up with a novel and wanted to know a bit more about the person who made it possible.

John Freeman is an award-winning writer and book critic who has written for numerous publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and The Wall Street Journal. Freeman won the 2007 James Patterson Pageturner Award for his work as the president of the National Book Critics Circle. He was the editor in chief of Granta and lives in New York City.

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Location: Street: Harold Washington Library Center ~ Cindy Pritzker Auditorium Additional: 400 S. State Street City: Chicago, Province: Illinois Postal Code: 60605 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (lisätietoja)