Monday, March 2, 2009

Things I Noticed

Jayne Ann Phillips will be at the Tribeca Barnes & Noble tomorrow night (March 3rd).  Her new book Lark and Termite is on my to-read list, so I'd like to go.  Sorry to say I haven't read anything by her before, but since she is from and writes about my ancestral home, West Virginia, I feel I should look into her oeuvre.  Also, a friend has read Lark and Termite and recommends it.  On Thursday, March 5, Zoe Heller will be at the Lincoln Square B&N; her new book The Believers is also on my list.  She wrote the book on which the film Notes on a Scandal was based.   I like what she said recently in an interview for the New York Times: "I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters."  Thank the maker!  Here's another worthy quotation: "I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation.  In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both."  Flannery O'Connor, of course.

2 comments:

  1. If the NYPL is to be believed and I believe they are, this month is Women's History Month. As part of that (and being a designer) they are presenting Ms.-en-Scène! Celebrating Women Designers

    The landmark exhibition Curtain Call presents the work of 140 women designing for theater, dance, and opera. Browse an online gallery from Curtain Call. A beautiful, full-color companion volume is also available. Don't miss this "never-before-seen, probably not-to-be-seen-again" exhibition at the Library for the Performing Arts.

    love reading your blog, keep it up!

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  2. Thanks, Regina! Good to know we wymyn get at least one month out of the year. Sounds like a really nice exhibit!

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