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Harvard Book Store Presents...
Ecco
Price: $29.95
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Editor MATT WEILAND with ALISON BECHDEL (Vt.), TONY HORWITZ (Va.), and JOSHUA CLARK (La.), present STATE BY STATE A Panoramic Portrait of America $10 tickets on sale now. Includes screening of Out of the Book's State by State and LIVE state-songs performances during the book signing!
Harvard Book Store and Powell's Books are very pleased to welcome State by State co-editor MATT WEILAND with contributors ALISON BECHDEL (Vermont), TONY HORWITZ (Virginia), and JOSHUA CLARK (Louisiana) for a discussion of State by State--a collection of original writing on all fifty states by fifty of America’s finest novelists, journalists, and essayists. The night will also feature a screening of Powell’s Out of the Book film by the same name. The $10 ticket covers the talk and the screening. Please note the unusual 7 p.m. start time at the Brattle. Also, local musicians De Osos will perform State Songs during the book-signing portion of the evening!! Inspired by the example of the legendary WPA American Guide series of the 1930s and '40s, now 50 of our foremost writers have produced original pieces of reportage and memoir that capture the 50 states in our time, creating a fresh portrait of America as it lives and breathes today. At turns poignant and funny, and always insightful, these 50 writers tell us something lasting and revealing about each state through personal memory or contemporary reporting that captures the essential qualities that make each state its own. With an array of revealing facts and figures comparing the 50 states in a range of surprising measures (toothlessness, military enlistment, suicide), State by State is more than an anthology: It is a classic American road movie in book form. State by State features original writing on all fifty states, including:
Connecticut by Rick Moody
Florida by Joshua Ferris
Georgia by Ha Jin
Illinois by Dave Eggers
Maine by Heidi Julavits
Massachusetts by John Hodgman
Montana by Sarah Vowell
Nebraska by Alexander Payne New Hampshire by Will Blythe
New Jersey by Anthony Bourdain
New York by Jonathan Franzen
North Dakota by Louise Erdrich
Pennsylvania by Andrea Lee
Rhode Island by Jhumpa Lahiri Vermont by Alison Bechdel
Virginia by Tony Horwitz
and more!! De Osos Info! After toiling in the depths of New Jersey for years, De Osos picked up and moved to the Greater Boston area, which they held to be some promiseland. Now learning new tricks and absorbing new cultures, they have developed into a new beast. They have just released a six-song record and are hoping you will listen to it and be their new friends. www.deososmusic.com
www.myspace.com/deosos
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CONTACT:
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617.661.1515
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617.661.1424 ex.1
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| DATE: |
Monday, September 29th |
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7:01 PM |
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Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle Street
Cambridge |
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$10 tickets can be purchased at Harvard Book Store or over the phone with a credit card (617.661.1515). Please note that this particular ticket is not a coupon. |
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Matt Weiland is the Deputy Editor of The Paris Review. He has been an editor at Granta, The Baffler, and The New Press, and he oversaw a documentary radio unit at NPR. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, New York Observer, The Nation, and The New Republic. He is the co-editor, with Sean Wilsey, of State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America and The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup and, with Thomas Frank, of Commodify Your Dissent: The Business of Culture in the New Gilded Age. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.
Photo credit: James Lester Films.
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Alison Bechdel has been a careful archivist of her own life and kept a journal since she was ten. Since 1983 she has been chronicling the lives of various characters in the fictionalized "Dykes to Watch Out For" strip, "one of the preeminent oeuvres in the comics genre, period" (Ms.). Thestrip is syndicated in 50 alternative newspapers, translated into multiple languages, and collected into a book series with a quarter of a million copies in print. Utne magazine has listed DTWOF as "one of the greatest hits of the twentieth century."
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Tony Horwitz is a graduate of Brown University and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He worked for many years as a reporter, mostly covering wars and conflicts as a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. After returning to the States, he won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting and worked as a staff writer for The New Yorker before becoming a full-time author.His books include Baghdad Without a Map, Confederates in the Attic, and Blue Latitudes. He lives with his wife, Geraldine Brooks, and their son, Nathaniel, on the island of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.
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Joshua Clark never left New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, choosing instead to band together with fellow holdouts in the French Quarter, pooling resources and volunteering energy in an effort to save the city they loved. When Katrina hit, Clark, a key correspondent for National Public Radio during the storm, immediately began to record hundreds of hours of conversations with its victims, not only in the city but throughout the Gulf.
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