 | TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS
Finding Beauty in a Broken
World
Wednesday, December 3 at 7:00 PM From one of our most
essential environmental writers comes a luminous exploration of beauty and
community in places as diverse as Italy, a prairie dog clan in Bryce
Canyon, and a small town in Rwanda. In Finding Beauty in a Broken
World, Terry Tempest Williams presents a moving chronicle of the ways
in which humans search for meaning in an increasingly torn-apart world. In
2006, Williams received the Robert Marshall Award from The Wilderness
Society, their highest honor given to an American citizen. She has also
been awarded the Wallace Stegner Award by The Center for the American West,
a Lannan Literary Fellowship and a Guggenheim. “Scientific in her exactitude, compassionate in her
receptivity, and rhapsodic in expression, Williams has constructed a
beautiful mosaic of loss and renewal that affirms, with striking lucidity,
the need for reverence for all of life.”
— Booklist, starred review “The questions Williams wrestles
with so eloquently, imaginatively, and constructively are truly matters of
life and death.”
— Chicago Tribune
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CALVIN TRILLIN
Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008
Presidential Race in Rhyme
Saturday, December 6 at 7:00
PM Deciding the Next Decider is an ongoing campaign narrative in
verse interrupted regularly by other poems, such as a country tune about
John Edwards called “Yes, I Know He’s a Mill Worker’s
Son, But There’s Hollywood in That Hair,” and a Sarah Palin
song about her foreign policy credentials: “On a Clear Day, I See
Vladivostok.” It covers the slow-motion implosion of Hillary
Clinton’s drive to the White House (“Some pundits wrote that
Hil’s campaign might fare / A little better if Bill wasn’t
there”), and the differing responses of Barack Obama and John McCain
to the financial crisis (“Though coolness has its limitations,
it’ll / Prevent comparisons with Chicken Little”). And it
carries through to the vote that made Barack Obama the forty-fourth
president of the United States. Trillin has been a staff writer for the
New Yorker since 1963. He is the author of numerous books, including
the bestselling Obliviously On He Sails and A Heckuva
Job. “Trillin praised the country’s choice to
reboot
In verse that was witty, quick and acute.
What had
begun two books back as a wry chronicle of woe
Became a tribute to
the nation’s ability to grow.”
—
New York Times Book Review
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