October 18, 2011
A trailer is out featuring John Cusack as Edgar Allen Poe. He helps a detective pursue a serial killer who uses Poe’s writing as the basis for his crimes. Relativity Media issued the release in honor of the author’s 162nd death. Early reactions seem favorable. Use this link for EPL’s holdings of Poe’s works. Shira […]
October 18, 2011
Julian Barnes has won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, for the novel The Sense of an Ending. This is his fourth nomination and first win.
October 17, 2011
Matt Golosinski is a local photographer, musician, writer, and the latest artist to be featured in our ongoing exhibition series Local Art @ EPL. His show – titled Everyday Departures – is currently on display on the 2nd floor of EPL’s Main Branch where it reveals the extraordinary aspects of ordinary moments captured during meditative […]
October 16, 2011
Which is the “most literary” of all cemeteries? Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Mass., may very well be the one. Writers of no less stature than Thoreau, Emerson, and Louisa May Alcott rest there for eternity. Read this off-beat post on PWxyz and see the interesting responses from readers. A new anthology on Zombies entitled […]
October 14, 2011
From CNN News (online) comes report of discovery by archaeologists of what they believe is a 100,000-year-old paint workshop in Blombos Cave, South Africa, about 186 miles east of Cape Town. Researchers found hammers and grindstones that could have been used to make ochre powder in the cave (ochre which contains red or yellow oxides […]
October 14, 2011
You’re invited to join us Saturday, October 22, 2:00 – 3:30pm, for a panel of four local mystery and suspense authors. David Heinzmann, Michael Dymmoch, Luisa Buehler, and Diane Piron-Gelman (pen name: D. M. Pirrone) will discuss their writing process, inspiration, and recent projects. A paperback exchange and book sale will follow. Refreshments will be […]
October 12, 2011
This year, 1,223 books were submitted for the National Book Awards: Fiction – 315 Nonfiction – 441 Poetry – 189 Young People’s Literature (YPL) – 278 Today the 26 finalists were revealed! Usually there are five named in each genre, but this time there are six in the YPL category due to a “miscommunication” during the […]
October 9, 2011
The Pavel Haas Quartet won the classical music world’s top award for their recordings of Dvorak’s quartets for strings, the no.12 (American) and no.13. Go here for a chance to sample their sublime music. (Who knew a string quartet could look so hip?) Shira S.
October 8, 2011
We are very happy to introduce local photographer, musician, and writer Matt Golosinski as the next artist in our ongoing exhibition series Local Art @ EPL. From now through the end of October, his remarkable collection Everyday Departures will be on display on the 2nd floor of EPL’s Main Branch. Captured during meditative walks through […]
October 7, 2011
Swedish Poet Tomas Transtromer was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature Thursday. Although he may not be familiar to many Americans, he was the subject of a 1986 Washington Post profile, and his work has been translated into more than 60 languages. The 80-year-old poet was called the “Ingmar Bergman of poetry” by president Jonathan Galassi […]
