Events

« Week of May 31, 2009 »
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31 VB READS ... FEMINIST BOOK GROUP Start: 2:00 pm n/a LUCIA PERILLO, INSEMINATING THE ELEPHANT --POETRY! Start: 4:00 pm n/a	1 VB READS ... GENERAL LITERATURE READING GROUP Start: 7:00 pm Authors DO NOT attend. Join Cindi and discuss books from a variety of genres the 1st Monday of each month at 7:00 PM June's book is The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz. The most talked about and praised first novel of 2007, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who, from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister, dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukAaa curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere and risk it all in the name of love.	2 LAURA LAFFRADO, UNCOMMON WOMEN: GENDER AND REPRESENTATION IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY U.S. WOMEN'S WRITING Start: 7:00 pm n/a	3 VB READS...BUSINESS BOOK GROUP Start: 12:00 pm Authors DO NOT attend. Join Janet Ott the 1st Wednesday of each month (12:00-1:00pm). Meetings are in the Readings Gallery. Brown bag lunches are encouraged. June's book is Career Renegade: How to Make a Great Living Doing What You Love, by Jonathan Fields. Jonathan Fields, mega-firm lawyer turned successful lifestyle entrepreneur, blogger and writer shows you how to turn your passion LAURA KALPAKIAN, INTRO TO WWU EXTENDED ED.--WRITING THE MODERN MEMOIR Start: 7:00 pm n/a	4 MOLLY WIZENBERG, A HOMEMADE LIFE: STORIES AND RECIPES FROM MY KITCHEN TABLE Start: 6:30 pm n/a	5	6