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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Ordinary Evening
Reading Series Presents </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Debby Applegate and
Adam Braver</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>at the Anchor Bar,
New Haven</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Tuesday, October
20th, 7 PM</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>As
the autumn leaves fall, gather ‘round with us for readings by novelist Adam
Braver and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Debby Applegate <b>7PM on Tuesday
October 20th in the Anchor Bar’s Mermaid Room</b>, 272 College Street in New
Haven.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>"The silence of the writer's study was
terrifying compared to the glory of a standing ovation. He was addicted to the
adulation, to the testimony of being wanted, to the love that overwhelms the
man standing alone onstage, surrounded by laughing, weeping, cheering crowds
who want nothing but more of him. Beecher had sought this adulation his whole
life, and he found it. Yet still he was not sated."</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>--from <i>The Most Famous Man in America:
The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher</i> by Debby Applegate</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>"But mostly she saw the defiance of
righteousness, of a boy's decision to refuse to have his right to play
taken. He threw down the skateboard, stepped aboard, bent his knees, and
clumsily sailed it off the lawn toward the narrow strip of crumpled sidewalk
that 111 bordered. The leaves broke under his wheels. In near
darkness, on a deteriorated sidewalk, the boy was barely in control of the
board as the cars sailed beside him."</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>--from <i>Crows Over the Wheatfield: A
Novel </i>by Adam Braver</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Debby
Applegate’s </span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>first
book, <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The Most Famous Man
in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher</span></em>, was the product of
20 years of research. It won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and was a
finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Book Critics
Circle Award. It was widely acclaimed as one of the best books of 2006.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><br>
Debby holds degrees from Amherst and Yale and has taught at Yale and Wesleyan
Universities. She currently teaches a master class on writing biography and
memoir at the Writing Center at Marymount Manhattan College in New York. She
lives in New Haven with her husband, the business writer Bruce Tulgan, and
serves on the governing boards of the <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>New
Haven Review</span></em>, the Yale Summer Cabaret and the Friends of the
Amherst College Library. Debby is currently researching a cultural biography of
Polly Adler, Manhattan's most infamous madam from the 1920s through the 1940s,
and whose 1953 autobiography, <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>A
House is Not a Home</span></em>, became a best-selling book and a Hollywood
film starring Shelley Winters. <br>
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<strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Adam Braver</span></strong>
is the author of <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Mr.
Lincoln’s Wars</span></em>, <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Divine
Sarah</span></em>, <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Crows
Over the Wheatfield</span></em>, and <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>November
22, 1963</span></em>. His books have been selected for the Barnes and Noble
Discover New Writers program, Border’s Original Voices series, the IndieNext
list, and twice for the Book Sense list; and have been translated into Italian,
Japanese, and French. His work has appeared in journals such as <em><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Daedalus</span></em>, <em><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Ontario Review</span></em>, <em><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Cimarron Review</span></em>, <em><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Water-Stone Review</span></em>, <em><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Harvard Review</span></em>, <em><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Tin House</span></em>, <em><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>West Branch</span></em>, and <em><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Post Road</span></em>. He is on the
faculty and writer-in-residence at Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI. He
also teaches in the Stonecoast MFA, and at the NY State Summer Writers
Institute.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Mark
your calendars! Our next reading is Tuesday, November 17.</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> The Ordinary
Evening Reading Series features readings by poets, novelists, and non-fiction
writers. We welcome drinkers and teetotalers alike and hope you can join us for
what the <i>New Haven Independent</i> called "one of those unofficial
civic ventures that make New Haven such a vibrant place." </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Check
our full fall schedule, read writers' biographies, send us an email, and more
at <a href="http://www.ordinaryevening.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:#2951A6'>http://www.ordinaryevening.blogspot.com</span></a>.
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The
Yale-Readings Listserv is sponsored by the Yale Collection of American
Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. To post announcements
about poetry and fiction readings, send the full text of the announcement,
including contact information, to <a
href="http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/yale-readings">nancy.kuhl at
yale.edu.</a> Messages sent directly to the Yale-Readings list may not be
posted. <br>
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For more information about Poetry at the Beinecke Library, visit: <a
href="https://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com">https://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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