[Yale-readings] Francine Prose, Colm Toibin and more

[Nancy Kuhl]

>Upcoming events at the New Haven Free Public Library...
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>WRITERS LIVE! @ NHFPL (MAIN LIBRARY: 133 Elm Street)
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>April 30, Saturday, 3:00 pm
>Francine Prose & Colm Toibin
>National Book Award Finalist and author of Blue Angel, FRANCINE PROSE 
>reads from her new novel, A Changed Man.
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>On an unseasonably warm spring afternoon, a young neo-Nazi named Vincent 
>Nolan walks into the Manhattan office of World Brotherhood Watch, a human 
>rights foundation headed by a charismatic Holocaust survivor, Meyer 
>Maslow. Vincent announces that he wants to make a radical change in his 
>life. But what is Maslow to make of this rough-looking stranger who claims 
>to have read Maslow's books, who has Waffen-SS tattoos under his 
>shirtsleeves, and who says that his mission is to save guys like him from 
>becoming guys like him?" "As he gradually turns into the sort of person 
>who might actually be able to do that, Vincent also transforms those 
>around him: Maslow, who fears that heroism has become a desk job; Bonnie 
>Kalen, the foundation's fund-raiser, a divorced single mother and a 
>devoted believer in Maslow's crusade against intolerance and injustice; 
>and Bonnie's teenage son, Danny, whose take on the world around him is at 
>once openhearted, sharp-eyed, and as fundamentally decent as his 
>mother's." A Changed Man poses the essential questions: What constitutes a 
>life worth living? Is it possible to change? What does it mean to be a 
>moral human being?
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>COLM TOIBIN, critically acclaimed author of The Master reads from a new work.
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>Like Michael Cunningham in The Hours, Colm Tóibín captures the 
>extraordinary mind and heart of a great writer. Brilliant and profoundly 
>moving, The Master tells the story of Henry James, a man born into one of 
>America's first intellectual families two decades before the Civil War. 
>James left his country to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London among 
>privileged artists and writers.
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>In stunningly resonant prose, Tóibín captures the loneliness and longing, 
>the hope and despair of a man who never married, never resolved his sexual 
>identity, and whose forays into intimacy inevitably failed him and those 
>he tried to love. The emotional intensity of Tóibín's portrait of James is 
>riveting. Time and again, James, a master of psychological subtlety in his 
>fiction, proves blind to his own heart and incapable of reconciling his 
>dreams of passion with his own fragility.
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>Tóibín is "a great and humanizing writer" who describes complex 
>relationships in "supple, beautifully modulated prose" (The Washington 
>Post Book World). In The Master, he has written his most ambitious and 
>heartbreaking novel, an extraordinarily inventive encounter with a 
>character at the cusp of the modern age, elusive to his own friends and 
>even family, yet astonishingly vivid in these pages.
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>MAIN LIBRARY: 133 Elm Street, New Haven, CT 06511
>for more info contact: Kathie Hurley at 946-8125 or john.jessen at nhfpl.org
><http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/library>http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/library
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>Upcoming and ongoing...
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>Wednesday, May 4th,6:30pm
>Karen E. Quinones Miller
>author of Satin Doll & Using What You Got, will read and discuss her 
>latest: Ida B. New Haven Free Public Library Stetson Branch,  200 Dixwell 
>Avenue Free and open to public Free parking in front and behind building 
>for more info: 946-8119.
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>Saturday, May 7, 3:00pm
>SARA NELSON, author of So Many Books, So Little Time!, will tell her tale 
>of reading 52 books in 52 weeks. “A work that will make readers run to the 
>shelf to discover which book beckons next.” –Library Journal
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>Saturday, May 21, 3:00pm
>TERRY IACUZZO will read from her memoir Small Mediums at Large. “Renowned 
>psychic and Cosmo Girl! columnist Iacuzzo tells all in this charming 
>autobiography”
>–Library Journal
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>ART EXHIBITS
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>April, 2 - 30
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>Virginia Passaggio
>Local artist, Virginia Passaggio will display her oil paintings in the 
>Performing Arts Area on the lower level. There will be an opening 
>reception on April 9, 3:00-5:00 pm.
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>April, 2-30
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>Dan Smith
>Photographer Dan Smith utilizes black & white and color prints to portray 
>his journey to Iraq. His work can be seen on the lower level with a 
>reception on April 14, 5:30-7:30 pm. Reception sponsored by Connecticut 
>Peace Coalition-New Haven Chapter.
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>ART INSTALLATION
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>Moving/Not Moving
>Outdoor installation, located in front of the library's patio 
>area,conceived by Janet Van Horne and created in collaboration with fellow 
>City Gallery artist members Meg Bloom, Liz Pagano and Colleen Tully.
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>April-June
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>Children's Programs - Free and open to the public.
>For more information, call 946-8129
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>April 30, Saturday, 10:30 am
>Parent/Child Book Club
>Storytime, arts and crafts, reading games and monthly book give-aways. For 
>children ages 5-10 with parents or caregivers. Registration required.
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>April 30, Saturday, 11:00 am
>Family Fun
>A story hour for children ages 1-6 and their parents or caregivers.
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>BOOKTIVITIES
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>April 28, Thursday, 3:30 pm
>Celebrate Earth Day!
>Learn how you can save the earth! Create a recycled craft to take home.
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>BOOK CLUBS
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>Mitchell Book Club
>Join a group of readers as they savor the month book selection.
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>April 30, Saturday, 6:00pm
>Ladies Nite Out- Mitchell Book Club
>Saturday night and the reading is for ladies! April selection: Too Much of 
>a Good Thing by Kimberla Lawson Roby.
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>  Hours:  Main Library
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>Monday: 12 - 8
>Tuesday: 10 - 6
>Wednesday: 10 - 6
>Thursday: 10 - 8
>Friday: Closed
>Saturday 10-5
>Sunday: Closed
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>Branch Libraries:
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>Monday - Tuesday: 10 - 6
>Wednesday: 12 - 8
>Thursday: 10 - 6
>Friday: Closed
>Saturday 1-5
>Sunday: Closed
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>Main Library, Circulation: 946-8135, Reference: 946-8130, Fair Haven: 
>946-8115, Mitchell Library: 946-8117, Stetson Library: 946-8119
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