[Yale-readings] 4/20, 7pm: Allan Appel and Jake Halpern

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Ordinary Evening Reading Series Presents
Allan Appel and Jake Halpern
at the Anchor Bar, New Haven
Tuesday, April 20th, 7 PM

Celebrate sending off that tax return with a rollicking evening of readings by novelist, poet and playwright Allan Appel and This American Life contributor Jake Halpern on Tuesday, April 20th, in the Anchor Bar's Mermaid Room, 272 College Street in New Haven.

I'm the child of gamblers--a card and horse player on the paternal side--and Esther, while she put down Ed's gambling habits, herself played bingo several nights a week and on Sundays, but always, she added, only with the sisterhood in the basement of the temple, directly under Junior Cong's room.  Why do I tell you this?  Until I learned better as an adult, I considered the game of bingo, like the dietary laws, practically a formal part of Judaism.

-- from The Hebrew Tutor of Bel Air by Allan Appel

Besides eating better, Jack had also learned to rest properly. Before retiring the volcano, he rarely rested well.... "I would wake up in the middle of the night, and I would think: Shit, did I tighten that valve or fix that wire?" he explained. Nowadays, despite his room being occasionally illuminated by the demonic red glow of the volcano, he claimed to sleep better.

- from "The Lava-Side Inn" in Braving Home by Jake Halpern


Allan Appel's most recent book is The Hebrew Tutor of Bel Air (2009). A novelist, poet, and playwright who was born in Chicago in 1946, Allan's books include Club Revelation, High Holiday Sutra (winner of a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award) and The Rabbi of Casino Boulevard, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. His writing has appear in The National Jewish Monthly, The Progressive, and National Lampoon, and his plays have been produced in New York, Chicago, New Haven, and Provincetown. He has published a total of six novels, a biography, two collections of poetry, a book on botany, and A Portable Apocalypse, a handy anthology of erudite and humorous quotations about the end of the world. Among his plays, Dear Heartsey, a staged adaptation of the letters of a colonial New Yorker, Abigail Franks, was commissioned by the American Jewish Historical Society, and presented, starring Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach, at New York's Jewish Museum, at Queens College, City University of New York, and at Yale. In 2003, Flight, a play about the perils of patriotism, was presented in a staged reading by the New England Academy of Theatre in New Haven.

Jake Halpern is an author, journalist, and radio producer. His first book, Braving Home (2003), was a main selection for the Book of the Month Club by Bill Bryson and was a Library Journal "Book of the Year." His next book, Fame Junkies (2007), was the basis for an original series on NPR's All Things Considered and portions of the book were published in both the New Yorker and Entertainment Weekly. His first work of fiction, a fantasy novel entitled Dormia (2009), has been hailed by the American Library Association as the next Harry Potter. As a journalist, Jake has written for a wide variety of publications, including The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly, and Outside. In the realm of radio, Jake is a contributor to NPR's All Things Considered and This American Life. Last, but not least, he is a fellow of Morse College at Yale University, where he teaches a class on journalism. His website is jakehalpern.com<http://jakehalpern.com>.


Last spring reading is May 18! We conclude the spring 2010 season on May 18 with novelist Rebecca Chace and non-fiction writer Sven Birkerts.

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