[Yale-readings] NICHOLAS DAWIDOFF: 8:00 this Thursday, February 24

[Kuhl, Nancy]

FRANCIS CONVERSATION SERIES / BRANFORD MASTER'S DESSERT

Thursday, February 24, 8:00 p.m.
Branford Master's Residence, 80 High St.
Introduced by Anne Fadiman, Francis Writer-in-Residence

Nicholas Dawidoff on Memoir and Baseball

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"I've never read a memoir whose author has remained truer to his boyhood self."
                                                            --Jonathan Franzen
As Nicholas Dawidoff was losing his father to mental illness, he found a safe haven in his love for baseball.  A<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/books/review/Stephenson-t.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=%22the%20crowd%20sounds%20happy%22&st=cse> New York Times <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/books/review/Stephenson-t.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=%22the%20crowd%20sounds%20happy%22&st=cse> review<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/books/review/Stephenson-t.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=%22the%20crowd%20sounds%20happy%22&st=cse> called The Crowd Sounds Happy: A Story of Love, Madness, and Baseball "a beautiful portrait of a wounded family." According to Michael Pollan, it belongs on the "short shelf of great books about American boyhood."

Dawidoff will read from and discuss his memoir, and then field questions on writing, family troubles, and baseball.


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