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9/13/06
Cheers,
Aside from a Pushcart Prize, what do you get when you mix
a salmon breeder with a classroom just south of the Korean DMZ? Find out on
Thursday, September 14th, when poet Matt Yurdana will be reading from his
collection "Public Gestures."
Please join us at 7:30 PM in the Teaching Learning
Center, room 40, on the University of Idaho campus. "Public Gestures"
reflects Yurdana's myriad experiences; his poems are strikingly intellectual
with piercing reflection and pervasive optimism, if not outright humor,
throughout.
Come see Alison Meyer's new Palouse Calendar for 2007!
They are in the store, gorgeous, and sell for last year's price, $12.95. Joe
McGeshick, author of the "Indian in the Liquor Cabinet", is a quiet and
studious guy with a great sense of humor who writes poems of vivid imagery
set in the Northern Plains of Indian country.
Here's a sample, "Toward Montana evening clouds hide a
waxing moon
Orange and red flash above the Bitterroots
Idaho air keeps its nightly vigil over September wheat stubble
DeSmet holds secrets silent to the black pavement Driving north to Coeur
d'Alene Spokane's glow Seems small under the dark" (McGeshick, "Indian in
the Liquor Cabinet" 63).
Please come to Joe's reading September 16, 7:00pm at
Bookpeople. We need your company.
Next Monday, September 18th, Iain Campbell Smith will
give a presentation at the Kenworthy Auditorium. Smith is an Australian
diplomat and musician who made a documentary film, "Bougainville Sky:
Portrait of a Peacekeeping Operation," about the evolution and execution of
a peacekeeping mission to Bougainville Island in Papua New Guinea. The free
screening is at 7:00 PM and will be followed by a short talk, Q&A, and
performance.
Poet Paula Coomer will join us at noon on September 23rd
to present selected stories and poems. Her work has appeared in numerous
journals, and she has recently published Devil at the Crossroads, a
collection of poetry.
Closing this month's appearances, Terry Abraham will be
here on September 30th to talk about Mountains so Sublime, his history of
British travels and exploration in the American West. He will be in our
store at 10:00 AM.
BookPeople still has passes for Sirius Idaho Theatre's
2006-2007 season. Adult price is $15/show or $40/season pass Senior price is
$10/show or $25/season pass Student price is $6/show or $15/season pass The
World Premiere of Cow-Tipping is September 21 at 7:30 PM. The show will run
through the 23rd, then again the 28-30 at 7:30pm Touch will begin January
25-27, playing again February 1-3, at 7:30pm. The Season closer will be
Breaking the Code, which premieres April 12, runs through the 14th, and
plays again the 19-21, once again beginning at 7:30pm.
The Auditorium Music Series is kicking of their season
with Music from the Palouse, a celebration of chamber music works from the
most talented musicians in the Palouse Region. The program opens on Tuesday,
September 19th at 7:30pm. Tickets are on sale for Students: $8, Senior: $15,
General Admission: $18. Individual tickets can be bought either by email:
chmusic@uidaho.edu, website www.auditoriumchambermusic.org , or by phone at
885- 7557. Bookpeople is also selling individual (see prices above) and
season tickets for Students: $40, Senior: $ 60, and General Admission: $75.
New and Notable: For all the Scots and dog lovers, we are
carrying "The Highlander," a magazine of Scottish heritage. The current
feature article is on Greyfriar's Bobby, a Skye terrier whose devotion to
his master has been inspiring hearts and minds since 1858.
Keep an eye out for "Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense
of the Imagination," an essay collection by Lee Siegel. Siegel is a critic
and essayist published, in part, by Harper's, Time, The Atlantic, The New
Yorker, and the New York Times. In "Falling Upwards," he turns his critical
eye to modern art culture and its relation to society at large. He sees a "businessification
of the arts" and an "entrepreneurizing of the artist. Trough Harry Potter,
Dante, Saul Bellow, Stalin and others, Siegel explores the state of
America's imaginative movements, how they came to be, and where they might
end up.
When Amanda joined Bookpeople her first exercise was to
study travel books. On fine Bestseller Lists she found "Oracle Bones", Peter
Hessler's report on China today. Hesler, a New Yorker correspondent in
China, tours China and comes to the conclusion that "the cultural
revolutions of Mao" was the culmination of a long century of attacks on
Chinese tradition. The oracles bones in the title refers to ancient Chinese
divination practice no one can read today. Student Loans-- 43% of College
grads use credit cards to pay tuition "I recently read two articles on
student loans. The first article in Business Week 6/5/06, basically bemoans
the heavy debt today and tells today's student to tighten his or her belt
and get lower interest credit cards. The second article in Dissent Magazines
Summer Issue called "Debt Education" by Jeffrey J. Williams lists causes for
the increase of student debt, the difficulty of working your way through
college withouth loans. 37% of polled college students say debt contributed
to depression. One of the impacts of student loan debt has been the shift in
majors. Loans impact post college job choices. Business majors as an
undergraduate choice has increased from 7% in the 1960's to 22% today. But
has that made for a better economy? 42% of students with loans say working
effected their grades. The original promise of student loans was for low
cost loans and a lot of grants. Williams, in his article, shows the impact
of student loans on students, colleges and society. He presents several
changes to the college loan system. I guess that's the difference between
liberal and conservative. Conservatives think you should suck it up and
accept the way things are while liberals think systems are tools and people
should control how their tools are used. If you know or if you are a student
in search of a cause maybe loan reform is the problem for you."-- Bob
On that note, we bid you adieu
-Book People of Moscow
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