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3/27/07
On Wednesday, March 28th, loose your dissevering
tendencies in honor of Cecil Giscomb and Claire Davis. At 7:30 PM, Cecil
Giscombe, professor of English at Penn State, will read in the WSU Fine Arts
Auditorium. Giscombe is known for wrestling with the "true nature of place"
and a master of literary meditation. His works include INTO & OUT OF
DISLOCATION, TWO SECTIONS FROM PRACTICAL GEOGRAPHY, and GISCOME ROAD.
At the same time, 7:30 on Wednesday, in the UI Law School
Library, Claire Davis will read as a part of the UI Distinguished Visiting
Writer series. Davis teaches English and creative writing at Lewis-Clark
State College, won the PNWBA Best First Novel award for WINTER RANGE, wooed
readers and critics with SEASON OF THE SNAKE, has work published in numerous
journals, collected in anthologies, and read on Symphony Space, and just
published LABORS OF THE HEART, a short story collection. Davis writes with
wit and wry humor and conveys a deep love for the mundanely extraordinary
lives she writes about.
Spell your hart out: warm weather brings BookPeople's
adult slam spelling bee! Entrants and prizes are rolling in. Come by, call,
or email your entry, suggestion, contest parameter, or other recommendation.
GOD AND COUNTRY: In this memoir, James Yee, an Army
chaplain, West Point Graduate, and Guantanomo prisoner, demonstrates our
government's determination to make enemies of friends and supporters of the
United States. In this memoir, Yee shows how Islamic faith helped him
survive what can only be called persecution. Read Chaplain Yee's
memoir to see our government's critical lack of understanding and our own
crucial need to understand the Muslim population, which constitutes nearly
25% of the world's population. Friday, March 30, Chaplain Yee will have an
informal gathering from 1:30-3:30 PM at the Common Ministry House in
Pullman. At 6:30, in the UI Commons Whitewater Room, Yee will present "Guantanamo:
The Struggle for Human Rights."
Saturday, March 31, Dr. S.M. Ghazanfar, UI Professor
Emeritus, and Chaplain James Yee will present "Community Conservation:
Islam-Community and Faith" at the Moscow High School Auditorium from
1:30-3:30 PM. All events are free and open to the public.
Are you greatly awaiting the conclusion to the end of the
Harry Potter series? Well, we are collecting predictions. Pop in and spin
your tale of the finale of Harry Potter.
The U of I's Borah Symposium will be April 1-4. This
year's theme is entitled Women, War and Peace. The symposium will feature
the film "The Shape of Water", several speakers, namely Sister Lorraine
Garasu and Iain Campbell Smith, Cynthia Enloes and the keynote is the
honourable Mary Robinson. The agenda is teeming with excitement, for a
complete list of events, visit: http://www.martin.uidaho.edu/borah/2007_symposium_sched.asp
From the Greene shelf: Batya Gur, an Israeli Writer, has
become a favorite writer at my place/ Gur's DEATH ON A KIBBUTZ is one of the
saddest books on the Middle East I've read. The death is that idealism and
hope for a better world that led to the establishment of Israel. Each of
Gur's mysteries shows the problems of Israeli society and helps illuminate
the pressures and issues which trouble Israel today.
A LITERARY MURDER, set in a university literature
department, is not only a quick read on literary theory and how to read a
poem and allows the author to use her characters to be, in her words,
"metaphors that become imagination and association that achieve a dialogue
between the concrete and the abstract." Gur's books use a different
technique to heighten interest in the mystery. Her main, and often most
interesting, characters are not the detective Michael Ohayan, but the murder
victim and the people in the victim's world.
-Book People of Moscow
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