Tag Archives: authors

Earth 2100

Posted on June 8, 2009 by Barbara

Did you see the televised special Earth 2100 last week? I hadn’t planned to watch, but got sucked in. It was an interesting mix of fact, science, and speculation in a fiction wrapper to make it palatable to the general … Continue reading →

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Human Trafficking Lecture 4/29

Posted on April 27, 2009 by Barbara

E. Benjamin Skinner will speak about “A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery” at 6 pm on Wed., April 29th, in the Summers Auditorium (James R. Connor University Center). It’s hard to believe, but some practices you think are … Continue reading →

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Author David Rhodes @public library 4/23

Posted on April 20, 2009 by Barbara

David Rhodes will read from his novel Driftless on April 23rd at 7 p.m. at the Irvin L. Young Memorial Library (Whitewater’s public library, at 431 W. Center Street). Read a review from the California Literary Review. A copy of … Continue reading →

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Knowing How We Got Here

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Barbara

This week I read Leonard Pitts‘ column in the Janesville Gazette “You can’t understand world unless you know how it was,” in which he laments that many people do not know basic history, and thus cannot put our world today … Continue reading →

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Hoop Dreams reading Mar 13

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Barbara

UWW Sociology Professor Ron Berger will discuss and read passages from his book, “Hoop dreams on wheels: disability and the competitive wheelchair athlete” on Fri., March 13th, at 3:30 pm, in Williams Center room 185. The book chronicles the lives … Continue reading →

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Author John Updike died

Posted on February 1, 2009 by Barbara

John Updike died last Tuesday of lung cancer. He was the author of more than 50 books and twice the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for titles in the tetralogy about the life and death of Harry “Rabbit” … Continue reading →

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New Stuff Tuesday – January 27

Posted on January 27, 2009 by kyle

Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life By James Hawes PT2621 .A26 Z746214 2008 New Book Island, 2nd floor Advice passed down over the generation usually takes the form of “You must do before you die;” whether … Continue reading →

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Cristina Garcia @ UWW 12/1/08

Posted on November 26, 2008 by Barbara

Cristina Garcia will be at Young Auditorium on Mon. Dec. 1st, 7 pm, for the Community Reading Initiative co-sponsored by the Auditorium and the College of Letters and Sciences. Her 2007 novel A Handbook to Luck tells the story of three … Continue reading →

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Michael Crichton

Posted on November 7, 2008 by Barbara

Michael Crichton died on Nov. 4th in Los Angeles after a bout with cancer. For those of you who don’t know, he’s the author you can thank for classics such as Jurassic park and The Andromeda strain. His novels often … Continue reading →

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Alan Weisman @UWW 10/27

Posted on October 23, 2008 by Barbara

Alan Weisman, journalist and author of The World Without Us, will speak on Mon., Oct. 27, 2008, at 7 pm in the Irvin Young Auditorium. The World Without Us imagines what the Earth would be like if humans vanished. It’s … Continue reading →

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