Richard Russo, Gregory Brown in Conversation Tuesday, March 9, 2021 3:53 PM Gregory Brown, left, and Richard Russo
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2 Left Bank Books in Belfast and Bangor Daily News will host a free online conversation with Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Richard Russo and debut author Gregory Brown on Tuesday, March 23, at 7 p.m. The two will discuss Brown’s new novel, “The Lowering Days.”
The novel is set in a fictional town on the Penobscot River. The town’s paper mill is shuttered. Just as Japanese investors show interest in reopening the mill, a teenage girl from the Penobscot Nation sets fire to the plant. Some townspeople see her act as environmental justice; others call it criminal mischief. It reveals long-simmering grievances that end in a cycle of violence that tears the community and two families apart.
Authors Gregory Brown, Richard Russo in conversation in online book talk
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Feb. 19, 2021
Manchester Community College, home of the Connecticut Poetry Circuit, is joining with the circuit to sponsor author and poet Ross Gay on Tuesday, March 2, from 7 to 8 p.m. Gay will read from his work live via WebEx.
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Gay is author of four books of poetry: Against Which, Bringing the Shovel Down, Be Holding, and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude and was the winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His collection of essays, The Book of Delights, was released by Algonquin Books in 2019. Gay also is a founding editor, with Karissa Chen and Patrick Rosal, of the online sports magazine Some Call it Ballin . He has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writer s Conference and the Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches at Indiana University.
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The essay is in a bad way. It’s not because essayists have gotten stupider. It’s not because they’ve gotten sloppier. And it is certainly not because they’ve become less anthologized. More anthologies are published now than there have been in decades, indeed in centuries. The Best American Essays series, which began in 1986, has reached 20 volumes. The problem is that these series rot in basements when they make it as far as that. I’ve found the run of American Essays in the basement of my local library, where they’ll sit with zero date stamps until released gratis one fine Sunday morning to a used bookstore that, in turn, will sell them for a buck to a college student who’ll place them next to his dorm bed and dump them in an end-of-semester clean-out. That is the fate of the essay today.