Seton Hall University
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Tuesday, February 23 at 7 p.m. ET in a free online event.
Téa Obreht was born in Belgrade, in the former Yugoslavia, and grew up in Cyprus and Egypt before eventually immigrating to the United States. Her debut novel,
The Tiger s Wife (Random House, 2011), won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction, and was a 2011 National Book Award finalist and an international bestseller. Her second novel,
Inland (Random House, 2019), was also an international bestseller, and published to wide critical acclaim.
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Téa Obreht burst onto the literary scene in 2011 with her dazzling debut novel,
The Tiger s Wife, which went on to become a best seller and won the Orange Prize.
Portsmouth Herald
PORTSMOUTH - The Music Hall s Writers In The Loft series presents award-winning authors and former military officers Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis with their new geopolitical thriller 2034 in a virtual event on Tuesday, March 16 at 7 p.m.
Ackerman and Stavridis will discuss their new novel, a chillingly authentic, geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China and the path to a nightmarish global conflagration.
The event includes an audience Q&A and interview with Jonathan Day, managing partner at Centrus Digital and major in the US Air Force Reserve. The event will be hosted on Crowdcast and books can be purchased on TheMusicHall.org or through The Music Hall’s Box Office and are available for pick-up or shipment.
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The New Yorker,
London Review of Books,
The London Times, and
The New York Times to decide which fiction should be ordered. Fiction accounts for fully a quarter of the forty-eight hundred books the library acquires each year. There are standing orders for certain novelistsâMartin Amis, Zadie Smith, Toni Morrison, for example. Some popular writers merit standing orders for more than one copy.
But first novels and collections of stories present a problem. McGuirl and his two assistants try to guess what the members of the library will want to read. Of course, they respond to membersâ requests. If a book is requested by three people, the staff orders it. Thereâs also a committee of members that meets monthly to recommend books for purchase. The committee checks on the librariansâ lists and suggests titles theyâve missed. The whole enterprise balances enthusiasm and skepticism.
Sadie and Max are playing in the backyard when Sadie has a thought. “We should start a restaurant,” she says.
Max claps his hands and shouts, “Yes!” but then furrows his small brow. He’s not sure what his sister means.
“We’ll need tables,” Sadie continues. “Daddy can cook and Mommy can tell people where to sit.”
Andrea is listening in. “I think I can do more than
that,” she says. She’s defensive about the fact that Kyle does most of the cooking. But Sadie’s right, if they were to open a restaurant, Kyle would be the chef.