What better way to celebrate the upcoming banned books week than by buying armfuls of books, magazines and movies for super cheap? The Friends of Warwick Public Library fall book sale is this weekend at the main library. Sale begins Friday with the Friends of the Library ‘members only’ sneak preview from 6pm to 9pm. […]
This September, Edward Albee’s masterpiece Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? comes to Perishable Theatre at 95 Empire Street. Originally produced in 1962, and now a staple of American literature, the most widely known of Albee’s plays examines everything from love, marriage, our illusions of happiness and the seemingly inevitable deterioration of the American dream. Independently
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Corrugated Press, based in Providence and Santa Fe, and Soggy Summer, based in Chicago, have released Brass Sopaipilla, the first issue of their literary publication, adj noun magazine. Brass Sopaipilla is 45 imperfectly hand-bound pages of (mostly) fiction, poetry, and visual art by Blake Butler, Christopher Woods, Coupons Coupons, Daisy Atterbury, David Ohle, Feliz Molina,
Providence Community Library and The Friends of Rochambeau present a discussion with Dr. Michael Fine, author of “The Zero Calorie Diet” on June 10th, 7pm, at Rochambeau Library. “The Zero Calorie Diet” is a book about fasting, about eating, not eating, eating less, and about the commercialization of food and everything else in our bloated
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Providence Community Library welcomes Ryder Windham, author of over sixty Star Wars books, to Rochambeau Library on Saturday, May 15th. Ryder will present rare photos and illustrations related to Empire, and discuss vintage Star Wars toys, comic books, and comic strips. Ryder will also be signing books and we will be giving away signed souvenirs.
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Providence Community Library will be presenting a free book discussion and signing with local best-selling author Ann Hood, on Friday, May 7th at the Mount Pleasant Library. Ann will be reading from her latest work, The Red Thread, with a discussion and signing to follow. For more info call 272.0106 or contact ddvorchak@provcomlib.org. 3pm, Friday,
Please join Providence Community Library and Valerie Tutson for an afternoon of storytelling at the Knight Memorial Library. Valerie has been telling stories in schools, churches, libraries, festivals and conferences since 1991. She draws her stories from around the world with an emphasis on African traditions. Her repertoire includes stories and songs she learned in
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Attention Dick fans, for an evening of expertly executed weirdness check out Saturday’s show — The Preserving Machine — at AS220. A multimedia performance based on the Philip K. Dick story of the same name… sheet music is transformed into animals in an effort to enable it to survive the coming dark ages… music/sound/projections by
Origami poems are actually a collection of one to five original poems which are “bound” in a “book” that requires one page of paper to make. This idea began as a class prompt given to a group of poets by Barbara Schweitzer. It was her idea of creating and spreading these books of poetry à
Join us at Smith Hill Library on Wednesday, April 7th at 6pm, as Kate reads from her new book “Town” and Read and Rap Youth read from their upcoming poetry book! Kate Schapira is the author of TOWN (Factory School, Heretical Texts, 2010) and several chapbooks from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, Cy Gist Press,
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Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses, will be in town Tuesday night as part of the continuing ‘Year of India’ celebration at Brown University. Both a pop culture icon and a provocative proponent of free speech, the Indian-born British writer was named one of the world’s top 100 public intellectuals by Foreign Policy magazine
The skies should be appropriately gloomy and threatening later today when fans of Edgar Allan Poe (born January 19, 1809) gather to celebrate his life and works. The rain should hold off long enough for a speech honoring Poe, as well as some readings from “The Raven”, “The Telltale Heart” and “Masque of the Red
Online-only, literary mag Wag’s Revue just launched their third issue since March, when the four editors were seniors at Brown, and errant friends and housemates of mine. The issue includes an interview with George Saunders; a short story by Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish; a nonfiction rainbow of words, marshmallow Peeps, comics, video and