Ayad Akhtar talks about American Dervish with Gay, Rose and Mariam.
We then gave him ideas for his next book and play.
(Ok, just wanted to see if anyone reads this blog)
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| Gay and Rose talk to Ayad |
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| Rose McGowan, Mariam Pahl and Gay Weber |
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
American Dervish Author Field Trip
Saturday, March 24, 2012
April Book Club Selection
April Book Club Selection
American Dervish
Tuesday April 10
Summary:
Hayat Shah is a young American in love for the first time. His normal life of school, baseball, and video games had previously been distinguished only by his Pakistani heritage and by the frequent chill between his parents, who fight over things he is too young to understand. Then Mina arrives, and everything changes.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
March Book Club Activities
March 13 "Field Trip"
Ayad Akhtar, author of American Dervish
6:30pm Victory Gardens Biograph Theatre, Chicago
Printers Row Live
Chicago Tribune "Trib Nation" Program
This acclaimed debut novel is set in 1980's Wisconsin, where its author, a young filmmaker and playwright, grew up. It is a look inside the interplay of religion and the powerful forces at work on young men and women growing up Muslim in America.
Tickets: ayadakhtar.eventbrite.com
**** This will be our April selection for Book Club.
**** This will be our April selection for Book Club.
March 20 Book Club 7pm
Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize
By an acclaimed writer at the height of his powers, The Sense of an Ending extends a streak of extraordinary books that began with the best-selling Arthur & George and continued with Nothing to Be Frightened Of and, most recently, Pulse.
This intense new novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. Tony Webster thought he’d left all this behind as he built a life for himself, and by now his marriage and family and career have fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement. But he is then presented with a mysterious legacy that obliges him to reconsider a variety of things he thought he’d understood all along, and to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.
A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single sitting, with stunning psychological and emotional depth and sophistication, The Sense of an Ending is a brilliant new chapter in Julian Barnes’s oeuvre.
By an acclaimed writer at the height of his powers, The Sense of an Ending extends a streak of extraordinary books that began with the best-selling Arthur & George and continued with Nothing to Be Frightened Of and, most recently, Pulse.
This intense new novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. Tony Webster thought he’d left all this behind as he built a life for himself, and by now his marriage and family and career have fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement. But he is then presented with a mysterious legacy that obliges him to reconsider a variety of things he thought he’d understood all along, and to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.
A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single sitting, with stunning psychological and emotional depth and sophistication, The Sense of an Ending is a brilliant new chapter in Julian Barnes’s oeuvre.
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