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« Saturday October 15, 2011 »
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Robert Goldstein -- Your Head'll Turn Into a Ball -- Gables
Start: 5:00 pm
Bob Goldstein has made a notable go at making us laugh at our own foibles.  His book, Your Head’ll Turn Into A Ball, turns out to be a “very funny” memoir.  Goldstein was a young, Jewish lad who grew up in the Midwest and dreamt about being a famous sportscaster someday.  The author set his own course and thought he was on the way to fulfilling his sportscasting dream. What Goldstein did find, however, was a large collection of belly laughs; stories taken from his years in radio and a second career as a political activist. A lot of “accidentally funny” people appear throughout this book: an over-eager movie usher, chauvinist Buckeyes, a gung-ho brother who administers “The Audie Murphy Test,” the bookie who didn’t bother with Yom Kippur niceties, and a Troubador. Your Head’ll Turn Into Ball’s rich anecdotes evoke a simpler time in our country.
Silvia Nuñez del Arco -- Hay una chica en mi sopa -- Gables
Start: 8:00 pm
Note: This event is in Spanish. Los padres de Lucía han decidido cambiarla de colegio. “Es por tu bien”, le dicen, sin sospechar que esa decisión será algo de lo que todos se arrepentirán. Ella, una niña tímida y ensimismada, se encuentra de pronto en un entorno extraño y un tanto hostil, donde el único refugio será su profesora de alemán, Alicia Witz, una bella y desenfadada austriaca que, quizá de manera premeditada provocará en Lucía una creciente obsesión. En su segunda novela, Hay una chica en mi sopa (Planeta), Silvia Nuñez del Arco da muestras de oficio narrativo y de un hábil manejo de la tensión, construyendo una trama que captura al lector desde las primeras páginas hasta el final. Nuñez del Arco se entrega al ejercicio de la ficción con la intensidad de queien confiere a lo que escribe un poder liberador. Hay una chica en mi sopa es un relato de un doble despertar: el despertar de Lucia, la chica de la historia, y el de Silvia su creadora: la joven revelación del panorama narrativo en nuestro país.
Live Music in the Courtyard -- Gables
Start: 8:00 pm
Join us for live music in the Courtyard.
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