Wednesday, December 02, 2009
There's no shortage of material about the immigrant experience in America, and that makes the standout work of Ha Jin all the more impressive. Jin won the National Book Award for his 1999 novel Waiting, and with his new book of stories, A Good Fall, he probes deeper the meaning of the Chinese-American experience, this time in the New York immigrant community of Flushing. Nell Freudenberger in the New Yorker once praised reading his realist, mostly declarative style as "almost like falling in love," so if you're feeling lonely, catch him tonight at Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St, Brookline | 7 pm | free | http://www.brooklinebooksmith.com.
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Thursday, December 03, 2009
In
her latest collection of poems, Evidence,
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poet and author Mary Oliver
writes of visiting a chatty river, and a field with "nothing but flowers,
flowers, flowers," familiar destinations if you're a fan of the
longtime Provincetown nature lover. What's
less familiar is the woman taking in these scenes. At 74 years old, Oliver is
more keen on pondering her legacy and her mortality than ever before. Hear her
do it aloud when she reads from her latest as part of an event put together by
Brookline Booksmith and Beacon Press for Brookline's 2009 First
Light Festival. All proceeds from ticket sales go toward B-SAFE, a camp program
for urban youngsters run in the summer by St. Stephen's Church. | Coolidge
Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard
St, Brookline| 6 pm | $5 | 617.566.6660
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