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From the press release for the latest book by New Haven resident and author Jack Hitt:
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What is it that drives America’s sharp-eyed bird-watchers, home-brew biologists, rogue paleontologists, backyard astronomers, and garage inventors to pursue their passions with such vigor and gusto? What inspires the amateurs who tinker in [...]
Continue Reading →The New Haven Free Public Library, in partnership with R.J. Julia Booksellers and First Niagara, is thrilled to welcome Ann Patchett to New Haven.
Please join us for two special literary events.
Meet Ms. Patchett at a special, pre-event Audience Appreciation Reception to be held on Tuesday, May 29 from 6:00 to 6:45 in the Ives [...]
Continue Reading →Farmington, CT (March 12, 2012) – Hill-Stead Museum will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival with a line-up of top tier American poets, including U.S. Poets Laureate/ Pulitzer Prize winners, and publication of an anniversary anthology, Sunken Garden Poetry, 1992-2011.
One of the premier poetry events in America, the summer performance [...]
Continue Reading →We are thrilled to announce that David W. Goldman's short story, "The Axiom of Choice," which appeared in the Winter 2011 issue of the New Haven Review, is a finalist for a Nebula award for best short story of 2011. Congratulations to David and to all the other nominees.
Continue Reading →A dog is a man’s best friend, they say. But what do you do when a dog marks you as an enemy? Here, Jonathan Kiefer ponders this problem with some help from Edward Albee’s play The Zoo Story.
My neighbor’s dog reminds me of Edward Albee. Not the man himself, but one of his [...]
Continue Reading →New Haven is a great town for theater. If you have any doubts on that score, check out the following:
Thursday, 10/20 till Saturday, 10/22, The Yale Cabaret offers a student-generated theater piece, Creation 2011, that asks its performers to revisit and re-enact events or experiences that inspired their desire to work in [...]
Continue Reading →Gordon Edelstein’s ten years as Artistic Director of the Long Wharf Theater were celebrated last week with an outpouring of tributes, reminiscences, send-ups, and eloquent testimonies to one man’s inspiring journey in theater, from early days in acting classes to directing landmark productions of such classics as The Glass Menagerie and Uncle Vanya, to becoming, [...]
Continue Reading →Robert Pinsky, former US Poet Laureate, and a highly accomplished poet reads this week at the Whitney Humanities Center, New Haven, at 4 p.m., introduced by Langdon Hammer of the Yale English Department. See our own Donald Brown’s review of Pinsky’s recently published Selected Poems, here.
The Yale Cabaret is back after a week [...]
Continue Reading →Elizabeth Strout, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2008 for her novel Olive Kitteridge, will be the featured guest at the annual Book Lover’s Luncheon on Thursday, November 3, 2011 from 12:00am – 2:00pm. Held at the Quinnipiack Club, 221 Church Street in New Haven, the luncheon benefits the public library. Tickets are [...]
Continue Reading →So, yesterday, Dave Itzkoff at the New York Times Arts Beat covered a show of paintings by Bob Dylan in which it appears—OK, it totally is—that some of the paintings are essentially copies of photographs, some of them famous. In our own Issue 6, Scott Warmuth's piece discussed how Dylan loves to [...]
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