[Libri] Selected Shorts is Coming to the Academy of Music

[Tony Maroulis]

Museums10 Presents Selected Shorts on October 13
National Radio Program is the Highlight of BookMarks Books Out Loud Weekend
 
September 25, 2007
Contact: Tony Maroulis
Project Coordinator
Museums10
413-687-2757
amaroulis at fivecolleges.edu
 
AMHERST, Mass. ­ Museums10 continues its four-month BookMarks festival with
a presentation of Selected Shorts at the Northampton Academy of Music on
October 13 at 8 p.m. Tickets are general admission for $15 ($8 for students
with a valid ID) and are available at TIX.com.  The event is sponsored by
WNNZ 640AM.
 
Selected Shorts, an award-winning, one-hour program featuring readings of
classic and new short fiction, is one of the highlights of the upcoming
Books Out Loud weekend sponsored by the Museums partnership. The performance
will feature three stories: Andrea Barrett¹s ³The Church of No Reason² read
by Patricia Kalember, Junot Diaz¹s ³Wildwood² to be read by Sonia Monzano,
and Etgar Keret¹s ³For Only 9.99 (inc. tax and postage)² to be read by host
Isaiah Sheffer.
 
About the authors:
 
Andrea Barrett is the winner of the 1996 National Book Award for Fiction.
She has received a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation and an honorary
degree from Union College. Currently a fellow at the Center for Writers and
Scholars at the New York Public Library, she has been a visiting professor
at colleges and universities and a faculty member of numerous writers¹
conferences, including the Bread Loaf Writers¹ Conference. Her most recent
book is The Air We Breathe due out in October 2007. Ms. Barrett is
participating in a BookMarks program with Richard Russo and Valerie Martin
on October 13 at 2 p.m. at the Weinstein Auditorium on the Smith College
Campus.
 
The fiction of Junot Diaz has appeared in The New Yorker, which listed him
as one of the top 20 writers of the 21st Century. He has also been published
in Story, The Paris Review, and in the anthologies Best American Stories,
and African Voices. He is best known for his two major works: the short
story collection Drown (1996) and the novel Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
(2007).
 
Etgar Keret is well-known internationally as a writer of offbeat,
fragmentary short stories. His latest collection is the highly praised The
Nimrod Flipout. He has also recently co-directed his first feature film with
his partner Shira Geffin.
 
About the Performers:
 
Sonia Manzano was in the original company of Godspell, The Vagina
Monologues, and The Exonorated. She has played Maria on Sesame Street since
1971 and has received 15 Emmy Awards as a writer for that show. Ms. Manzano
has written the children¹s books No Dogs Allowed and A Box Full of Kittens.
 
Isaiah Sheffer is co-founder and artistic director of Symphony Space, and is
director/host of Selected Shorts live and on National Public Radio.
 

Patricia Kalember¹s Broadway credits include The Nerd; the one-act Extra,
opposite Alec Baldwin, as part of Mike Nichols¹ Short Talks in the Universe;
and, most recently, Losing Louie.  Her numerous off-Broadway appearances
include Sea of Tranquility, The Butler Did It, Loose Knit, From Above, The
Vagina Monologues, Y2K, and The Foreigner, for which she received an Outer
Critics Circle Award nomination.  She had a recurring role on TV¹s
thirtysomething and played one of the eponymous sisters on Sisters from 1991
to 1996, among other film and television credits. She will be seen in the
forthcoming film The Girl in the Park, with Sigourney Weaver and Kate
Bosworth.
 
Museums10 is a partnership of ten museums ­ Amherst College Museum of
Natural History, Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Emily Dickinson Museum:
The Homestead & The Evergreens, Hampshire College Art Gallery, Mount Holyoke
College Art Museum, Smith College Museum of Art, University Gallery at the
University of Massachusetts-Amherst, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book
Art, National Yiddish Book Center, and Historic Deerfield ­ in the Upper
Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts, facilitated by Five Colleges,
Incorporated, and dedicated to promoting the cultural riches of the region.
 
Museums10 and BookMarks: A Celebration of the Art of the Book is sponsored
by the generous support of the Massachusetts Cultural Council¹s John and
Abigail Adams Arts Program, The Greater Springfield Convention and Visitors
Bureau, Veridian Village at Hampshire College, 88.5 FM ­ WFCR NPR News and
Music for Western New England, WGBY, Preview Magazine, Cross-Culture
Journeys, Coastal Outdoor Advertising, Marcus Printing, and Spencer Timm.
For more information about Museums10 and BookMarks, please visit
www.museums10.org <http://www.museums10.org> .
 
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Tony Maroulis
Project Coordinator
Museums10
Art/Books/History
www.museums10.org
413.687.2757 p.
413.259.4366 f.
amaroulis at fivecolleges.edu


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