|
NEWS FLASH:
March
14, 2006
The
Log Cabin Literary Center announces 2006/2007 Season.
Tickets can be purchased in advance by calling the center at
331-8000.
October
10, 2006
Amy
Tan
Known
for her many-layered narratives, Amy Tan's novels are
standards on the NEW YORK TIMES hardcover best-seller
lists. Her books explore the conflicts of living in
several cultures, especially Chinese and American. Ms.
Tan was born in Oakland, California, to Chinese immigrant
parents. When she was fourteen, her father and brother
died of brain tumors. Following the tragedy, her
mother took Tan and her younger brother to Switzerland where
she graduated from high school. "Reading (Amy Tan) is
like peering into a carved ivory ball that contains numerous
smaller balls, each revealing a different design but all
worked from a single source," says The NYT Book
Review. In Ms. Tan's case, best-seller takes on a new
meaning; each of her books has spent weeks and weeks on The
New York Times best-seller list. "Saving Fish
from Drowning," her newest novel, represents a change
of venue for Ms. Tan. This book is set in Burma, now
Myanmar, and through her American characters, she addresses
human rights abuses.
November
13, 2006
Joyce
Carol Oates
Joyce
Carol Oates began "writing novel after novel" when
she was given a typewriter at age fourteen. Her
prolific career includes publishing poetry, essays, dramas,
young adult and children's books, and more than forty
novels, all while teaching. Ms. Oates has written some
of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the
national best-sellers "We Were the Mulvaneys" and
"Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book
Award. She is a recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award for
Excellence in Short Fiction and has been the Roger S.
Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton
University since 1978. Ms. Oates grew up outside
Lockport, New York, and has come to be one of the world's
most eminent authors, committing her life to teaching and
writing. "When I'm with people I often fall into a kind
of waking sleep, a daydreaming about the people, who are to
be the characters in a story or novel I will be writing.....
I try to put this all together, working very slowly, never
hurrying the process. I can't hurry it any more than I can
prevent it."
February
13, 2007
Andrei
Codrescu
A
Romanian who has adopted a very American voice and style,
Andrei Codrescu writes essays, poetry, fiction, memoirs,
travelogues, and an award-winning film. He translates and
edits anthologies, is a columnist for National Public Radio,
all while serving as the MacCurdy Distinguished Professor of
English at Louisiana State University. Mr. Codrescu
left his birthplace when nineteen, and brings an outsider's
perspective to the absurdities of American culture with his
trademark irony, buoyant paranoia and mystical
illusion. His work addresses revolution, America, sex,
Romania, and language on one hand and puppets, food,
fascists, airplanes and Greyhounds on the other. By turns,
he is funny and deadly serious. "Mr. Codrescu, with the
deadpan burlesque of a jaded outsider, rightfully assumes
his place among the keener chroniclers of the American
spirit ... his work is defined by the tensions at play
between humor and sentiment, by one liners and aphorism, and
between immigrant optimism and dissident cynicism,"
says The New York Times. Mr. Codrescu's newest title
is "New Orleans, Mon Amour," a book of very short
essays about his home for twenty years, in which he presents
"finely-honed portraits of a fabled city and its
equally fabled inhabitants.
April
17, 2007
Barry
Lopez
Widely
regarded as America's premier nature writer, Barry Lopez is
an essayist, short-story writer and author of fifty-six
books. He often writes about the relationship between
the physical landscape and human culture. Among his
nonfiction books are "Artic Dreams", for which he
received the National Book Award, " About This
Life" and "Of Wolves and Men", a National
Book Award finalist. Matters of intimacy, ethics, and
identity are themes of his fiction, which include
award-winning works such as "Field Notes, "Winter
Count" and a novella-length fable, "Crow and
Weasel", popular with young readers. Mr. Lopez
has lived in Oregon for nearly forty years, leaving to
travel to remote parts of the world, occasionally to teach
and lecture. He was once an active landscape
photographer and now maintains close ties with a diverse
community of artists, collaborating in theater and concert
productions, and speaking and writing about visual
artists. He has developed fine press limited editions
of books now in the permanent collections of The Whitney
Museum, the New York Public Library and major
universities. In another arena, he recently
collaborated with E.O. Wilson in the design of a university
curriculum that combines the sciences and humanities in a
new undergraduate major.
|
Additional Information:
Theatre Event Calendar and Showtimes
Event Picture and Video Gallery
Movie Trailers and Previews
The Robert
Morton Theatre Pipe Organ
Driving Directions
/ Map
Admission Prices
Seating Chart
Contact Us
Links
|
|