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Susan Quinn

MCLA Maya 3 Gallery at 7 pm, 73 Main St., North Adams
September 18, 7pm
Free

Inkberry and MCLA Berkshire Cultural Resource Center are pleased to co-present a reading from Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times, Susan Quinn’s new and fascinating book about the Federal Theater Project, which was created in 1935 as part of the WPA and was brought down in 1939 by the then newly-formed House Un-American Activities Committee. This extraordinary theater project electrified audiences with exciting, controversial productions, created by some of the greatest figures in 20th century American arts�including Orson Welles, John Houseman and Sinclair Lewis. Plays like Voodoo Macbeth and The Cradle Will Rock stirred up politicians by defying segregation and putting the spotlight on the inequities that led to the Great Depression.

Please join us as Susan Quinn talks about this fascinating book and presents a sequence of rare archival film clips from the 1930’s which have been tailored to go along with her telling of the story of the WPA Federal Theater Project. Refreshments will be served. Papyri Books will provide books for sale at the event. Book signing will follow.

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Inkberry and Papyri Books Present WordPlay Featuring Seth Brown

Papyri Books, 45 Eagle Street, North Adams MA
Saturday, November 8, from 7pm-9pm
Free

Seth Brown is an award-winning humor columnist for the North Adams Transcript. Seth Brown is the author of three books, most recently Rhode Island Curiosities. Seth Brown is a local freelance writer, poet, and occasional rapper. Seth Brown is not available in stores. Seth Brown can be used topically. Ask your doctor if Seth Brown is right for you. His website is RisingPun.com. (Seth’s, not your doctor’s.)

Open mic to follow reading.

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Inkberry and Papyri Books Present WordPlay Featuring Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull

Papyri Books, 45 Eagle Street, North Adams MA
Saturday, October 11, 7-9pm
Free

Wayne Hammond & Christina Scull, award winning authors and editors are recognized as leading authorities on the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien. This evening they will be reading from their most recent book The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide.

Wayne G. Hammond is Assistant Librarian in the Chapin Library of rare books and manuscripts at Williams College. He is the author of J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive bibliography (1993) and Arthur Ransome: A Bibliography (2000), among other works.

Christina Scull was the librarian of Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, from 1971 to 1995. She served on the Committee of the Tolkien Society and chaired the committee that organized the Tolkien Centenary Conference at Oxford in 1992. She is tha author of The Soane Hogarths (1991, new ed. 2007) and editor of the occasional journal The Tolkien Collector.

Together, Wayne Hammond and Christina Scull have written numerous volumes on J.R.R. Tolkien, including J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator (1995), The Lord of the Rings: A Reader’s Companion (2005), and The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide (2006). Their work on J.R.R. Tolkien has been honored a record five times with the Mythopoeic Society’s Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies.

Open mic will follow the reading.

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Inkberry & Papyri Books present: WordPlay featuring upstreet #4

Papryi Books, 45 Eagle Street, North Adams MA
Saturday, September 13, 7-9pm
Free

Join us for an evening of authors’ readings from upstreet #4, the newest edition of the nationally distributed literary magazine. Greenfield poet Daniel Hales will read from his lyric essay, “Run Story” and Poet Richard Jordan of the Mount Holyoke faculty will read his poem “Summer, 1972.” Upstreet founder and editor, Vivian Dorsel, will read an excerpt from her interview with Michael Martone, which appears in the same issue. Open mic will follow the reading.

Vivian Dorsel is the editor and publisher of upstreet, the annual literary journal which she began in 2005, after serving as managing editor of The Berkshire Review for eight years. She holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and her work has appeared in Connecticut River Review, The Mind�s Eye, Pif, The Artful Mind, and The Women�s Times. She lives in Richmond, teaches writing workshops at the Norman Rockwell Museum, and acts as editorial consultant to the Taconic High School student literary magazine, The Double Edged Sword. She is also the writing workshop coordinator for the Pittsfield READS! community reading project.

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