December 3, 2008

Sherwin Bitsui-THE SILENCE THAT SPEAKS: POETRY AS TRANSFORMATION

 Local Genius Awardee/MOCA Lit
  Sherwin Bitsui
 The Silence that Speaks: Poetry as Transformation
  Thursday 4 December 6pm
MOCA on The Plaza  
149 N. Stone Avenue   Tucson, Arizona
 
Free for MOCA members, $5 non-members   
MOCA members may make seating reservations: 624-5019  
Tickets for the March 28, 2009 MOCA Local Genius Award Gala are now on sale; for details, visit www.localgenius.org   
 
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December 3, 2008

Randy- How FINNEGANS WAKE hit home

      It surprised me how close to home Joyce’s FINNEGANS WAKE hit.   Why should I have been surprised?   Readers were warned; H. C. E. or H. C. Earwicker, the father of the story, after all, was/is “Here Comes Everybody;” and in spite of the difficulties, the ambiguity and the obscurity of much of the WAKE, the [...]

December 3, 2008

Mabel Leo-Gansters &Movie Stars MOB MOLE, a new novel about Jack Durant

      Rustlers, gunmen, train robbers, gamblers of the wild west are known all over the world.   As they grew old and died, another breed took their place in history, gangsters with names like Capone, Lansky, Luciano, Siegel.    Books, movies continue to tell their stories.    Yet there is one who sat at the bar of his [...]