Aug032006
Got a novel inside you?
Filed under Uncategorized by jennifer o'callaghan at 2:04 pm
You’d better let it out before it suffocates.
If you’ve always dreamed of writing the great American novel, but are feeling daunted by the task, why not go for broke and do it in three days?
If you’re not quite ready to dive into writing, but want to rub elbows with a truly great contemporary writer, Russell Banks will be reading and signing books in Southern New Hampshire University’s Robert Frost Hall’s Walker Auditorium at 7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 6.
If you’re not familiar with Banks’ work, you should be. He is behind such titles as Trailerpark, Affliction and Rule of the Bone. My favorite of his works is the sublime The Sweet Hereafter, which tells the tale of a small town turned upside-down by a tragic schoolbus accident. The book was adapted into a movie starring the marvelous Sarah Polley , Sir Ian Holm (better known as Bilbo Baggins to fans of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy) and Bruce Greenwood, who is magnificent as Billy, a father who is still suffering the loss of his wife when the accident takes even more from him. The film will be screened at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 8, in Walker auditorium in conjunction with Banks’ visit, which was organized by the university’s new low-residency Master in Fine Arts program in fiction and nonfiction, as well as the New Hampshire Writers Project.
The NHWP, by the by, recently welcomed The Telegraph’s own new media manager and bloggin’ fool, the mighty Ernesto Burden (aka E-man), to its board of trustees.
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