The Nooner
September 22, 2008 - September 25, 2009
The Nooner: a quick literary hit to charge you up for the rest of your workday. Unplug from the office for half an hour and join us at the Carol Shields Auditorium in the Millennium Library. You can enter from the overhead walkway, if you like. Bring your lunch, and we’ll provide the entertainment…
This series is part of THIN AIR 2009
September 22, 2008
12:15 PM - 12:45 PMTHE NOONER: Andrew Davidson
The unconventional lovers in Andrew Davidson's The Gargoyle measures their relationship in weeks - and centuries.
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September 23, 2008
12:15 PM - 12:45 PMTHE NOONER: Joan Thomas
Joan Thomas takes us from parched prairies to England preparing for the Second World War in her debut novel, Reading by Lightning.
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September 24, 2008
12:15 PM - 12:45 PMTHE NOONER: Miriam Toews
Miriam Toews' The Flying Troutmans has all her signature qualities: speed, depth, poignancy and devastating wit.
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September 25, 2008
12:15 PM - 12:45 PMTHE NOONER: Drew Hayden Taylor
Drew Hayden Taylor is making waves with The Night Wanderer, an adventure into "native gothic."
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September 26, 2008
12:15 PM - 12:45 PMTHE NOONER: Charles Wilkins
Charles Wilkins' In the Land of Long Fingernails is a devastatingly funny memoir of his short stint as a gravedigger.
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September 21, 2009
12:15 PM - 12:45 PMThe Nooner: Bonnie Burnard
Award-winning novelist Bonnie Burnard explores the strength of mature female friendships in her new novel, Suddenly.
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September 22, 2009
12:15 PM - 12:45 PMThe Nooner: Cyril Dabydeen
Cyril Dabydeen brings the musical language-rhythms of his native Guyana to his poetry and fiction.
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September 23, 2009
12:15 PM - 12:45 PMThe Nooner: Linda Frank
Poet Linda Frank explores the tortured genius of the iconic Mexican painter in her collection, Kahlo: The World Split Open.
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September 24, 2009
12:15 PM - 12:45 PMThe Nooner: Jeanette Lynes
Jeanette Lynes is an ambidextrous writer—this year she has a new poetry collection, The New Blue Distance, and a debut novel, The Factory Voice.
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September 25, 2009
12:15 PM - 12:45 PMThe Nooner: Terry Griggs
Terry Griggs is known for sharp insight and sly wit, both in full evidence in her first mystery novel, Thought You Were Dead.
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