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Berkshire WordFest at the Mount
First Annual Event in Lenox
By: - Jul 31st, 2010Edith Wharton's Estate & Gardens in Lenox, Massachusetts held its first annual writer's conference: WORDFEST. It was a rich experience by any measure and had surpassed high expectations at the end, on July 25th. Poets, writers and all who came and supported the event mingled easily and shared of themselves. It was a celebration of the written English language then and now.
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Writers Conference Hosted by The Mount
Conjuring the Spirit of Edith Wharton
By: - Jul 31st, 2010While struggling to overcome debt that threatened The Mount with bankruptcy its director, Susan Wissler, is moving forward with programming and development. Recently Edith Wharton's mansion and estate was the site for the first annual Berkshire WordFest at the Mount.
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The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff
An Eerie, Translucent Brand of Magic
By: - Jul 29th, 2010Yovanoff substitutes one world for another, surely, but in doing so she restores an original and ancient mystery to our dealings with life and death and the daily transactions we make with both, until the layered world she shows us becomes, once again--as it always was--the real one, living side by side or just a sidelong glance across the surface of the one we've been collectively pretending--all of us, all along--to be whole and plausible and independent of our dark imaginings.
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Second Annual Boston Book Festival
Copley Square October 16
By: - Jul 01st, 2010The second annual Boston Book Festival will take place on Oct. 16, 2010, in various locations around Copley Square. A complete rundown of scheduled events.
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Garrison Keillor to Appear at Berkshire WordFest
Keynote Speaker for The Mount July 24
By: - Jun 30th, 2010Garrison Keillor will be a keynote speaker and honoree at the first annual literary festival of Edith Wharton's The Mount, Berkshire WordFest. The popular host and writer of NPR programs A Prairie Home Companion and The Writer’s Almanac, will speak at The Mount’s Festival Fundraiser, a dinner event held at Seven Hills Inn in Lenox, Mass., on Saturday, July 24. During the event, Keillor will be honored with The Mount’s 2010 Henry James Award.
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The Dust of 100 Dogs
A. S. King's 17th Century Orphan Turned Pirate
By: - Jun 18th, 2010A. S. King scatters the lessons of ownership, abandonment, the pack instinct and fending for oneself across the lifetimes of three centuries in her coming-of-age novel of piracy, disenfranchisement and the feminine. King stitches some rather provocative questions about ownership, loyalty and femininity all through the deceptively simple patterns of her novel.
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Lectures at The Mount
Eight Weekly Events July 12 through August 30.
By: - Jun 11th, 2010From the “Grand Dame†of Champagne to the “Dark Lady†of American literature, eight intriguing and influential figures are the focus of this summer’s Lecture Series at The Mount. The series, now in its seventeenth season, brings acclaimed biographers and memoirists to Edith Wharton’s estate for fascinating talks exploring an array of cultural icons�"and a few notable iconoclasts. The talks are held every Monday from July 12 through August 30.
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The Mount Launches First Annual Literary Festival
Twenty Acclaimed Authors to Speak July 23-25
By: - Jun 03rd, 2010The Mount announces the launch of its first annual literary festival, Berkshire WordFest, to be held at Edith Wharton's historic estate in Lenox during the weekend of July 23-25, 2010. The festival will bring nearly twenty nationally acclaimed writers to The Mount for sixteen public events over three days.
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Bone Shop by Tim Pratt
Novella Chronicles Street Urchin as Sorcerer
By: - Mar 03rd, 2010Berkshire Fine Arts welcomes Ien Nivens who will review independent fiction. He urges us to download Bone Shop by Tim Pratt. It's free and we provide a link. Nivens's taste runs to the dark side. In this novella don't anticipate Harry Potter. Be prepared for what Nivens states is an "awesome conclusion."
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Andre Agassi's
The State of Book Publishing Part I
By: - Nov 14th, 2009The publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, of the controversial book "Open" by Andre Agassi, as told to and in collaboration with J. R. Moehringer, claims that it is not about tennis. Instead it is being hyped on 60 Minutes and in the media as "A Book for the Ages." Really? Perhaps it will one day be placed in the drawers of motel rooms along with that Other inspirational book. Or not.
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Inkberry in North Adams Shuts Down
Organization Was Founded in 2001
By: - Nov 12th, 2009Although there were funds to continue the non profit, Inkberry, which was founded in 2001, it could not afford to pay for staff to run its programs. That fell to a small group that no longer are able to maintain the organization. It is a significant loss for the Berkshire community.
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Author John Mortimer Dead At 85
Created Rumpole of the Bailey
By: - Jan 16th, 2009Perhaps the best raconteur of his generation, Sir John Mortimer wrote novels, screenplays and autobiographies while practicing law. Perhaps his greatest achievement was the combination of law and literature in the form of one of the great English fictional characters, Rumpole of the Bailey.
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Lost Issue of Avatar #25 Resurfaces
Forty Years Later Republished On Line
By: - Jul 03rd, 2008Shortly after issue #25 of the Avatar was delivered to its South End office there was a midnight raid by followers of Mel Lyman and the Fort Hill Community. While 1,000 copies were actually circulated they confiscated the remaining 44,000 copies which were later sold as scrap. Some forty years later the "Lost" edition has been published on line.
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Johns Adams on HBO
Based on the Book by David McCullough
By: - Apr 09th, 2008While keeping up with the installments of the HBO mini series, John Adams,we have been reading the biography which inspired it by Pulitzer Prize winning author David McCullough.
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Theophilus Brown: Paintings, Collages and Drawings by John Arthur
The San Francisco Bay Area Figurative Movement
By: - Feb 26th, 2008During the month of February the Elins Eagles-Smith Gallery in San Francisco has presented a survey, from 1956 to 2007, of the work of the Bay Area Figurative artist Theophilus Brown. This exhibition celebrates the publication of a monograph on Brown by the noted realist/ figurative curator and critic, John Arthur.
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Great Collectors of Our Time by James Stourton
A Timely Book for Unanticipated Reasons
By: - Feb 13th, 2008The Chairman of Sotheby's U.K. has written a lively overview of collectors in a broad range of interests. One chapter profiles Emil Buhrle, the deceased Swiss collector, whose museum was recently robbed of four works worth $163m.
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Andrew Stevovich: Solitary Dreams at the Danforth Museum
A New Book- Essential Elements- Published by the Berkshire's Hard Press Editions
By: - Nov 21st, 2007Upon graduation from RISD in 1970 he was included in a New Talent show at Boston's Alpha Gallery where he has lived ever since. Andrew Stevovich is the subject of an exhibition at the Danforth Museum and a new monograph published by the Berskhires based Hard Press Editions.
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Wild Turkeys
Home for the Holidays
By: - Nov 20th, 2007Celebrating our first Thanksgiving as full time residents of the Berkshires. Thoughts on those deer and wild turkeys who wander through our back yard.
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Honk If You Like de Kooning
The Pulitzer Prize Winning Biography by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
By: - Nov 08th, 2007During World War Two the epicenter of the international avant-garde art world passed from Paris to New York. Its leading painters were the Dutch born, Willem de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock. Their tragic lives produced enduring masterpieces. This magnificent biography focuses on de Kooning, the other master of Abstract Expressionism.
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Watch Yourself
A Timely Essay
By: - Oct 14th, 2007After reading about the watch woes and triumphs of Charles Giuliano, Mark Favermann was reminded of several of his own watchful incidents. He feels that a little time-sharing will go a long way to putting the world on a timely footing. Clockwork Orange this is not, but to paraphrase John Cameron Swayze, individually we may take a licking, but our clocks keep on ticking.
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My Omega Watch
Losing Time
By: - Oct 02nd, 2007While traveling in Switzerland in 1957 Dad bought us all watches. Omegas. When he passed on I inherited his which is how I ended up with two Omegas. The other day I lost one. Bummer.
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In Vermont
A Poem in English and German
By: - Jul 28th, 2007Thoughts and descriptions of a morning on the road in Vermont.
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An Albanian Agony, Part Two
Handley bested by his Doppelg�nger?
By: - Jul 02nd, 2007Canadian-Albanian relations are temporarily thwarted.
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An Albanian Agony, Part One
1957: decommissioned ambassador on a secret mission to the world's most mysterious country.
By: - Jun 30th, 2007This is an "outtake" from my novel, "A Soldier in Exile," about David Handley, a modestly successful, but largely ignored crusader for humanitarian values during the Cold War�not to be confused with history in any way.
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Lowell Celebrates Jack Kerouac, Summer 2007
Scroll of On the Road exhibited
By: - Jun 22nd, 2007Lowell celebrates its most famous literary legend Jack Kerouac with an exhibition of his On the Road scroll in a summer-long series of events, poetry slams, symposia and concerts.
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