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PRESENTED BY The Deschutes Public Library Foundation & Generous Sponsors April 14–May 5, 2012
amor TOWLES Comes
to central oregon
manifestoes, breakfast pastries, Welcome to the 9th annual events are free but tickets are
pasta, liquor, snow-days, Tuscany, “A Novel Idea ... Read Together” needed for the Tower Theatre
Provence, Disneyland, Hollywood, program where more than event. See ticket details later in
the cast of Casablanca, 007, Captain 5,000 Deschutes County resi- this guide.
Kirk, Bob Dylan (early, mid, and dents read, discuss, and explore Book club kits are available,
late phases), the wee hours, card one book together! We are very free of charge, to enrich your
games, cafés, and the cookies made excited to announce this year’s group’s discussion. Please call
by both of his grandmothers. novel, Rules of Civility, by Amor Liz at (541) 312-1032 to order
His first novel, Rules of Civility, is Towles. your kit today.
being translated into sixteen lan- “Set in New York City in 1938,
DAVID JACOBS
guages. The book was on the best- Rules of Civility tells the story of Important: All “A Novel Idea”
seller lists of the New York Times, a watershed year in the life of programs and author presenta-
Boston Globe, and Los Angeles an uncompromising twenty-five tions are free and open to the
Times, among others. The book year-old named Katey Kontent. public. Some programs require
The Author was also identified as one of the Armed with little more than a registration or tickets. For
Born in 1964, Mr. Amor Towles top ten works of fiction in 2011 formidable intellect, a bracing wit, more information, visit the “A
was raised in a suburb of Boston, by the Wall Street Journal. and her own brand of cool nerve, Novel Idea” website at: www.
Massachusetts. He graduated Katey embarks on a journey deschuteslibrary.org/novelidea.
from Yale College and received from a Wall Street secretarial
an M.A. in English from Stanford pool through the upper echelons
University. He is a principal at an of New York society in search of
investment firm in Manhattan, a brighter future.” (Excerpt from
where he lives with his wife and Amor Towles’ website.)
two children. Join us for a month-long
Mr. Towles is an ardent fan of series of interesting, thought-
early 20th century painting, 1950s provoking, and free cultural
jazz, 1970s cop shows, rock & programs that delve into the
roll on vinyl, obsolete accessories, writings of Fitzgerald and
Thoreau, the photography of
Walker Evans, the art of jazz,
Exclusive Interview page 2 and other programs.
Author Amor Towles will be
1938 In Review page 4 visiting Central Oregon for two
Book Chat page 5 free presentations—Friday, May
4 at the Tower Theatre in Bend
Events Around Town page 6 View from window, 18 E. 50th St, and Saturday, May 5 at the Sisters
Walker Evans: page 7 New York City, (c. 1938). High School. All of the author THE BOOK
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division,
Society Page page 8 Gottscho-Schleisner Collection LC-G613-T01-38929
april 14-May 5, 2012 A Novel Idea ... Read Together www.deschuteslibrary.org/novelidea PAGE 1A Novel Idea Exclusive
A Conversation with Author Amor Towles
Question: What inspired this the Depression. But in part, I think families of the 1920s began to
novel? they haunt because they evoke abandon the outward pomp of
Answer: While I began writing the public/private paradox of the cotillions and tails. Wonder Bread,
Rules of Civility in 2006, the genesis subway ride. The men and women Budweiser, and Chock Full o’ Nuts
of the book dates back to the early in these photographs are being found their place in pantries high
1990s when I happened upon a captured in an extremely public and low (with consistency and
copy of Many Are Called—the col- environment—a crowded subway low price being attained at the
lection of portraits that Walker car in one of the largest, most ra- expense of differentiation and
Evans took on the New York City cially diverse cities in the world. flavor). This convergence has had
subways in the late 1930s with But the anonymity secured by weird byproducts: The vast ma-
a hidden camera. At the time, I this chance gathering of strangers, jority of Americans, spanning a
primarily knew of Evans’ iconic by the relative brevity of the ride, wide array of economics (from the
Depression-era photographs of and by that start-of-day/end-of-day statistically rich to the statistically
rural America, such as those that weariness, all seem to prompt the poor), now identify themselves as
appear in Let Us Now Praise Famous riders (or allow them) to drop their “middle class.” And where in the
Men: the tilting clapboard houses, guard. We, as viewers, thus seem to first half of the century the strug-
weathered signs, stalwart women in get a glimpse not simply of social gling youth would have aspired to
summer dresses.... But this was the class and ethnicity, but of the in- the narrow circles of aristocracy, in
first I ’d seen of his urban work. dividual histories, sentiments, and recent decades the affluent youth
The subway photos weren’t dreams that lie just beneath the have aspired to the fashion and
shown publicly until the 1960s, surface. cadences of the street.
and, as I flipped through the But having made these rough
pages, I had the fanciful notion of Do you find parallels between generalizations about transforma-
The Author's grandmother
someone at the exhibit’s opening New York in the late 1930s and tion, I ’d say that many behavioral
recognizing the same person in what is occurring today? aspects of the 1920s and 1930s creation of art can also influence
two portraits. In the manner of The composition of America’s prevail. We clearly still live in an an author’s understanding of his
such things, I wrote the idea on a social strata has changed in mean- aspirational society. Not a decade experiences. There are many
matchbook cover and threw it in ingful ways since the first half of ago, virtually every tier of the observations in Rules of Civility
a box. Twenty years later, I pulled the twentieth century. The Second American population was borrow- which, while arguably drawn from
ing money in order to buy bigger my experiences, were revealed to
cars and bigger houses with better me by my characters—when their
fixtures. And while the economic personalities and circumstances
crisis that followed was not as put them in the perfect position to
severe as the Depression, it simi- discern an elusive truth about life.
larly recast lots across the social Rules is a book which springs
spectrum, whiplashed values, principally from the imagination
revived dormant quandaries, and as it is told by a narrator who is
reversed many prevailing measures of another time, gender, and social
of success and failure. Hopefully, class. In fact, I can think of only
it too will spawn a generation one instance in the book which is
of levelheaded and kindhearted drawn directly from life. My grand-
American perseverance. mother was a woman of manners
and verve who lived to over 100.
Is there a family resemblance to Back in the 1930s, she fended off
any of your characters? Are you several marriage proposals from
hiding somewhere in your novel? my grandfather because she was
It is inevitable that life experi- having too much fun to settle
ences influence an artist’s work, down. But then at a party on the
but usually in direct ways. Art shore, when a young woman in
can draw on personal experiences furs began showing my grandfather
NYC Subway Passengers: Elderly woman in fur collar, man reading news- and transform them as wildly as attention, my grandmother nudged
paper, 1938. Walker Evans Archive, 1994. ©The Metropolitan Museum of Art. www.metmuseum.org our day’s events are transformed her off a dock into the ocean—an
by our dreams. Exaggeration, act which Katey reprises.
the matchbook back out of the box World War and the GI Bill were sublimation, displacement, denial,
and set about writing this tale. great leveling influences through contrast, translation, and interpre- What have you been reading
One of the reasons I’ve remained which many working class in- tation are all means by which the lately; and what is currently on
interested in the Evans portraits all dividuals migrated from their author takes the given and makes your nightstand?
these years is that they are funda- ethnic communities towards a it new. Around the time I turned 40,
mentally haunting. In part, this is more homogenous middle class. But as much as experience in- in reading Where Shall Wisdom
because the photos are artifacts of At the same time, the aristocratic fluences the creation of art, the Be Found, Harold Bloom’s tribute
PAGE 2 A Novel Idea ... Read Together www.deschuteslibrary.org/novelidea april 14-May 5, 2012to reading literature for wisdom, a millennium. His works do not
I was struck by how little time I deliver a specific message. They
had left to read seriously. I figured are intricately crafted devices
I was lucky if I could read one which allow us to successfully
book deeply per month. If I lived explore ambiguity.
to 80, that was 480 more books. So my aspiration is to integrate
With that shocking consideration character, imagery, themes, language
as a backdrop, three friends and I into a cohesive “object” of beauty—
formed a group to read extraordi- which is tantalizing and mysterious
nary works of literature. and somehow contains the para-
The acid test for books of in- doxes of being human. In so doing,
clusion has been that they have I hope that the work will allow
been proven by history to merit people of different backgrounds to
multiple readings in a lifetime. find different types of satisfaction
We started with Remembrance of and insight; and that it will allow
DAVID JACOBS
Things Past and then read works of the same person to find different
Twain, Whitman, Dickinson, and satisfactions and insights at differ-
Thoreau as a precursor to reading ent stages of their own life.
works of Faulkner. Then we did
Cervantes and Borges before You studied writing at Yale
reading Márquez. Last year we and Stanford and yet took a
read through Nabokov’s American career on Wall Street. What
period and we have now moved drew you to become an invest-
on to Chekhov and Tolstoy. ment professional and what
On my nightstand I currently brought you back to writing?
have the Essays of Montaigne, while I’ve been writing fiction since I
with my son I’ve been reading The was a kid and it has always been
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and my principal passion. But arriving
with my daughter, The Patchwork in New York in my mid-twenties, I
Girl of Oz. was also looking for a way to pay
the rent. I happened to befriend a
Do you have anything specific peer who had recently launched his
you want readers to take from own investment firm and I threw
the Rules of Civility ? in my lot with him. Twenty years
A NOVEL IDEA...READ TOGETHER SPONSOR
In a way, my hope is the op- later, we’re still working together.
posite: that readers will find an So my personal challenge as an
infinite variety of things to take artist has been having a day-job
away from the book. which is intellectually satisfying
The human condition is one of and fun and which can easily sup-
incredible paradoxes. We are all plant the desire to make art. But
uniquely individual, yet we share the benefit of having that career
fundamental experiences and sen- has been that I have been able to
timents across classes, ethnicities write without an overwhelming
and generations; we can dwell in sense of urgency to be published.
A NOVEL IDEA...READ TOGETHER SPONSORS
the infinite, and yet are limited I could just keep refining my craft
to a finite stretch of years; we until I was convinced I had some-
are drawn to build lasting ac- thing worth sharing.
complishments, and yet can be
profoundly satisfied by what is We’ve heard you are a fan of
most ephemeral. The finest works 1970s cop shows. Who are you
of art provide us with something most like: Kojak, Columbo, or
of beauty that challenges us and Rockford?
supports our own inquiry into I wish I was like Rockford; but I’m
the human condition. This is why probably more like Columbo....
Shakespeare has survived for half –New York, February 2012
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In Review
Wilder’s New Play “OuR Town” premieres
Hitler, Time magazine’s “Man of the year”
Superman Debuts in “Action Comics”
The Rules of Civility chronicles one • Superman appears for the first
year in the lives of Katey Kontent time in “Action Comics #1.”
and her friends. 1938 was a year • Howard Hughes sets a new
full of milestones, both on the record by completing a 91 hour
domestic front and on the interna- airplane flight around the world
tional stage. on July 14.
Still reeling from the aftershocks • German, Italian, British, and
of the Great Depression and the French leaders agree to German
recent repeal of Prohibition, most demands regarding annexation of
Americans were just beginning to the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.
understand the unrest in Europe The Czechoslovak government is
and the potential impact on the largely excluded from the negotia-
United States. As World War II tions and is not a signatory to the
loomed, Americans were reading agreement known as the Munich
Superman comics for the first time Agreement.
and spending a night at the theater • The minimum wage is estab-
enjoying Thornton Wilder’s “Our lished by law in the United States
Town.” A plan for protecting stock on October 24.
market investors was unveiled by • Orson Welles’ radio adaptation
Wall Street firms and a law guar- of The War of the Worlds is broad-
anteeing a minimum wage was cast on October 30, causing panic
passed, and Howard Hughes set a in various parts of the United
new record for flying around the States.
world. Events that illustrate the • In an effort to try restoring
optimistic character of Americans investor confidence following the
were in stark contrast to the events Great Depression, the New York
unfolding in Europe, including Stock Exchange unveils a 15-point
Kristallnacht. program aimed to upgrade protec-
The following were some of the tion for the investing public.
more notable events that shaped • Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral Work Projects Administration Poster in New York CIty, 1938.
the American consciousness of by four lengths in their famous East Side, West Side Exhibition of Photographs. Creator: Anthony Velonis.
1938: match race at Pimlico Race Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, WPA Poster Collection, LC-USZC2-937
• Benny Goodman and his Course in Baltimore, Maryland on
orchestra become the first jazz November 1. A NOVEL IDEA....READ TOGETHER SPONSORS
musicians to headline a concert at • In Germany, the Kristallnacht
Carnegie Hall in New York City. “night of broken glass” begins as
• Thornton Wilder’s play “Our Nazi activists and sympathizers
Town” is performed for the first loot and burn Jewish businesses
time in Princeton, New Jersey. It (the all night affair sees Jewish
premieres in New York City on businesses destroyed, synagogues
February 4. burned, and Jewish people killed
• Walt Disney’s “Snow White and and arrested) on November 9.
the Seven Dwarfs,” the first cel-an- • Adolf Hitler is “Time” maga-
imated feature in motion picture zine’s “Man of the Year,” the most
history, is released in the U.S. influential person of the year.
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Discussion Questions
One Three Five Seven
At the outset, Rules of Civility After seeing Tinker at Chinoisserie, The Walker Evans portraits in Upon completion of this book,
appears to be about the interre- Katey indicts George Washington’s the book are somewhat central one of my guilty pleasures has
lationship between Katey, Tinker, Rules of Civility as “A do-it-yourself to the narrative. But, in addition, been imagining how Eve was doing
and Eve; but then events quickly charm school. A sort of How to Win there are the family photographs in Hollywood. When Eve says, “I
lead Eve and Tinker off stage. Friends and Influence People 150 that line Wallace Wolcott’s wall like it just fine on this side of the
Are Dicky Vanderwhile, Wallace years ahead of its time.” But Dicky (including the school picture windshield” what does she mean?
Wolcott, Bitsy, Peaches, Hank, and sees some nobility in Tinker’s in which Tinker appears twice); And why is the life Tinker offers
Anne Grandyn as essential to aspiration to Washington’s rules. there are the photographs of ce- her so contrary to the new life she
Katey’s “story” as Tinker and Eve? Where does your judgment fall lebrities that Mason Tate reviews intends to pursue?
If so, what role do you think each on Tinker? Is Katey wholly in- with Katey at Condé Nast; there
plays in fashioning the Katey of nocent of Tinker’s crime? Where are the pictures that end up on
the future? does simulation end and charac- Katey and Valentine’s wall. Why Eight
ter begin? Which of Washington’s is the medium of photography a When Tinker sets out on his
rules do you aspire to? fitting motif for the book? How do new life, why does he intend
the various photographs serve its to start his days saying Katey’s
themes? name? What does he mean when
Four he describes Katey as someone of
A central theme in the book is “such poise and purpose?” Is the
that a chance encounter or cursory book improved by the four sec-
“... Be careful when choosing decision in one’s twenties can shape tions from Tinker’s point of view,
what you’re proud of— one’s course for decades to come. or hindered by them?
because the world has Do you think this is true to life?
every intention of using it Were there casual encounters or
against you.” Pg 37 decisions that you made, which in “Doesn’t New York just turn
you inside out?” Pg 112
Nine
retrospect were watershed events? T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J.
Alfred Prufrock” is referenced in
Two the book’s Preface and its Epilogue.
Katey observes at one point that Six Why is that poem somehow
Agatha Christie “doles out her One of the pleasures of writing central to Katey’s 1969 reflections
little surprises at the carefully cali- fiction is discovering upon comple- on her 1938 experiences?
brated pace of a nanny dispensing tion of a project that some thread
sweets to the children in her care.” of imagery has run through the
Something similar could be said of “It was a matter of making it work without your being aware—
how Katey doles out information through the night... forming, an essence, an uninten-
about herself. What sort of things always a very individual tional motif. While I was very
is Katey slow to reveal; and what business.” Pg 63 conscious of Photography as a
drives her reticence? motif in the book, and the imagery
of Fairy Tales, here are two “i’m not sure where i’m going...
motifs that I only recognized after But wherever i end up, i’ll
the fact: Navigation (expressed start every day by saying
through references to The Odyssey; your name.” Pg 304
to the shipwrecks of the Titanic,
Endurance, and Robinson Crusoe ;
and through Thoreau’s reckoning Ten
and pole star metaphors); and The Please don’t answer this last
Blessed and the Damned (expressed question until the wine glasses are
through scattered references to empty and the waiters are waiting
churches, Paradise, the Inferno, impatiently to clear your table: In
Doomsday, Redemption Day, the the Epilogue, Katey observes that
Pieta, and the language of the “Right choices are the means by
Gospels). What role do these motifs which life crystallizes loss.” What
play in the thematic composition is a right choice that you have
of the book? And if you see me in made and what did you leave
an airport, can you please explain behind as a result?
them to me. –Amor Towles
helen levitt seated in elevated subway car. NYC, 1938. G I V E T O T H E L I B R A RY
Walker Evans Archive, 1994. ©The Metropolitan Museum of Art. www.metmuseum.org www.dplfoundation.org
april 14-May 5, 2012 A Novel Idea ... Read Together www.deschuteslibrary.org/novelidea PAGE 5Events Around Town
Program Schedule
A Novel Idea Kick-Off stomping sounds from the bands Famous Men), which provided a
Rules of Civility Inspired of Count Basie, Benny Goodman, crucial means for bridging “high”
Quilt Show Downtown Bend Public Library and Artie Shaw, and infused with and “low” culture, that was seen as
Saturday, April 14, 2:00 p.m. the blues by the unforgettable integral to the success of his docu-
QuiltWorks voices of Billie Holiday and a new- mentary projects.
926 NE Greenwood Ave, Bend A Novel Idea comer—a teenage singer named
Saturday, April 21, 10:00 a.m.–noon 2012 kicks off Ella Fitzgerald.
During April, QuiltWorks Quilt
with an overview Money Enough for a
of events, fol-
Gallery is exhibiting 40 quilts, lowed by a pre- Thoreau “Worked” Martini an Hour:
each inspired by the novel Rules of
Civility. Each quilt, uniquely differ-
sentation from
at Walden? Women, Work & Leisure
COCC professor
ent in color, style, setting, and shape of English Stacey Donohue on East Bend Public Library
in 1930s New York
celebrates Rules of Civility and the this year’s featured book, Rules of Thursday, April 19, 6:30 p.m. Redmond Public Library
quilters who have woven together Civility by Amor Towles, and an Saturday, April 21, 3:00 p.m.
their love of reading and quilting. exhibit of quilts by the members Sunriver Area Public Library
More information: (541) 728-0527, of QuiltWorks. Friday, April 20, 1:00 p.m. Downtown Bend Public Library
marilyn@quiltworks.com.
Sunday, April 22, 2:00 p.m.
University of
Rules of Civility Second (Third) Sunday: Oregon profes- Did the eco-
New York Poets of the 1930s sor of English nomic crisis of
Book Discussions William Rossi the 1930s thwart
Downtown Bend Public Library discusses why the progress
Downtown Bend Public Library Sunday, April 15, 2:00 p.m. Henry Thoreau’s made by women
Thursday, April 12, 12:00 noon Walden, much in the “Roaring
A panel of local poets and writers like Moby Dick, and Uncle Tom’s Twenties?”
Redmond Public Library discuss and read works from New Cabin, is known by many and read Professor Jamie Bufalino from
Thursday, April 12, 12:00 noon York poets of the 1930s. An open by few. But, for Americans, why the University of Oregon explores
mic follows the presentation. does no other nineteenth-century the relationship between single
East Bend Public Library writer comes to mind prepack- women’s work outside the home,
Tuesday, April 17, 10:00 a.m. aged with a myth that makes his their consumption of leisure, and
La Pine Public Library
Film Screening: book less likely to be read than their efforts to be independent in
Thoreau? 1930s New York.
Thursday, April 19, 12:00 noon “Jazz: Swing, the Velocity
of Celebration”
Sunriver Area Public Library
Tuesday, April 24. 2:00 p.m. Redmond Public Library
The Social Documentary The American Dream?:
Monday, April 16, 3:00 p.m. Photographs of Rules of Civility and The
Sisters Public Library
Wednesday, April 25, 6:30 p.m. Sunriver Area Public Library
Walker Evans Great Gatsby
Wednesday, April 18, 2:00 p.m. Downtown Bend Public Library Redmond Public Library
Paulina Springs Books, Redmond Saturday, April 21, 3:00 p.m. Tuesday April 24, 6:30 p.m.
Monday, April 30, 5:30 p.m. East Bend Public Library
Saturday, April 21, 2:00 p.m. Sisters Public Library East Bend Public Library
Sunriver Area Books & Music Sunday, April 22, 1:00 p.m. Thursday, April 26, 6:30 p.m.
Monday, April 30, 6:30 p.m. La Pine Public Library
Monday, April 23, 10:00 a.m. Lewis & Clark What are
If you’ve never gone to a book professor of Art the connec-
discussion before, you’re not Sisters Public Library History Matthew tions between
alone. Each of us has a different Sunday, April 29, 1:30 p.m. Johnston exam- Tinker and that
opinion due to personal experi- ines how different embodiment of
ences, choices, and frames of Downtown Bend Public Library types of written modern litera-
reference. There are no right or Wednesday, May 2, 5:30 p.m. texts played a ture, Jay Gatsby?
wrong answers. role in making the photographs of Modernist literature scholar Joel
This documentary film by Ken Walker Evans effective instruments Clements examines the traits the
Burns gives an in-depth look at of social change. Striking on their two share, explores the American
the jazz musicians and singers of own terms, Evans’ images were not notion that we can be any identity
G I V E TO the late 1930s. Swing-mania is still only frequently accompanied by we construct, and discusses the
T H E L I B R A RY going strong on 52nd Street, but text (as in his collaboration with modern concept that the American
www.dplfoundation.org it has been reignited with pulsing, James Agee in Let Us Now Praise Dream can become a delusion.
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and shows you how to mix up some-
1930s Jazz: thing special using Bendistillery
The Swing Era Gin & Vodka. Participants must
be over 21 and space is limited.
Sunriver Area Public Library Signups are required. (541) 312-
Time & Place
Saturday, April 28, 3:00 p.m. 1032, lizg@deschuteslibrary.org
P r of e s s ion a l
jazz musician
Tim DuRoche
discusses the
MAIN
emergence
swing jazz in
of
EVENTS The Lens of
Walker Evans
the 1930s as the
dominant form in American music
and how virtuoso soloists such
as Count Basie, Benny Goodman,
Billie Holiday who joined Artie
Shaw, Duke Ellington, and Jimmy
& Tommy Dorsey became famous
as band leaders.
The Art of the Possible:
DAVID JACOBS
Jazz and Community
Building
Tower Theatre An Evening With
Sunday, April 29, 2:00 p.m.
Rules of Civility Author
Jazz is a highly democratic art Amor Towles
form that is deeply concerned
with participation and commu- Tower Theatre
nity, where risk, collaboration, and Friday, May 4, 7:00 p.m.
individual voice are all highly NYC Subway Passengers: Man in cap, woman in hat and gloves, 1938.
Walker Evans Archive, 1994. ©The Metropolitan Museum of Art. www.metmuseum.org
valued. Independent scholar and The presentation is free, but
professional jazz musician Tim tickets are required. Tickets are Rules of Civility opens at “Many “Many Are Called.” The exhibit
DuRoche explores the literature, available online (www.towerthe- Are Called,” a photography exhibit brought him national attention
economics and history of jazz as atre.org, (541) 317-0700, or at the by Walker Evans, one of the great and established him as one of the
well as look at how jazz as a “com- Tower Theatre box office during photographers of the twentieth most famous U.S. photographers.
munity of memory” can inspire regular business hours beginning century. As an artist, Evans was Evans’ compositions continue to
us to embrace cooperation once Saturday, April 14 at 10:00 a.m.). pivotal in documenting images of have the ability to disarm and
again as an important cornerstone the people and places of the Great inform by avoiding sentimental-
of our culture. (No tickets needed.) Depression. izing his subjects. He offered up
This event is part of Oregon Humanities state- Author Amor Towles at Evans was born in St. Louis, MO unadorned, stark imagery and
wide Conversation Project. in 1903. He spent his youth at a let the directness of his medium
Sisters High School variety of private boarding schools speak for itself.
Sisters High School as a lackluster student. After a brief
History and Mixology of Saturday, May 5, 7:00 p.m. sojourn in Paris, Evans returned to
1930s Cocktails the U.S. and settled in New York
City where he began studying the
No tickets required.
Downtown Bend Public Library art of photography. His early work
Monday, April 30, 6:00 p.m. included photographic studies
of the vanishing Late Victorian
Sunriver Area Public Library architecture of New England and
Times, dates & locations are
Tuesday, May 1, 12:00 noon the social landscape of Cuba
subject to change. For up-to-
under Dictator Gerardo Machado.
Redmond Public Library date information: (541) 312-1032 From 1935 to 1937, Evans made
Tuesday, May 1, 6:00 p.m. or www.deschuteslibrary.org/ excursions through the south and
calendar central regions of the U.S. captur-
Cocktail any- ing the stark images of real people
one? Mixologist for which he became famous.
Columbine In 1938, using hidden cameras
Quillen high- in the subways of New York City,
lights the history Evans began his three year portrait Walker Evans Archive, 1994. ©The Metropolitan
of the cocktail project that resulted in the exhibit Museum of Art. www.metmuseum.org
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Many Thanks
It takes many hands to pull Tina Davis, Stacey Donohue, Lisa programs, including the author funding and volunteers to enhance
off the “A Novel Idea…Read McGean, Kevin Barclay, Catherine programs, free and open to all! the Novel Idea experience in your
Together” project. It starts with Jasper, Todd Dunkelberg, and Special thanks to the Foundation local area. This year, the Friends
our committed selection commit- Chantal Strobel. Board members: Ann Malkin, of the Sisters Library and a very
tee who reads many, many books The Library’s Foundation Board Susie Penhollow, Mike McGean, special volunteer, Leanne Smith,
to find just the right one for our raises the funds through spon- Ann Evensen, Cindy Barnes, Gayle are planning and hosting the
communities. These dedicated sors and donors who give gener- McConnell, Eliescha Stone, Elouise author reception for the Sisters
bookworms are: Ruth Burleigh, ously so we are able to keep all Mattox, and Sandy Freeman. community.
Library staff members Liz We also have amazing partners
Goodrich and Lisa McGean such as the Nancy R. Chandler
create the engaging programs that Visiting Scholar Program,
capture the book’s themes and University of Oregon, Lewis &
draw us deeper into the novel. Clark College, and Reed College
They also provide most of the who assist us in our programs and
content for the reader’s guide. planning.
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creates the marketing materials the generous donors and sponsors
we provide so you can learn more listed below whose contributions
about our programs and resources. make all of this possible! With
And the remaining library staff thanks, and more thanks, we honor
support this program through all of you who give in a variety of
local displays, book discussions, ways to “A Novel Idea…Read
and enthusiasm—thanks for all of Together”—the finest and largest
your hard work! community read program in the
The five Friends of the Library state of Oregon!
organizations provide us with –Project Director, Chantal Strobel
khaled hosseini, author of “The Kite Runner,” with A Novel Idea G I V E T O T H E L I B R A RY
enthusiasts, 2005. www.dplfoundation.org
The Deschutes Public Library Foundation wishes to thank & acknowledge our supporters for their continued generosity.
Wylie Ackerman Sara Dunkelberg I. Leonard Gross Ann Maudlin Ray & Joyce Ownby Marian & Phil Thomas
Judith Aikin Todd & Terry Dunkelberg Lisa Halamicek-Leopold Mike & Lisa McGean Marion Palmateer Michael & Anne Thomas
Anonymous (4) Mary Eagleson Pamela Hamilton Holly McKinley Mike & Susie Penhollow Three Creeks Brewing
Jonathan & Elaine Austin E.H. & M.E. Bowerman Advised Mr. & Mrs. Jim Hayward Maggie McLaughlin Rebecca Plassmann & Dorothy Company
Kevin Barclay Fund of the Oregon David Higginbotham Heather McNeil Leman Rick & Susan Torassa
Cindy Gibb Barnes Community Foundation Joan Hinds Ray & Chris Miao Diana & Dick Pond TransCanada CAT
Andrea Simpson Barss Carl & Anita Elliott Danielle Hyde Lynne Mildenstein Reading is Fundamental Richard Truitt
Bend Research, Inc. Ann Evensen Catherine Jasper Kristina Miller Ralph Romans Oliver Van Cise
BendBroadband Faith, Hope, and Charity Kathy Johnson Rich & Nancy Miller The Roundhouse Foundation Chandra vanEijnsbergen
Bendistillery Vineyard and Events Center Marilyn Johnson Susan Mondry Sagebrush Mike Van Meter & Stacey
Alyssa Bennett Sara Farina Linda Kurtz Janet Moore Beverly Scalise Donohue
Jay & Teresa Bowerman Francis Hansen & Martin LLP Susan Whitney Kurtz Drs. Elliot & Marlene Morrison Marcia & Jim Schonlau Helen Vandervort
Julie Bowers Fred Meyer Stores Richard Lance & Leanne Danette Elliott Mullens Michael & Meredith Shadrach Jean S. Vogel
Catherine Jacobs Break David & Blair Fredstrom Latterell Judy Munro Stan & Sue Shepardson Peter & Becky Wanless
Ruth Burleigh Friends of the Bend Libraries Harriet Langmas Nancy R. Chandler Visiting Kristin & Mark Shields Ward Family Fund of The
Craig & Margaret Cardwell Friends of the La Pine Library Jim & Sara Langton Scholship Program Patricia Shields Oregon Community
Lori Carmichael Friends of the Redmond Library Martha Lawler James Newkirk Nancy Spreier Foundation
Jim & Judy Crowell Friends of the Sisters Library Judy Lawton Sharon Oliver Roy & Mary Stafford Jo Wegeforth
Grier & Rosemarie Davis Friends of the Sunriver Area Allan & Diana Lindberg OnPoint Community Credit The Starview Foundation Linda West
Tom & Linda Davis Library Mary Hay Long Union Eric & Chantal Strobel Gary & Kathleen Whiteaker
Craig & Rebecca Dennis Wayne & Beverly Gaskins Jim & Denise Mahoney Oregon Humanities Bill & Hete Sugnet Paul & Linda Whitsell
Deschutes County Shirley Gilles Liz & Bob Main Orcelletto Communications Kati Suominen Thomas & Elizabeth Wightman
Discretionary Grant Pete & Liz Goodrich Ann Malkin David & Judy Osgood James & Ardyce Swift Richard & Sally Wilson
Program Sheila Grier Charles & Elouise Mattox Gregory Owens & Christine Bell Thomas & Janet Tetzlaff
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