E. L. Doctorow

You are invited to take part in a special celebration of the life and work of Flannery O’connor at a special conference April 14-16 at Georgia College in Milledgeville. Several dozen writers and scholars will talk about O’Connor including a special appearance by prize-winning author E.L. Doctorow ... (more)on April 15. Among the other guests are author Tom Franklin, biographer Jean Cash and poet Kathryn Stripling Byer. The conference is part of the Southern Literary Trail’s ”Trailfest 2011” sponsored in part by the Georgia Center for the Book. Registration for attendance is required. Please call 478-445-5277 or go online to www.gcsu.edu/startlingfigures for more details. Other activities going on throughout the conference include tours of O’Connor’s farm home at Andalusia and screenings of short movies about O’Connor. The Southern Literary Trail is a three-state organization (Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia) that celebrates the landmark homes of notable Southern authors. For information, please go to www.southernliterarytraiol.org.

You are invited to take part in a special celebration of the life and work of Flannery O’connor at a special conference April 14-16 at Georgia College in Milledgeville. Several dozen writers and scholars will talk about O’Connor including a special appearance by prize-winning author E.L. Doctorow ... (more)on April 15. Among the other guests are author Tom Franklin, biographer Jean Cash and poet Kathryn Stripling Byer. The conference is part of the Southern Literary Trail’s ”Trailfest 2011” sponsored in part by the Georgia Center for the Book. Registration for attendance is required. Please call 478-445-5277 or go online to www.gcsu.edu/startlingfigures for more details. Other activities going on throughout the conference include tours of O’Connor’s farm home at Andalusia and screenings of short movies about O’Connor. The Southern Literary Trail is a three-state organization (Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia) that celebrates the landmark homes of notable Southern authors. For information, please go to www.southernliterarytraiol.org.

You are invited to take part in a special celebration of the life and work of Flannery O’connor at a special conference April 14-16 at Georgia College in Milledgeville. Several dozen writers and scholars will talk about O’Connor including a special appearance by prize-winning author E.L. Doctorow ... (more)on April 15. Among the other guests are author Tom Franklin, biographer Jean Cash and poet Kathryn Stripling Byer. The conference is part of the Southern Literary Trail’s ”Trailfest 2011” sponsored in part by the Georgia Center for the Book. Registration for attendance is required. Please call 478-445-5277 or go online to www.gcsu.edu/startlingfigures for more details. Other activities going on throughout the conference include tours of O’Connor’s farm home at Andalusia and screenings of short movies about O’Connor. The Southern Literary Trail is a three-state organization (Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia) that celebrates the landmark homes of notable Southern authors. For information, please go to www.southernliterarytraiol.org.

You are invited to take part in a special celebration of the life and work of Flannery O’connor at a special conference April 14-16 at Georgia College in Milledgeville. Several dozen writers and scholars will talk about O’Connor including a special appearance by prize-winning author E.L. Doctorow ... (more)on April 15. Among the other guests are author Tom Franklin, biographer Jean Cash and poet Kathryn Stripling Byer. The conference is part of the Southern Literary Trail’s ”Trailfest 2011” sponsored in part by the Georgia Center for the Book. Registration for attendance is required. Please call 478-445-5277 or go online to www.gcsu.edu/startlingfigures for more details. Other activities going on throughout the conference include tours of O’Connor’s farm home at Andalusia and screenings of short movies about O’Connor. The Southern Literary Trail is a three-state organization (Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia) that celebrates the landmark homes of notable Southern authors. For information, please go to www.southernliterarytraiol.org.

Amherst Museum's Museum Book Club is free and open to the public. Please call 716-689-1440, ext. 7716 or email amuseum@roadrunner.com to register.

E.L. Doctorow and his wife, Helen, have adapted his novel The March, the sprawling tale of General Sherman's campaign through the South, to be read by some of Broadway's best actors! The colorful characters include dispossessed southern plantation owners, liberated slaves, Union officers, politicians ... (more)and recruits, President Lincoln, and General Robert E. Lee. Directed by James Naughton, and featuring Mia Dillon, Keir Dullea, Ron McLarty, and Joe Morton. General $20; Member $15; Under 30 $15 (212) 864-5400

$28 tickets will go on sale Tues., Sept. 8th. (Tickets are redeemable for a copy of Mr. Doctorow's new novel before or at the event.) Harvard Book Store is thrilled to welcome legendary, award-winning American novelist E. L. DOCTOROW for a discussion of his newest novel, Homer & Langley. Doctorow ... (more)once again delves into a true story of Americana to find inspiration for his most recent novel, Homer & Langley. The title characters are the infamous Collyer brothers, whose eccentricities included a shared snobbish nature and an obsession with hoarding and protecting their rapidly deteriorating property. Narrated by Homer, the novel examines the tumultuous history of twentieth-century America from the perspective of a pair of brothers who, while claustrophobically entangled in their surroundings, were also irredeemably alienated from them. "Following the panoramic scope of The March, Doctorow creates a microcosmic and mythic tale of compulsion, alienation, and dark metamorphosis inspired by the famously eccentric Collyer brothers of New York City. Born to wealth in the 1880s, Homer and Langley became recluses and hoarders barricaded inside their Fifth Avenue brownstone, which was crammed with more than 100 tons of moldering junk. Altering facts and tinkering with time, Doctorow has Homer, who is blind, narrate with deadpan humor and spellbinding precision. Homer is devoted to music, and his brother is devoted to him, but Langley, offkilter after a gas attack in the Great War, is beyond strange.... Over the decades, people come and go...but finally Homer and Langley are irrevocably alone, prisoners in their fortress of rubbish, trapped in their warped form of brotherly love. Wizardly Doctorow presents an ingenious, haunting odyssey that unfolds within a labyrinth built out of the detritus of war and excess." —Booklist (starred)