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January 30, 2008
News of Our Newest Meet the Author Series
OUTSIDE-THE-BOX
(Meet the Author Series)
It is often by challenging convention that we acquire the space to expand our vision, question established values, and allow ourselves to grow. Stretch the status quo with these authors whose lives and work have led them to unexpected insights and surprising places. Join us in an exploration of new horizons and start thinking Outside-the-Box!
Michael Gates Gill
Author of How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else
Thursday, February 28
7 p.m. in the Program Room
At the age of 63, Michael Gates Gill lost it all – his job, his family, his home, and his health. Dejected and desperate, he accepted an entry level job at a local Starbucks and embarked on a journey that reached out across race, class, and age to transform his life. With thoughtfulness, humor, dignity, and honesty, the author shares what's he's learned about hard work, respect, camaraderie, humanity...and coffee.
Lee Siegel
Author of Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob
Thursday, March 6
7 p.m. in the Program Room
Does the internet connect us or separate us? Lee Siegel, senior editor at The New Republic, dissects our cultural love affair with the internet and its byproducts. In an intellectually engaging and spirited style, Siegel argues that the web has spawned an "electronic mob" that threatens to overwhelm long-held concepts of humanity. He takes on the web, reality television, film techniques, and internet dating, with a view that is critical, provocative, passionate, fresh, and entertaining.
Copies of the books will be available for purchase.
A book signing will follow the presentations and there will be drawings for prizes.
Refreshments will be served.
Posted by BarbaraT at January 30, 2008 04:26 PM