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Christopher Paul Curtis Lecture

The inaugural lecture of the Sarah Marwil Lamstein Children's Literature Lecture featured Christopher Paul Curtis. Winner of both the Newbery Award and the Coretta Scott King Medal, Curtis is the bestselling author of five books including Bud, Not Buddy and The Watsons Go To Birmingham—1963. Curtis is a University of Michigan alumnus and Hopwood Award winner. For more information on this author, you can visit the author's website.

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Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
Dargie Anderson (0:01:26)
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Lord Plant My Feet On Higher Ground
Dargie Anderson (0:01:58)
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Neil Bartlett Interview - The Living Writers Show
Neil Bartlett, Ashley David (0:46:08)
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Mood Ring
Jaswinder Bolina (0:01:29)
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Guillermo's Sigh Symphony
Anne Carson (0:01:36)
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Ode to the Sublime by Monica Viti
Anne Carson (0:02:27)
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Outwardly His Life Ran Smoothly
Anne Carson (0:01:38)
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Sarah Marwil Lamstein Children's Lit Lecture 2007
Christopher Paul Curtis (0:51:28)
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Sarah Marwil Lamstein Children's Lit Lecture 2007, Part 2: Q & A
Christopher Paul Curtis (0:13:05)
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Spring and Fall
Nicholas Delbanco (0:06:43)
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Who Am I?
Laurence Goldstein (0:01:43)
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Firmament On High
Laurence Goldstein (0:01:18)
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Ode To the Watchman
Lorna Goodison (0:02:05)
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The Wandering Jew and the Arab Merchant on the Island of Allspice
Lorna Goodison (0:01:49)
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Your Ice Art, Michigan
Lorna Goodison (0:01:14)
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The Day-Breaking If Not the Full Sun Shining on the Progresse of the Gospel in New England
Linda Gregerson (0:04:06)
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Sarah Marwil Lamstein Children's Lit Lecture 2008
Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket) (0:51:48)
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Coming of Age
Alan Jacobstein (0:07:34)
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Pre-Med
Alan Jacobstein (0:01:07)
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Safari, Rift Valley
Alan Jacobstein (0:00:55)
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Protracted Absence
Laura Kasischke (0:01:17)
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Process of adapting a novel for film
Laura Kasischke (0:39:38)
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The Second Week of May
Laura Kasischke (0:00:52)
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Orange Bang
Deanne Ludin (0:00:46)
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The Ginseng Hunter Thinks About Oranges in October
Deanne Ludin (0:01:33)
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Geneology of Fire
Khaled Mattawa (0:04:39)
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For Years I've Been Prohibited From Mentioning the Moon
Khaled Mattawa (0:02:30)
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The Rapture of Dry Ice Buring Off Skin at the Moment of the Soul's Apothesis
Thylias Moss (0:01:38)
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Sage Wisdom
Sean Norton (0:01:34)
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Blue Tip
Sean Norton (0:01:48)
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Reading from: At Swim, Two Boys
Jamie O'Neill (0:50:45)
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Independence
Macklin Smith (0:02:59)
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Koans? No, Queries
Macklin Smith (0:00:46)
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Days of 1971, 1972
Keith Taylor (0:01:18)
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Detroit Dancing, 1948
Keith Taylor (0:01:29)
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The World Is
Richard Tillinghast (0:03:19)
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We Kept Missing Each Other
Richard Tillinghast (0:02:29)
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Daniel Handler Lecture

The second annual Sarah Marwil Lamstein Childeren's Literature Lecture featured Daniel Handler. Daniel Handler is the author of the novels The Basic Eight, Watch Your Mouth and Adverbs, and serves as the legal, literary and social representative of Lemony Snicket, whose sequence of books for children, known collectively as A Series Of Unfortunate Events, have allegedly sold more than 56 million copies in 39 languages and are indirectly responsible for at least one major motion picture. 

For reasons unknown even to himself, he works intermittently in film, journalism and music, including a collaboration with composer Nathaniel Stookey on a piece commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony entitled The Composer Is Dead.  The adjunct accordionist for the pop group The Magnetic Fields, Mr. Handler lives in San Francisco with his wife, the illustrator Lisa Brown, and a relatively small child.

For more information on the Lemony Snicket series of books, please visit the author's website: http://www.lemonysnicket.com/

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Jamie O'Neill Reading

Jamie O'Neill, Irish writer and author of AT SWIM, TWO BOYS (2002), reads from his novel at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo on November 15, 2005. O'Neill was in the middle of a week-long residency in Ann Arbor, sponsored by the Lesbian-Gay-Queer Research Initiative at U-M's Institute for Research on Women and Gender, by the English Dept's Zell Visiting Writers Series, and by a grant from the Arcus Foundation.

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Sarah Marwil Lamstein Children's Lit Lecture 2007
Christopher Paul Curtis (0:02:22)
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Sarah Marwil Lamstein Children's Lit Lecture 2008
Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket) (0:51:58)
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Reading from: At Swim, Two Boys
Jamie O'Neill (0:50:34)
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The Sarah Marwil Lamstein Children's Literature Lecture/Reading

The Sarah Marwil Lamstein Children's Literature Lecture/Reading is made possible through an endowment in honor of Sarah Marwil Lamstein by her husband Joel Lamstein to the University of Michigan Department of English Language and Literature. This annual event began in 2007 and is presented by the Department of English.