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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.
A short video sample of the lecture is also avaible for download to the right.
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Dargie Anderson (0:01:26)
Dargie Anderson (0:01:58)
Neil Bartlett, Ashley David (0:46:08)
Jaswinder Bolina (0:01:29)
Anne Carson (0:01:36)
Anne Carson (0:02:27)
Anne Carson (0:01:38)
Christopher Paul Curtis (0:51:28)
Christopher Paul Curtis (0:13:05)
Nicholas Delbanco (0:06:43)
Laurence Goldstein (0:01:43)
Laurence Goldstein (0:01:18)
Lorna Goodison (0:02:05)
Lorna Goodison (0:01:49)
Lorna Goodison (0:01:14)
Linda Gregerson (0:04:06)
Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket) (0:51:48)
Alan Jacobstein (0:07:34)
Alan Jacobstein (0:01:07)
Alan Jacobstein (0:00:55)
Laura Kasischke (0:01:17)
Laura Kasischke (0:39:38)
Laura Kasischke (0:00:52)
Deanne Ludin (0:00:46)
Deanne Ludin (0:01:33)
Khaled Mattawa (0:04:39)
Khaled Mattawa (0:02:30)
Thylias Moss (0:01:38)
Sean Norton (0:01:34)
Sean Norton (0:01:48)
Jamie O'Neill (0:50:45)
Macklin Smith (0:02:59)
Macklin Smith (0:00:46)
Keith Taylor (0:01:18)
Keith Taylor (0:01:29)
Richard Tillinghast (0:03:19)
Richard Tillinghast (0:02:29)
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/
Also available as an audio file to the left.
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.
Also available as an audio file to the left.
Christopher Paul Curtis (0:02:22)
Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket) (0:51:58)
Jamie O'Neill (0:50:34)
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.