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July 2008 Programs & Events

Genesee Reading Series

Hosted by: Wanda Schubmehl
Featuring: Elizabeth Osta & Kathy Van Schaick
Tuesday, July 8 7:30 pm
In the Verb Café at W&B
$3W&B members, $6 general public

Now in its 23rd year, the Genesee Reading Series presents writers from the greater Genesee Valley region reading in the Verb Cafe. Learn more about our featured authors.

Senior Reading Group

Tuesday July 8 2:00 pm- 4:00p.m.
In the Verb Café at W&B
Free and open to the public

Share your writing with other seniors in a comfortable, supportive atmosphere at W&B.

Bob Fussell : Visiting Writers Series

Wednesday, July 9
$4 W&B members, $6 general public
7 p.m., W&B

LeRoy resident Bob Fussell recently edited and revised his grandfather’s memoir of the old West, and published it with Truman State University Press. Unbridled Cowboyis the story of Joseph Fussell’s life as western adventurer, Texas Ranger, and rail- roader—a unique voice that embodies the spirit of the old West and which has prompted comparisons with Larry McMurtry and Wallace Stegner.

The Bertrand Russell Society

Hosted by: Dr. David White
Thursday, July 10, at 7:00 pm
In the Verb Café at W&B
Admission: Free to W&B Members; $3/General Public

This ongoing lecture series promises to enlighten and entertain. Monthly meetings are open to everyone, not just members of the Bertrand Russell Society.

This Month: Phil Ebersole on BR’s book Power: a New Social Analysis

During the late 1920s and early 30s, Bertrand Russell, then a world-famous philosopher, did a series of three books for Horace Liveright, the New York publishing house which had invented the Modern Library and was well known for publishing controversial authors. Russell's books and the U.S. lecture tours he took at the same time were all great successes. Some of his ideas for reform of self, marriage, education and society are taken for granted today, others have been rejected, but the study of Russell's popular advocacy between the wars provides us with a unique portrait of what the American mind was seeing and thinking about during what came to be called the Jazz Age..

David White
Dr. White teaches philosophy at St. John Fisher College, is president of the New York State Philosophers Association, and is a founder of the Greater Rochester Russell Set.

For further information, call 415-5925 or e-mail: tmadigan@rochester.rr.com

Valley Manor Book Discussion: The View from Castle Rockby Alice Munro.

Facilitated by: Wendy Low
Thursday, July 10, 10:30-noon
Valley Manor, 1570 East Ave. Rochester
Free admission

Valley Manor Book Discussion: The View from Castle Rockby Alice Munro.

Open History Reading Group

Hosted by: Steve Huff
Thursday, July 17, at 7:00 pm
In the Verb Café at W&B
Free to W&B members, $3 general public

Join us for meetings of an open history-reading group. In these gatherings we choose historical topics rather than specific books, and then you choose a book on the subject that most interests you. The discussions are convivial, exciting, and informative.

Aaron Fagan & Jessy Randall: Coming Home

Thusday, July 24
$4 W&B members, $6 general public
7 p.m., W&B

Aaron Fagan was born in Rochester, New York, in 1973. His poems have appeared in numerous magazines including The American Poetry Review, TriQuarterly,and The Yale Review. He is the author of Garage (Salt Publishing, 2007), a debut collection which the critic Harold Bloom described as “vivid and aesthetically disturbing work. His promise is considerable because his originality should prove to be decisive.” A former Assistant Editor for Poetry, he is now a Copy Editor for Scientific American in New York City and lives in the Bronx.

Jessy Randall is from Rochester—more precisely, she grew up in Brockport, Hilton, Greece, Penfield, and Brighton, in that order. She began writing when Judith Kitchen was the poet-in-residence at her elementary school. Her poems, poetry comics, essays, and humor pieces have appeared in Asimov’s, McSweeney’s, Mudfish, Painted Bride Quarterly, Rattle, and Sentence, and her first full- length collection of poems, A Day in Boyland, came out in 2007 from Ghost Road Press. She has a young adult novel coming out from the same press in 2009. She is the Curator of Special Collections at Colorado College and lives in Colorado Springs with her husband and two young children.

Wide Open Mic

Hosted by: Norm Davis
Monday July 28 7:30 pm
In the Verb Café at W&B
Free to W&B members, $3 general public

W&B is proud to sponsor Rochester's largest running open mike, hosted by Norm Davis, poet and editor of HazMat Review. Known for its eclectic mix. Wide Open Mike welcomes poets, performers, and writers of all kinds.

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