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SUMMARY:Karen Russell - The Antidote
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author Karen Russell (Swamplandia!) for a discussion about her latest novel The Antidote\, which will be available in paperback on the night of the event. “The Antidote blends speculative and fantasy elements with rich language and vivid characters in an effort not to escape reality but to comment even more thoughtfully on it. . . . Russell’s lyrical writing dazzles on every page.” —The New York Times \n \nYour RSVP helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes. Thank you for registering! \nThe Antidote opens on Black Sunday\, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz\, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing—not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the dust bowl drought but beneath its own violent histories. The Antidote follows a “Prairie Witch\,” whose body serves as a bank vault for peoples’ memories and secrets; a Polish wheat farmer who learns how quickly a hoarded blessing can become a curse; his orphan niece\, a basketball star and witch’s apprentice in furious flight from her grief; a voluble scarecrow; and a New Deal photographer whose time-traveling camera threatens to reveal both the town’s secrets and its fate. \nKaren Russell is the author of six books of fiction\, including the New York Times bestsellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove. She has received MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Born and raised in Miami\, Florida\, she now lives in the Bay Area with her husband\, son\, and daughter. The Antidote\, a national bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award\, is her second novel. \nThis event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karen-russell-the-antidote/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Two Noble Kinsmen - Episode III
DESCRIPTION:Shakespeare returns to the characters and themes of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in what may have been the last play he had a hand in writing: The Two Noble Kinsmen. This time\, however\, the story of Theseus and Hippolyta\, the disorienting experience of adolescent sexual desire\, and the conflict of duties to sovereigns\, parents\, friends\, and spouses are no laughing matter. They are over-shadowed by the play’s source text — Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale\, in which chance foils Theseus’s best efforts to create order out of chaos and meaning out of loss — and by Shakespeare’s own experience writing tragedy and tragicomedy. \n \nThomas Luxon is Professor of English\, Emeritus at Dartmouth College\, where he was also the inaugural Cheheyl Professor and Director of the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning. His teaching and scholarship focus on literature of the English Renaissance and Reformation\, with a particular interest in John Milton\, John Bunyan\, John Dryden\, and 17th-century English religion and politics. In his revelatory book\, Single Imperfection: Milton\, Marriage\, and Friendship (Duquesne UP\, 2005)\, Professor Luxon explores the impact of ancient theories of friendship on Milton’s conception of Reformation marriage\, and during the pandemic\, he contributed a lecture about the rivalry of friendship and marriage in Two Noble Kinsmen to Ian Doescher’s Shakespeare 2020 Project. \nUndiscovered Shakespeare is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of works by Shakespeare that are rarely produced.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-the-two-noble-kinsmen-episode-iii/
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