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Geraldine Brooks | 2009 | <i>March</i>

Australian-born Geraldine Brooks is the author of novels including <em>People of the Book</em> and <em>March,</em> which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2005. As a journalist for <em>The Wall Street Journal</em> in the 1980s and 1990s, Brooks covered crises in the the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans.<br /><br /> In this recording from the 2009 Key West Literary Seminar, Brooks reads from <em>March</em>, which tells the story of Captain March, known to readers of Louisa May Alcott's <em>Little Women</em> as the character of the father and husband who has left the family to fight in the Civil War.

Posted by Arlo Haskell on January 14, 2009 6:35 PM

Geraldine Brooks: 2009: <i>March</i>

Here's a recording of Geraldine Brooks reading from March, during the first session of the 2009 Key West Literary Seminar. We'll amend this post with complete liner notes after the Seminar. From KWLS 2009: Historical Fiction and the Search...

Posted by Arlo Haskell on January 14, 2009 12:51 PM

Not entirely random quotes from Session 1

Thanks again for the following to board member Nancy Klingener. Photo by Curt Richter. "The line between historical fiction and historical scholarship is not as hard and fast as we might think." &ndash;Eric Foner, Columbia history professor "History is...

Posted by Arlo Haskell on January 13, 2009 1:37 PM

Geraldine Brooks delivers Keynote Address

We've asked some friends and family to help post to Littoral for the next week and a half while the Seminar is underway. Here's the first, from Nancy Klingener, a member of our board of directors and creator of the...

Posted by Arlo Haskell on January 9, 2009 1:27 PM

Writers Recommend

With more than 40 writers scheduled to speak during our Seminar this January, it can be difficult for a reader to know where to start. Sure, there are the classics and prize-winners, like William Kennedy's Ironweed and David Levering...

Posted by Arlo Haskell on September 20, 2008 2:34 PM

From the Nets

This weeks catch from around the web.

Posted by Arlo Haskell on July 22, 2008 10:56 AM

<em>Scaffolding for the Imagination:</em><br>a conversation with Geraldine Brooks

Our conversation with Brooks begins with <em>March</em>. Brooks talks about this book and her love for books; about Christopher Walken in <em>The Dead Zone</em>; the &quot;Tony Test,&quot; reading in the bath, and ordinary, everyday Geraldine.

Posted by Arlo Haskell on July 10, 2008 11:04 AM

Brooks and Unsworth to give Keynotes<br><br>Gala Evening with Gore Vidal Planned

Pulitzer Prize-winning Australian novelist Geraldine Brooks will deliver the John Hersey Memorial Address on Thursday, January 8, 2009, during the first session of our twenty-seventh annual Key West Literary Seminar: Historical Fiction and The Search for Truth. Booker Prize-winner...

Posted by Arlo Haskell on June 13, 2008 12:54 PM