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Abbey Room, 6-8 PM

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The Annual Meeting
and 100-Year Retroactive Book Award
November 5, 2009

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Robert DarntonThe Associates of the Boston Public Library invites you to attend its Annual Meeting and Retroactive Book Award of 1909. The books for this year’s lively and sophisticated event are Personae by Ezra Pound, Three Lives by Gertrude Stein and The Harvard Classics, compiled by Charles Eliot.

Celebrating the beginning of modernism, the panel will be moderated by Robert Darnton, Literary Light of 2009, Pforzheimer University Professor of History, Director of the Harvard University Library and author of many books including The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Prerevolutionary France, The Business of Enlightenment, and The Great Cat Massacre.

Speaking for the Candidates:

Rosanna WarrenRosanna Warren
Poet, author of Stained Glass and Departure,  and Professor at Boston University defending Ezra Pound’s Personae.

Leland de la DurantayeLeland de la Durantaye
Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of English, Harvard University, and author of Style is Matter and Giorgio Agamben, promoting Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives.

Christopher BehaChristopher Beha
Author of The Whole Five Feet and assistant editor at Harper's Magazine championing The Harvard Classics.

November 5, 2009
Abbey Room, McKim Building
Boston Public Library
6-8 p.m.

Following the presentation, the audience will vote for the winner and join the authors and guests at a reception.

The event is offered at no charge, but please reply to attend.

 

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