At last night’s second meeting of the Jewish American Literature [5] book discussion series, Demons, Golems, and Dybbuks: Monsters of Jewish Imagination, over 30 eager readers gathered a the Waldo Branch to discuss S. Ansky’s seminal play, The Dybbuk.
There are infinitely worse ways to spend a Saturday night in Kansas City, and not many better ones, than to spend it with Robert Day and the Kansas City Symphony [8] at The Writers Place [9].
It was a hard weekend in the book world. Two of its most respected and revered authors turned the last page.
A couple of Sundays ago the New York Times Book Review devoted their front page to Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt. This scholarly and intriguing work of nonfiction explores the history of traffic patterns and driver culture, particularly in America. It was a glowing review of a book that deserves to be read by anyone holding a drivers’ license.
"The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out." --Voltaire
Welcome to the inaugural post of Off the Page, the Kansas City Public Library’s [16] blog for readers. Like most bloggy ideas, this one has many mothers.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/off-the-page
[2] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/Off%20the%20Page/feed
[3] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[4] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/page/grip-dybbuk
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/event/let-s-talk-about-it-jewish-literature-demons-golems-and-dybbuks-monsters-jewish-imagination
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/2382#comment-form
[7] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/page/saturday-night-special
[8] http://www.kcsymphony.org/index.jsp
[9] http://www.writersplace.org
[10] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/2304#comment-form
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/page/literary-lions-lost
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/2301#comment-form
[13] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/page/missing-point-while-missing-exit
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/page/missing-point-while-missing-exit#comments
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/page/front-matter
[16] http://www.kclibrary.org/
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/1856#comment-form
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/1681
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/1681?page=2
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/1681?page=1
