Friday Favorites: Oct. 17
-
- October
- 17
Dobbs Ferry author Tim W. Brown won’t have to travel far to get to his next book event — it’s tomorrow at the Dobbs Ferry Public Library.
He will be reading excerpts from his recent novel “Walking Man” (Bronx River Press, 2008) beginning at at 2 p.m. The library is at 55 Main St. and the event is free.
The Midwest Book Review characterized Brown’s book as “darkly humorous and thought-provoking.” It is “a must-read for those who enjoy their novels with more of an offbeat flavor,” the review said.
Sounds neat to me and his publicity material says it “satirizes so-called ‘alternative’ culture while it fondly recollects the 80s and 90s ‘zine scene.”
I am in the middle of reading Suze Rotolo’s book about her relationship with Bob Dylan and the folk-music scene, “A Freewheelin’ Time: Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties” (Broadway, 2008) so for me personally, this might be a perfect follow-up and update of contemporary life tales.
Brown is the author of two earlier novels, “Deconstruction Acres” (1997) and “Left of the Loop” (2001). His latest literary effort, “American Renaissance” is a comic historical novel set in 1830s America, to be published in 2010 by Gival Press. He serves on the board of the nonprofit New York Center for Independent Publishing, and is a member of the National Book Critics Circle. From 1982 to 1997 he published Tomorrow Magazine, featuring the work of underground poets from all over the U.S.
Well, that said, I had to ask Brown what he is reading right now and what he would suggest to this blog’s readers. This is after all, my Friday Favorites entry.
Clearly a book person, he quickly sent this offering:
“The book I’m currently reading is “American Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA” (by Nick Taylor, Random House/Bantam, 2008) as part of the research I’m doing for my novel-in-progress, which is set in the 1930s. A character gets a WPA job to collect folk music down south. Depending on how bad the current economic situation gets, the WPA could serve as a template for action in Washington in the near future!”
No doubt, this topic is timely and could shed some light on our current economic times, so I’m sure many of us will be able to connect to his story and the people involved. There are several Federal Art Project samples in our region which I’m sure he will take a look at and the White Plains Public Library has a good research collection on this topic as well.
Brown has lived in Dobbs Ferry for five years having moved there from Chicago in 2003.
Later this fall he has planned these book events for “Walking Man”:
Oct. 27: Reading with Edwin Torres, Sharon Mesmer and Tara Betts at Bluestockings, 172 Allen St. in lower Manhattan.
Nov. 20: Reading with Christopher Plummer, Michael Gates Gill and Amy Shearn, Spoken Interludes, Harrison.
This entry was posted
on Friday, October 17th, 2008 at 10:59 am by Barbara Nackman.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
| 
