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November Gnu’s Room News
Hopefully, everyone is remembering to check our website at
www.thegnusroom.com for the latest store events. Just a quick reminder
of the Science Cafe this evening. Our guest speaker is Jorge Munoz,
who is finishing up work on his PhD in Physics at Auburn. His topic
will be Nuclear Fusion.
Saturday, November 15th at 7:00 p.m. will be the last event of the Sun
Belt Reading Series for this year. The readers will be Kirk Curnutt of
Troy University-Montgomery, Ron Riekki and Carrie Spell of Auburn, and
Shanti Wieland of the U. of A. Kirk has a published novel and short
story collection and was a crowd favorite at his reading last year.
Ron has a new novel, “U.P.,” and will be signing copies after the
reading. Carrie’s fiction has been published in numerous literary
journals and magazines and she has twice been nominated for the
Pushcart Prize. Shanti has a chapbook, “Daughter En Route,” and won
the Joan Johnson award for her poetry. Don’t miss this wonderful
event, which always brings surprises!
Saturday also brings an event for the younger set, namely those in
grades 4 – 6. Laurie Brenden of Brenden Designs will be presenting a
reading of Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree, followed by a fun art
project called The Thankful Tree. There is a fee for this event of $10
payable to Brenden Designs to help offset the cost of the art
supplies. The event is from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
The Gnu’s Room will be closed Thanksgiving Day, November 27th, but
will reopen on the 28th with regular business hours.
If you are just starting your holiday shopping, or trying to finish
up, please consider a Gnu’s Room gift certificate. It’s the perfect
gift for the readers and coffee aficionados on your list!
As always, thanks for reading!
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The Gnu’s Room Bookstore & Coffee House
414 S Gay St
Auburn, AL 36830
334.821.5551
www.thegnusroom.com
The Gnu’s Letter
August 2008
The Gnu’s Room Bookstore & Coffee house
Summer Hours of Operation:
Monday—Closed Tue through Sat—9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Sunday—Closed
Science Café Auburn
On Friday August 8th at 7:00 p.m. our guest speaker will be Dr. Robert Meadows, Sr. DC, CCEP of Meadows Family Chiropractic. Dr. Meadows is a National Upper Cervical Doctor (NUCCA) and a Certified Chiropractic Extremities Practitioner (CCEP).
Book Signing
Larry Williamson, author of the novel Tallapoosa and Over the River, Long Ago, a collection of short stories, will be speaking and signing copies of his books at The Gnu’s Room on Saturday, August 9th at 4:00 p.m. Larry spent his youth playing, exploring and working on the banks of the Tallapoosa River, which splits his hometown of Tallassee, Alabama. He developed a lifelong fascination and love of the river and its rich heritage. A graduate of Auburn University in engineering, Larry has taught high school math and coached football and track for more than thirty years.
AUGUST GNU BREW
Please join us on Friday, August 29, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. as the Auburn Area Community Theatre (AACT) makes its second annual appearance at The Gnu’s Room. Each year AACT hosts Summer Stages, an acting and directing workshop, open to the public and free of charge. Some of the short scenes performed during Summer Stages will be performed again The Gnu’s Room. Last year’s event was a huge success enjoyed by both the entertainers and the entertained. Come a bit early for the best seats!
Auburn Area Community Theatre is a non-profit corporation that exists to serve the Auburn/Opelika Community. Its purpose is to: present a quality, entertaining and thought-provoking theatre experience to the community, provide a venue for artists and artisans to collaborate and create theatrical presentations of great value to the community, to offer to the people of the Auburn/Opelika Area an opportunity for education and participation in the world of theatre, offer the youth of the Auburn/Opelika Area an outstanding chance to explore a fascinating world where fantasy comes alive, and grow and develop with the community. Auburn Area Community Theatre is a member of the Auburn Arts Association.
THIS MONTH IN BOOKS
Aug 4, 1873 The author of 168 fairy tales, Hans Christian Andersen, dies in
Copenhagen at the age of 68.
Aug 8, 1896 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is born in Washington, D.C. Her novel, The Yearling, will win the Pulitzer Prize in 1938.
Aug 11, 1937 Ernest Hemingway rips open his shirt to display his chest hair and punches Max Eastman in the nose in Maxwell Perkins’ office.
Aug 16, 1949 Margaret Mitchell (Gone With the Wind), 48, dies in Atlanta shortly after being struck down by a taxi.
Aug 18, 1782 Poet William Blake, 24, marries Catherine Sophia Boucher, an illiterate whom he will teach to share his love of literature.
Aug 20, 1831 Nikolai Gogol visits the printers to oversee the production of Evenings on a Farm, finds the typesetters greatly amused by the proofs, and concludes that he will be “an author entirely to the taste of the common people.”
Aug 23, 1851 Honore de Balzac’s most successful play, Mercadet le Faiseur, opens at the Gymnase in Paris, one year and five days after his death.
Aug 27, 1660 Because of John Milton’s attacks on King Charles II, books written by the poet are burned in London.
Aug 31, 1946 Hiroshima by John Hersey appears complete in The New Yorker.
The Gnu’s Room Bookstore
& Coffee House
414 S Gay St
Auburn, AL
Phone: 334-821-5550
Fax: 334-821-5550
Email: tina@thegnusroom.com
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