Milwaukee on C-Span

This will include a segment airing on Book TV-today, Saturday!  It will also be available on the c-span website c-span.org/series/?citiesTour
https://www.jsonline.com/story/entertainment/television-radio/2019/05/16/c-span-dives-into-milwaukees-history-cultural-life-weekend/3686138002/

More award winners-Pulitzer’s announced this week

The Overstory

By Richard Powers

National Book Award winner Richard Powers’s twelfth novel is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, 

resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.

And 

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

By David W. Blight

The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.

As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and he would go on to become one of the major literary figures of his time. He wrote three versions of his autobiography over the course of his lifetime and published his own newspaper. His very existence gave the lie to slave owners: with dignity and great intelligence he bore witness to the brutality of slavery.

Man Booker International

I didn't realize that there is a separate International Man Booker Prize.  First introduced in 2005, it is a complement to the Man Booker Prize.  The prestigious award is given annually to a single book in English translation.  The six books on this year's list are almost entirely by female authors and translators.  
Here's a link to the list:
https://bookmarks.reviews/shortlist-for-the-man-booker-international-prize-announced/
Mary

A trip to Chicago?

An interesting article from USA Today.  I think the book club should plan a trip to Chicago.  In addition to the places in the article, we could visit the Chicago central library.
http://www.kittravels.com/graphics/clips/GO_CHICAGO.pdf
Mary

House of Broken Angels

Characters in House of Broken Angels arranged by part
https://www.bookcompanion.com/thoba_character_list2.html

Man Booker Prize

A nice article about the author and book that won the Man Booker Prize.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/books/anna-burns-interview-booker-prize-milkman-no-bones.html

Mary

Books from Ginny

Ginny sent me this last month 
“I just finished reading a book for my book group entitled “Empty Chairs.”  It’s written by a Madison author, Anne Davidson Keller.  I really liked it and I thought you might enjoy it too.  It takes place in 1944 and is about a family living on a farm in North Carolina.  It’s told from the perspective of the youngest boy - age 11-13.  It was easy to get into and I found it to be a fast read. “
I didn’t find this at the Milwaukee Library, but it is available from Amazon as a paperback or on Kindle.  Sounds good.

Another book Ginny mentioned that her group read is Tortilla Curtain by T C Boyle.  Her group liked it. I read it when it first come out.  Has anyone else read it?  I don’t think we’ve read any of his books in bookclub. 
This is what Wikipedia and the Chicago Tribune have to say about it.

The Tortilla Curtain is a novel by U.S. author T.C. Boyle about middle-class values, illegal immigration, xenophobia, poverty, and environmental destruction. In 1997 it was awarded the French Prix Médicis 
Étranger prize for best foreign novel. 


"A compelling story of myopic misunderstanding and mutual tragedy."
--Chicago Tribune
Jackie