tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57283999799543437132024-03-18T22:06:29.992-05:00ClassicCoupLit is Life. Classic Coup's mission is to impact the culture by celebrating rich reads that sear our heads and hearts.Angela Muirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16954643497320689025noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728399979954343713.post-60678525526534551262014-01-25T12:38:00.000-06:002014-01-25T12:38:38.706-06:00Reading List for 2014 from World Book Night<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Looking for a new diet for 2014? One that's low in fluff fiction and high on protein for your head and heart? Check out this <a href="http://www.us.worldbooknight.org/books/2014/item/486-2014-book-list">Reading List</a>, the official picks for <a href="http://www.us.worldbooknight.org/">World Book Night</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">WBN, an annual event celebrating the love of reading, is held on April 23. Started in the UK in 2011 and joined by book lovers in the US in 2012, selected volunteers recommend and give out their favorite reads to light or non-readers. Last year I gave out one of my favorite classics, <i>Fahrenheit 451</i>, at a <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/nashville-film-fest-about-choice-and-voice">censorship discussion</a> following the movie, <i>Viva Cuba Libre: Rap is War! </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Find out how you can share stories to connect lives <a href="http://www.us.worldbooknight.org/how-do-i-get-involved/support-us">here</a> and let us know which book on this year's list you like best.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-align: justify;"> Think New York City’s Greenwich Village or London’s </span><span style="text-align: justify;">Soho—aviaries where artistic birds-of-a-feather flock together. </span><span style="text-align: justify;">In Montparnasse, on the left bank of the Seine, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Joyce, Stein, Picasso, Dali, Miller and Modigliani mingled.</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">In Nashville, on the east bank of the Cumberland, local best-selling authors and breakout artists huddle at </span><a href="http://eastsidestorytn.com/" style="text-align: justify;">East SideStory</a><span style="text-align: justify;">.</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"> The brain child of Chuck Beard, the store exclusively carries works of local musicians, artists and writers. </span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">Fostering creative, intellectual community, </span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">Beard books events from ESS Storytellin’(schedule below)-- where </span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">tales and tunes</span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">toast -- to</span><a href="http://eastsidestorytn.com/home-away-from-home-school/" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"> school field trips</a><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">-- where authors and students sit a spell </span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">discussing </span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">the creative process.</span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"> On February 8 his </span><a href="http://eastsidestorytn.com/book-me-begins/" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">BOOK ME!</a><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"> program began and h</span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">is monthly </span><a href="http://eastsidestorytn.com/express-yourself/" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">writing prompts</a><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"> challenge patrons to publish.</span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">Authors whose works are sold at ESS include </span><a href="http://www.alicerandall.com/bio" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">Alice Randall</a><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">, </span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"> </span><a href="http://susannahfelts.net/fiction/" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">Susannah Felts</a><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">, </span><a href="http://www.jtellison.com/" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">JT Ellison</a><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">, </span><a href="http://www.riverjordan.us/" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">RiverJordan</a><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">, </span><a href="http://mikepentecost.blogspot.com/" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">MikePentecost </a><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">, </span><a href="http://annshayne.com/" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">Ann Shayne</a><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">, </span><a href="http://thesnowwhale.com/?page_id=70" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">John Minichillo</a><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">, </span><a href="http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/author.php?rec=508" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">Ridley Wills II</a><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">, </span><a href="http://kathrynswilliams.com/" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">Kathryn Williams</a><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"> , Bill Friskics-Warren, </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlGH4gvgGgg" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">CraigHavighurst</a><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">, and </span><a href="http://betsyphillips.net/" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">Betsy Phillips</a><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">Chuck Beard, voted "Best Local Author" in the </span><i style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">Nashville Scene’s</i><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"> “Best of Nashville 2010” Reader’s Poll, studied Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and the Sewanee School of Letters.</span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">He is author of </span><i style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">Adventures Inside a Bright-Eyed Sky</i><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"> and editor of </span><i style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">Number, Inc</i><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">, a non-profit organization focusing on the contemporary visual arts in the Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi tri-state region. He is the</span><a href="http://www.examiner.com/galleries-in-nashville/chuck-beard" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"> Nashville GalleriesExaminer</a><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"> and contributing writer for</span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"> </span><a href="http://wordcurator.wordpress.com/" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">Nashville's heART</a><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">, </span><i style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://nashvillearts.com/">Nashville Arts Magazine</a></i><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">, </span><a href="http://www.native.is/" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">Native</a><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">,</span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"> and </span><a href="http://www.fringemagazine.org/" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">FringeMagazine</a><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">.</span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"> </span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"> At East Side Story, located in bohemian East Nashville, Montmartre meets Mayberry as Beard genuinely greets and meets everyone who visits the store.</span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">Whenever he makes a sale, he writes the author or artist an email describing the new owner and home of the book, shirt, or painting.</span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">I love hearing how Classic Coup shirts became gifts for a little sister into fairies, a husband whose hero is Atticus Finch, or one of Chuck’s chums who chuckled at “Boo Radley for Neighborhood Watch.”</span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"> Chuck opened the store in 2012 as the result of winning a nationwide idea contest called “ Launch,” an initiative of Nashville’s </span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">Proof Branding Solutions.</span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">I asked the Kentucky native how he landed in Nashville and what has surprised him about his venture.</span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">He explained:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I made Nashville home because that
is where I met and fell in love with my wife and she had been living here for
some time. Beside the point that it is
an amazing time and place for creative people to make their mark in all forms
of art, it was a perfect fit for our family, friends, and creative drives.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> One of the major things that has
surprised me so far about working with local authors and artists is that there
are so many of them. Just when you think
you've heard of all of them, another person comes up out of the blue and blows
you away with talent and their work in regards to stories, books, music, and
art. I love meeting new, interesting
people with more substance than surface and hearing good stories and Nashville
doesn't lack for either. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> My days are always new and
refreshing. On any given day, I might get a new author bringing me their
books for submission to promote and sell, I may have writers already in the store
bringing their family or friends by to buy other writer's works and show them
their own, I may have a little kid come in who's saved enough lemonade stand
money to buy a handmade journal or book that caught their eye and heart the
last time they were in, I may have some people are visiting from out of town
that want to buy something Nashville authentic, and I may have people that live
in Nashville come in to buy something Nashville authentic for their home,
family , and friends out of town. Every
day is a blank canvas that turns into a cool painting by the end of the day
everyday. </span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;">Beard loves the live events:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">The highlight of my gigs on
Tuesday nights is, aside from being a part of it on those nights and doing
everything before and after to plan and promote it ... the highlight is seeing
the idea become a reality and enjoying every moment of it. My favorite thing, and I believe the most
important point of each event, is the actual pairing of the featured guests and
bringing together those creative worlds and seeing what comes out of it all in
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 2013 Chuck promises "several 'Wine and NO Whine' events.'" In addition to ESS Storytellin', he plans local poetry slams and rounds outside of East Side Story. He hopes to have local child care services reading books from the store with children while their parents participate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">East Side Story is located in Nashville at 1008 B Woodland Street. Store Hours are Tuesday-Friday 1-6 PM, Saturday 11-5 PM, or by appointment. Contact <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;">chuck@eastsidestorytn.com or 615-915-1808.</span></span><br />
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Side Story has partnered with Rumours East and WAMB 1200 AM/ 99.3 FM radio to
present East Side Storytellin'—an evening of book readings, musical
performances, and author/musician interviews designed to elaborate on the
stories behind these creative processes. East Side Storytellin' is held at
Rumours East, located at 1112 Woodland Street in East Nashville, the first and
third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. Chuck Beard, owner of East Side Story,
hosts the event which is recorded by WAMB to air on the radio station the
following Saturday at 2:00 p.m. Recordings of the show may also be found on
East Side Story’s website </span><u style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 17pt;"><span style="color: blue;">www.eastsidestorytn.com</span></u><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 17pt;">. This event is FREE but space is limited. Reservations
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present East Side Storytellin'—an evening of book readings, musical
performances, and author/musician interviews designed to elaborate on the
stories behind these creative processes. Chuck Beard, owner of East Side Story,
hosts the event which is recorded by WAMB to air on the radio station the
following Saturday at 2:00 p.m. Recordings of the show may also be found on
East Side Story’s website </span><u style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 17pt;"><span style="color: blue;">www.eastsidestorytn.com</span></u><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 17pt;">. This event is FREE.</span></div>
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Side Story will be removing all of the books in the store Friday, March 8,
through Sunday, March 11, 2013 and restocking the shop with some of the most
amazing local book art to ever hit the shelves. Jennifer Knowles-McQuistion, owner of Brown
Dog Bindery and co-founder of Handmade & Bound, will curate the show. Beyond Books is an exhibition of book art and
homemade journals created by local book artists. An artists’ reception will be
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present East Side Storytellin'—an evening of book readings, musical
performances, and author/musician interviews designed to elaborate on the
stories behind these creative processes. Chuck Beard, owner of East Side Story,
hosts the event which is recorded by WAMB to air on the radio station the
following Saturday at 2:00 p.m. Recordings of the show may also be found on
East Side Story’s website <u><span style="color: blue;">www.eastsidestorytn.com</span></u>. This event is FREE.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Summer reading has never been more fun as classic literature beckons children to climb the Treehouses of <a href="http://www.cheekwood.org/">Cheekwood</a>. Following advice from Henry David Thoreau to "live the life you have imagined," my daughter, Taylor, Lindsey, Laila and I spent a Sunday afternoon steering the Jolly Roger, calling a group meeting with the conch, seeing a world of color, and swimming with the rainbow fish. The exhibit runs through September 3, 2012.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Conch House--William Golding's <i>Lord of the Flies, </i>1954</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">Classic Coup announces our new home in the children's section of <a href="http://www.parnassusbooks.net/">Parnassus Books</a>. There our “Oliver” onesie snuggles with a new edition, a custom design: "Parnassus Books Junior Future Reader." Cool baby gifts, the bodysuits are sized 6, 12, 18, and 24 months.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">Located in Nashville, Tennessee, Parnassus Books has rallied readers nationwide to support local bookstores. The passion project of co-owners Karen Hayes and bestselling author Ann Patchett has received attention from <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/us/ann-patchett-bucks-bookstore-tide-opening-her-own.html?_r=1"><i>The New York Times</i></a>, <a href="http://www.marketplace.org/topics/life/big-book/why-its-important-communities-have-bookstores">NPR</a>, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18256087">BBC</a> and <a href="http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/408775/february-20-2012/ann-patchett"><i>The Colbert Report</i></a>. Though selling books and Google eBooks online, Parnassus offers what many booklovers miss in a virtual world—hands-on browsing, face-to-face conversations, human connection. <br /><br />This summer I (Cindy McCain) went to <a href="http://classiccoup.blogspot.com/2012/07/beyond-books-and-borders-trip-to-ecuador.html">Ecuador</a> where Classic Coup sends books to children. I went with three Nashville students to teach kids and work alongside educators there. On the plane I read Ann Patchett’s <i>State of Wonder. </i>Traveling down the Napo River in the Amazon jungle region, I remembered an interview where Patchett spoke of a similar trip to research her book. Last week the Parnassus Book Club sat down to discuss <i>State of Wonder</i>. Patchett was present. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">This summer a dream came true. Since starting Classic Coup which sends books to children in Ecuador, I've wanted to meet kids there face-to-face and work alongside the amazing adults who care for them. From the beginning <a href="http://www.kaleokids.org/">Kaleo Kids </a>has distributed books and helped us understand how we can make a difference. The nonprofit was started by long-time friends, Darin and Sherry Coyle, who left the US to assist with sheltering and educating abandoned children in Ecuador. They work with sister schools:<a href="http://itsaboutkids.org/"> Montebello Christian Academy</a> in Quito (where Sherry teaches English) and <a href="http://itsaboutjunglekids.org/">Antioch</a> in the Amazon jungle (where Darin leads volunteer work crews in building homes for teachers). Recently Kaleo Kids has also committed to assist friends who launched a program for teen moms and their children in Quito. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">With me were three of my students from Donelson Christian Academy--Jessica, Emory, and Ellison. All are considering volunteer work in their career fields—missions, medicine, and education. Together we taught students in both schools, and I worked with teachers and administrators. We also climbed a mountain Indiana- Jones- style by bamboo ladders, hanging vines, and exposed tree roots to a waterfall in the rain forest, then busted on mudslides coming down. We played with children on the Napo River, became pals with a Parrot whose alias was “Gringa" while crossing the Andes, and met teen moms and their beautiful babies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">It was great to build relationships with founders/directors of Montebello (Ron and Sharon Stiff) and of the jungle school in Misahualli (Roberto and Charmai Davalos). Both families parent multiple “at- risk” children at home as well as teach them and their peers at school. We also met Boris Salinas, once a street kid/gang member who Ron and Sharon adopted. Today Boris and his wife, Fernanda, provide teen moms a safe haven and sustainable income in Quito. Using eco-friendly tagua nuts (“vegetable ivory”) the girls make jewelry to provide for their children. Boris and Fernanda are setting up sponsorships to assist with the shelter and future education of these children at Montebello.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Going beyond borders and books, we came back with a better understanding of new ways Classic Coup and others can help our neighbors in South America. At the top of the wish list for both schools is teachers/teacher training. To learn more about volunteering/supporting our friends in Ecuador, go to the sites below. Stay tuned for details on how to assist the teen moms and their children, including where you can buy their jewelry in the US.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cf6500; font-weight: bold;">from "Pyrotechnics"<br /><br />Our meeting was like the upward swish of a rocket <br />In the blue night. <br />I do not know when it burst; <br />But now I stand gaping, <br />In a glory of falling stars.<br /><br /> --Amy Lowell (1874-1925)</span></span>cmccainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07996609079761948963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728399979954343713.post-69573664954518407642012-06-21T21:11:00.003-05:002012-07-24T11:05:13.551-05:00Summer Solstice...Stay Gold<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEkK_xlEJm9Hs5K9y_526Bl0ggqprGwJMkAFrmuBU5F0esMtSMgmDO63iRNebEYJDDua-QgrpUebXDgjGsgRr2rqXTumoERO4uN5UXv9qVqSdLxgB4qRAHupCuB5sJzIAd6yQIPlypf3dq/s1600/PonyboyPurple.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEkK_xlEJm9Hs5K9y_526Bl0ggqprGwJMkAFrmuBU5F0esMtSMgmDO63iRNebEYJDDua-QgrpUebXDgjGsgRr2rqXTumoERO4uN5UXv9qVqSdLxgB4qRAHupCuB5sJzIAd6yQIPlypf3dq/s640/PonyboyPurple.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Celebrate the sun despite Frost's chilling reminder that "Nothing Gold Can Stay." Put <i>The Outsiders </i>on your summer reading retro list and check out the movie. And in the spirit of Ponyboy, stay gold as I did <a href="http://hernashville.com/feature-story/summers-love">once upon a time.</a>..</span></div>
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them too cool for just school, adult readers return to them,
appreciating their wisdom, wit, and words. The following interview with Joanne Harris launches Classic
Coup’s series on “the new classics”—timeless and contemporary works and the men
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I wanted to interview first <a href="http://www.joanne-harris.co.uk/">Joanne Harris</a>, the author of <i>Chocolat,</i> for many reasons. </div>
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There’s the
work itself, the story of a free-spirited single mom trying to make a new home
in a small French town for her daughter.
Vianne’s confections arouse the villagers’ appetite for the sweet
life…and the clergyman-in-control’s vow to fight her and “her kind” to-the-death. The novel has spoken to me for over a decade as a tale touting tolerance, chosen family, and freedom over fear.
It explores how hard change can be…even for those who crave it. It feeds lovers of food, travel,
and diversity with its complicated characters and magically realistic setting.</div>
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Another reason to feature <i>Chocolat</i> is because of the movie it inspired. It is my favorite film—nominated for
five Academy Awards in 2000 including Best Picture--starring my two favorite
actors, Juliette Binoche (nominated for Best Actress) and Johnny Depp. </div>
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And there’s the author—a Renaissance Woman who has not only
written multiple books but also mastered martial arts, multiple languages and music. She spends Saturday nights playing bass
in her band. From her biography, I
discovered we are in many ways kindred spirits. She, too, taught English for years and has a child about to
leave the nest. We love rebels,
reds and rivers. (She’s conquered
the Congo; in a couple of weeks I go take on the Amazon.) She says her imagination
was cultivated in the gardens of her French and English grandparents. My grandmother launched me on
many-an-adventure to Paris from the arm of her rocking chair. Then there’s the moors. Harris hails from the land of
Heathcliff and on BBC she named Emily Bronte as first among Yorkshire’s greatest
women. Classic Coup’s first shirt
was dedicated to my favorite novel, <i>Wuthering
Heights</i>, another story of the clash between individuality and conformity,
fear and passion.</div>
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Finally, Joanne’s book tour for her third work in the <i>Chocolat</i>
trilogy begins next week in the UK. In <i><a href="http://www.joanne-harris.co.uk/v3site/books/peaches/index.html">Peaches for Monsieur le Cure</a>,</i> Vianne will return to the town of <i>Chocolat </i>and again confront her nemesis, the book’s namesake. (The US title to be released this fall is <i>Peaches for Father Francis</i>). This time the rebel writer takes on
immigration as a universal issue, proving again that Lit is Life. Rereading where the whole thing began,
<i>Chocolat,</i> is a good way to rev up for the new novel. </div>
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Thanks to Joanne Harris for answering my many
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<b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Q:
What is your favorite literary classic? Who is your favorite classic
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Hugo, and LES MISERABLES. The monolithic masterwork of a marvellous
storyteller.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">A: I don’t
have a top 5. It varies according to the person. But some of my personal
essentials are: Hugo, Nabokov, the Brontës, Flaubert, Maupassant, Kafka.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Q:
Which contemporary authors stimulate your heart and head and write in a style
equal to the canonized masters?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">A: Styles
(and editors) have changed. I don’t think we can make a fair comparison any
more. But I enjoy Iain Banks; Haruki Murakami; Stephen King; Angela Carter;
Elif Shafak; Ray Bradbury. All unique in their different way. All master
storytellers.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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HEIGHTS always spoke to me more, although I loved them both. The darkness of
the characters, the paganism of the landscape, the lyrical style – at fifteen,
I was swept away.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Q: You
spoke on BBC of the importance of place—landscape and weather—to Yorkshire
writers. As a Southern American writer, I’ve grown up hearing
place preached. How do you think the Yorkshire climate affected the
Bronte sisters? How has it affected your writing?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">A: I think
landscape is often a factor in writing. In my case I write about different
landscapes - with an emphasis on the inner landscape of the subconscious
– but there’s no doubt in my mind that the Yorkshire countryside and climate
affects my imagination.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Q:
My Master’s thesis was on <i>The Scarlet </i>Letter
due to its lasting impression on me. However, I find <i>Chocolat </i>more modern-reader-friendly in teaching some of the same
life lessons. Is there some of Hester Prynne in Vianne?</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">A: Perhaps, although Vianne probably
wouldn’t think so. Vianne is at the same time unaware and uncaring of any
stigma put upon her – it isn’t any kind of a burden to her. She is much more of
a free spirit and less of a victim than poor Hester, who feels her condition
keenly. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Q: Both are targeted by those who control
the church, seem to share fierce love for and need of a daughter, and are
caught in the tension between the freedom and fear isolation brings… Perhaps modern readers prefer Vianne
who not only speaks her mind but also helps others find their own? How would
you compare these two characters (and other famous women of literature)?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">A: I escaped academia precisely so that I
wouldn’t have to make these kinds of comparisons! In CHOCOLAT Vianne is as
unaware of her effect on other people as she is of their disapproval; she does
change in THE LOLLIPOP SHOES, becoming a timid shadow of herself, obsessed with
the idea of not making a difference, but her true nature eventually resurfaces,
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Q: For Vianne, does motherhood trump
romantic relationships? The love scene with Roux is fruitful and
beautiful. Why did you bring them together but not allow them to stay
together? How did you feel about the movie bringing Roux and
Vianne into a relationship? How do
you feel about feminist thought that women don’t need a partner to be
complete? As a child of the ‘60s <i>and</i>
a long-married woman, how important is having a life partner/family to
you? How do you manage roles of self, mother, and wife with other
relationships/responsibilities? </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">A: A lot of questions there! First, understand
that Vianne’s thinking and mine are not always the same. Vianne finds
relationships difficult to sustain, especially as she is as yet incapable of
staying in the same place for long. Motherhood is something different and less
easy to control. She and Anouk are inseparable. In THE LOLLIPOP SHOES, Vianne
and Roux manage to make a life together, but there is doubt as to whether this
will last. As for the movie, it provided the Hollywood ending everyone expects,
but that life often fails to deliver. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> As for myself, I
don’t believe in these generalizations of feminism, roles and completion.
No-one is ever either entirely complete, with or without a partner. Some
partners help us on our journey of self-discovery, others don’t. Our choice.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Q:
You’ve said Reynaud is not the villain, that his “dark past” makes him “more a
victim than an oppressor.” Is he based on anyone you have encountered in
or out of the church? </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Q: Sadly, I’ve heard strong and/or
physically attractive women say that married men in the church are aloof toward
them. Reynaud seems tempted and repelled by Vianne’s perfume, outgoing
personality, and looks. The movie was set in the late ‘50s in a conservative
village, but have you seen this same dynamic today?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">A: The movie may have been set in the 50s,
but the book was not. French rural communities are still sometimes driven by
the same dynamic. We see it even more in Muslim communities (which is the basis
of my next book about Vianne and Reynaud). </span></div>
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An interesting five-year <a href="http://www.barna.org/teens-next-gen-articles/528-six-reasons-young-christians-leave-church%20%20Reasons%20given%20included:"><span style="color: blue;">study</span></a> published last fall revealed that three out
of five young people raised in the church disconnect permanently or for an
extended period of time after age 15. Reasons given included:</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Christians
demonize everything outside of the church… Church ignores the problems of the
real world… Christians think they have all the answers and are antagonistic
toward science... Churches ‘are afraid of the beliefs of other faiths’… and
they ‘are forced to choose between faith and my friends’….One-fifth of
young adults with a Christian background said ‘church is like a country club,
only for insiders.’ They also felt they were not able ‘to ask my most
pressing life questions in church’…and their faith ‘does not help with
depression or other emotional problems’ they experience.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Your book
illustrates all of the reasons younger adults are leaving the church.
Have you seen this in your country as well? </span></b></div>
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I love that you said, “…like Reynaud we have learned to demonize pleasure and
to be afraid of our feelings,” that the book is “a plea for tolerance of others
but also of ourselves, a reminder that to be fallible is both natural and
allowed; that self-indulgence isn’t always bad.” Reynaud illustrates what
C. S. Lewis described as “teetotalism” rather than temperance as a virtue: “One
of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing
himself without wanting every one else to give it up. That is not the
Christian way. An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts
of things for special reasons—marriage, or meat, or beer; or the cinema; but
the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down
his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turn.” </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> What personal experiences influence your
“priest-baiting and quiet subversion of the system”? Do you attend church
regularly? </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">A: I don’t go to church. I don’t
subscribe. I’m interested in what people believe, but have no desire to join a
club. As for my personal
influences, I’ve been gathering them since I was a small child. The main one was my grandfather, the
son of a widow. She was devout but poor, so poor that at one time they only had
one pair of shoes between them, and couldn’t afford to send my grandfather to
the Catholic school. Instead he went to the State school, and for 6 years,
every week the priest denounced them both from the pulpit in front of the whole
village, accusing my great-grandmother of being indecent and immoral, and
advising people not to give her work. This marked my grandfather, who grew up
with a deep hatred of the clergy. </span></div>
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tale. I’ve heard it again and again from Catholics living in Italy, Ireland,
Portugal, and it was the basis for my original story for CHOCOLAT.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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and her fear of being rejected” is familiar. I’ve realized
that fear of rejection causes people to try to control at times—whether by fight or
flight. How do you identify with Vianne?</span></b></div>
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How much of Reynaud and Vianne’s differences are grounded in the two camps of
most of our personalities: classical (logical/traditional) vs romantic
(emotional/experimental)? He seems to be the conservative while she is
the liberal, two bents which polarize people and politics. Is
this part of their battle? Her free-spirit is offensive to him; he
represents all the rejections of the past. Are you more sense or
sensibility? </b></span></div>
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I write for HispanicNashville.com and Examiner.com on issues of diversity,
including immigration. In <i>Chocolat</i>,
the river gypsies most feared were from Marseilles and Eastern Africa.
There was a reference to Arabs as well. Since you wrote the book, has the
political climate on immigration changed? If so, how? </span></b></div>
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more pronounced. It’s the core of my new novel, PEACHES FOR MONSIEUR LE
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small towns view immigrants vs residents of London? You live in a small
town but are well traveled. What are the advantages and disadvantages of
living in a small town?</span></b></div>
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multicultural, and therefore have lost a lot of their identity. Villages are at
the same time more traditional but less radical; more inclined to deal with
individuals rather than racial or social groups en bloc. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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places? Have you been the places Vianne traveled, such as Turin,
Italy? (I taught English to Italians there and like that it isn’t as
prone to tourists as Venice, Florence, or Rome). </b> </span></div>
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Vianne has seen, and more; I love Italy, but also Alaska, China, Hawaii. I’ve
travelled extensively in Africa, and although the conditions were tough, I
loved seeing the Congo and meeting its remarkable inhabitants.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Q:
Your website describes my “dream life” of writing fulltime one day. For
now, I teach nearly 100 students college writing and literature courses.
How did you find time to write when you were teaching?</span></b></div>
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Any advice for teachers who want to write fulltime? What comes
first, the blog or the book? Some say we need blog readers to launch a
book. You’ve said to write what we love. Do you agree with “Leap, and the
net will appear”? </b> </span></div>
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person to ask about this. Publishers don’t seem to care about blogging, but it
does help raise an author’s profile in some cases. Basically I think it’s such
a chancy business that there is no single way to go about it. Just go with your
instinct. As for “leap and the net appears”… My advice? Try it over water.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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You recommend getting a literary agent. How/when did you get yours?</b>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Q:
I’ve know you were pleased with the casting for the movie. How did you
feel about the changes made to your book? Were you consulted on any
of them?</span></b></div>
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already, but I liked the casting very much. To me it redeemed what I felt were
unnecessary changes to the basic plot – the priest to the Mayor, the love
story. I was consulted, though my role was a small one, and I was happy to let
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Actually, Fitzgerald already gave us his classic in 3-D. Published in 1925, the book then and now relates to audiences with its complicated characters and carnival-colored world. Most consider the book <i>the</i> Great American Novel and it continues to top lists world-over as one of the greatest books ever written. Nick narrates: "There was music from my neighbor's house through those summer nights. In his enchanted gardens, men and girls came and went like moths, among the whispering and the champagne and the stars. I believe that few people were actually invited to these parties. They just went. They got into automobiles that bore them out to Long Island, and somehow they ended up at Gatsby's door. Come for the party with a simplicity of heart that was it's own ticket of admission."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> We love Gatsby because he believed in the green light. He saw America as a land of promise. Like Nick, we recognize that "there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life.… [Gatsby had] an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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Claire Tomalin, author of <i>Charles Dickens: A Life</i>, sends this <a href="http://gu.com/p/359nm">letter</a> to the Birthday Boy. In it she describe to "Mr. Dickens" the 21st century as still the "best of times and worst of times." Always for the underdog, Dickens wrote the first classic novel I read and loved in high school, <i>Great Expectations</i>. Pip, Estella, Miss Havisham, like the man who created them, are unforgettable. But while some of Dickens' darlings and the author himself escaped poverty, the children Charles championed in his fight against social injustice still exist in multitudes. Proving there's still much work to do, The National Center for Children of Poverty at Columbia University profiles the poor in the US <a href="http://nccp.org/publications/pub_1001.html">here.</a>cmccainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07996609079761948963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728399979954343713.post-52357362304337986582012-01-15T11:37:00.003-06:002012-01-15T11:46:54.016-06:00John Steinbeck on Love<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmGzNY5S8InkDeIaATVxBLpYXLr461reU0DRmI-hGfWsk9toWgBNmao4gB3Pc2caaEKiOxVXjCDTVdjfSwweWsAf3cPmg9f1Mb6sZtAkRGUwoLPIDE3XtmVqUBJs-yqafc9VaVg4WxZ52s/s1600/lifeboat-john-steinbeck-621x322.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="300" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmGzNY5S8InkDeIaATVxBLpYXLr461reU0DRmI-hGfWsk9toWgBNmao4gB3Pc2caaEKiOxVXjCDTVdjfSwweWsAf3cPmg9f1Mb6sZtAkRGUwoLPIDE3XtmVqUBJs-yqafc9VaVg4WxZ52s/s400/lifeboat-john-steinbeck-621x322.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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John Steinbeck's advice to his son on love..."If it is right, it happens -- The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away."<br />
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Referencing <i>To Kill a Mockingbird</i>...<br />
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Our signature shirt with a running list of beloved classics:<br />
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First Book Discussion: Ecuador and Nashville, Fall 2010<br />
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Classic Coup supports global education. With proceeds from our shirts we send books to Quito, Ecuador. There <a href="http://kaleokids.com/" style="color: red;">Kaleo Kids</a>, a non-profit organization providing shelter, education and assistance to children, distributes them.<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">In the Amazonian region and the Sierra about 24% of the population suffer from malnutrition. Ecuador </span><span style="font-size: small;">is below the Latin American level in primary education registration with less than half the children who attend school completing basic education. While 8 Indigenous out of 10 are registered for basic education, only 2 of them complete it. </span><span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
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Below are children in a Quito orphanage that the founders of Kaleo Kids, Sherry and Darin Coyle, fell in love with on their visit to Ecuador in 2009 (see text below). <br />
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Below are some of the elementary/middle school favorites recently sent to Ecuador.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Mention book banning and many think of the usual suspects: totalitarian regimes burning George Orwell’s<i>1984 </i>in distant lands long ago. Or Old School censorship of rebels like J. D. Salinger or D. H. Lawrence. Most remember the ruckus in the '50s and '60s over <i>Catcher in the Rye</i> and the British ban until 1960 on printing <i>Lady Chatterley’s Lover</i>. At a time when real-life-married couple, Luci and Desi, weren’t allowed to sleep onscreen in the same bed, Holden’s expulsion from classrooms and the earthy lover’s getting the boot from printing houses was no wonder. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">But what some don’t realize is that still filing out of library and classroom doors behind the obvious renegades are Harry Potter, James and his giant peach, Hamlet, King Lear, Anne Frank, Jay Gatsby, and Atticus Finch. <i>Death of a Salesman</i> taken down, and <i>Canterbury Tales</i> sent on a permanent pilgrimage to the trash heap. <i>Grapes of Wrath </i>run out of town<i> </i>and</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i>The House on Mango Street </i>evicted.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><i>Charlotte’s Web</i>. <i>The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe</i>. <i>The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.</i> Whether condemned like Voltaire’s Candide for his mantra that we live in the “Best of all Possible Worlds,” or Hardy’s Tess of the d'Urbevilles for her fatalistic cry that “All is Vanity,” hundreds of books are challenged and banned in schools and libraries in the US annually. In 2009 the American Library Association reports 460, though they estimate that 70-80% are never reported. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Classic Coup celebrates rich reads that move our heads and hearts. We’re about critical thinking and compassionate living. We challenge readers to turn the tide, putting down the fluff fiction and picking up books of substance. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Classics are forever green. Their authors--social critics, life coaches, visionaries--wrestle alongside us with life's most crucial issues. They incite free thinking which survives book bans and burnings. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> Classic Coup rallies rebels who embrace the freedom to read great books, many which are threatened by censorship, such as the ones <a href="http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/challengedclassics/index.cfm">here.</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
<blockquote></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Ultimately, Ray Bradbury was right: "You don't have to burn a book to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Anyone up for exercising freedom to read, to think, to feel? Observe Banned Books Week year-round. And rather than torching books like the firemen of <i>Fahrenheit 451</i>, throw a wet blanket on <i>Spark Notes. </i>Read the Real Deal.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></blockquote><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"></div>cmccainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07996609079761948963noreply@blogger.com0