By Carole Goldberg
Hartford Courant
September 12, 2011
http://www.courant.com/features/books/hc-writestuff-0915-20110915,0,5148599.story
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| Jason Berry speaks Sept. 15 at Fairfield University. (Handout / September 15, 2011) |
Jason Berry, the investigative reporter who worked with the late Courant religion reporter Gerald Renner to help expose the sexual and financial misdeeds of Legionaries of Christ founder Marcial Maciel, will discuss his latest book, "Render Unto Rome: The Secret Life of Money in the Catholic Church," (Crown, $25). Sept. 15 at 8 p.m. at Fairfield University, 1073 North Benson Road, Fairfield in the Dolan School of Business. It is part of the free Catholic Studies fall lecture series. The book explores how money donated to the church or from sale of church properties can be misused and points out financial irregularities.
Berry also produces documentary films and writes about culture and politics for many publications.
Information: http://www.fairfield.edu/cs/ or 203-254-4000, ext. 3415.
Authors At R.J. Julia
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You can learn about smiles at R.J. Julia Booksellers, 768 Boston Post Road, Madison, this week. Events are at 7 p.m. and are free, except as noted. Reservations are required: 203-245-3959 or http://www.rjjulia.com.
On Sept. 15, Yale University professor Marianne LaFrance will discuss her book, "Lip Service: Smiles in Life, Death, Trust, Lies, Work, Memory, Sex, and Politics" (Norton, $26.95), am exploration of the physical, psychological and social aspects of the smile.
On Sept. 16, the shop presents another session of Voices in the Bookstore, at which area writers are invited to read from finished or works-in progress: poetry, fiction, essays. Advance registration is required to read or listen.
Mark Twain Among The Microbes
Kenneth Noll, a professor of microbiology at the University of Connecticut, and Jerry Krasser, an actor, director and retired UConn Department of Dramatic Arts professor, will present a "The Trouble Begins at 5:30" series lecture Sept. 21 at 5:30 p.m. at the Mark Twain House & Museum, 351 Farmington Ave., Hartford. The free event begins at 5:00 p.m. with wine, coffee and hors d'oeuvres from Hot Tomato's restaurant in Hartford.
"Mark Twain Among the Microbes" will explain how Twain's little-known work, "3,000 Years Among the Microbes," was inspired by bacteriologist Herbert W. Conn, a professor of biology at Wesleyan University and a researcher at the Connecticut Agricultural Research Station in Storrs. Noll will discuss the research and Krasser will give dramatic readings from Twain's account.
Information: 860-247-0998 or http://www.marktwainhouse.org.
Women In The Workforce
"All in a Day's Work," a free program about the historical role of women in the manufacturing workforce, will be held Sept. 15 at 6:30 p.m. in Whitson Gallery, 855 University Drive, at the University of Connecticut, Torrington.
Many women who emigrated from southern and eastern Europe from 1880 to 1910 found work in textile mills and industrial factories in Connecticut that produced brass, copper and iron goods, machine tools and textiles.
Karl Valois, who teaches history at UConn Torrington, and historian Jeremy Brecher, whose most recent book is "Banded Together: Economic Democratization in the Brass Valley" (University of Illinois Press, $27), will speak.
Information: 860-626-6841 or sheila@uconn.edu.
Mishi-maya-gat Words & Music
The free series of poetry readings and music returns Sept. 15 for its fall season at Manchester Community College in Great Path Academy, Community Commons (Use Parking Lot B). Programs are held from 7 to 9 p.m. on the third Thursday of the month during the school year.
At 7, Connecticut poets John Stanizzi and Joan Joffe Hall will read. Stanizzi has been a poet in residence at MCC and has published two collections, and his work has appeared in anthologies and literary journals. Joffe Hall, a retired University of Connecticut professor, is the author of several collections and eight chapbooks and has been published in many journals.
At 8 p.m., the band 41 Prospect, made up of MCC faculty, staff and a graduate, will play rock and alternative music.
Information: or 860-512-2824 or http://www.mcc.commnet.edu/faculty/spoken.php.
Lane Smith At Hickory Stick
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The Hickory Stick Bookshop, 2 Green Hill Road, Washington Depot, will present a book signing on Sept. 17 at 2 p.m. with Connecticut author and illustrator Lane Smith.
Smith's new books are the poignant "Grandpa Green" (Roaring Brook, $16.99), a celebration of memories and family history, and "It's A Little Book" (Roaring Brook, $7.99), a board book spinoff of Smith's best-selling "It's a Book."
Information: 860-868-0525 or http://www.hickorystickbookshop.com.
Authors Trail
The third annual Connecticut Authors Trail, which brings writers to libraries in Eastern Connecticut for free programs from July to mid-September, will end Sept. 22 with an appearance by best-selling novelist Jane Green at the Mohegan Sun casino. "Passports" will be stamped at each library program to offer participants a chance to attend a reception that evening with Green, who lives inWestport.
This week on the trail:
Sept. 15 at 6:30 p.m. at Scotland Public Library, 21 Brook Rd., Scotland, Mark Seth Lender, author and photographer of "Salt Marsh Diary: A Year on the Connecticut Coast" (St. Martin's Press, $19.99) will speak.
Information: 860-423-1492.
Trail information: http://sites.google.com/site/connecticutauthorstrail2011/the-trail,
Ground Zero And Human Rights
Author Rahna Reiko Rizzuto will speak at 4 p.m. Sept. 15 at the Benton Museum's East Gallery at the University of Connecticut in Storrs.
Rizzuto is the author of the memoir "Hiroshima in the Morning," about the Hiroshima bombing and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The book won the Grub Street National Book Award. Her talk is free and is co-sponsored by the Asian American Studies Institute and the Human Rights Institute.
Information: 860-486-5027.
Carole Goldberg is a member of the National Book Critics Circle. "The Write Stuff" lists books-related events from Thursday to the following Wednesday, as space permits. Please e-mail information and author jpegs at least two weeks before the publication date to cgoldberg41@gmail.com
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