No, But I Saw the Movie: The Challenges of Adapting Children's Books to Film
Tuesday October 24, 2006 at 7:00 PM
Coolidge Corner Theatre
290 Harvard Street
Brookline, MA
617-734-2501
Book signing after the program:
Brookline Booksmith
279 Harvard Street
Brookline, MA
617-566-6660
Ever wonder what authors think about movies based on their books? Or, why moviemakers took your favorite novel and turned the girl into a boy, killed the dog, or added a love interest? Do authors get any say in the matter? Well, they're about to, albeit after the fact. And a moviemaker will tell us why changes are made when a story moves from one medium to another.
The Children's Caucus of PEN New England, in cooperation with Brookline Booksmith, is pleased to host the panel, No, but I Saw the Movie: The Challenges of Adapting Children's Books to Film, at 7 p.m. on October 24, 2006 at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, MA.
The panel will be moderated by Lois Lowry, author of The Giver, which is currently being adapted for film. The panel will include two other children's authors whose books have been portrayed on screen—Phyllis Naylor, Newbery Award winning author of Shiloh, and Newbery Honoree Natalie Babbitt, author of Tuck Everlasting—along with Randy Testa of Walden Media LLC, the company that has produced such adaptations as Because of Winn Dixie, Hoot, Holes, How to Eat Fried Worms, and The Chronicles of Narnia, among others.
Look at clips from the movies, listen to passages from the books, and then sit back for the debate and discussion that follow. After that, walk right across the street to Brookline Booksmith for a book signing with the authors.
Readings from The Best American Short Stories 2006
SAVE THE DATE!
Readings from The Best American Short Stories 2006
Hosted By Tom Perrotta with Special Guest Ann Patchett
A BENEFIT FOR PEN NEW ENGLAND
Sponsored by Houghton Mifflin Company
Monday October 23, 2006 at 7:30 PM
American Repertory Theatre
Cambridge, MA
Reception at 6:15 PM
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PEN New England's Annual Book Party
A celebration of those who have published books this year and our annual gathering of PEN New England's membership.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
7:00 to 9:00 PM
The Radcliffe Institute
Cambridge, MA
(The Radcliffe Gym in Radcliffe Yard)
Bernard Margolis is this year's recipient of PEN New England's FRIEND TO WRITERS Award
If you plan to attend, please email pen_ne@lesley.edu or call 617-824-8820 and leave your name, the title of your book, the publisher, and the publication date. And please bring a copy of your book for other members and guests to admire.
If you haven't published this year, please come and raise a glass to those who have.
For directions to the Radcliffe Gym, visit www.radcliffe.edu.
Kurt Brown Reads at Hotel Marlowe
Wednesday, October 4, 2006
From 6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
(During Wine Hour, which begins at 5:30 PM)
Kurt Brown is the editor of Drive, They Said: Poems about Americans and Their Cars (1994) and Verse & Universe: Poems about Science and Mathematics (1998) both from Milkweed Editions. He is also co-editor, with his wife, of Night Out (Milkweed Editions). He has edited three books of lectures delivered at American writers' conferences, including Facing the Lion (Beacon Press), and a collection of essays, The Measured Word: On Poetry and Science (University of Georgia Press). His poetry publications are Return of the Prodigals (Four Way Books), More Things in Heaven and Earth (Four Way Books), and Fables from the Ark (WordTech), which won the 2003 Custom Words Prize. Forthcoming poetry books are Future Ship (Red Hen Press, 2007) and From Here (2008). Brown is also the author of five award winning poetry chapbooks, published by various presses, and was the Bruce McEver Visiting Chair in Writing at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia.
Porter Square Books will be selling books at this reading.
The Hotel Marlowe is located at 25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge. Inexpensive parking is available in the Cambridgeside Galleria garage with direct entry into the hotel from Levels A and C. The hotel is closest to the Lechmere T-stop, and is within walking distance of Charles and Kendall Square.
For more information call 617-824-8820 or e-mail pen_ne@lesley.edu