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Wednesday, June 11, 7 p.m. St. Anthony Park Branch Library, 2245 Como Avenue Join Park Square Theatre for a discussion with Holmes and Watson from Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure. Director Peter Moore will be joined by actors Steve Hendrickson (Holmes) and Bob Davis (Watson) for an entertaining discussion about the play. Contact The Friends for information on a 1/2 price ticket deal in conjunction with the library program. |
Let's Talk About It: Modern Marvelsa series of discussions on graphic novels by Jewish artists, moderated by Professor Judith Katz
a program of Nextbook and the American Library Association. Register by emailing s-gang@umn.edu or call 612 626-2281.
Presented by the University of Minnesota Libraries and Center for Jewish Studies, and The Friends. |
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| June 24: Will Eisner's A Contract with God Set among 1930s Bronx tenements, these four stories capture the brutal, tender world of working-class Jews. In the title story, Frimme Hersh's daughter suddenly dies, sorely testing the "contract" this self-made man once entered into with God. In "Cookalein," Eisner casts a humorous eye on the amorous, social-climbing tendencies of young urbanites spending a summer in the Adirondacks. Wry, honest, and sad, these four stories showcase Eisner's unique ability to capture character with the quick stroke of his pen. |
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| July 8: Art Spiegelman's The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale The comic book transfigured, this graphic novel tells the story of Spiegelman's parents Vladek and Anna, Jews reaching maturity in a Europe on the verge of Nazism, and their terrifying history and eventual survival in the concentration camps. Spiegelman uses the broadest tools of the genre—Jews are drawn as mice, Nazis as cats, Poles as pigs, Frenchmen as frogs, and so on—to make vivid the unimaginable, both to the reader and to himself, appearing as a character in the book listening to his father's story. |
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| July 22: Ben Katchor's Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories Steeped in a melancholy, grey-tinted world of elevated trains, luncheonettes, and gently decaying tenements, Katchor's perambulating photographer Julius Knipl documents a rapidly vanishing urban netherworld. Peopled by men who map the migration of hairstyles and those who belong to the Amalgamated Panty-Waist Fitters Union, his cityscape is a familiar one, albeit with the touch of a demented fairy tale. |
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| August 5 : Harvey Pekar's The Quitter Ostensibly covering Pekar's early years, this dark graphic novel tackles everything from his brief stint in the Navy to jazz criticism and mid-century race relations. The gritty and atmospheric artwork by American Splendor collaborator Dean Haspiel perfectly captures Pekar's cantankerous tone. But a surprisingly hopeful message ultimately surfaces. It's possible to find your way in the world, Pekar suggests, even if it takes a lifetime to do it. |
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| August 19 : Joann Sfar's The Rabbi's Cat After eating a parrot, an aged Algerian rabbi's cat develops the ability to speak and quickly declares his desire not only to be Jewish, but to have a bar mitzvah. The rabbi engages his pet in a spiraling debate, touching on topics such as spelling, parental love, and the very nature of Jewish identity. |
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Films
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Friday, June 20: The movie series kicks off with “Spellbound,” Hitchcock’s 1945 film starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck, based on the John Palmer’s novel, The House of Dr. Edwardes. |
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There will be no film on Friday, July 4, due to the holiday. |
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Friday, July 18: Watch Trevor Nunn's 1996 adaptation of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, starring Helena Bonham Carter, Sir Ben Kingsley and Imogen Stubbs. |
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Friday, July 25: The movie series closes with Timothy Dalton as 007, in 1987's "The Living Daylights," based on one of Ian Fleming's stories. Bond is at his most dangerous, attempting to stop an evil arms dealer from starting another world war, in this classic film. |
Untold Stories - click for a complete schedule
For more detailed information on upcoming events at the Saint Paul Public Library, check out our program calendar, St. Paul Public Library Events & Classes , jointly produced by The Friends and the Library. The calendar includes listings of upcoming programs and activities, highlights new services, and provides a complete monthly calendar of all the free programs for both children and adults sponsored by the Library and The Friends. Copies of Events & Classes are available free at all Saint Paul Public Library branches, and are mailed to all Friends members. For a complimentary copy of the calendar , please send a note with your address to friends@thefriends.