Author Hopes 'genius Grant' Will Shine On Haiti Sep 23, 2009
Previous authors to win the MacArthur grant include Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and Andrea Barrett. Paul Farmer, the recently named U.N. deputy special envoy for Haiti, was picked in 1993 in large part for his work as a physician in Haiti. (CBS News -- World)
One Read 2009 programs link novel, current health care issues Aug 29, 2009
This year's One Read book, "The Air We Breathe," by Andrea Barrett, is one which event organizers say should lead to some interesting discussions with links to current hot topics -- primarily questions regarding health care and epidemics. "The Air We Breathe" centers around a group of tuberculosis patients, scientists and caregivers at a sanitarium in the Adirondacks in 1916, isolated from the rest of America as the country prepares to enter World War I.. (Fulton Sun, MO)
One Read book selected May 28, 2009
The novel by Andrea Barrett was announced as the top vote recipient and winner after a three-week vote off with Jhumpa Lahiris Unaccustomed Earth. Its a historical novel that takes place in a sanitarium in the Adirondacks around 1916, before the U.S. got into WWI, One Read Co-chair Doyne McKenzie said. (Fulton Sun, MO)
Two books vie for One Read selection Apr 1, 2009
Voting began Monday on two books The Air We Breathe by Andrea Barrett and Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri to narrow the field to one selection that will serve to unite the Daniel Boone Regional Library community. These books were selected as part of a process that began in January with a reading panel and more than 100 possibilities. (Fulton Sun, MO)
