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| SOUTH HADLEY The Odyssey Book Shop has announced its upcoming events. Sept. 17 10:30 a.m: Diane deGroat will read from her new children's book, Brand-new Pencils, Brand-new Books, and talk about how she creates her artwork. deGroat will also show her preliminary sketches for the book as well as pieces from her collection of taxidermy, which she uses as models for her forest-animal book characters. Sept. 18, 3 p.m.: David Gessner will read from his book, The Prophet of Dry Hill: Lessons From A Life in Nature, which is about his friendship with nature-writing legend John Hay and offers a lyrical primer on the importance of living a life connected to the wild. Sept. 21, 7 p.m.: Donald Weber reads from Haunted in the New World: Jewish American Culture from Cahan to the Goldbergs, which focuses on the impact of the tension between Jews' nostalgia for the world left behind and the desire to blend into American culture. Weber is an English professor at Mount Holyoke College. Sept. 23, 7 p.m.: Ellen Bernstein reads from her book The Splendor of Creation, which weaves together biology, poetry, spiritual philosophy and memoir in a personal meditation on Genesis I. Sept. 25, 1 p.m.: Illustrator Michael Chesworth will read and discuss his new children's book, Fluffy: Scourge of the Sea, about a pampered poodle who takes on a band of scurvy pirates. |