The Community Library will be open on Tuesday, November 3 from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. for voting for Ketchum Precincts 3 and 4.
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Writing Workshop: Creative Nonfiction Essay Writing for Publication
Have you ever wanted to try writing essays for newspapers or magazines?
In this two-part class led by Hemingway Writer-In-Residence Mary Pauline Lowry, we’ll read and discuss a variety of creative nonfiction essay columns that appear regularly in major publications (examples include: “Modern Love” from The New York Times, “Long Story Short” from O Magazine, and “Letter of Recommendation” from The New York Times Magazine). We’ll discuss tone, style, arc, and subject matter. During the first class, students will also complete in-class creative nonfiction writing exercises.
For homework, each student will select their essay topic and target publication, read additional essays, and begin drafting. (Essays can be written to be submitted for publication, or just for fun and practice.) During the second class we’ll discuss our process and how to overcome challenges, as well as strategies for revision and submission.
Workshop Dates:
Sunday, October 11 from 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Sunday, October 18 from 2:00-4:00 p.m.
*This two-part workshop will be held in person with social distancing, and face masks will be required.*
*Registration will be limited to allow for appropriate distancing.* We will hold the workshop outdoors if weather permits.
To register, email mwilliams@comlib.org.
Mary Pauline Lowry is the author of the novels The Roxy Letters and Wildfire. She’s a regular contributor to O Magazine. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Millions, and other publications.
The Publishing Industry Unveiled
Would you like to sit down with a published author and ask them all your burning questions about writing and getting published? The book publishing industry is competitive and can be a mystery to many. Connecting with someone who has experienced the process and can support your journey is invaluable. Throughout September and October, Alli Frank, co-author of the new novel Tiny Imperfections, will be sitting down with local writers to answer all your questions.
These 45-minute, one-on-one meetings will be held outside the Library (with social distancing) on the following dates. There will be two sessions each afternoon from 1:00-1:45 p.m. and 1:45-2:30 p.m.:
Friday, September 11
Friday, September 18
Friday, September 25
Friday, October 2
Friday, October 9
Friday, October 16 – *NEW*
Friday, October 23 – *NEW*
Email mwilliams@comlib.org to sign up.
Alli Frank is an author dividing her time between Seattle and Sun Valley. A graduate of Cornell and Stanford Universities, she has been a teacher, curriculum leader, coach, college counselor, assistant head, and private school co-founder. Alli is the co-author with Asha Youmans of Tiny Imperfections, published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons/Penguin Random House in May 2020 and optioned for television/film rights by a major streaming service. She and Asha are currently working on their second book.
2020 Audacious Read: ULYSSES by James Joyce
October 20 | 3:00-4:00 p.m.
Email jdavidson@comlib.org to join this Zoom meeting.
James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) may be more talked about than read. It occupies an intimidating position within the literary canon as a byword for experimental modernism. Joyce helped to forge its reputation, mischievously claiming, “I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.” Even Virginia Woolf, reading shortly after publication, found Ulysses a struggle, dismissing it as “diffuse,” “brackish,” and “pretentious.” Prestige is evident in its perennial placing in lists of “Great Books,” and echoed in its value to collectors. In 2009, a first edition sold at auction for £275,000, the highest sum ever achieved for a 20th-century novel. Yet its reputation for difficulty masks the extent to which Ulysses is warm, welcoming and witty, granting a uniquely intimate perspective on what it is to be human.
– Dr. Katherine Mullin
Reading Schedule
January 21 – Introduction and Episode 1, “Telemachus” (roughly pages 1-23)
February 18 – Episodes 2-6,“Nestor” | “Proteus” | “Calypso” | “The Lotus-Eaters” | “Hades” (roughly pages 24-111)
March 17 – Episodes 7-8, “Aeolus” | “Lestrygonians” (roughly pages 112-175) – *CANCELLED*
April 21 – Episode 9, “Scylla & Charybdis” (roughly pages 176-209)
May 19 – Episodes 10-11, “Wandering Rocks” | “Sirens” (roughly pages 210-279)
June 16 – BLOOMSDAY! Episode 12, “Cyclops” (roughly pages 280-330)
July 21 – Episode 13, “Nausicaa” (roughly pages 331-365)
August 18 – Episode 14, “Oxen of the Sun” (roughly pages 366-407)
September 15 – Episode 15, “Circe” (roughly pages 408-565)
October 20 – Episode 16, “Eumaeus” (roughly pages 569-618)
November 17 – Episode 17, “Ithaca” (roughly pages 619-689)
December 15 – Episode 18, “Penelope” (roughly pages 690-732)
Resources
Recorded presentation by literary scholar Dr. Enda Duffy at The Community Library Lecture Hall on 7 December 2019: https://livestream.com/comlib/duffy
Free digital copy of Ulysses through Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4300/4300-h/4300-h.htm#chap15
British Library online introduction to Ulysses: https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/articles/an-introduction-to-ulysses
Online guide to Ulysses by Dr. Patrick Hastings: http://www.ulyssesguide.com/
The Community Library Contact
Jenny Emery Davidson
(208) 806-2620
Photo courtesy of LitHub.
VIRTUAL – 2020 Ernest Hemingway Seminar: “Out of the Box”
In this year when we can’t be together on site at The Community Library, we invite you to connect with us outside of the box through a fully-virtual celebration of Hemingway in Idaho. Join us September 15-17 for a unique insider’s look at the Library’s growing Hemingway collection, Hemingway’s final home, and some off-the-wall stories about the literary giant’s legacy in Idaho. We’ll explore these topics through live online evening presentations and Zoom discussions – which you can access from wherever you are, out in the field!
We’re looking forward to sharing with you exciting developments in our Jeanne Rodger Lane Center for Regional History, including our ongoing preservation of the historic Mary and Ernest Hemingway House. While the Hemingway House serves as a private research area and as a residence for visiting writers, we are using this opportunity to share it with you through a new, exclusive, virtual tour of the home.
Our literature for this “out of the box” year is Ray Bradbury’s short story, “The Kilimanjaro Machine,” which imagines a Bradbury-like narrator time traveling from 1965 back to Hemingway’s Ketchum to track down his literary hero before his death. Virtual discussions on the story will be facilitated by our trusted discussion leaders each day, offering different times for all to participate. Additionally, all “attendees” will receive a special “Out of the Box Toolkit” in the mail ahead of the seminar to help you engage in the programs, even if you are far afield from Ketchum!
The registration fee for this virtual seminar is $45, and registration will be limited to 130 participants.
While we are far apart, all navigating this global pandemic in different ways, we look forward to coming together—safely and virtually—to continue our fellowship around Hemingway and his place in Idaho and our literary lives.
Virtual Seminar Schedule
Links for all programs will be shared with registered attendees by September 14.
Tuesday, September 15
“Only in Ketchum: The Library’s Current Hemingway Research” | 6:00-7:15 p.m. (MDT) | Private Online Event
The Community Library literally has been un-boxing hundreds of Hemingway artifacts over the last year, many of which have not been previously accessible to the general public. In this live presentation, you will get an insider’s tour of the Library’s growing Hemingway Collection. First, the current Hemingway in Idaho research fellow, Allison Kittinger, will present her new virtual exhibit, #HemingwayLife: The Man and the Brand, using the Library’s artifacts to explore Hemingway’s celebrity. Then Mary Tyson, director, and Nicole Potter, librarian, from the Jeanne Rodger Lane Center for Regional History, will showcase new acquisitions from the David Meeker Collection, a stellar collection of diverse artifacts from the full span of Hemingway’s life – now housed here in Ketchum, Idaho, where Hemingway made his final home. This will be one of the first showings of items from this collection! The presentation will be followed by a live question-and-answer period.
Wednesday, September 16
Short Story Discussion Group | 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. (MDT) | Zoom
Led by Dr. Stacey Guill, Boise State University. We are going to lean into the surreal nature of this year and un-box Hemingway through a story by acclaimed fantasy and science fiction writer Ray Bradbury. We will discuss Bradbury’s short story “The Kilimanjaro Machine” which explores Hemingway and Ketchum through time travel. Participants can participate in one or all of the discussion sessions.
Short Story Discussion Group | 4:00-5:00 p.m. (MDT) | Zoom
Led by Rob Wilson, Rowland Hall School in Salt Lake City. We are going to lean into the surreal nature of this year and un-box Hemingway through a story by acclaimed fantasy and science fiction writer Ray Bradbury. We will discuss Bradbury’s short story “The Kilimanjaro Machine” which explores Hemingway and Ketchum through time travel. Participants can participate in one or all of the discussion sessions.
Thursday, September 17
Short Story Discussion Group | 3:00-4:00 p.m. (MDT) | Zoom
Led by Dr. Clyde Moneyhun, Boise State University. We are going to lean into the surreal nature of this year and un-box Hemingway through a story by acclaimed fantasy and science fiction writer Ray Bradbury. We will discuss Bradbury’s short story “The Kilimanjaro Machine” which explores Hemingway and Ketchum through time travel. Participants can participate in one or all of the discussion sessions.
“An Insider’s Visit to the Historic Hemingway House” | 6:00-7:15 p.m. (MDT) | Private Online Event
Hemingway’s final residence, the site of his death, remains a quiet, private home where Library staff members and visiting scholars work on preservation and conduct research. It is a location that we strive to treat with reverence even as we work to amplify the stories that it holds. It also is where we have launched a writer-in-residence program to promote ongoing literary work and creativity. For the first time, we will open the doors to this box of a house through a special virtual tour. The Mary and Ernest Hemingway House is otherwise closed to the public, and this virtual tour promises to provide unique access to the historic home’s big views and small treasures. The tour will be led by Jenny Emery Davidson, the Library’s executive director, and Mary Tyson, director of the Jeanne Rodger Lane Center for Regional History. The tour will be followed by a live questions-and-answer period.
Story Time is Online!
Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic we are not currently hosting in-person programming. Instead, story time has moved online.
Each week, our regular story time host, Lee Dabney, will be sharing a story time along with an easy, simple craft project that can be done at home with supplies you likely have on hand. You can also drop-in at the library during open hours to pick up a story time craft kit, while supplies last. Just ask at the Children’s circulation desk.
You can watch story time online anytime, at your convenience. We hope you enjoy!
Online Story Time can be found HERE:
or to save this link use: https://www.comlib.org/virtual-story-time/
