Do you need one-on-one technical support for some of those more difficult technology challenges you’re facing?
This virtual Help Desk offers 15-minute slots with Paul Zimmerman, the Library’s tech guru, to help you answer your most pressing questions.
The help desk is hosted on Zoom. Meeting information will be sent to registered attendees.
Email mwilliams@comlib.org to sign up.
Do you need one-on-one technical support for some of those more difficult technology challenges you’re facing?
This virtual Help Desk offers 15-minute slots with Paul Zimmerman, the Library’s tech guru, to help you answer your most pressing questions.
The help desk is hosted on Zoom. Meeting information will be sent to registered attendees.
Email mwilliams@comlib.org to sign up.
The Library’s writer-in-residence, Michael D. Wilson, will present on “Hemingway’s Coda: The Mythology of his Language.”
Wilson’s research on Hemingway’s language originated as the thesis for his Master of Liberal Arts degree from the University of Chicago in 2012. In his paper, Wilson examines the issue of hyphen use in Hemingway’s prose, motivated from a close examination of the text in For Whom the Bell Tolls. Wilson’s work on the “Hemingway Hyphen” explores how tempo is a product of hyphen use, how Hemingway’s vivid writing is a product of this use, and he positions representations of language alongside the effects of music, improvisational jazz, and the idea of perfect pitch amongst poets, painters, and presenters.
In this presentation, Wilson will discuss his observations and these concepts, and will explain the algorithm he developed to search and sift Hemingway’s language, as well as how this algorithm can be used today to explore literary innovation.
Michael D. Wilson did his PhD coursework in engineering at Purdue University, his Master’s degree at the University of Chicago, and undergraduate work at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. A Clinical Professor of the Practice, Wilson is the Faculty Director for Innovators for the Americas and Entrepreneurship for the Miami Herbert Business School. Prior to academe, Michael founded several startup companies and consulted with Fortune 500 companies and global brands. He also founded a large Internet Service Provider (ISP) backbone serving greater New England both connectivity and complex web development projects for thousands of business-to-business customers. Currently, Michael runs research from his Yuiwe Lab focusing on Entrepreneurship Education and is a managing partner at Equapath.com
Esta discusión es parte de la lectura de invierno de 2021 de la novela Parentesco de Octavia E. Butler de 1979.
La Biblioteca Comunitaria en Ketchum será el anfitrión de una discusión sobre Parentesco el 10 de marzo en español, y todos son bienvenidos a unirse.
La discusión será dirigida por Chloe Lichtenberg, Diana Sabrina Muñoz, y Melanie Gonzalez-Maza.
Join The Community Library for a virtual conversation with Hailey-based author, Sarah Sentilles, for the launch of her new book, Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn’t Ours, the moving story of what one woman learned from fostering a newborn—about injustice, about making mistakes, about how to better love and protect people beyond our immediate kin. The book releases May 4, 2021, from Random House.
After their decision not to have a biological child, Sarah Sentilles and her husband, Eric, decide to adopt via the foster care system. Despite knowing that the system’s goal is the child’s reunification with the birth family, Sarah opens their home to a flurry of social workers who question them, evaluate them, and ultimately prepare them to welcome a child into their lives—even if it means most likely having to give the child back. After years of starts and stops, and endless navigation of the complexities and injustices of the foster care system, a phone call finally comes: a three-day-old baby girl named Coco, in immediate need of a foster family. Sarah and Eric bring this newborn stranger home. “You were never ours,” Sarah tells Coco, “yet we belong to each other.”
A love letter to Coco and to the countless children like her, Stranger Care chronicles Sarah’s discovery of what it means to mother—in this case, not just a vulnerable infant but the birth mother who loves her, too. Ultimately, Coco’s story reminds us that we depend on family, and that family can take different forms. Sentilles lays bare an intimate, powerful story with universal concerns: How can we care for and protect one another? How do we ensure a more hopeful future for life on this planet? And if we’re all related—tree, bird, star, person—how might we better live?
Sentilles will share readings from the new book during this conversation with the Library’s executive director, Jenny Emery Davidson.
Sarah Sentilles is a writer, teacher, critical theorist, scholar of religion, and author of many books, including Draw Your Weapons, which won the 2018 PEN Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Oprah Magazine, Ms., Religion Dispatches, Oregon ArtsWatch, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. She’s had residencies at Hedgebrook and Yaddo. She earned a bachelor’s degree at Yale and master’s and doctoral degrees at Harvard. She is the co-founder of the Alliance of Idaho, which works to protect the basic human rights of immigrants by engaging in education, outreach, and advocacy at local, state, and national levels.
Do you need one-on-one technical support for some of those more difficult technology challenges you’re facing?
This virtual Help Desk offers 15-minute slots with Paul Zimmerman, the Library’s tech guru, to help you answer your most pressing questions.
The help desk is hosted on Zoom. Meeting information will be sent to registered attendees.
Email mwilliams@comlib.org to sign up.
