Monthly Archives: July 2014

Thurber House author Tony Mendoza’s favorite part of America might be yours as well

August 6 Thurber House guest Tony Mendoza has been an educator, an engineer, an architect, and an almost obsessive photographer of cats. His first book, Ernie, chronicled several months in the life of his roommate’s cat. His latest, A Cuban … Continue reading

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Craft’s Nightmare Affair

-Kayla In the dark hallways of an eerie school of mermaids, trash trolls, and magic, there is also attempted murder. Leave it to Kayla, the summer Craft intern, to conjure up  an interview with the mind behind The Arkwell Academy series, Mindee Arnett. … Continue reading

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The Gilded Age visits the Thurber House on July 23

Lawyer and novelist Claire McMillan will appear with the The Thurber House on Wednesday, July 23, reading from her book Gilded Age, a modern retelling of Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth. We discussed how her computer file names betray her anxieties … Continue reading

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Thurber House Author Loves Columbus

-Kayla Geyer When was the last time you told Columbus she was pretty? Andrew Welsh-Huggins, July 9th Thurber House author, values the beauty and intrigue of Columbus so much that when he based his novel, Fourth Down and Out, on … Continue reading

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Ask Veronica Roth, author of Divergent, a question; win her book!

Now is YOUR chance to ask Veronica Roth about her hit books Divergent and Insurgent and the movie version of Divergent, as well as her brand new book Four, a collection of short stories set in Roth’s dystopian Chicago told from … Continue reading

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