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We are partnering with ClimateCounts.org and Phillips Exeter Academy to bring you Colin Beavan\, author of the new book\, No Impact Man\: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet\, and the Discoveries He Makes about Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process and subject of the new documentary of the same name.
Colin Beavan is a writer based in New York City. This book is about his attempt to live off the grid in NYC\, to see if it is possible to make no net impact on the environment. He forgoes toilet paper\, electricity and motorized transportation. Check out Beavan's blog about the process at www.noimpactman.typepad.com and watch a trailer for the documentary there as well. Beavan was recently on NHPR's Word of Mouth. Listen to the segment at http\://www.nhpr.org/nextgreenthing.
Climatecounts.org is a collaborative effort to bring consumers and companies together in the fight against global climate change. They score the world's largest companies on their climate impact to encourage more corporate climate responsibility. Check out what they're doing\, discover the scores of hundreds of companies\, and make a donation at www.climatecounts.org.
The reading and signing will take place at Water Street Bookstore at 6\:30pm. The screening of the documentary is part of the PEA Documentary Series and is being held at the Academy Center Forum on Tan Lane\, just a short walk away on the Phillips Exeter Academy campus\, and will begin at 7\:45pm.
Join us for both\, but if you can only make it to one\, that's great too!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120518T014825Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091009T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091010T003000Z UID:http://www.waterstreetbooks.com/event/short-story-author-jc-hallman URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.waterstreetbooks.com/event/short-story-author-jc-hallman SUMMARY:Short story author J.C. Hallman DESCRIPTION:Hallman is the author of the short story collection\, The Hospital for Bad Poets. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. His work has appeared in GQ\, Boulevard\, Prairie Schooner\, and a number of other journals and anthologies.
His stories are inventive\, literary\, and profound. Never liked short stories? Give this collection a shot.
"\;A hard-eyed look at the mess we humans have made of our earthly home\, J.C. Hallman's stories also trace with rare delicacy the tentative approaches each alienated soul makes toward another. The writing throughout is polished\, witty\, and fiery."\;
--Jean McGarry\, author of "\;A Bad and Stupid Girl"\;
"\;Hallman's understanding of the depth of human suffering equals his fiendish wit\: "\;The Hospital for Bad Poets"\; marks an inventive debut into the world of the allusive."\;
--Edie Meidav\, author of "\;Crawl Space"\;
"\;These shrewd\, oblique stories run the gamut from the romance of microbiology to illicit trysts in hedgerows. Along the way\, Hallmanskewers modern life with the toolkit left behind by Donald Barthelme\, Shirley Jackson\, and a monkey wrench borrowed from Rod Serling. At bottom\, "\;The Hospital for Bad Poets"\; is filled with mysteries and delights."\;
--Brent Spencer\, author of "\;Are We Not Men?"\;
"\;What I like most about Hallman is his surreal depiction of American life and love. Somehow he's able to find the strangeness in the familiar and the familiar in the strange. The result is a compelling collection rich with insights and ironies. This is fiction at its weirdest and most wonderful."\;
--Jonis Agee\, author of "\;The River Wife"\;