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Neilly Series, 2001-2002
September 19 - The Critic, The Reader, and The Poet: Literary Authority in Postwar America Belligerent
readers and a beleaguered critic are the topic of the first presenter of the Neilly Series, Joan
Shelly Rubin, professor of history at the University of Rochester. Ms. Rubin will discuss the
controversy that ensued in the later 1950s when poetry editor John Giardi attacked the work of
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, wife of Charles Lindbergh, in the Saturday Review of Literature. This
lecture stems from Ms. Rubin's larger research project on the practices and values governing
Americans' uses of poetry, for which she received a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is co-editor of
a collaborative History of the Book in America, a project supported, in part, by the National
Endowment for the Humanities.
September 28 - Among the Gently Mad, Redux Nicholas Basbanes is the author of A
Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books, a New York
Times Notable Book of the Year, and Patience and Fortitude: A Roving Chronicle of Book
People, Book Places and Book Culture, to be published in early fall. Mr. Basbanes was an
essayist, reviewer, and reporter before turning his own passion for books into a remarkable
"magnum opus" that investigates book collectors and their stories and which recounts 2,500
years of the preservation of knowledge through print. Mr. Basbanes is a fascinating and
articulate speaker who is himself a virtual library of knowledge about book collections and
collectors.
October 12 - The Hero's Life: Its Worth and Its Costs Meliora Weekend 2001 will feature
Richard Ben Cramer. Mr. Cramer, who often writes about baseball and politics, is a best
selling biographer. His latest book is Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life; he is also the author of
What It Takes: The Way to the White House. He has written innumerable essays, television
scripts, and documentaries. A former reporter, Mr. Cramer won a Pulitzer Prize for foreign
reporting while at the Philadelphia Inquirer. At the Library, Mr. Cramer will discuss how he uses
his writing to analyze the impact of American political and sports heroes on everyday life and
their legacy in history.
November 7 - An Editor's Quest: Finding Books to Publish Lawrence Ashmead '54, vice
president and executive editor at HarperCollins, will be at the Libraries to discuss how he
selects the books he publishes and what types of sources provide potential "finds." Mr.
Ashmead is the editor for Simon Winchester, Tony Hillerman, Susan Isaacs, Sister Wendy
Beckett, Michael Korda, Anne Rivers Siddons, and a host of other authors. As always, his focus
is on conceiving and acquiring new books and overseeing their publication. Mr. Ashmead's
presentation is a must for fledgling authors!
January 24 - Blues to Rock: Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page Discover Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters
Academia and pop culture will collide and Rush Rhees will be hip hopping when Eastman
School music theorist David Headlam examines the British discovery of the roots of rock 'n'
roll in African American music. He will discuss how the British rock scene reinterpreted country
blues, jump blues, and rhythm and blues. One of the most fascinating stories in the history of
music and culture is how this little known American music became the basis of a worldwide
rock phenomenon in the 1960s. Mr. Headlam will compare the original versions of songs with
their rock reworking using recorded music and live guitars - this is an event guaranteed to
�keep the audience awake!
February 26 - A Beautiful Mind: Genius, Madness, Reawakening Sylvia Nasar, author
and professor of journalism at Columbia University, will recount the story of mathematical
genius and inventor of game theory John Nash. Nash woke from decades of devastating mental
illness to win a Nobel Prize and world acclaim. Ms. Nasar will describe how this drama about
the mystery of the human mind evolved from a New York Times story into an award-winning
biography and a Ron Howard movie starring Russell Crowe. A Beautiful Mind was the winner of
the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award.
March 13 - Women's Rights: What's Not in the History Books March is Women's History
Month and Miriam Grace Monfredo will speak about the women's rights movement and its
portrayal in the history books. A former librarian and historian, she is the author of seven
novels that comprise her Seneca Falls Historical Mystery series, which make use of her
research concerning the women's rights movement. All of Ms. Monfredo's books are based on
historical events or social movements. During her lectures on the evolution of women's rights,
she stresses the importance of the past on the future of the women's movement.
April 3 - Developing New Plays and Musicals A fitting "wrap" for the season is Mark
Cuddy, artistic director of GEVA Theatre. Mr. Cuddy made his acting debut last season, but he
is more widely known for his many directing achievements. Mr. Cuddy will describe how, in the
last twenty years, regional theatres have usurped Broadway in the development and
production of new plays and musicals. He will discuss the creative effort that is required to
produce new pieces of theatrical art. Mr. Cuddy will use slides and recorded music to illustrate
his presentation.
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<strong>Blues to Rock: Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page Discover Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters</strong>: Academia and pop culture will collide and Rush Rhees will be hip hopping when Eastman School music theorist <span>David Headlam</span><span> examines the British discovery of the roots of rock 'n' roll in African American music. He will discuss how the British rock scene reinterpreted country blues, jump blues, and rhythm and blues. One of the most fascinating stories in the history of music and culture is how this little known American music became the basis of a worldwide rock phenomenon in the 1960s. Mr. Headlam will compare the original versions of songs with their rock reworking using recorded music and live guitars - this is an event guaranteed to keep the audience awake!</span>
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