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Please Come Join Us on April 22 at the Book Club Bar
Historians document the past by presenting the available evidence. Their chief responsibility is to lay out “the facts” and help us interpret them. But historical novelists are storytellers whose mission is to entertain. Imagining, dramatizing, and speculating about the past are essential to their craft. In History and Imagination: Historical Fiction’s Magic Elixir, authors Erica Obey (Dazzlepaint) […]
“Phidias Quinn and the Butterfly’s Wing” Now Playing at M2D4
Very excited to be leading off Season 9 of Mysteries to Die For: Stuff that Can Kill You with “Phidias Quinn and the Butterfly’s Wing.” Mel Moskowitz didn’t get to be called the King of the Drive-In Movie by cheaping out on special effects. But surely an actual butterfly couldn’t have trapped hunky Hank the […]
Byrdcliffe Library News
The Byrdcliffe Library Project Has a New Home
The Byrdcliffe Library catalogue is now up and running on LibraryThing. Please come visit us there for updates, cover art,…
About Erica
After Erica graduated from Yale University, her interest in folklore
and story led her to an M.A. in Creative Writing from City College of
New York and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the City
University of New York, where she published articles and a book
about female folklorists of the nineteenth century before she decided
she’d rather be writing the stories herself.
Read more about Erica here.
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