Thomaston Library Events for August 27 and August 29

 

Short Readings by Jane Brox, Christopher Fahy, Martha Rhodes, and Bruce Willard on Tuesday, August 27, at 7 PM.

The Thomaston Public Library will host the following roster of fine writers, who will read from their published works.

Jane Brox is the author of Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light as well as Clearing Land: Legacies of the American Farm; Five Thousand Days Like This One, which was a 1999 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nionfiction; and Here and Nowhere Else, which won the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award. Ms. Brox lives in Brunswick.

Christopher Fahy is the author of sixteen books, among them the novels The Fly Must Die, Fever 42, Breaking Point, and Chasing the Sun, a novella, The Christmas Star, and the story collections Limerock: Maine Stories and Matinee at the Flame. He lives in Thomaston with his wife, children's-book author Davene Fahy.

Martha Rhodes is the author of four poetry collections, most recently The Beds. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She is the director of Four Way Books and lives in New York City.

Bruce Willard lives in Santa Barbara and Boothbay Harbor. An ex-disc jockey and forklift operator, he currently oversees several clothing catalog businesses and chauffeurs the family dogs from coast to coast each summer.  Holding Ground is his first poetry collection.

 

Saltwater Film Society Screening of “Mulholland Drive” on Thursday, August 29, at 6:30 PM

Termed a "surrealist neo-noir," Mulholland Drive is a 2001 film by cult director David Lynch, starring Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, and Justin Theroux. Begun as a television pilot, rejected, and subsequently finished as a (somewhat) self-contained narrative feature, Mulholland Drive is a film ripe with Lynch's signature macabre ambiguity.

Betty Elms (Watts) is an aspiring actress just arrived in Los Angeles. What follows is a not-necessarily-linear tale of mistaken identity, Hollywood intrigue, mobsters and monsters. Be sure to look up Lynch's ten clues to unlocking the film!

For more information about the Saltwater Film Society, please see their website at http://www.saltwaterfilmsociety.org/.