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Join us for our Summer Tales Author Talk with guest speaker Julie Otsuka as she discusses her award-winning novels and more with a moderator, Nick Allred. The event will be held on Wednesday, July 20, 2022 at 4pm EST. Sponsored by the Rutgers\u2013New Brunswick Libraries and Rutgers\u2013New Brunswick Summer Session.<\/p>\n

Summer Tales 2021 featured Julie Otsuka’s Diem Perdidi<\/a><\/em> , a compelling, heart-wrenching portrait of an elderly woman\u2019s character and life story as she begins to lose her memory. Read the synopsis and discussion points, along with more about the author in the Summer Tales LibGuide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Related posts: Julie Otsuka<\/h3>\n
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Creative Contest: Book Talk on \u201cDiem Perdidi\u201d by Julie Otsuka<\/a><\/h4>\n

August 30, 2021 | By Harmony Birch <\/a> | Summer Tales<\/a><\/p>\n<\/header>\n

The short story \u201cDiem Perdidi\u201d by Julie Otsuka is about a woman with dementia. The story is written in the second person as the woman\u2019s daughter narrates her mother\u2019s memory loss. The narrator\u2019s mother is still herself and yet not herself. She can remember how to play Claire de Lune on the piano; she remembers \u2026 Read More<\/a><\/div>\n<\/article>\n
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Finding Humor for Emotional Strength<\/a><\/h4>\n

August 11, 2021 | By Rebecca Diamond <\/a> | Cook Reads<\/a>,Little Free Library<\/a>,Summer Tales<\/a><\/p>\n<\/header>\n

In Diem Perdidi by Julie Otsuka, the narrator recounts her experiences dealing with her mother\u2019s Alzheimer\u2019s progression. Alzheimer\u2019s is an unforgiving, unpredictable disease. Periods of lucidity are contrasted with periods of confusion. Memories are conflated in a cruel time-traveling continuum, as short-term memory is often erased, but long-term memories remain. As with all terminal illnesses, \u2026 Read More<\/a><\/div>\n<\/article>\n
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Translating Stories to Make Sense<\/a><\/h4>\n

July 28, 2021 | By Judit Hajnal Ward <\/a> | Bibliotherapy<\/a>,Cook Reads<\/a>,Summer Tales<\/a><\/p>\n<\/header>\n

If this story doesn\u2019t speak to you, you are lucky. If this story doesn\u2019t speak to you yet, it will. According to the Alzheimer\u2019s Association, more than 6 million Americans are living with Alzheimer\u2019s Disease, the most common form of dementia. A progressive brain disease, Alzheimer\u2019s actually starts decades before the first signs appear. Symptoms \u2026 Read More<\/a><\/div>\n
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Related posts: Author Talks\u00a0 series<\/h3>\n
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Chatting with Carmen Maria Machado<\/a><\/h4>\n

July 1, 2021 | By Harmony Birch <\/a> | Little Free Library<\/a>,Summer Tales<\/a><\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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Motherhood, genre, and form took center stage during the first session of Summer Tales when we examined the story \u201cEight Bites\u201d by Carmen Maria Machado. Machado is the author of Her Body and Other Parties, in which the SummerTales story selection \u201cEight Bites\u201d is published; and In the Dream House, a memoir on her experience \u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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Carmen Maria Machado, Between Persons<\/a><\/h4>\n

June 18, 2021 | By Nicholas Allred <\/a> | Cook Reads<\/a>,RUGRAT<\/a>,Summer Tales<\/a><\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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A heads-up: This post, like Machado\u2019s memoir, discusses intimate-partner abuse. There are two distinctive formal features of Carmen Maria Machado\u2019s In The Dream House: A Memoir\u00a0that are apparent from early on. The first is that this memoir is fractured into a series of short forays, usually just one or two pages, that approach the central \u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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Confessions of a Part-Time Interviewer<\/a><\/h4>\n

July 20, 2021 | By Nicholas Allred <\/a> | Poetry<\/a>,Summer Tales<\/a><\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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Last week we had the pleasure of hosting poet Natalie D\u00edaz for a Zoom reading and discussion, and a few weeks ago in late June we had author Carmen Maria Machado for a similar event. I had the particular pleasure of being the one to talk to both, asking them questions drawn from our preregistered \u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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Why Read Banned Books<\/a><\/h4>\n

June 16, 2021 | By Judit Hajnal Ward <\/a> | Cook Reads<\/a>,Little Free Library<\/a>,Summer Tales<\/a><\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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In a recent New York Times opinion article entitled Banning My Book Won\u2019t Protect Your Child\u00a0Carmen Maria Machado shared that parents in a school district demanded the removal of her book In the Dream House: A Memoir and several others from district reading lists for high school English class book clubs. Banned or challenged books \u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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In the Dream House and the Importance of Naming<\/a><\/h4>\n

June 9, 2021 | By Harmony Birch <\/a> | RUGRAT<\/a>,Staff Picks<\/a>,Summer Tales<\/a><\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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Please note: This post discusses abusive relationships. If you or someone you know needs support regarding domestic or dating violence, please go to The National Domestic Violence Hotline or Rutgers Counseling Services. Carmen Marie Machado (the first author being examined in our Summer Tales program) doesn\u2019t pull punches when exposing the grotesque realities of humanity. \u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n

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An Evening with Natalie D\u00edaz<\/a><\/h4>\n

August 2, 2021 | By Alissa Renales <\/a> | Poetry<\/a>,Summer Tales<\/a><\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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Natalie D\u00edaz is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. She is also the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University. D\u00edaz is also a well-decorated poet with a Pulitzer Prize for her most recent Postcolonial Love Poem, a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, and the \u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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Natalie D\u00edaz and the Mojave Language<\/a><\/h4>\n

July 13, 2021 | By Alissa Renales <\/a> | Cook Reads<\/a>,RUGRAT<\/a>,Summer Tales<\/a><\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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While Natalie D\u00edaz is known internationally for her poetry, she is also passionate about preserving the Mojave language. D\u00edaz\u2019s work with the Mojave language comes from both a desire to preserve and to better understand it. The Poetry Foundation\u2019s biography of D\u00edaz includes a quote from the poet explaining how language impacts her work. She \u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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Joyce Carol Oates Perspective: A Powerful Teacher<\/a><\/h4>\n

August 13, 2020 | By Jennifer Coffman <\/a> | News<\/a>,RUGRAT<\/a>,Summer Tales<\/a><\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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Between my previous education experience and my current studies as a Masters of Information candidate I have spent the majority of my life in school. As a perpetual student I have learned the life-changing value of having incredible teachers and am quick to recognize them. I already knew that she had been professor at Princeton \u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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Face to (Virtual) Face with Joyce Carol Oates<\/a><\/h4>\n

August 12, 2020 | By Nicholas Allred <\/a> | News<\/a>,RUGRAT<\/a>,Summer Tales<\/a><\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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We were incredibly lucky to have author Joyce Carol Oates join us for a reading from her short story \u201cWhere Is Here?\u201d and a discussion drawn from audience-submitted questions.\u00a0 What we didn\u2019t know when we began planning the event was just how many people would be interested \u2014 it shouldn\u2019t have come as a surprise \u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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Joyce Carol Oates from both sides of the Iron Curtain<\/a><\/h4>\n

August 11, 2020 | By Judit Hajnal Ward <\/a> | News<\/a>,RUGRAT<\/a>,Summer Tales<\/a><\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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Have you ever noticed that once you start paying attention to something \u2013 or someone \u2013 you seem to bump into it\/him\/her everywhere? Some call it Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon; I prefer the term \u201cfrequency illusion.\u201d In August 2019 we at Summer Tales. selected the fascinating story Where is Here? for our reading list allowing me to \u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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Summer Tales with Joyce Carol Oates!<\/a><\/h4>\n

July 16, 2020 | By Judit Hajnal Ward <\/a> | Cook Reads<\/a>,News<\/a>,RUGRAT<\/a>,Summer Tales<\/a><\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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Come hear\u00a0acclaimed writer Joyce Carol Oates read from and talk about her short story \u201cWhere Is\u00a0Here?\u201d!\u00a0 Oates is a National Book Award winner, a five-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and one of the leading voices in American literature of our time.\u00a0 She has taught at Princeton for many years, and most recently led an undergraduate fiction \u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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