May 29, 2007

The two most recent New Hampshire Authors’ Series events — the Mekeel McBride and Tomie DePaola interviews with Rebecca Rule — will be broadcast on NHPTV. The dates are Monday, June 18th at 8:00 (McBride) and 8:30 (DePaola) and again on Sunday, June 24th at 6:00 (McBride) and 6:30 (DePaola). NHPTV also provides access to the interviews online.

Tomie DePaola is an award-winning children’s book author and illustrator. The DePaola interview event was held in Dimond Library on Sunday, January 28. Mekeel McBride has published six books of poetry and is a faculty member in the UNH English department. The McBride event was held Sunday, April 22.

The New Hampshire Authors’ Series is produced by NHPTV in partnership with the Friends of the UNH Library and UNH Video Services.

May 4, 2007

New Hampshire’s poets, novelists and authors talk with writer and humorist Rebecca Rule in a series of one-on-one conversations before audiences at the University of New Hampshire’s Dimond Library.

The New Hampshire Authors’ Series is produced by NHPTV in partnership with the Friends of the UNH Library and UNH Video Services.

After broadcast, NHPTV provides access to the spots online.

December 13, 2006

The most recent New Hampshire Authors’ Series program (Becky Rule interviewing Seacoast New Hampshire mystery writer, Brendan DuBois) will be shown on New Hampshire Public TV on Friday, December 22nd at 10:30 p.m. (after Masterpiece Theatre) and again on Thursday, December 28th at 9:30 p.m. (before Frontline). Be sure to tune in!

Also:
Tomie DePaola will talk with Becky Rule on Sunday, January 28th at 2:00 p.m. on Level Five in Dimond Library on the UNH Campus and the event will again be taped for future broadcast on NHPTV. For more information, or to register!

In this season of giving, if you’d like to contribute any amount to sustain The New Hampshire Authors’ Series, please visit the UNH Foundation, click Other and type in Friends of the Library. Your support is essential to the program’s success and greatly appreciated.

Best wishes for happy holidays and a wonderful New Year,
Your Friends at the UNH Library.

April 4, 2006

Just a quick note to let you know that The New Hampshire Authors’ Series Rebecca Rule interview with Charles Simic is available online from NHPTV’s award-winning nightly newsmagazine – Outlook.

From NHPTV’s Outlook website:

TUESDAY, APRIL 4 – UNH AUTHORS’ SERIES: POET CHARLES SIMIC

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic talks one-on-one with Yankee humorist, book reviewer and author Rebecca Rule. Simic has been a professor of English at UNH for more than 30 years. He’s published more than 60 books, including “Charon’s Cosmology,” which was nominated for a National Book Award, and “The World Doesn’t End: Prose Poems,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. He’s also received a MacArthur Fellowship, the American Academy of Poets Edgar Allen Poe Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship and two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2003 he was awarded the international Horst Bienek Prize for Poetry.

If you attended Sunday’s program then you know what a treat is in store! If you were unable to attend the event then you have a second chance to see a very interesting and heartwarming interview with two very interesting and talented New Hampshire artists!

I hope you enjoy the show! If you’d like to order a DVD or VHS of this (or any other Authors’ Series interviews) or, if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to call Tracey Lauder at 862-3041 or, email nh.authors@unh.edu

In the meantime, please mark your calendars for future New Hampshire Authors’ Series events:
Talented mystery writer Brendan DuBois – October 22, 2006
Famed children’s author and artist, Tomie DePaola – January 28, 2007

February 6, 2006

Just a quick note to let you know that the most recent New Hampshire Authors’ Series event with Rebecca Rule and Alexander Parsons will be aired on NHPTV’s NH Outlook on Monday, February 6th at 7:30 p.m.

If you were able to attend the program then you know what a treat is in store and I’m sure will enjoy the video version of a wonderful afternoon.

If you were unable to attend the live interview, be sure to tune in and enjoy the show!

From NHPTV:
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6 UNH AUTHORS’ SERIES: ALEXANDER PARSONS

Writer and humorist Rebecca Rule interviews author Alexander Parsons in this special edition of NH Outlook. Parsons, who teaches fiction writing at UNH, has published two novels and has a third novel in the works. Rule talks to Parsons about the idea-centered novel, teaching, the writing process, martial artist Bruce Lee and more in this fifth interview of the UNH Authors’ series from the Dimond Library at the University New Hampshire.