Marygrove Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Contemporary American Author Lecture Series with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Colson Whitehead

I got this press release this morning,and it might be of interest.

Detroit, MI, Feb. 26, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Marygrove College announces National Book-award recipient and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead as the featured guest at its 2018 Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series (CAALS) on Friday, April 13. The 8 p.m. Lillian and Don Bauder Lecture and book signing are free of charge and open to the public.  

In addition to the public reading, Mr. Whitehead will teach a class for high school students on April 13 at 10 a.m. “This is a milestone anniversary for the Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series,” said Marygrove College President Dr. Elizabeth Burns, “and we are honored to celebrate it with one of the most ambitious, talented, and thought-provoking authors of our era.”

Whitehead is an author of six novels, including The Intuitionist and The Underground Railroad, works for which he received the National Book Award for Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, respectively. He has authored several essays, two works of nonfiction, and is the recipient of the Carnegie Medal for Fiction, the Heartland Prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Hurston/Wright Fiction Award, and many others.

For more information about sponsorship opportunities for the 2018 event or to attend dinner with the author, contact Dennis Howie at 313-927-1451 or dhowie@marygrove.edu. You may also visit: https://www.marygrove.edu/caals

Established in the city of Detroit in 1927, Marygrove College is an independent Catholic college sponsored by the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM) and guided by the values of human dignity; community; social justice; ecological justice; excellence; innovation; and diversity. The campus is situated on 53 wooded acres at 8425 W. McNichols Rd., Detroit, MI 48221. Visit www.marygrove.edu. 

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Work in progress about Bladerunner 2049 and Philip K. Dick

My next book about my husband Philip K. Dick will include a lengthy review of Bladerunner 2049. My book doesn't have a title yet, but it does have cover art and content. I expect to release it in March. 

Thank you, Andu Soare, for the lovely art work for my book cover! 

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Conversations with Philip K. Dick

If you liked Philip K. Dick: Remembering Firebright, and if you want more, you can read my new book Conversations with Philip K. Dick. It 's available now on Amazon.

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Conversations with Philip K. Dick

I'm writing a new memoir in which you sit down and talk with Philip K. Dick. Conversations with Philip K. Dick should be available soon on Amazon. Meanwhile, you can purchase the preview, titled "Story Timer with Philip K. Dick", on Amazon Kindle.

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A little help, please

Things are looking up for March 2016, but first I need to get through February. I have huge winter heating bills, and the program that helps with those bills hasn't been funded yet. Winter is no joke up here on the mountain. We get snow, and temperatures regularly fall below freezing.

I've been writing articles f
or eBay, and they are reliable, but it takes them a month to pay. This means that I'll get paid in March, but I'm already behind on my January utility bills.

Cal State Fullerton has invited me to sit on a panel at their Philip K. Dick conference at the end of April, and I plan to accept. I don't drive (I quit driving due to a serious head injury a few years ago), but a friend has agreed to drive me to my brother's house, and then my brother can drive to Fullerton.

My friends and family have helped as much as they can, so I just need a little more money to pay those bills.  I'm about $100 short.

If you can spare a dollar, please send it by Paypal to

kittiescats777@gmail.com

or mail it to

Tessa Dick
PO Box 1942
Crestline, California 92325

Prayers and good wishes are also quite welcome.