I’m a sucker for a good beach read, and this weekend, as I was packing up my beach bag, I noticed that the two books that I grabbed were by two of the three authors coming to The Music Hall this month. Once the weather gets warmer, I find that I gravitate to fun fluffy books. Thankfully, for my reading habits our Writers Series is packed full of great summer reads this month.Read More
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For the past 10 years, I have had the distinct privilege of sitting in the best seat in the house for The Music Hall’s “Writers On A New England Stage” series.
Well, to be accurate, I’ve been sitting in one of the three best seats in the house, up on stage, with the other guys in the house band for the series, Dreadnaught.*Read More
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When I first created Writers on a New England Stage it was scary. We didn’t know if it would work and no-one knew us. I wrote all the first scripts, helped pick out the chairs for the “set,” went to New York to pitch the series, and was asked repeatedly where Portsmouth, New Hampshire was exactly. A lot has changed since then, but much has stayed the same: We still have our wonderful broadcast partner, New Hampshire Public Radio, and our house band Dreadnaught; and we are still using the same chairs and tables that we started out with. Margaret Talcott has come on as a producer, we’ve all started tweeting, and we now have the help of some wonderful interns from the graduate program in Creative Writing at UNH. Read More
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Full disclosure: Having lived in New York City for much of my adult life, I’m somewhat of a culture snob. It has been an unexpected thrill during the past several years to experience the depth and breadth of the thriving arts scene in Portsmouth—and a privilege to work with The Music Hall helping to spread the word. Read More
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My father was a huge football fan. As an only child, Dad decided at an early age that I was going to be the one to carry on our family tradition of being 49ers fans. At the tender age of three, when all of my friends were dressing up as princesses, I insisted on being the littlest 49er.Read More
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Writers in the Loft:
Walter Kirn
Sponsored by: Citizens Bank
Wed., 3/26, 7pm
The Music Hall Loft
131 Congress St.
Portsmouth, NH
Tickets: $40. Includes reserved seat, hardcover book (BLOOD WILL OUT: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery and a Masquerade, $25.95), bar beverage; author presentation, Q+A, and book signing meet-and-greet
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Walter Kirn, author of Up In the Air, comes to us with his latest book, Blood Will Out on Wednesday, Mar. 26 at 7pm in the Loft. In his recent interview (of himself) in the New York Times, Kirn tells us the twisted true story of a con that starts with the transport of a crippled shelter dog from Montana to New York City and ends, some 15 years later, with the murder conviction of Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, (a.k.a. Clark Rockefeller).
The book is already on tap to make the “Best of 2014” lists and we have been following the story since we first came across it in The New Yorker. We are very excited to be welcoming Mr. Kirn to the Loft for what is sure to be an interesting and memorable evening as we discuss his relationship to Gerharsreiter, the craft of writing nonfiction, and the story behind the story.
Related Links:
#BloodWillOut @WalterKirn
CBS’s 48 Hours
Janet Maslin’s New York Times Book Review of “Blood Will Out”
Nina Burleigh’s New York Times piece in the Sunday Book Review
The New Yorker Articles - Note: some content requires a subscription
Time Magazine’s review by Jack Dickey
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Jared Diamond is one of America’s most celebrated scholars. His arrival at The Music Hall on January 17 coincides with the release of his latest work, The World Until Yesterday. Diamond is a Professor of Geography at UCLA whose groundbreaking work, Guns, Germs and Steel won the Pulitzer prize in 1997.Read More
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Bestselling author and physician Deepak Chopra visited The Music Hall Thursday December 6, 2012 to discuss his latest work, Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness and Spiritual Well-Being, co-authored by Harvard Medical School Professor Rudolph E. Tanzi. The first ever Innovation and Leadership Forum in the Historic Theater was presented in collaboration Writers on a New England Stage, The Music Hall-New Hampshire Public Radio series of bestselling authors. The transformational evening included a discussion with Executive Producer/Moderator Patricia Lynch, and closed with Dr. Chopra leading the sold-out audience of 900 in a meditation in the landmark 1878 theater.Read More
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