September 16, 2010

Robert Beard, retired Florida State philosophy professor, will speak on “Remarks on the Art of Writing.”       

His academic career also includes appointments to Princeton, Michigan, Iowa and LSU. He published hundreds of papers in philosophy, mathematical logic, navigation and boat building, including a book, Essays on Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, which is currently a text at Oxford and has been translated into Chinese. Since joining the TWA four years ago, he has authored four books.  Astride the Sea Cow is an autobiographical work about the two years that he spent aboard the USS Manatee, an oil tanker charged with fueling military ships around the world. His novel  The Runaway tells the story of  a young runaway boy’s  encounter  up with a 50-year-old boat captain. It was  written after Beard built a boat  and spent 10 months sailing with his wife and two boys throughout the Caribbean.  His latest book is A Boy Named Shawn.

 

October 21, 2010

Bruce Gamble will speak about how to take raw research data and turning it into compelling prose. He first spoke to the TWA over three years ago, shortly after the publication of his third book, the Darkest Hour. His fourth non-fiction book, Fortress Rabaul, the Battle for the Southwest Pacific, has just hit the shelves. All of his books are based on military events.  At the end of the Cold War, Gamble logged nearly 1000 hours as a navigator in EA3B-Skywarriors, while completing deployments aboard aircraft carriers in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. After that he instructed student naval flight officers for two years, until suffering from a malignant spinal cord tumor, after which he was medically retired from the Navy. Starting over as a wheelchair user, Gamble began serving as a volunteer at the National Museum of Naval Aviation, and later began working as historian at the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation.. Gamble has become a recognized military historian featured in documentaries produced by the History Military and Fox News Channels.

 

November 18, 2010

 

Lynne Knight is the author of four full length collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Again, published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2009. Her collection Dissolving Borders, poems on love and loss, won a Quarterly Review of Literature prize in 2006. Her collection, The Book of Common Betrayals, won the Dorothy Brunsman Award in 2002.  In addition, she has published three prize-winning chapbooks, Deer in Berkeley, Life as Weather and Defying the Flat Surface. Her work has appeared in a number of journals, including Beloit Poetry Journal, Kenyon Review and New England Review. One of her poems was selected to appear in Best American Poetry, 2000.

 

             

December, 2010

Holiday Party. Bring your favorite dish for our pot luck. Authors can also bring their books to sign and sell.

 

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