An Evening with Sam Coale -- Getting a Life: Beguiled by Books October 11, 2007

What is it about reading a book that is so powerful? What do we get from this solitary, yet shared experience? How do authors speak to us through the written word? Local author, professor and book reviewer Sam Coale will share his enchantment with the book and his belief that "art does not advocate; it represents, suggests, illuminates."

About Sam Coale
A professor of American Literature and Culture at Wheaton College, Sam Coale is the author of Paradigms of Paranoia: The Culture of Conspiracy in Contemporary American Fiction and Mystery of Mysteries: Cultural Differences and Designs.

He is a book reviewer for The Providence Journal and also writes theatre, film and book reviews and feature articles for the East Side Monthly in Providence. Coale's work has taken him to Belarus and Brazil, as well as Romania, Poland, India, the Czech Republic, Pakistan and England. He has just returned from a lecture tour in Jordan and Lebanon.

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