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Speaking Engagement at ECSU
Connecticut icon and best-selling author Wally Lamb will visit Eastern Connecticut State University on March 9 for a lecture titled Connecticut on My Mind, as well as a reception and book signing. The author of such books as The Hour I First Believed, She’s Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True will speak in the Concert Hall of the Fine Arts Instructional Center (FAIC) at 5:30 p.m., followed by a question-and-answer session.
A reception and book signing will take place in the FAIC foyer from 7-8 p.m.
The lecture is free and open to the public, but seating is limited due to COVID-19 and event registration is required. Masking is required inside the venue.
The lecture will also livestream on the University’s YouTube channel at 5:30 p.m. on March 9.
Lamb’s visit is in coordination with Eastern’s “Big Read” program to present stories and bring writers to campus who focus on themes of human interconnectedness.
Excerpted from an ECSU website post written by Ed Osborn
Ct Lit Fest Event
Join me for a reading followed by coverstation with Real Art Ways executive director, Will K. Wilkins.
Thursday, Sept. 24 at 7 pm. To attend the series, or a single event, please register via Crowdcast, here.
The Truth Within the Story: I Know This Much Is True
The cast of I Know This Much Is True, NAMI CEO Daniel H. Gillison Jr., and CNN New Day’s Alisyn Camerota discuss the impact mental illness has had on their lives.
Based on the 1998 bestselling novel by Wally Lamb, adapted and directed by Derek Cianfrance, this limited series follows the parallel lives of identical twin brothers, played by Mark Ruffalo. A family saga, it tells a story of betrayal, sacrifice and forgiveness set against the backdrop of 20th-century America.
Based on the 1998 bestselling novel by Wally Lamb, adapted and directed by Derek Cianfrance. This limited series follows the parallel lives of identical twin brothers, played by Mark Ruffalo. A family saga, it tells a story of betrayal, sacrifice and forgiveness set against the backdrop of 20th-century America.
HBO’s I Know this Much is True to premiere this spring!
The six-episode limited series, based on my novel of the same name, is set to run this spring.
Via movie magic, Mark Ruffalo plays both Dominick Birdsey and his mentally troubled identical twin, Thomas.
At the 2020 Television Critics Association winter press tour, writer/director Derek Cianfrance and star Mark Ruffalo discuss the challenges of filming this series.
Dr. Patel (The Good Wife’s Archie Punjabi) counsels Dominick about how to negotiate the challenges of being his afflicted brother’s keeper.
Psychiatric social worker Lisa Sheffer (Rosie O’Donnell) updates Dominck about his twin’s condition.
Dominick (Mark Ruffalo) and Dessa, the ex-wife he still loves (Kathryn Hahn) meet outside the hospital where Thomas has been admitted after an act of self-mutilation..
Dominick’s mother Connie (Melissa Leo) gives him a suitcase. Inside is a document that holds clues about the family’s past.
Wally Lamb’s “I Know This Much Is True” Green-lighted to be HBO Limited Series!
Wally joins as joint executive producer along with writer Derek Cianfrance and Mark Ruffalo, who will star as twins Dominick and Thomas Birdsey. Check out these stories from the Hollywood Reporterand Deadline Hollywood for more info!
An Evening with Fran Lebowitz in Conversation with Wally Lamb
Come check out a conversation between Wally and Fran Lebowitz at the Garde at the Garde Theater in November!
Check out the events page for details.
I Know This Much is True to be HBO series starring Mark Ruffalo
I Know This Much is True is to be made into an 8-episode series by HBO, to be written by Derek Cianfrance and star Mark Ruffalo, who along with Wally will be an executive producer.
Click here for Wally’s interview with Susan Dunne in the Courant for more information!
Wally interviewed by The Hollywood Reporter
Wally is featured in the most recent edition of The Hollywood Reporter, where he discusses I’ll Take You There, making a Metabook (see photo for Ben Alfonsi and Kathleen Turner recording a scene), and channeling the cinematic muse.
Click HERE to check out the interview, or copy the link below.
Please join me at the Brooklyn Museum for a screening of Anne Newman’s “Beauty and the Beer”
My upcoming novel, I’LL TAKE YOU THERE,and Anne Newman’s documentary film, BEAUTY and THE BEER, both examine the roles and expectations of American women from the 1940s to the present via the storied Miss Rheingold contest of yesteryear. Join Anne Newman, former Miss Rheingolds, and me for a screening of Anne’s film and discussion at NY’s Brooklyn Museum on Thursday October 6. The evening includes a pre-show reception with beer tasting and snacks. Click here for more information!
The Brooklyn Museum is located at 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11238, and can be reached at (718)638-5000.
Miss Rheingold Beauty Contest participants for 1959. Photo by Paul Hesse.
