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. To register, visit:  https://easternct.iad1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0lJaXUVMVq8qWLI . 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...

  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 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. Subscribe to HBO on YouTube: https://goo.gl/wtFYd7 Official Site of I Know This Much Is True on HBO: https://itsh.bo/IKTMIT-series Watch Now Get HBO: https://itsh.bo/ways-to-get  ...

HBO limited series to premiere May 10th   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...

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....