Wednesday, April 10, 2019

THE IMPORTANCE OF POPULAR FICTION with DAVID LEE

TUES MAY 14
7.30p.m. LINC classroom, 4th floor, Central Branch, Hamilton Public Library
Although literary fiction gets the awards, it is worth considering that popular fiction - otherwise called "genre" or even "formula" fiction - is equally evocative of a time and place, and can effectively work its way through an era's most pressing issues. Hamilton author David Lee's 2015 Young Adult novel The Midnight Games won the Hamilton Arts Council's Kerry Schooley Award for the book that "best conveys the spirit of Hamilton." He is also the author of the novel Commander Zero, and the non-fiction books The Battle of the Five Spot: Ornette Coleman and the New York Jazz Field, Stopping Time: Paul Bley and the Transformation of Jazz, and Chainsaws: A History. He is presently completing a sequel to The Midnight Games.