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Joshua Davis, David Thomson, Rick Jacobs featured Auditorium Speakers at United for Libraries President's Program
Joshua Davis
David Thomson
Rick Jacobs
Joshua Davis, author of Spare Parts, will be joined in this Auditorium Speaker/United for Libraries President's Program session — “From Cover to Screen — Books to Movies” — by producer Rick Jacobs and esteemed film critic David Thomson to talk about writing the book, creating the movie, and how movies are judged and reviewed. Attendees at this session, which takes place Monday, June 29, 8:30 — 9:30 a.m., will also view a trailer for the film version of Spare Parts, starring George Lopez, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Marissa Tomei. Spare Parts is about four undocumented Mexican teenagers overcoming all odds to win a high-tech underwater robot competition against teams from elite universities, and has been called a “triumphant read” by the Toronto Star and “a great American story” by The Washington Post.
Joshua Davis is a contributing editor at Wired, cofounder of Epic magazine, and the author of The Underdog, a memoir about his experiences as an arm wrestler, backward runner, and matador. A 2014 nominee for a National Magazine Award for feature writing, he has written for The New Yorker and other periodicals, and his writing is widely anthologized. David Thomson, author of the forthcoming How to Watch a Movie (Random House, November 2015), is the definitive source on all things film. He was film critic for The New Republic and has also written for The Guardian and The Independent (in London), The New York Times, Salon, Movieline, Film Comment, and Sight & Sound. Rick Jacobs is a producer and manager specializing in “genre” development and the convergence of media between feature films, television, video games and print publication, with a focus on adapting projects from source material including comic books and graphic novels, video games, Asian remakes, and magazine articles. The three speakers will be interviewed on stage by Library Journal’s Barbara Hoffert.
The Auditorium Speakers Series/United for Libraries President Christine Lind Hage's program is sponsored by Macmillan and Random House. A book signing will follow the presentation (books subject to availability).
Joshua Davis, David
Thomson, Rick Jacobs
Auditorium Speakers
Monday, June 29, 8:30 a.m.
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