The State Theatre Blog

This is a blog dedicated to keeping you updated on all that is The State Theatre of downtown State College, PA. On this blog you will find info on the concerts, films, and other special events that are upcoming at The State. This site will be focused on bringing more info on the events than you can normally find at The State's regular homepage. We will be posting videos, reviews, and more overall info than you can find anywhere else.

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Monday, April 13, 2009

Friday 4/17: Community Read 2009: Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

This Friday 4/17 at 7:00 PM The State is offering a FREE reading with Author Marilynne Robinson. All the information about the reading is found below. Hope to see you there

Presented by the Penn State Center for American Literary Studies, in partnership with the English Department and the Institute for the Arts and Humanities

Following a number of discussion sessions of the novel throughout the spring semester, author Marilynne Robinson will give a public lecture about her award-winning novel Housekeeping. The story is set in Fingerbone, Idaho, sometime in the last 100 years. To say that it is about two weird sisters in a lake town only begins to suggest the novel's haunting, lyrical pleasures. In Housekeeping we see the movement of three generations of women in and around sod houses, glacial lakes, trains, and automobiles. The story has an unexpected brutalism, one that captures modernity's effects on the obscure corners of North America: individuals can too easily lose themselves, or become transient, in modern society.
The full calendar of events, including all discussion sessions leading up to "An Evening with Marilynne Robinson," can be found at http://www.cals.psu.edu/events/community-read-09.shtml. Please contact Hester Blum at hester.blum@psu.edu or 865-0011 for more information.


THIS IS A FREE EVENT AND TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE STATE THEATRE BOX OFFICE ONLY!
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