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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=tstephan@neo.rr.com href="mailto:tstephan@neo.rr.com">Tom Stephan</A>
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<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=neohiopal@listserve.com
href="mailto:neohiopal@listserve.com">neohiopal@listserve.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, September 30, 2008 9:41 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [NEohioPAL] BookTalks</DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Local author Mark Dawidziak keeping
company with Dracula<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><![if !supportEmptyParas]><![endif]> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Cuyahoga Falls resident Mark Dawidziak, the
television critic at the <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Cleveland Plain Dealer,</SPAN></I> will be giving a
series of talks in the area about his 11<SUP>th</SUP> book, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">The
Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Dracula</SPAN></I>, just released
by New York publisher Continuum. Among the places he’ll also be signing copies
of the book are the Akron Woman’s City Club, Border’s Books in Cuyahoga Falls,
the Nordonia Hills Branch Library and the Cuyahoga Falls
Library.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">This <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Bedside,
Bathtub & Armchair Companion</SPAN></I> to the world’s most famous vampire
looks at all aspects of the Dracula phenomenon in often unexpected ways.
Illustrated with dozens of photographs, sketches and maps, the painstakingly
researched book includes entries on the psychological and sociological
implications of the novel and the stage plays; the movies; television
versions; actors, and, of course, the historical Dracula, Vlad the
Impaler.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">“So many books have been written about
<I><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Dracula -- </SPAN></I>analytical academic
tomes, pithy trivia lists, coffee table beauties -- that my shelves groan under
their weight,” wrote <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Rue Morgue </SPAN></I>magazine. “So why would anyone
need yet another one detailing Bram Stoker's life, novel, all the stage, film
and television adaptations, the legacy of the Count from Aurora models to cereal
boxes? In the case of Mark Dawidziak's latest, it's so you don't have to read
all the rest.”</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Published in 1897, Bram Stoker’s <I><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Dracula </SPAN></I>was the last of the nineteenth
century’s three major horror stories. It followed Mary Shelley’s <I><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Frankenstein </SPAN></I>and Robert Louis Stevenson’s
<I><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde</SPAN></I>, but Stoker’s novel had the greater impact on our culture and
our nightmares. Count Dracula has been called the king of the vampires, but, in
truth, he is the king of all the monsters, and his influence can be seen
everywhere today: in everything from the number-obsessed count on <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Sesame
Street</SPAN></I> to the vast fandom for vampire novels appealing to all
ages.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">“Corny pun ahead: If you're at all into
vampire lit, you'll wanna sink your teeth into it,” <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Bookgasm
</SPAN></I>said of Dawidziak’s <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Companion to Dracula. </SPAN></I>“It helps when an
author like Dawidziak harbors enormous enthusiasm for the subject, because it's
infectious.”</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> “So you think you know all there is
to know about Bram Stoker’s <I><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Dracula?
</SPAN></I>Mark Dawidziak knows more,” raved Zacherley's Review!
(zacherley.com). “If you can’t get your fill on Dracula after reading this book
you're already undead.”</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Mark Dawidziak has been the television
critic at the <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Cleveland Plain Dealer</SPAN></I> since July 1999.
During his fifteen years at the <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Akron Beacon Journal</SPAN></I>, he held such posts
as TV columnist, movie critic and critic-at-large. Also an author and
playwright, his many books include the 1994 horror novel <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Grave
Secrets</SPAN></I> and two histories of landmark TV series: <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">The Columbo
Phile: A Casebook </SPAN></I>(1989) and <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">The Night
Stalker Companion </SPAN></I>(1997). A recognized Mark Twain scholar, his
acclaimed books on the author include <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Mark My
Words: Mark Twain on Writing</SPAN></I> (1996) and <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Horton
Foote’s The Shape of the River: The Lost Teleplay About Mark Twain
</SPAN></I>(2003). </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">He is currently collaborating with Paul
Bauer on <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Broken Shadows, </SPAN></I>a biography of “hobo
writer” Jim Tully, a</SPAN></FONT><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Courier New'"> forgotten author hailed as
“America’s Gorky” and as a literary superstar in the ’20s and ’30s. </SPAN>It
will be published in 2010 by the Kent State University Press.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Courier New'">Dawidziak and his
wife,</SPAN> actress Sara Showman, founded the Largely Literary Theater Company
in 2002. Dedicated to promoting literacy and literature, the company has staged
his three-person version of Charles Dickens’ <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">A Christmas
Carol, The Tell-Tale Play </SPAN></I>(poems and stories by Edgar Allan Poe)<I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">
</SPAN></I>and his two-act play based on sketches by Mark Twain, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">The Reports
of My Death Are Greatly Exaggerated</SPAN></I>. In addition to directing the
Largely Literary plays, he portrays Twain and Dickens. He lives in Cuyahoga
Falls, Ohio, with his wife and their daughter, Rebecca “Becky”
Claire.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">LIST BOOK TALKS AND SIGNINGS:</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoListBullet
style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; TEXT-INDENT: 0in; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Monday, September
29, 7 p.m.:<BR>North Canton Public Library, 185 North Main Street<BR>Please
register at 330-499-4712 (ext. 323 or 320)</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Thursday, October 9,
7 p.m.:<BR>Akron Woman’s City Club<BR>732 West Exchange Street<BR>Windows of the
World Film Series (dinner & movie, or just the movie)<BR><I><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Dracula </SPAN></I>(1931) film
screening<BR>Reservations: 330-762-6261</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Friday, October 10,
7-8 p.m.:<BR>Border’s Books<BR>335 Howe Avenue<BR>Cuyahoga
Falls<BR>330-945-7683</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Saturday, October
18, 11 a.m.-4p.m.:<BR>GhoulardiFest<BR>Holiday Inn, Cleveland/South<BR>Rockside
Road, Independence</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Thursday, October
23, 7 p.m.:<BR>Nordonia Hills Branch Library<BR>9458 Olde Eight
Road<BR>Northfield<BR>330-467-8595</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Monday, October 27,
7 p.m.:<BR>Cuyahoga Falls Library<BR>2015 Third Street<BR>Cuyahoga
Falls<BR>330-928-2117</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Tuesday, October 28,
1 p.m.:<BR>Akron Woman’s City Club<BR>732 West Exchange Street<BR>Book talk
after luncheon</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Thursday,
October 30, 7 p.m.:<BR>Joseph-Beth Booksellers <BR>Legacy
Village<BR>Lyndurst<BR>216-691-7000 </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Saturday, Nov. 1,
9:30 a.m.-4p.m.:<BR>Buckeye Book Fair<BR>Fisher Auditorium<BR>OARDC
Campus<BR>Wooster<BR><A
href="http://www.buckeyebookfair.com/">www.buckeyebookfair.com/</A></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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