Carpenter ants and woodboring beetle larvae are the primary diet of Pileated Woodpeckers and the answer to one of the library scavenger hunt questions.![woodpecker](http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/ev_pileated.jpg" width="175" height="112 "woodpecker")
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George Saunders to read at BMC
MacArthur “genius” fellow and frequent New Yorker contributor George Saunders will read from his work at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 9, in Ely Room at the Wyndham Alumnae House as part of the Creative Writing Program Reading Series.
In addition to The New Yorker, Saunders’ work regularly appears in Harper’s , McSweeney’s, and GQ.
His short story collection, In Persuasion Nation, was a finalist for the 2007 The Story Prize. His other books and collections include CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Pastoralia, and The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip.
His latest book, 2007’s The Braindead Megaphone, was called “a Mark Twain-syle shot in the arm for Americans, an antidote to the dumbing-down virus plaguing our country,” by Vanity Fair.
Library Suggestion Book Online!
Want the library to buy a certain DVD? Love the new rug? Post your questions, thoughts, and purchase suggestions as comments here, and you'll get an answer from a librarian. Or just read what others have to say. We want to know what you think!
Want to take a look at the last page? It's available here!
Get news from the Middle East - translated and fast!
The Tri-College Libraries would like to remind you of our subscription to Mideastwire.com, a great resource for current translated news from the Middle East.
Mideastwire started over four and half years ago as a service providing daily briefs translated into English from the Arabic and Persian media - these include all of the top newspapers and some satellite TV. Mideastwire does about 25 briefs each business day covering opinion, business, political and society/cultural pieces that appear in these various media outlets. Each brief also contains precisely translated quotes, statistics and context.
In addition Mideastwire has a searchable database of over 30,000 archived items on their website, making them ideally suited for researchers, journalists, policy makers, advocates etc.
For off campus access, send your university affiliated email address to info@mideastwire.com and they will activate your account.
And for access to more information resources for Middle Eastern Studies, see the library's Subject Portal page on the subject!
Marilyn Nelson to Read at BMC
Marilyn Nelson
Thursday, Oct. 29
7:30 p.m., Ely Room, Wyndham
Poet, translator, and three-time National Book Award finalist Marilyn Nelson is the author of twelve books, including The Homeplace, The Fields Of Praise: New And Selected Poems, Carver: A Life In Poems (a Newbery Honor Book), Fortune’s Bones, A Wreath For Emmett Till, and The Cachoiera Tales And Other Poems (finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award).
Poet Joyce S. Brown writes, “She is moral, loving, visionary … Reading her work is as much a lesson in history and in human nature as it is a lesson in poetry.”
This reading is made possible by the Jane Flanders Fund and the Marianne Moore Fund for the Study of Poetry.
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