Towles, who spent the past decade living the double life of an investment professional by day and a writer and father by night, will discuss his first novel, “Rules of Civility.” Set in 1937 on New Year’s Eve, the story opens with heroine Katey Kontent and her boarding house roommates, all hoping for a better future. As the group stretches its last few dollars in a Greenwich Village jazz club for the evening, they meet Theodore “Tinker” Grey in a chance encounter that changes the girls’ station in life and tests their social mores.
Towles commented, “There are authors who gain creative strength from drawing on their own experience, but I find that I gain artistic strength from putting myself in a different set of shoes.”
DCCCD also is one of several co-sponsors for the second annual summer BooksmART Festival in June. The free, one-day event will offer families and children of all ages a chance to celebrate literature and the arts. The day will feature authors, artists, illustrators, workshops, music, gallery tours, story time, games and activities at the Dallas Museum of Art. Visit http://www.DallasMuseumofArt.org/ALL for details.
Other authors visiting in late February for the Arts & Letters Live series are:
- Jeffrey Eugenides, author the “The Virgin Suicides,” “Middlesex” and “The Marriage Plot” (his latest), will speak on Friday, Feb. 24, at 7:30 p.m., Horchow Auditorium; and
- Chip Kidd, American master of contemporary book design, will discuss “The Art of the Book” on Monday, Feb. 27, at 7:30 p.m., Horchow Auditorium.
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Press contact: Ann Hatch
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