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Long Island Reads Sag Harbor
LML Director Peter Ward rounds up the best reads. This week he presents Sag Harbor, the 2011 Long Island Reads selection.
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Then welcome once again to Lindenhurst Patch’s . Twice a month the Lindenhurst Memorial Library (LML) will search its extensive collection, consult the bestseller lists and provide a list of good reads designed to pique your interest.
This week LML Director Peter Ward talks about Colson Whitehead's Sag Harbor and Long Island Reads.
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Colson Whitehead read a selection from his book Sag Harbor at Rogers Memorial Library on April 14, the Long Island Reads selection for 2011.
Take a listen at the Lindenhurst Memorial Library's YouTube channel. A podcast of Whitehead's reading has been uploaded for Lindenhurst residents, book lovers and library patrons to hear.
Long Island Reads is an island-wide reading initiative that began in 2002. It's sponsored by the Nassau Library System and supported by Suffolk County Public Libraries and the Suffolk Cooperative Library System.
Each April, during National Library Week, book lovers in Nassau and Suffolk counties – including those in Lindenhurst – come together to read the same book, participate in discussions of the selection and enjoy related events in their public libraries, according to the Long Island Reads website.
Whitehead's Sag Harbor takes place in Sag Harbor, a small village in the exclusive Hampton Beaches of New York's Long Island. The novel's main character is Benji, an African American teenager spending the summer in a black enclave of this predominately white and close-knit town along with his brother Reggie. Set in 1985, the novel balances themes of race, class and commercial culture.
It was published in 2009, and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner award.
Whitehead, a Harvard graduate and former writer for the Village Voice, has been writing novels since 1999. His first novel was The Intuitionist, which concerned intrigue in the Department of Elevator Inspectors, was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway and a winner of the Quality Paperback Book Club's New Voices Award.
You can search for and reserve this book online at the LML website, and check it out at the library at One Lee Avenue.
