University Beat: Festival of Reading (October 5, 2009)

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Festival of Reading

Over fifty authors, including a number of Pulitzer Prize winners, will be coming to USF Saint Petersburg Saturday, October 24, for the Seventeenth Annual Saint Petersburg Times "Festival of Reading." This week's University Beat on WUSF TV takes a look at some of the writers who'll be meeting the public and talking about their latest works.

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Festival of Reading

This week's University Beat on WUSF 89.7 FM brings you a preview of the Saint Petersburg Times "Festival of Reading" and introduces you to a pair of USF faculty members who will be presenting their new books there.

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St. Petersburg Times book editor Colette Bancroft talks about the large number of Pulitzer Prize winners, as well as Times' staffers, who will be appearing at the Festival of Reading.

Ms. Bancroft says some of the other authors appearing at the Festival come from the worlds of politics, acting, music and the news media.

USF St. Pete Assoc. Prof. of Art History Sheramy Bundrick talks about her research for her book, "Sunflowers: A Novel of Vincent van Gogh," and reads a passage from it.

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Colette Bancroft & Professor Tony Silvia, Director of USF St. Pete's Dept. of Journalism & Media Studies, say that, in spite of the economy, both the newspaper and the community need the Festival.

Professor Silvia talks about his book, "Fathers and Sons in Baseball Broadcasting," and reads a passage from it.

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Sheramy Bundrick's "Sunflowers: A Novel of Vincent van Gogh"

Tony Silvia's "Fathers and Sons in Baseball Broadcasting"

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In addition to the Festival, Sheramy Bundrick will be signing her book "Sunflowers: A Novel of Vincent van Gogh," October 15 at 4:00 PM at the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library at USF St. Petersburg.

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