A New Book Group at EPL Features True Stories & Real People
The Evanston Public Library starts a new book group, Keepingitreal, featuring true stories and real people. The top three selling Kindle books of 2011, according to Amazon, were Steve Jobs, Bossypants and A Stolen Life. At the Academy Awards, the movie Moneyball was nominated for not only Best Actor, Supporting Actor and Best Screenplay, but Best Picture as well. What do all of these have in common? They are all true stories.
Keepinitreal is a non-fiction book club is the first of its kind in Evanston. Drawing only from non-fiction material, Keepinitreal will introduce Evanston residents to the wonderful world of real life. Too good to be true? Never. With books about art forgeries that read like fast-paced thrillers and the books behind movies that most people never knew were true, Keepinitreal keeps it fresh with an interesting selection of themes.
Meeting the last Tuesday night of the month starting April 24, this book club will start with Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art. Written by a husband and wife investigative team, the book raises critical questions about aesthetics, art, money, and the cost of culture.
The group will meet at the Evanston Public Library’s West Conference Room on the 3rd floor. Contact Kim Hiltwein at 847/448-8621 or khiltwein@cityofevanston.org to reserve your copy of the book. For more information, please visit the “keepinitrealevanston” blog at http://keepinitrealevanston.wordpress.com/.