Tuesday, August 02, 2011

UNC Wilmington associate computer science professor Laurie Patterson and creative writing professor Phil Furia will discuss their book The Songs of Hollywood (Oxford University Press, 2010) on Monday, Aug. 8 as guests of Prologue, the StarNews/WHQR book club. The book traces the history of song in musical and dramatic film, highlighting certain songs that Hollywood made famous. Furia is also an arts contributor at WHQR and hosts The Great American Songbook.

All Prologue meetings are held at 7 p.m. on the third floor of the WHQR gallery space, located at 254 N. Front Street in downtown Wilmington. Free and open to all with light refreshments available.

Creative writing faculty professors David Gessner and Clyde Edgerton are scheduled as Prologue guests on Sept. 12 and Nov. 14, respectively. Book club facilitator Ben Steelman of the Wilmington StarNews says, "As long as the campus remains such a lively and intellectually exciting place, I suspect we'll be inviting more for many years to come."