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Description: The Claire T. Carney Library Associates at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth proudly presents an afternoon of literature and music featuring four authors and a chanteuse on Sunday, December 10th at 2 PM in the recital hall, room 153 in the College of Visual and Performing Arts building on the UMass Dartmouth campus. Featured speakers include Jonathan Brickman, James E. Marlow, Laurie Robertson-Lorant and Brian Glyn Williams. The musical performance will be presented by a young and talented opera singer, Yohji Cantar Daquio.

Jonathan Brickman is a multi-talented publisher, editor, author and playwright. His career in publishing spans more than 50 years in newspapers from small weekly publications to a financial journal on Wall Street. His experience is encompassed in his novel, The Last Deadline, a story of journalist battles of truth and power. He is the recipient of the first prize Community Service Award from the National Newspaper Association. Now retired, Mr. Brickman is dabbling in playwriting. This past fall, his play, Trumpeting in Shakespeare, appeared off Broadway.

Yohji Cantar Daquio arrived in America from the Philippines in 2013. Singing has defined her life since she was a toddler. Currently, she is a freshman at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Yohji has performed in operas, musicals and in many voice recitals and competitions. She has been a soloist at Carnegie Hall with the HaZamir Youth Jewish choir and has won first place in her division of classical singing four years running at the annual Songfest sponsored by the Rhode Island chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Last year she won first place in the New England region of the Schmidt Vocal Competition at the New England Conservatory.

James E. Marlow was born and raised in Aberdeen, South Dakota. His love of literature was instilled in him by his mother, brother and his teacher, Miss Grace Baker. He attended Dartmouth College and, in his senior year, was named class poet. After a stint in the Army, he earned a PhD from the University of California at Davis. He taught in the English department for forty years at UMass Dartmouth. Dr. Marlow has published a book on Dickens as well as articles on Dickens, the Victorian period and semiotics. His latest book is Once We Were Sioux: Growing Up Dakotan.

Dr. Laurie Robertson-Lorant is a teacher and a writer. She has taught at Berkshire Community College, St. Mark's School, School Year Abroad France, MIT, Bridgewater State University and as a full-time lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Dr. Robertson-Lorant has published and presented papers on Herman Melville in the U.S., Europe and Mexico and has designed and directed an NEH Summer Institute for Teachers on Melville and Multiculturalism. She is the author of Melville: A Biography and The Man Who Lived Among the Cannibals: Poems in the Voice of Herman Melville.

Brian Glyn Williams has a PhD. In Central Asian Islamic history and is a full professor of Islamic history at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He formerly taught Muslim history at the prestigious University of London. Dr. Williams has traveled extensively in Afghanistan tracking suicide bombers for the CIA's Counter Terrorism Center and doing Psychological Operations for the U.S. Army's secretive Joint Information Operations Warfare Command. He has written Counter Jihad, The Last Warlord, Inferno in Chechnya, Afghanistan Declassified and Predators.

A Q&A, book-signing and refreshments will follow the talk. For more information please contact Maria Sanguinetti at msanguinetti@umassd.edu or by calling 508-991-5096.