For Andrew McCarthy, author of The Longest Way Home Honolulu, Hawaii is near and dear to his heart. As a longtime resident, Andrew’s knowledge for all things local is highlighted as part of the “Intelligent Travel” feature of this week’s National Geographic.
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Ted Kavich, program and educational services manager for Fairfax County Library, takes All Fairfax Reads in a new and exciting direction!
BIC: The Fairfax Reads program was recently transitioned into a Book Club Conference model. What made you decide to make this switch, and how has the experience been so far?
TK: Actually, September’s Book Club Conference was just one of the new directions we hope to explore in the coming months/years. There are so many cool, “outside the box” kinds of events we’d like to coordinate, and of course our time and resources are limited. Thus, All Fairfax Reads (a successful program series for sure) was retired so we could move forward with some new and innovative types of events. The Book Club Conference was an amazing start to this effort – a hugely successful event with great turnout (250 attendees, our max capacity due to venue size), completely positive feedback, and an excellent keynote speaker (Will Schwalbe). We are so glad we reached out to book club members in our community – they came out in force to support an event geared to their interests and needs.
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Speaking with one of his favorite writers Paul Theroux, Andrew McCarthy, author of The Longest Way Home, talks candidly about the craft of travel writing, and the big difference between traveling and vacationing. Both men are avid journey-takers, and their definitions of what it means to be in a foreign place shed light on their work. When Andrew McCarthy asked Paul Theroux how he felt about traveling, Paul replied, “When I’m traveling, I feel small. You see how big the world is, how small you are, how you don’t really matter, how you can’t effect much change, you can’t bring something back.” Check out the wonderful interview here.
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In the last decade, common reading programs have become a mainstay for library programming, literary organizations, and college campuses. The rise in First Year Experience, Freshman Reads, and All Campus Reads programs seems to correspond to the decline of core curricula in higher education — as colleges distance themselves from core curricula they find that students still need to have something in common academically. Books in common type programs on campuses have been a convenient answer to that need.
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Andrew Mcarthy, NYT best-selling author of The Longest Way Home, thrilled audiences in Pekin, Illinois last week. As he walked through the room of nearly 150 people – most of them women – they burst into applause. “I haven’t done anything yet!” cried Andrew McCarthy. Though by the end of the night, Pekin library patrons thought he’d done plenty. Andrew McCarthy talked about the “parallel life” he’s had for the past 10 years working as what he called an “accidental travel writer” and said his book The Longest Road Home came about as he was leaving for another trip shortly after he and his then-fiancee decided to get serious about making their union permanent. One of the most memorable moments in the evening, according to audience members, was when Andrew spoke about traveling with his children. “My goal as a parent it to make them mini-citizens of the world,” he said.
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Andrew McCarthy, NYT best-selling author of The Longest Way Home, recently joined “Fox & Friends” hosts Gretchen Carlson and Steve Doocy to discuss the memoir that chronicles the actor’s quest to settle down. Check out the video to see fascinating photos of Andrew’s travels, hear details of his most recent wanderings (like finding the perfect […]
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This April, New York Times bestselling author Andrew McCarthy visited the Laramie Public Library. Read More »
Andrew McCarthy, author of the New York Times bestselling memoir The Longest Way Home, wowed attendees of the Arapahoe Library District’s spring author event. Read More »
Andrew McCarthy returned to his roots this March by visiting Metuchen, near his childhood home of Westfield. The travel writer and actor is known both for his memoir The Longest Way Home: One Man’s Quest for the Courage to Settle Down and such movies as Pretty in Pink. Find out more here. At the Metuchen […]
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