Thursday, October 28, 3-4 pm,  Thompson Library (Rm 202)

 Mark Boarman and Wes Boomgaarden, both from University Libraries, will present Halloween theme readings.  Mark will read Franz Schubert’s Erlkönig.  The Erlkönig, besides being a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, is depicted in German poems and ballads as a malevolent creature that haunts forests and carries off travelers to their deaths. 

Wes’ presentation will feature, but briefly, the overly complex and overwrought prose of Edward Bulwer Lytton - the originator of the opening line "It was a dark and stormy night..."  This Victorian man of letters was once nearly as popular as Dickens, but now is widely parodied by many, and especially by the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest http://www.bulwer-lytton.com.  Readings from Contest entries -"Where 'WWW' means 'Wretched Writers Welcome'" - will be the main event.