<head><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style></head><body><br><blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid"><camforum@earthlink.net><director@cambridgeforum.org><zzzhead><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style></zzzhead><zzzbody><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif">Cambridge Forum<br> 3 Church Street ● Cambridge, MA 02138<br>617-495-2727<br>email: director@cambridgeforum.org<br>cambridgeforum.org<br><br>Release November 9, 2011<br> <br><br>SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES<br><br>On December 7 at 7:00 p.m. Concord author, Gregory Maquire, joins Cambridge Forum discussing his new book, Out of Oz. With the publication of the last and final volume of the Wicked Years series, he looks back on his own journey of imagination.<br><br>What is its like to step into another writer’s story and re-imagine it from the inside out? What are the satisfactions in re-imagining a beloved tale? Are there ethical considerations: when does re-telling become plagiarism?<br><br>Gregory Maguire is the author of six novels for adults and more than a dozen novels for children. His adult novels, all published by HarperCollins, are Wicked (1995), praised by John Updike in the New Yorker as “an amazing novel; Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (1999); Lost (2001); Mirror Mirror (2003); Son of a Witch (2005) and A Lion Among Men (2008). Wicked was developed into a big-budget Broadway musical. His children’s novels include The Hamlet Chronicles, a seven book series, comprised of Seven Spiders Spinning, Six Haunted Hairdos, Five Alien Elves, Three Rotten Eggs, A Couple of April Fools and One Final Firecracker. Through he is best know as a fantasy writer, Maguire has written picture books, science fiction and historical fiction.<br><br>For the Sunday New York Times Book Review Maguire has published signal reviews of significant fantasies by J.K. Rowling, Phillip Pullman, and Maurice Stendak. Maguire has been the recipient of several awards and fellowships, including residencies at the Hambidge center, Geogia and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference in Vermont. Since 1986 he has been co-director and founding board member of Children’s Literature New England, Incorporated, a nonprofit that focuses of the significance of literature in the lives of children.<br><br>Copies of Out of Oz and other volumes in the Wicked Years Series will be available for purchase and signing courtesy of the Harvard Book Store.<br><br>Cambridge Forum is recorded and edited for public radio broadcast. Edited CDs are available to the public by contacting 617-495-2727. Select forums can be viewed in their entirety on demand by visiting our website at cambridgeforum.org and clicking on the Forum Network at WGBH. <br></font></font></font></zzzbody><pre>
Cambridge Forum
3 Church Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617-495-2727
email: mailto:director@cambridgeforum.org
website: http://www.cambridgeforum.org
"Bringing People together to talk again . . ."
</pre>
</director@cambridgeforum.org></camforum@earthlink.net></blockquote></body><pre>
Cambridge Forum
3 Church Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617-495-2727
email: mailto:director@cambridgeforum.org
website: http://www.cambridgeforum.org
"Bringing People together to talk again . . ."
</pre>