Prison “Letters”: Fiction as Remembrance

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Two works of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Fyodor Dostoevsky, written after the Russian writers were political prisoners, will be explored during a four-evening series entitled Prison “Letters”: Fiction as Remembrance at The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture.

Led by Dr. Claudia Allums, associate director of The Dallas Institute, the sessions are scheduled for 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. on four Thursdays – April 3, 10, 17, and 24 – at The Dallas Institute.

Tuition is $70 Members, $85 Nonmembers, and $25 Teachers. Texts are One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsyn (Signet, ISBN 0451527097) and The House of the Dead and Poor Folk by Dostoevsky (Barnes and Noble, ISBN, 1593081944). To register, call 214-871-2440.

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Some nearby drink specials on April 24th

• 650 North Restaurant: 5 pm - 7 pm: $1 off all wells, beers, house merlot, cabernet and chardonnay
• Sambuca (Dallas): 4:30 pm - 7 pm: $2 frozen Bellinis and domestic beers, $3 house wine by the glass, $4 wells, $5 martinis and $5 sushi rolls / 11 am - 3 pm: $5 martinis and $5 sushi rolls
• Avanti Restaurant Fountain Place (Dallas / Downtown): 5 pm - 7 pm: $3 martinis
• Cru Wine Bar (Dallas): 2 pm - 12 am: 1/2 off bottles of champagne
• Palomino European Bistro: 3 pm - 6 pm: $2 select liquors, $2 draft beers/ 10 pm - 11 pm: $2 select liquors, $2 draft beers

Some nearby restaurants

• Screen Door
• Pei Wei Asian Diner (Dallas / McKinney & Pearl)
• Dakota's Steakhouse
• Blackfriar Pub
• Nobu

Some nearby events on April 24th

• Michelle Shocked, House of Blues, 8 p.m.
• Van Halen (Rescheduled), American Airlines Center, 8 p.m.
• Dallas Architecture Forum - Patricia Patkau, Landmark Magnolia Theater and Bar, 7 p.m.
• Bobby B, Sambuca (Dallas), 7:30 p.m.
• Dallas ISD Board of Trustees Meeting, Dallas ISD Administration Building, 5:30 p.m.

Event posted March 18, 2008
Last updated March 18, 2008