Prison “Letters”: Fiction as Remembrance
April 24, 2008
, 2008
6 PM
to 7:30 PM
Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture
2719 Routh Street, Dallas
Age Limit
All ages
$25 - $85
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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Places to eat:
Drink Specials:
- Uptown Pub: 4 pm - 7 pm: $1 off domestics, $2.50 drafts, $3 wells
- The Library Bar: 4 pm - 7 pm: $6 margaritas, $6 Tequila Sunrises and $6 Tequila Mockingbirds / 7:30 pm - 9 pm: $3 champagne, $3 domestic beer and $4 imported beers
- Cru Wine Bar: 2 pm - 12 am: 1/2 off bottles of champagne
- Dragonfly: 5 pm - 7 pm: $5 specialty cocktails, wine and martinis
- Sambuca: 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
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