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Deep Dish Book Selection: "Last One In" by Nicholas Kulish
CHAPEL HILL – The Deep Dish Theater Company will host an informal discussion of Nicholas Kulish’s satirical novel “Last One In” on Thursday, September 13 at 6:30 p.m. Presented in conjunction with the theater’s production of “How I Got That Story,” which will be performed that evening at 8 p.m., the talk will take place in Tyndall Galleries in University Mall. The discussion will be led by Drs. Evelyn Daniel and David Carr and is free and open to the public.
“Last One In" chronicles a New York gossip columnist’s most unlikely assignment - embedded with a Marine unit during the Iraq invasion in 2003. Author Kulish, an editorial writer for the New York Times who has written for the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, spent several months in 2003 embedded with just such a unit in Iraq, where, and despite growing up in a military family, he often felt as much a fish out of water as his novel’s main character. Christopher Buckley, writing in the New York Times, called "Last One In" "a very good book: funny, harrowing and sympathetic."
Dr. Daniel and Dr. Carr both teach and do research in the School of Information and Library Science at UNC-CH. For the Deep Dish Theater, they have led discussions of such books as Julian Barnes’ “Arthur and George,” Saul Bellow’s “Mr. Sammler’s Planet,” Barbara Ehrenreich’s “Nickel and Dimed,” and Ernest J. Gaines’ “A Lesson Before Dying.” Dr. Carr has also read and selected stories for the theater’s Short Story evenings.
The Deep Dish Theater Company’s production of “How I Got That Story,” a dark comedy about another embedded war reporter, will be presented from Thursday, August 23, through Saturday, September 15. For reservations and information, please call 968-1515.
Deep Dish Theater Company is located in Chapel Hill’s University Mall, located on Estes Drive and US 15-501. Thursday performances begin at 7:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday performances begin at 8 p.m.; and Sunday matinees begin at 2 p.m. There will also be a special Wednesday show at 7:30 on September 12. Tickets for all performances are $16, $14 for seniors, and $12 for students.
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