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  • 10 WESTERN CAROLINIAN GET A LIFE November 3,1999 Militia Member/Novelist Carolyn Chute to Read at WCU by Dr. Mary F. Adams WCU English Professor Carolyn Chute, militia member and noted author, will read from her fiction on Thursday, November 11, at 7:30 pm in the Grand Room in WCU's University Center. Chute is the acclaimed author of such novels as The Beans of Egypt, Maine, (1984) which was made into a 1999 film directed by Jennifer Warren and starring Rutger Hauer and Martha Plimpton. She is also the author of Le Tourneau 's Used Auto Parts (1989), Merry Men (1994), and The Snow Man (1999). Chute is a noted activist for the empowerment of the working class and they become very fragile, vulnerable." It is a life in which, for women, children are the only solace. "You hate to get up every day. The more horrible the factory, the more you are drawn to the children's beauty. And you have control over them." Today, Chute leads the Second Maine Militia, a crusade to help Maine's poor escape domination by big-money interests. This "no-wing" militia eschews both the Carolyn Chute Reading DATE: November 11 TIME: 7:30 pm COST: $5 adults $3 children & non-WCU students FREE for WCU students with ID whose works deal with the struggles . LOCATION: University Center Grand Room of New England's rural poor. Her \^ own background of poverty, deprivation, and hard work is reflected in each of her novels. In a January 13, 1985, New York Times interview following her best-selling The Beans of Egypt, Maine, Chute said, "I want whoever reads my book to care about the working poor. Either people blame all the country's ills on them or they don't see them." She examines the plight of both men and women in poverty: "Many of the men I know around here who work for a minimum wage - their masculinity is at stake politics of the right wing and what Chute calls the 'arrogance' of the left wing. Unlike the more militant Militia, led by Mack Page in Belfast, Chute's group is inclusive. "We welcome everybody. I mean everybody," she said in a 1997 Boston Herald interview. "Our goal is to get the faceless financiers and corporations out of our government." The group's first assault was held last year, when about 150 people stormed the Maine Statehouse with a document demanding that the lobbyists leave. "If vot- Last Minute Productions Presents The Steamboat Springs Colorado Ski Trip January 1-10, 2000 Student; $350 Fatuity/Staff: $425 Reserve space loday. $100 deposit due at sign-up. Sign-up an the 2nd Hoar of the UC at the Information desk* Price includes food and lodging irt Steamboat Springs ar»d transportation by vain from Cullowhee, The lodge is a srtaizy* large, duplex, complete With d full kitchen, washer, dryer, cable TV, VCR,"ifd storage, hot tub, and most importantly It is only a short walk to the lifts. Call 7206 or 747® for more Information, Check us out on the web at www.wcu.edu/sfudenthomepage.html ing could accomplish anything, it'd be illegal," Chute said. The difference between the idealized Maine of tourists and that of its rural poor is graphically spelled out by Carolyn Chute in her book, The Beans of Egypt, Maine, a novel about the anger and hopelessness that come from being poor and isolated. A January 28, 1985, Associated Press article called Egypt, Maine, "a mythical land of tar paper shacks and deteriorating mobile homes. Beal Bean and Earlene Pomerleau are too poor to hook up the phone or fix the car that might link them to the safety nets of the outside world ... [the] book is not a realistic portrait of rural Maine because too many things happen in it." "The thing about real poverty," said Chute, "is that real poverty is really boring." In 1988, The Washington Post called Chute's second novel, Le Tourneau's Used Auto Parts, "very moving, very funny and, ultimately, very brave." The plot has to do with the problems of desperate people living in trailer camps. "It moves," says the Post, "with an eloquent camera-eye fluidity across the junkyard underbelly of this Egypt, Maine. It is vivid, and it is various, and one does, despite the distance imposed by its capricious structure, come to care about its people. The narrative is jerky, but nowhere is the style anything less than brilliant." "Egypt," writes Roz Spafford in a 1994 San Francisco Chronicle review, "is suffering from the malady of small towns all over America: recession, plant closures, real estate coups, the evaporation of logging and farming... Chute's gift is in showing how poverty feels, how a life of physical labor feels... [It is] an immensely complicated book, told in an extraordinary mixture of local and lyric voices. And all of the stories layered upon stories finally come together in a climax so unsettling and improbable that it feels just like life." Carolyn Chute's reading is sponsored by the Lectures, Concerts, and Exhibitions Series, in conjunction with the Visiting Writers Series. 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