Capital University To Present an Evening with Dennis Lehane

Oct 09, 2014—7:30 PM to

Location: Mees Hall on Capital’s Bexley campus, 1 College and Main, Columbus, Ohio (get directions)

COLUMBUS, Ohio—Capital University’s prestigious Gerhold Lecture in the Humanities will extend its slate of acclaimed writers this year with An Evening with Dennis Lehane, award-winning novelist and screenwriter, on Thursday, October 9, in Mees Hall on Capital’s Bexley campus, 1 College and Main.

The event is free and open to the public. No tickets are required. Lehane will speak at 7:30 pm, and a book-signing will follow. Get directions to Capital and view a campus map. Capital students and faculty will be treated to a more intimate conversation and question/answer session from 3 to 4 pm in the Bridge of Learning, located in Learning Center room 206.

Lehane’s visit to Capital University coincides with the release of The Drop, his latest novel set to publish September 2, and the basis of the major motion picture from Fox Searchlight Picture. The film, which will hit theaters September 12, is directed by Michaël Roskam, with screenplay by Lehane, and starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, and the late James Gandolfini.
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Small Mercies

In the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessy is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors. Mary Pat has lived her entire life in the housing projects of “Southie,” the Irish American enclave that stubbornly adheres to old tradition and stands proudly apart.

One night Mary Pat’s teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn’t come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances.

The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched—asking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, and the men who work for him, men who don’t take kindly to any threat to their business.

Set against the hot, tumultuous months when the city’s desegregation of its public schools exploded in violence, Small Mercies is a superb thriller, a brutal depiction of criminality and power, and an unflinching portrait of the dark heart of American racism. It is a mesmerizing and wrenching work that only Dennis Lehane could write.