This room is in the building where I first met Charles Novacek in 1996 — Cromaine District Library where I was the library director for 21 years. We had spoken on the phone, but virtually didn’t know each other. One morning Charles surprised me and drove 60 miles from downtown Detroit to meet me in person at …
“This painting is part of a series on war I am painting as I work on my memoir about my life during wartime. The tragic past I set behind me forever, and write about it only to benefit the young; perhaps they could learn from it and avoid another war.” Ten 21 Press in Detroit, …
Cromaine Library, original wing, c.1927 Nearly eighteen years ago I met Charles Novacek for the first time. It was in the original Emil Lorch designed wing of the Cromaine Library in Hartland, Michigan. We had been “matched” by two women artist friends and library patrons, Electra Stamelos and Lula Nestor. I had been the library …
Last night, for the first time, I was a Book Giver for World Book Night.* It seems an appropriate thing for a librarian of forty years to do, doesn’t it? An estimated half a million free World Book Night paperbacks were given out this year and this librarian gave out twenty. World Book Night is an annual …
I’m excited to be able to offer free copies of Border Crossings: Coming of Age in the Czech Resistance by Charles Novacek to 25 attendees of the Public Library Association Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana from March 12-15, 2014. Just follow the simple instructions on the flyer posted below and you’ll win the book for …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sandra Novacek, Proprietor of 1021 Press, Detroit, MI will sign copies of her late husband Charles Novacek’s book Border Crossings: Coming of Age in the Czech Resistance at The Next Chapter Bookstore & Bistro on Saturday, March 8, 2014 from 10:00 am – 11:30 am. DETROIT, Mich., March 4, 2014 — Meet …
