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Friday November 12, 7pm – Fiction Zelda Lockhart author of Fifth Born 2: The Hundredth Turtle Ms. Lockhart is the Piedmont Laureate for Literature in North Carolina. Her award winning novels Fifth Born and Cold Running Creek have won awards from the Zora Neale Hurston Richard Wright Legacy Foundation, from the Black Caucus of the …
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Monday November 8, 7pm – Fiction Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall author of Ghosted ($15.95 Soft Skull Press) Growing up, Mason Dubisee had a hundred future selves: Jedi. Cowboy. Jedi-cowboy. Explorer. Rock star. Sandinista-Gandhi-Hemingway-Indiana-Jones type thing. But at thirty, he must finally face the truth: He’s a drug-addled drifter, an aspiring novelist unable to move beyond lists of …
Wednesday, November 3, 7pm – Poetry Four Way Press Presents Tom Healy & Monica Youn Tom Healy author of What the Right Hand Knows ($15.95 Four Way) Tom Healy lives in New York and Miami. His poems and essays have appeared in BOMB, The Paris Review, Salmagundi, Tin House, The Yale Review, and other journals. …
Sunday, October 31, 7pm – Graphic Novel & Halloween Party Louis J. Pecsi author of Nosferatu: The Untold Story (Graphic Novel) Free book to best Vampire costume – Refreshments Screening of the original Nosferatu movie at 8:30pm Illustrated with over 300 full-color paintings, this visually exciting graphic novel will change the reader’s perception of vampyres. …
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Thursday, November 11, 7pm – Fiction Solomon Jones author of The Last Confession ($24.99 Minotaur Books) Having come of age on the mob-controlled streets of 1960’s South Philly, Detective Mike Coletti learned early to walk the fine line between cops and criminals. That skill served him well during his thirty-one years in homicide. But it …
Friday November 19, 7pm – Poetry & Prose Linh Dinh & Ocean Vuong Linh Dinh author of Love Like Hate: A Novel ($16.95 Seven Stories Press) Protagonists Kim Lan and Hoang Long marry in Saigon during the Vietnam War, uniting in a setting that allows Linh Dinh’s dark, deadpan humor to flourish. A recipient of …
Saturday, October 16, 7pm – Memoir Brenda’s Child author of The Right Amount of Sunshine…Cultivating Little Girls into Young Ladies Brenda’s Child has made it her life’s mission to inspire people through poetry and stories and through leading by example with courage, confidence, and integrity. Born Latoya Bosworth, she dubbed herself Brenda’s Child at the …
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Thursday, October 14, 7pm – Non-Fiction Frank Meeink author of Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead: The Frank Meeink Story, as told to Jody M. Roy ($10.00 Hawthorn) Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead is Frank Meeink’s raw telling of his descent into America’s Nazi underground and his ultimate triumph over hatred and addiction. Frank’s violent childhood …
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Sunday, October 24, 2pm – Crime Fiction Soho Press Presents James Benn, Henry Chang, & Stuart Neville James Benn author of Rag and Bone ($15.00 Soho Press) James R. Benn is the author of Billy Boyle: A World War II Mystery, Blood Alone, and The First Wave, selected by Book Sense as one of the …
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Wednesday, October 20, 7pm – Non- Fiction Diane Turner author of My Name is Oney Judge and Feeding the Soul: Black Music, Black Thought Feeding the Soul: Black Music, Black Thought (25.95 Third World Press) – An Africa-centered framework unifies these essays about misconceptions in standard accounts of the evolution of black music. Topics are …
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