This Monday, June 13th
So I'm seeing Silver Sparrow everywhere: in my local bookstore, on the cover of Indie Bound, in this month's Vogue (the one with the beautiful Penélope Cruz on the cover) . . . . Wow! Tayari's book is approaching total media saturation! It's amazing and fantastic. More power to her.
This Monday, three cool events are going on in Lincoln, so if you're local, read on.
At 7 p.m. at Crescent Moon Coffee on P Street, I'm doing a reading with my friend and colleague, poet Grace Bauer, and one other writer. (Crescent Moon, in case you didn't know, is one of the rare places in Lincoln where you can get coffee or wine. Kind of nice.) I'll be reading pieces from my forthcoming memoir collection, ISLAND OF BONES.
Alas, a really cool publishing panel, courtesy of the Nebraska Summer Writers Conference, is going on at the same time:
I wish I could go. Many thanks to novelist and conference director Timothy Schaffert (whose own book is enjoying some media saturation of its own) for the heads-up.
And for those of you who've just had it with things literary, and prefer something more literally intoxicating, there's this:
This Monday, three cool events are going on in Lincoln, so if you're local, read on.
At 7 p.m. at Crescent Moon Coffee on P Street, I'm doing a reading with my friend and colleague, poet Grace Bauer, and one other writer. (Crescent Moon, in case you didn't know, is one of the rare places in Lincoln where you can get coffee or wine. Kind of nice.) I'll be reading pieces from my forthcoming memoir collection, ISLAND OF BONES.
Alas, a really cool publishing panel, courtesy of the Nebraska Summer Writers Conference, is going on at the same time:
Panel discussion on contemporary publishing concerns
7:30-8:30 p.m.
UNL City Union, Auditorium
I wish I could go. Many thanks to novelist and conference director Timothy Schaffert (whose own book is enjoying some media saturation of its own) for the heads-up.
And for those of you who've just had it with things literary, and prefer something more literally intoxicating, there's this:
Thanks to Alexis, who writes the blog The Bottle Chronicles, for the invite!Ferm. Base (Intro. to Fermentation)
6:30-8:00 p.m.
Indigo Bridge Books
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Mary K
said:
Dear Joy,
June 12, 2011 9:42 PMSorry to miss your reading with Grace. I'd love to hear what you are both working on. We're office in Maine watching the tide come in and go out. Chilly but peaceful. Have a wonderful reading!
Mary K.