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01 / 27
01 / 28
Pre-School Storytime
Start: 10:30 am
End: 11:00 am

Thursday

10:30am
Pre-School storytime

Please join us for pre-school storytime every Thursday
morning at 10:30am

Club Boheme CD Release Party: Open to the public
Start: 7:30 pm

Come celebrate with local jazz-blues band Club Boheme as they release their new CD. This event is free and open to the public.

 

 

In late 2005, Shelley Higgins
was looking for a new vehicle for her jazz inspired vocals. Drawn to the
classic mid-century style of Peggy Lee, Mildred Bailey, and Billie Holiday, she
wanted to combine their smooth sass with the mood of 1930s Paris café music. In
a lucky conversation with guitarist Dave Smith, he confessed an obsession with
the legendary gypsy jazz of Django Reinhardt. Another shared soft spot emerged
for the quirky 1970s records of Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks.

 

When the two finally got together
in Dave’s rustic Chatham County studio, a fascinating groove was quickly
established. Shelley knew string bassist Fred Levine from impromptu jams with
the Brown Mountain Lights and he added his rock solid bottom and distinctive
bowed solos. The group vowed never to play a standard tune if they couldn’t
make it sound new.

 

The musical chemistry and
effortless harmonies attracted the attention of other outstanding players.
Classically trained road warrior Gabriel Pelli often appears on fiddle,
bringing his European flair and intuitive fills. You might hear gifted
improviser Tony Galfano on mandolin and fiddle, or other talented friends.

 

Although this music respects the
past, it is not devoted to “upholding traditions”. The focus is strictly on the
fun of performing. Audiences are quick to get on board and tap their feet to
the upbeat exchange of guitar and fiddle… or slide sideways into a bluesy
ballad.

 

 

 

01 / 29
Rescheduled due to weather to 4/2/10: Sam Stephenson/ The Making of The Jazz Loft Project
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm

**This event has been rescheduled

for Friday April 2nd at 7pm**

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Sam Stephenson is a writer and instructor at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. He has written a beautiful hardcover book, full of photographs, about W. Eugene Smith's photographs and recordings of some of the biggest names in Jazz who haunted a Sixth Ave loft in NYC in the late 50's... 

 

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"(A) landmark
book...An essential book for jazz fans, photography lovers, and those
interested in the history of New York." - Publisher's Weekly, starred
review.

"Absolutely magnificent.  It brings a moment in jazz to life as
perhaps no work in any other medium, including documentary cinema, ever
has." - Booklist, starred review.

"The most chaotic and soulful gift book this year...an elegiac stew of
sight and sound, and a singularly weird, vital, and thrumming American
document." - Dwight Garner, New York Times.

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"(A) landmark
book...An essential book for jazz fans, photography lovers, and those
interested in the history of New York." - Publisher's Weekly, starred
review.

"Absolutely magnificent.  It brings a moment in jazz to life as
perhaps no work in any other medium, including documentary cinema, ever
has." - Booklist, starred review.

"The most chaotic and soulful gift book this year...an elegiac stew of
sight and sound, and a singularly weird, vital, and thrumming American
document." - Dwight Garner, New York Times. 

n 1957, Eugene Smith, a thirty-eight-year-old magazine photographer,
walked out of his comfortable settled world—his longtime well-paying
job at Life and the home he shared with his wife and four
children in Croton-on-Hudson, New York—to move into a dilapidated,
five-story loft building at 821 Sixth Avenue (between Twenty-eighth and
Twenty-ninth streets) in New York City’s wholesale flower district.
Smith was trying to complete the most ambitious project of his life, a
massive photo-essay on the city of Pittsburgh.

821 Sixth Avenue was a late-night haunt of musicians, including some
of the biggest names in jazz—Charles Mingus, Zoot Sims, Bill Evans, and
Thelonious Monk among them—and countless fascinating, underground
characters. As his ambitions broke down for his quixotic Pittsburgh
opus, Smith found solace in the chaotic, somnambulistic world of the
loft and its artists. He turned his documentary impulses away from
Pittsburgh and toward his offbeat new surroundings.

From 1957 to 1965, Smith exposed 1,447 rolls of film at his loft,
making roughly 40,000 pictures, the largest body of work in his career,
photographing the nocturnal jazz scene as well as life on the streets
of the flower district, as seen from his fourth-floor window. He wired
the building like a surreptitious recording studio and made 1,740 reels
(4,000 hours) of stereo and mono
audiotapes, capturing more than 300 musicians, among them Roy Haynes,
Sonny Rollins, Bill Evans, Roland Kirk, Alice Coltrane, Don Cherry, and
Paul Bley. He recorded, as well, legends such as pianists Eddie Costa,
and Sonny Clark, drummers Ronnie Free and Edgar Bateman, saxophonist
Lin Halliday, bassist Henry Grimes, and multi-instrumentalist Eddie
Listengart.

Also dropping in on the nighttime scene were the likes of Doris
Duke, Norman Mailer, Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson,
and Salvador Dalí, as well as pimps, prostitutes, drug addicts,
thieves, photography students, local cops, building inspectors,
marijuana dealers, and others.

Sam Stephenson discovered Smith’s jazz loft photographs and tapes
eleven years ago and has spent the last seven years cataloging,
archiving, selecting, and editing Smith’s materials for this book, as
well as writing its introduction and the text interwoven throughout.

W. Eugene Smith’s Jazz Loft Project has been legendary in the worlds
of art, photography, and music for more than forty years, but until the
publication of The Jazz Loft Project, no one had seen Smith’s
extraordinary photographs or read any of the firsthand accounts of
those who were there and lived to tell the tale(s) . . .

 

01 / 30
01 / 31
02 / 1
02 / 2
02 / 3
Sacrificial Poets Open Mic (every 1st & 3rd Wed) Open to all ages
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm

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Wednesday 

02/03/10  6:30pm-8:30pm

Sacrificial Poets
Open Mic (every 1st & 3rd Wed)

The Sacrificial Poets and Flyleaf Books are teaming up to
provide a community wide open mic every 1st and 3rd Wednesday night. Come share
or listen to poems, prose, songs, or any other personal expression with an
audience of open minds and ears. 
This event is open to contributors of all ages.

 

The Sacrificial Poets are North Carolina’s only youth
Performance Poetry Team, composed of youth ages 13-19 from the Chapel
Hill-Durham area. The students are chosen in a local competition (Slam) and
required to attend practices, workshops, and local community performances. Now
in their fifth year, they teach how to work effectively in a team environment,  learn to effectively express themselves
through poetry and performance, and learn how to become community opinion
leaders and change makers in the community. 
Their achievements both on and off the stage demonstrate the power of
poetry as a tool for personal development and social change.  The Sacrificial Poets recently formed a
partnership with the St. Josephs Historic Foundation/Hayti Heritage Center in
Durham, and with these partners are striving to make Sacrificial Poets summer
camps and after school programs a reality in 2010.

02 / 4
Pre-School Storytime
Start: 10:30 am
End: 11:00 am

Thursday

10:30am
Pre-School storytime

Please join us for pre-school storytime every Thursday
morning at 10:30am

 This week's theme: SILLY STORIES

02 / 5
02 / 6
SilverWear Jewelry Trunk Show
Start: 12:00 pm

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Saturday

2/6/09  12pm-4pm

SilverWear Jewelry
Trunk Show

Christy Clark, the Moore County artist behind the
SilverWear jewelry will be on hand showing off her sterling silver and gold
jewelry.  Christy makes all her pieces by
hand; with no one piece alike.  She also
has some popular Tar Heel designs. 
Flyleaf features a small selection of Christy’s jewelry in the store
every day but today she’ll have much more on display.

Chinese New Year: In the Kitchen and at the Table, a look at (and taste of) Chinese NY culinary traditions with Nancie McDermott
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm

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Saturday

2/6/09  2pm-3pm

Chinese New Year:
In the Kitchen and at the Table, a look at (and taste of) Chinese NY culinary traditions with
Nancie McDermott

Nancie McDermott is a food writer and cooking teacher
specializing in the cuisines of Southeast Asia, and will give a talk on some of
the many Chinese New Year culinary traditions, all of which involve good
luck.  Nancie will demonstrate just how
to fold and shape the famous Chinese dumplings (you may remember last year’s
Chinese NY Independent cover featuring Nancie’s dumplings…).  Making dumplings at home (and eating them of
course) as a family and friends gathering is traditional, and we’ll get to
sample some of Nancie’s dumplings at her talk. 

 

Nancie has contributed recipes and feature stories on
food and travel to Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, Cook's Illustrated, FoodArts
and newspapers around the country including the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Los
Angeles Times. She travels around the country teaching cooking classes and
is a frequent television guest chef.  
She was born and raised in the Triad area and is a UNC-CH graduate, as
well as a former Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand.  She’s also the author of some of Flyleaf
staff’s favorite cookbooks: Quick and
Easy Chinese Cooking and The Curry
Book (among others).  

02 / 7
Jewelry Trunk Show: Sally Stollmack of Sally’s Kitchen
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm

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Saturday

02/7/10    12 Noon-3pm 

Jewelry Trunk Show:
Sally Stollmack of Sally’s Kitchen

Sally Stollmack of Sally’s Kitchen will be on hand to
show off the jewelry collections she’s chosen from artisans around the world.
Sally travels all over the US selecting funky, fun and unknown deserving
artisans who make beautiful and reasonably-priced and FUN jewelry. Throughout
the last 10 years Sally has turned her passion for jewelry into  an
obsession as she has developed close relationships with these incredibly
talented artists and learned each of their stories.   Come check out
what Sally has for us today from Noon to 3pm at Flyleaf.  A small
selection of Sally’s jewelry selections can be seen in the bookstore every day,
but we’ll have monthly Trunk Shows with expanded offerings.

02 / 8
02 / 9
Craig Johnson reads from his latest Walt Longmire mystery
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm

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Friday

06/04/10  7pm-8pm

Craig Johnson
reads from his latest Walt Longmire mystery

It’s a volatile new economy in Durant, Wyoming, where the
owners of a multi-million dollar development of ranchettes want to get rid of
the adjacent junkyard. When a severed thumb is discovered in the yard, conflicts
erupt, and Walt Longmire, his trusty companion Dog, life-long friend Henry
Standing Bear, and deputies Santiago Saizarbitoria and Victoria Moretti find
themselves in a small town that feels more and more like a high plains pressure
cooker. Craig Johnson’s award-winning Walt Longmire mysteries continue to find
new fans, and Junkyard Dogs is sure to create many more devotees. The sixth
book in the series is filled with Johnson’s signature blend of wisecracks,
Western justice, and page-turning plot twists, as the beloved sheriff finds
himself star-deep in the darker aspects of human nature, in a story of love, laughs,
death, and derelict automobiles.

 

“ It’s the scenery—and the big guy standing in front of
the scenery—that keeps us coming back to Craig Johnson’s lean and leathery
mysteries.”

—Marilyn Stasio, The
New York Times Book Review

02 / 10
02 / 11
Pre-School Storytime & Activity. Theme: Valentine's Day
Start: 10:30 am

Thursday

10:30am
Pre-School storytime

Theme: Valentine's Day

Please join us for pre-school storytime every Thursday
morning at 10:30am, followed by a craft or activity

Jonathan Weiler discusses his book: Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics
Start: 7:00 pm

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Thursday

02/11/10  7:00pm-8:00pm   (rescheduled from Wed 2/10)

Jonathan Weiler
discusses his book Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics

Although politics at the elite level has been polarized
for some time, a scholarly controversy has raged over whether ordinary
Americans are polarized. This book argues that they are and that the reason is
growing polarization of worldviews - what guides people's view of right and
wrong and good and evil. These differences in worldview are rooted in what Marc
J. Hetherington and Jonathan D. Weiler describe as authoritarianism. They show
that differences of opinion concerning the most provocative issues on the
contemporary issue agenda - about race, gay marriage, illegal immigration, and
the use of force to resolve security problems - reflect differences in
individuals" levels of authoritarianism. This makes authoritarianism an
especially compelling explanation of contemporary American politics. Events and
strategic political decisions have conspired to make all these considerations
more salient. The authors demonstrate that the left and the right have
coalesced around these opposing worldviews, which has provided politics with
more incandescent hues than before.

 

Jonathan D. Weiler is currently director of undergraduate
studies and adjunct assistant professor of international and area studies at UNC
-Chapel Hill. His previous book, Human Right
in Russia: A Darker Side of Reform, was published in 2004.  

02 / 12
Kids Event: Clay Carmichael reads from her new middle grade novel WILD THINGS
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm

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Kids Author Event: Clay Carmichael reads from WILD THINGS

Wild Things is a novel for ages 9-12 written by writer,
artist, illustrator Clay Carmichael.

 

Honors & Reviews for Wild Things:

A Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book of the Year

2009 NC Juvenile Literature Award

2010 ALA Best Books for Young Adults Nominee

 

“I loved the story [and] all the characters, especially
the girl and the cat…I loved the element of mystery and slight hint of magic…I
read it in one sitting, so it certainly kept me hooked…congrats to you on
another wonderful piece of work. I continue to be a big fan! (You rock!)

 

Karin Michels, Head of Youth Services, Chapel Hill Public
Library, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

02 / 13
(Canceled due to Snow. Next class in March.)Prompt Writing Class with Nancy Peacock
Start: 10:00 am

Prompt Writing: Serious writing begins with playful
writing. Please join this unique ongoing group of supportive adult writers and
play your way into the possibilities of the written word. Based on the work of
Natalie Goldberg (WRITING DOWN THE BONES, WILD MIND) we set a timer for
fifteen minutes and write using prompts as our launch pads. This class is free
and open to the public.

 

Nancy Peacock’s first book LIFE WITHOUT WATER was
published and chosen as a New York Times Notable Book. It was followed a few years later by another novel HOME ACROSS THE ROAD and most recently by a work of nonfiction, A BROOM OF ONE’S OWN: WORDS
ON WRITING, HOUSECLEANING, AND LIFE.  Nancy lives in Chatham County and runs writing
workshops in her studio and this Prompt Writing class every second Saturday at
Flyleaf Books.

02 / 14
02 / 15
02 / 16
02 / 17
Sacrificial Poets Open Mic (every 1st & 3rd Wed) Open to all ages
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 11:00 pm

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Wednesday 

6:30pm-8:30pm

Sacrificial Poets
Open Mic (every 1st & 3rd Wed)

The Sacrificial Poets and Flyleaf Books are teaming up to
provide a community wide open mic every 1st and 3rd Wednesday night. Come share
or listen to poems, prose, songs, or any other personal expression with an
audience of open minds and ears.
This event is open to contributors of all ages. 

The Sacrificial Poets are North Carolina’s only youth
Performance Poetry Team, composed of youth ages 13-19 from the Chapel
Hill-Durham area. The students are chosen in a local competition (Slam) and
required to attend practices, workshops, and local community performances. Now
in their fifth year, they teach how to work effectively in a team environment;
learn to effectively express themselves through poetry and performance; learn
how to become community opinion leaders and change makers in the community.  Sacrificial Poets recently formed a
partnership with the St. Josephs Historic Foundation/Hayti Heritage Center in
Durham, and with these partners are striving to make Sacrificial Poets summer
camps and after school programs a reality in 2010.

 

Last year the new 2009 team reached the semi-finals at
Youth Speaks Brave New Voices in Chicago and placed top eight out of fifty plus
teams from around the globe. While at BNV, Sacrificial Poets members G Yamazawa
and Jake Jacoby were featured in the Youth Speaks annual Speak Green
competition. While this success demonstrates the caliber of our youth poets,
the true measure of our accomplishments lies in their fundamental growth as
human beings. Their achievements both on and off the stage demonstrate the
power of poetry as a tool for personal development and social change.

02 / 18
Pre-School Storytime
Start: 10:30 am
End: 11:00 am

Thursday

10:30am
Pre-School storytime

Please join us for pre-school storytime every Thursday
morning at 10:30am

Ed Southern reads from Parlous Angels: Stories
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm

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Thursday

02/18/10   7pm-8pm

Ed Southern reads
from Parlous Angels: Stories

Ed Southern was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina,
and began making up characters and stories shortly after. Before he was 10
years old, his mother had decided that “either this child is going to be a
writer, or we’re going to have to spend a fortune on therapy for him.”  (Whether that was a valid either/or
proposition is still to be determined.) Southern’s previous work, all
nonfiction, includes The Jamestown Adventure, Voices of the American Revolution
in the Carolinas, and Sports in the Carolinas. 
He lives in Winston-Salem, and is executive director of the North
Carolina Writers’ Network.

 

 “Ed Southern's
stories are about hard work and hard times and what is required of a boy to
become a man in such a place and time. They are also about class—that taboo
subject in America—and about anger, love, and yearning. Carefully written, with
the best dialogue I've read in years, these terrific and utterly original
stories are made to last—like a stone pathway or a brick wall.”

— Lee Smith, author of On Agate Hill and The Last
Girls

02 / 19
William Ferris gives a multimedia presentation on Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm

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Friday

2/19/10   7pm-8:30pm

William Ferris gives a multimedia
presentation on Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices
of the Mississippi Blues

Throughout
the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi,
documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed
the diverse musical traditions that form the authentic roots of the blues. Now,
Give My Poor Heart Ease puts front
and center a searing selection of the artistically and emotionally rich voices
from this invaluable documentary record. Illustrated with Ferris's photographs
of the musicians and their communities and including a CD of original music and
a DVD of original film, the book features more than twenty interviews relating frank,
dramatic, and engaging narratives about black life and blues music in the heart
of the American South.

 

Here are
the stories of artists who have long memories and speak eloquently about their
lives, blues musicians who represent a wide range of musical traditions—from
one-strand instruments, bottle-blowing, and banjo to spirituals, hymns, and
prison work chants. Celebrities such as B. B. King and Willie Dixon, along with
performers known best in their neighborhoods, express the full range of human
and artistic experience—joyful and gritty, raw and painful.

In an
autobiographical introduction, Ferris reflects on how he fell in love with the vibrant
musical culture that was all around him but considered off limits to a white Mississippian
during a troubled era. This magnificent volume illuminates blues music, the
broader African American experience, and indeed the history and culture of
America itself.

 

William
Ferris is Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History and senior associate
director of the Center for the Study of the American South at UNC- Chapel Hill.
A former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Ferris co
edited the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture and is the author of Blues from the Delta.  Rolling Stone magazine has named him among the
top ten professors in the United States.

02 / 20
Writers Support Group Meeting: Voice to the World
Start: 9:30 am
End: 11:00 am

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2/20/10  9:30am-11:00am

Writers Support Group Meeting: Voice to the World

The goal of the group is to encourage budding and already published writers to
finish their writing projects by providing support, encouragement, and
constructive critiques.    The meeting is
coordinated by Vonyee Carrington, who has written since a teenager but has
recently published a book of women's writings called Steps for Destiny: Poems, Stories and Experiences of Women.  This
meeting is open to the public and is free of charge.

Jenifer Bubenik discusses her novel Thoughts from the Chicken Bus
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End: 3:00 pm

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Saturday

02/20/10  2pm-3pm

Jenifer Bubenik discusses her novel Thoughts from the Chicken Bus

Reeling from the loss of her relationship and burnt out
from her high-stress politico job, Jenifer Bubenik grabbed her resignation
letter off the printer and walked into her boss' office. Unaware of where to go
next, and stuck in a funk, she logged online and cashed in her airline miles to
book a ticket to Belize, unaware of where the country was really even located;
simply knowing that nine days from then her life would be transformed from
depression and desperation to sunshine and umbrella drinks. Armed with little
more than hiking boots and pepper spray,  the 29 year old set out solo to Central
America; with the goal to push her job and relationship out of her mind. What
began as a three-week restorative breathing trip soon ended up as a three-month
adventure through the back jungles, active volcanoes, and desolate beaches far
beyond the safety-net of Belize.


Jenifer Bubenik grew up in Texas and North Carolina. She is a graduate of
Appalachian State University and lives in San Diego. Thoughts From the Chicken Bus is her first novel.   Prior to writing this book, she worked in
government relations.

02 / 21
Joanna Catherine Scott (rescheduled from 1/30 snow storm)
Start: 2:00 pm

Entertaining novelist and poet Joanna Catherine Scott tells the story behind the writing of The Road fromChapel Hill and Child of the South.  

 

 

 

02 / 22
02 / 23
02 / 24
02 / 25
Pre-School Storytime
Start: 10:30 am
End: 11:00 am

Thursday

10:30am
Pre-School storytime

Please join us for pre-school storytime every Thursday
morning at 10:30am

02 / 26
Terrence Holt reads from In The Valley of the Kings
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm

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Friday

2/26/09  7-8pm

Terrence Holt
reads from In The Valley of the Kings

Flyleaf Books is thrilled to host a local author who is making national literary waves. In the Valley of
the Kings marks the extraordinary debut of Terrence Holt, who fifteen years
ago abandoned a promising writing career to practice medicine. Moved by his
patients’ valor in the face of death, seeking to comprehend the mysteries
revealed at their bedside, Holt has taken up fiction again. He emerges now with
this astonishing collection of one novella and seven short stories that explore
the farthest reaches of the imagination in a style that recalls the
nineteenth-century American masters.

 

Holt leaps across genres and millennia, from small-town
America to deep space, daring his readers to journey with him into realms as
mysterious as they are unforgettable. The opening story, “‘Ο Λογοσ,” is a
chilling account of the last days of the human race, as the hospitalization of
a little girl in a New England town heralds a terrifying plague, transmitted
not by a microbe but by a single word. The final story, “Apocalypse,” returns
to small-town New England and another vision of the end, in an intimate account
of how a couple struggles to live and love under the shadow of the Earth’s
approaching doom. In between, these stories range from outer space, where—in
“Charybdis”—an astronaut alone on a doomed NASA mission comes to terms with his
fate, to the Egyptian desert of the title novella, where an archaeologist seeks
a fabulous tomb that holds the secret of immortality. Painting with lurid
colors and finely crafted prose, Holt offers his readers haunting visions of
the reefs and abysses of the human imagination. In the Valley of the Kings
redefines the art of the story, throwing aside the rules in search of the
enduring truths that ultimately make stories worth reading.

 

    “American short
fiction in particular—from Poe and Hawthorne to the present—unfurls at
midnight: a dark affair emphasizing our want of health in a civilization gone
sick. Terrence Holt’s first story collection, In the Valley of the Kings, now
joins the brigade....These stories will endue for as long as our hurt kind
remains to require the truth.” — William Giraldi, The New York Times Book Review

 

    “Starred
Review. In his debut collection, practicing physician Holt takes on the big
cosmological questions in stunning fashion, recalling writers like Conrad,
Hawthorne, and Melville in the scope of his interests and the grandeur of his
style....This collection represents a life's work of stories that are not well
known outside of the readership of literary journals. That's about to change,
and it's a good thing.” — Library Journal

 

    “Starred
Review. In this haunting collection, Holt's lush language pulls literary
treasures out of dark places, bringing readers ice from the rings of Saturn
'where seeing and vanishing are one,' a cartouche from deep within an ancient
tomb and the late-night conversations of a married couple awaiting the end of
the world....This collection, with its allusions to mythology and tragic
conundrums, demands intelligence and rewards the reader with Borgesian riches.”
— Publishers Weekly

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