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Start: 10:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
Saturday
05/08/10
10am-12noon (held every second Saturday)
Prompt Writing
Class by Nancy Peacock
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.
Start: 11:00 am
End: 3:00 pm
Sally's Kitchen Jewelry Trunk Show
Note: this is happening on Sat 5/8 not Sun 5/9 as listed in our newsletter this week. Apologies for the typo!
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.
The items pictured are from Aid Through Trade
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
Sat 5/8 2pm-3pm
Lest The Colors Fade: Chapel Hill Sr Center Writers Group students read from their work
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Saturday 5/8
7pm-8pm (moved from 4/9/10)
Lee Smith reads
from her new story collection: Mrs Darcy and the Blue Eyed Stranger
A celebrated novelist, Lee Smith is likewise recognized as a
master of the short story and has been compared with such luminaries as
Katherine Ann Porter, Eudora Welty, and Flannery O’Connor. Now she collects fourteen
stories—seven brand-new ones along with seven favorites from her three earlier
collections. The result? A book of dazzling richness.
Famous for unmistakable voices and a craft so strong and sure
it seems effortless, Lee Smith’s stories strike dead center
at the turning points of her characters’ lives. Here
those characters range from an eight-year-old boy obsessed with vocabulary words
to a young bride who has married “way up” to Mrs. Darcy herself, an older woman
making it through
widowhood her own way. As the New York Times Book Review put
it, “In almost every one of [her stories] there is a moment of vision, or love,
or unclothed wonder that transforms something plain into something transcendent.”
With this collection—her first in thirteen years—Smith reclaims
her place as the reigning queen of the bittersweet short story.
PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS COLLECTIONS:
“Lee Smith is a writer’s writer, a teller of tales for tale
tellers to admire and envy. She’s also a reader’s dream. She knows what she’s
doing, and she does it very, very well.”
—Houston Chronicle
“Marvelously entertaining . . . These are stories you want
to read again to catch all the things you missed the first time around.”
—The Boston Globe
LEE SMITH is the author of fifteen previous books of
fiction— three collections of short stories and a dozen novels. The recipient of
the 1999 Academy Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and
Letters, she lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
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