Thursday 9/2 7-8pm
An evening with Frances Mayes as she reads from and talks about her newest book Every Day in Tuscany\: Seasons of an Italian Life
This event is ticketed and space is limited. Please purchase your ticket in advance by calling 919-942-7373 or coming into the store. Tickets are $35 for a signed hardcover copy of Frances' latest book plus passed hors d’oeuvres of recipes from the book\, prepared by Foster’s Market. Each attendee will have the chance to meet Frances as she signs their book.
In this sequel to her New York Times bestsellers Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany\, the celebrated “bard of Tuscany” (New York Times) lyrically chronicles her continuing\, two-decades-long love affair with Tuscany’s people\, art\, cuisine\, and lifestyle.
Frances Mayes offers her readers a deeply personal memoir of her present-day life in Tuscany\, encompassing both the changes she has experienced since Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany appeared\, and sensuous\, evocative reflections on the timeless beauty and vivid pleasures of Italian life. Among the themes Mayes explores are how her experience of Tuscany dramatically expanded when she renovated and became a part-time resident of a thirteenth-century house with a stone roof in the mountains above Cortona\, how life in the mountains introduced her to a “wilder” side of Tuscany–and with it a lively engagement with Tuscany’s mountain people. Throughout\, she reveals the concrete joys of life in her adopted hill town\, with particular attention to life in the piazza\, the art of Luca Signorelli (Renaissance painter from Cortona)\, and the pastoral pleasures of feasting from her garden. Moving always toward a deeper engagement\, Mayes writes of Tuscan icons that have become for her storehouses of memory\, of crucible moments from which bigger ideas emerged\, and of the writing life she has enjoyed in the room where Under the Tuscan Sun began.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100903T070115Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100907T223000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100908T000000Z UID:http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/talking-sidewalks-issue-4-release-party-readings URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/talking-sidewalks-issue-4-release-party-readings SUMMARY:Talking Sidewalks Issue #4 Release Party & Readings DESCRIPTION:Talking Sidewalks is a community literary magazine featuring works by individuals who have experienced homelessness.
Join us to celebrate the release of the fourth issue and to hear readings from the contributors.
Refreshments will be provided\, and the event is free and open to all.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100903T070115Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100907T231200Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100907T231200Z UID:http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/sherri-brooks-vinton-canning-preserving-demonstration-her-new-book-put-%E2%80%98em URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/sherri-brooks-vinton-canning-preserving-demonstration-her-new-book-put-%E2%80%98em SUMMARY:Sherri Brooks Vinton canning & preserving demonstration for her new book Put ‘Em Up DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 9/7 7pm-8pm
Sherri Brooks Vinton canning &\; preserving demonstration for her new book Put ‘Em Up
This event will be held at Foster’s Market at their cooking demo station
Real food advocate Sherri Brooks Vinton will give a canning and preserving demonstration using local produce to promote her new book\, Put ‘Em Up. Readers can easily choose recipes that work for the amount of produce and time at hand.
Sherri Brooks Vinton is the founder of FarmFriendly LLC\, which helps chefs\, restaurateurs\, and food organizations support local agriculture. She is a former governor of Slow Food USA\, and a member of the Chef’s Collaborative\, Women’s Chefs and Restaurateurs\, Northeast Organic Farmers Association\, and the International Association of Culinary Professionals.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100903T070115Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100909T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100909T010000Z UID:http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/zelda-lockhart-piedmont-poet-laureate-reads-her-new-novel-fifth-born-ii-hundredth-turtle URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/zelda-lockhart-piedmont-poet-laureate-reads-her-new-novel-fifth-born-ii-hundredth-turtle SUMMARY:Zelda Lockhart\, Piedmont Poet Laureate\, reads from her new novel Fifth Born II\: The Hundredth Turtle DESCRIPTION:
Wed 9/8 7pm-8pm
Zelda Lockhart\, Piedmont Poet Laureate\, reads from her new novel Fifth Born II\: The Hundredth Turtle
Fifth Born II\: The Hundredth Turtle is the sequel to the Lockhart’s popular novel Fifth Born. Set in New York’s Harlem and in rural Mississippi during the late 1970’s and 80’s\, the novel is reminiscent in tone to Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. The story is rich in its portrayal of both the urban and rural spirit\, and prolific in its human teachings that demonstrate the love necessary for reconnecting with family members estranged by family violence.
“Zelda Lockhart's novel\, Fifth-Born II\: The Hundredth Turtle\, is a beautifully written\, courageously honest account of the life of Odessa Blackburn\, a memorable narrator born with all odds stacked against her. Lockhart is a masterful storyteller and this novel will hold her readers spellbound.”
- Jill McCorkle
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Zelda Lockhart is the 2010 Piedmont Poet Laureate\, as well as the author of the novel Fifth Born\, which was a 2002 Barnes &\; Noble Discovery selection and won a finalist award for debut fiction from the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Foundation. Ms. Lockhart holds a Bachelor’s in English from Norfolk State University\, a Master’s in English from Old Dominion University\, and a certificate in writing\, directing and editing film from the New York Film Academy. Her 2007 novel\, Cold Running Creek\, won a 2008 Honor Fiction Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Cold Running Creek was chosen as the 2008/09 “Text in Community” read for all incoming students and North Carolina A&\;T State University. Universities throughout the United States and abroad have recognized Ms. Lockhart’s talents as a writer and speaker.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100903T070115Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100910T233000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100911T010000Z UID:http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/book-release-party-sun-magazine URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/book-release-party-sun-magazine SUMMARY:Book Release Party with The Sun magazine DESCRIPTION:Fri 9/10 6\:30-8\:00pm
Book Release Party with The Sun magazine
Join Sy Safransky and staff for a reading and reception to celebrate the publication of The Sun’s new volume of Sunbeams\, Paper Lanterns\: More Quotations from the Back Pages of The Sun. This provocative collection of quotes takes you on a journey through innocence and experience\, love and loss\, disillusionment and awakening. Along the way you’ll find words that inspire as well as challenge\; that celebrate the beauty around us without ignoring the injustices in our midst. Wine and light refreshments will be served. Admission is free\, and seating is limited.
Founded by Sy Safransky in Chapel Hill in 1974\, The Sun is a monthly magazine that has been in print for more than thirty-six years and has nearly seventy thousand subscribers. Writing from The Sun has won the Pushcart Prize\, been featured on National Public Radio\, and appeared in Best American Essays and Best American Short Stories. Upon awarding The Sun an Independent Press Award for Best Writing\, Utne described The Sun as “an intimate forum where some of the finest contemporary writers share their most polished and provocative prose."\; The Sun is entirely free of advertising.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100903T070115Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100915T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100915T010000Z UID:http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/jill-mccorkle-reads-paperback-release-her-short-story-collection-going-away-shoes URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/jill-mccorkle-reads-paperback-release-her-short-story-collection-going-away-shoes SUMMARY:Jill McCorkle reads from the paperback release of her short story collection Going Away Shoes DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 9/14 7pm-8pm
Jill McCorkle reads from the paperback release of Going Away Shoes\, her collection of short stories
Jill McCorkle\, one of Flyleaf’s favorite authors and a master of the short story whose work has been compared to that of Alice Munro and Lorrie Moore\, is a writer whose characters insist on our immediate and total attention. Here\, in her first collection in eight years\, are eleven new stories bristling with her signature wit and weight. One way or the other\, all of these stories are about women looking love in the face without flinching. Some of them are confronting the reality of domestic disruption\; others are simply flirting with the possibilities—and dangers—of change. McCorkle's characters make mistakes but aren't interested in hiding behind them. They get divorced or quit their jobs or tell people to step aside\, and they move on.
From the first story\, about a modern-day Cinderella contemplating escape\, to the last\, "\;Me and Big Foot\,"\; an idyll about finding the perfect prince\, McCorkle’s collection is the genuine article\, the work of a great storyteller who knows exactly how—and why—to pair longing and laughter.
Jill McCorkle is the author of eight previous books—three story collections and five novels—five of which have been selected as New York Times Notable Books. She is the winner of the New England Book Award\, the John Dos Passos Prize for Excellence in Literature\, and the North Carolina Award for Literature. She teaches writing at North Carolina State University and lives with her husband in Hillsborough\, North Carolina.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100903T070115Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100922T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100922T010000Z UID:http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/dan-ariely-discusses-his-new-book-upside-irrationality-unexpected-benefits-defying-logic-work- URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/dan-ariely-discusses-his-new-book-upside-irrationality-unexpected-benefits-defying-logic-work- SUMMARY: Dan Ariely discusses his new book The Upside of Irrationality\: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home DESCRIPTION:Tues 9/21 7pm-8pm
Dan Ariely discusses his new book The Upside of Irrationality\: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home
Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke University and a founding member of the Center for Advanced Hindsight. In his new book\, the provocative follow-up to his New York Times bestseller Predictably Irrational\, Ariely argues that irrationality is not all bad. In The Upside of irrationality he examines some of the positive effects irrationality have on our lives and offer a new look on the irrational decisions that influence our personal lives and our workplace experiences.. Why can large bonuses make CEOs less productive? How can confusing directions actually help us? Why is revenge so important to us? Why is there such a big difference between what we "\;think"\; will make us happy and what "\;really"\; makes us happy?
In his groundbreaking book Predictably Irrational\, social scientist Dan Ariely revealed the multiple biases that lead us into making unwise decisions. Now\, in his new book\, he exposes the surprising negative and positive effects irrationality can have on our lives. Focusing on our behaviors at work and in relationships\, he offers new insights and eye-opening truths about what really motivates us on the job\, how one unwise action can become a long-term habit\, how we learn to love the ones we're with\, and more.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100903T070115Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100922T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100922T220000Z UID:http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/unc-humanities-action-assessing-threat-muslim-american-radicalization-charles-kurzman URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/unc-humanities-action-assessing-threat-muslim-american-radicalization-charles-kurzman SUMMARY:UNC Humanities in Action\: Assessing the Threat of Muslim-American Radicalization with Charles Kurzman DESCRIPTION:
Wed 9/1 3pm-5pm
UNC Humanities in Action at Flyleaf Books
Sponsored by the Program in the Humanities and Human Values
at UNC Chapel Hill
These programs are fee-based ($30 includes tuition and reception)\;
For more information and secure online registration\: adventuresinideas.unc.edu or call 919.962.1544
The Program in the Humanities and Human Values\, a unit of the College of
Arts and Sciences at UNC Chapel Hill\, sponsors public programs which
draw on the humanities to nurture a deeper understanding of our history
and culture\, enrich the life of the mind\, and contribute to the
development of a more humane world.
We are pleased to announce a new series\: Humanities in Action\, to be
held on three Wednesday afternoons from 3pm-5pm. Short lectures and
lively discussion on contemporary issues\, followed by a food and wine
reception.
Wed Sept 1st\: Our Polarized Political Culture with John McGowan\, Ruel W. Tyson\, Jr. Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at UNC Chapel Hill
Wed Sept 22nd \: Assessing the Threat of Muslim-American Radicalization with Charles Kurzman\, Professor of Sociology\, Director of Graduate Studies UNC Chapel Hill
Wed Nov 17th\: American Cookbooks\: A Table-side Conversation about Food\, Memory\, and Region with Marcie Cohen Ferris\, Associate Professor of American Studies\, UNC Chapel Hill
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100903T070115Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100923T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100923T010000Z UID:http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/marcia-mount-shoop-discusses-her-new-book-let-bones-dance URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/marcia-mount-shoop-discusses-her-new-book-let-bones-dance SUMMARY:Marcia Mount Shoop discusses her new book Let The Bones Dance DESCRIPTION:Wed 9/22 7pm-8pm
Marcia Mount Shoop discusses her new book
Let The Bones Dance
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Contemporary Christian faith and practice tend to address spiritual\, mental\, and emotional issues but ignore the body. As a result\, many believers are uncomfortable in their own skins. Shoop addresses this "\;dis-ease"\; with a theology that is attentive to physical experience. She also suggests how worship services can more fully invite God to inhabit every part of who we are--including our flesh and blood bodies. For when individual Christian bodies are allowed to flourish\, so will the unified body of Christ.
Marcia W. Mount Shoop received her Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Emory University. She is an ordained Presbyterian minister and serves as theologian-in-residence at University Presbyterian Church in Chapel Hill\, North Carolina.
Thurs 9/23 7pm-8pm
Lori Ostlund\, UNC-CH Kenan Visiting Writer In Residence\, reads from the paperback release of her short story collectionThe Bigness of the World
Lori Ostlund\, has been selected as this year’s Kenan Visiting Writer in Residence at UNC-Chapel Hill.
She reads at Flyleaf as her latest book-- The Bigness of the World-- is released in paperback. This book has won the Flannery O'Connor Short Fiction Award\, the California Book Award for First Fiction and the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction\, and is also a finalist for a Lambda Award\, shortlisted for the Saroyan Prize for Writing\, and long listed for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award. Additionally\, one of the stories has been selected for the 2010 Best American Short Stories by Richard Russo.
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"\;Ostlund's artful prose is playfully complex and illuminating\, evocative and unsentimental. . . . Each piece is sublime."\;
—Publishers Weekly
Lori's stories have appeared in New England Review\, Bellingham Review\, The Georgia Review\, The Kenyon Review\, Hobart\, and Prairie Schooner\, among other journals. In 2009\, Ostlund was one of six emerging women writers honored with a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. She has a B.A. from Minnesota State University Moorhead and a M.A. in English from the University of New Mexico\, and currently lives in San Francisco with her partner\, the novelist Anne Raeff\, where she teaches developmental English and story writing at The Art Institute of California–San Francisco
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100903T070115Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100925T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100925T010000Z UID:http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/poetry-reading-jeffery-beam-ricky-garni URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/poetry-reading-jeffery-beam-ricky-garni SUMMARY:Poetry Reading\: Jeffery Beam & Ricky Garni DESCRIPTION:Fri 9/24 7pm-8pm
Poetry Reading\: Jeffery Beam &\; Ricky Garni
Gospel Earth\, Jeffery Beam's big book of little poems [in various forms including monostitches\, micropoems\, American sentences\, small stones\, small poem sequences\, &\; minimalist poetry] - has already received acclaim for its transcendent\, lush beauty\, its minimal sacrament\, &\; its simplicity &\; physicality. Described by the poet as a work intended to "\;invigorate the startling propulsion of haiku’s accessible simplicity &\; minimalism\, while creating a more active canvas"\;\, Gospel Earth's titles read like the new Gnostic gospel the collection sets out to be\: An Invocation\, The Light Begins\, The Green Man's Man\, Revelation of the Cloud\, Bridge of a Thousand Whys\, Treatise of the Daisy\, MountSeaEden\, Listen. Naturalist Janet Lembke asserts that "\;Beam does not see humankind as separate from all else but rather as an intrinsic part of creation sharing equally with moth\, acanthus leaf\, black gum\, &\; nuthatch. Although the book contains many little poems there are also a number of short poem sequences\, &\; a few longer poems. Most of the poems have been collected previously in chapbooks\, limited editions\, &\; published in literary magazines.
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Beam’s poems have appeared in innumerable publications. His works have received numerous awards &\; grants including four American Library Association Notable Book &\; Stonewall Award nominations\, two Pushcart nominations\, an IPPY Ten Best Books Award\, an Audie Award\, an AIGA 50 Best Books Award\, a Writer’s Digest Editor award for best E-Zine poetry outlet\, a Durham Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant\, a Duke University Chronicle award\, a Provost Award for Public Service from the UNC-Chapel Hill Center for Public Service\, &\; a grant from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation. He has also appeared on the long list for the Lambda Book Award. His work as an educator through poetry was highlighted in The Compassionate Classroom\: Lessons that Nurture Wisdom &\; Empathy by Jane Dalton &\; Lyn Fairchild. Beam is also well-respected as an editor &\; for his work on behalf of poetry on the national &\; international scene. Since 1974 Beam has given close to 900 poetry readings\, lectures\, &\; panel discussions throughout North Carolina\, on the East Coast\, in the South\, &\; in Canada &\; Italy. He was inducted into the North Carolina Writers Conference\, was an invited guest to the Durham Public Library's Centennial NC Writers Gala\, &\; a Parade Marshal for the NC Gay Pride Festival. His papers are on deposit in the University of North Carolina's North Carolina's Writers Manuscript Collection.
Born &\; raised in Kannapolis\, North Carolina\, Jeffrey Beam lives in Hillsborough\, NC with his partner of 30 years. Beam is also a photographer &\; is represented by Through This Lens Gallery in Durham\, North Carolina.
Ricky Garni attended Duke University and has lived in the Triangle since 1986. He has produced twenty-odd books of poetry and prose in limited editions. Mr. Garni has published widely in print and on the web and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize on four occasions\, and his work has been featured in anthologies by Pif\, Mitochondria\, and Megaera.
Over the years\, Mr. Garni has worked as a teacher\, a recording engineer and arranger\, a wine merchant\, and a graphic designer. In the mid-90s\, he organized a series of readings in the Triangle\: 101 Secret Wing Dings. Slated for 2011 is The 1865 Project\, in which the audience and speakers will be either younger than 18 or older than 65\, and all invited to share parts of the world and history that they dearly love and wish to voice and preserve. Mr. Garni is presently in the process of completing Make It Wavy\, a compilation accepted for publication by Oyster Boy Review's Off the Cuff Books. His long-term favorite enterprise is a collection of autobiographical comic multimedia poems entitled The Eternal Journals Of Crispy Flotilla.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100903T070115Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100925T190000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100925T210000Z UID:http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/lorraine-stephens-author-speaker-and-trainer-discusses-her-book-present-past URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/lorraine-stephens-author-speaker-and-trainer-discusses-her-book-present-past SUMMARY:Lorraine Stephens\, author\, speaker and trainer discusses her book The Present of the Past DESCRIPTION:Sat 9/25 2pm-4pm
Lorraine Stephens\, author\, speaker and trainer discusses her book
The Present of the Past
Please join Lorraine Stephens\, Author\, Speaker and Trainer\, as she launches her new book\: The Present of the Past
Enjoy Seven Stories of Faith\, Devotion and Joy in the Modern World. Be touched as you see how they can relate to your life and the lives of those you know. We all are profoundly impacted by the people in our past and the emotional and personal deposits they make in our life account. “The Present of the Past” is an inspirational message\, delivered in story form that asks you to reflect on those who have contributed to your values\, actions\, beliefs and more. Be prepared to soul search a bit and enjoy a few moments of understanding the nature of gifts. Do you think of what small actions or incidences in your past contribute to you today? Ask yourself\: What “present”\, what “gift”\, has your past given you that lives with you today? Regardless of whether we are aware of it or admit it\, events\, our reaction to events\, and people in our past define\:
Who we are\, What we do\, What we believe\, How we act
In my eyes many of those events and many of the people associated with those events represent gifts I have received. As I bundle those gifts in beautifully wrapped packages\, they represent “The Present Of The Past”.
Alex Grant's Chains &\; Mirrors won the 2007 Oscar Arnold Young Award (Best Collection by a North Carolina poet) and the 2006 Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize. Fear of Moving Water\, his 2009 full-length collection\, was a finalist for a number of national book contests and runner-up for the 2010 Brockman Campbell award (Best North Carolina Poetry Collection) and the 2010 Oscar Arnold Young Award. The Circus Poems will be released by Lorimer Press in October 2010. A Pushcart nominee\, he has received the Kakalak Poetry Prize and The Pavel Srut Poetry Fellowship\, and his poems have appeared in many national journals\, including The Missouri Review\, Best New Poets 2007\, Arts &\; Letters\, The Connecticut Review and Verse Daily. He lives in Chapel Hill NC\, with his wife\, his dangling participles and his Celtic fondness for excess. He can be found on the web at www.redroom.com/author/alex-grant.
Dorianne Laux is author of Awake\, What We Carry\, finalist for the National Book Critic’s Circle Award\, and Smoke\, as well as two fine small press editions\, Superman\:The Chapbook and Dark Charms\, both from Red Dragonfly Press. Co-author of The Poet's Companion\: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry\, she’s the recipient of two Best American Poetry Prizes\, a Pushcart Prize\, two fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Widely anthologized\, her work has appeared in the Best of APR\, The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and The Best of the Net. In 2001\, she was invited by late poet laureate Stanley Kunitz to read at the Library of Congress. She has been teaching poetry in private and public venues since 1990 and since 2004 at Pacific University’s Low-Residency MFA Program. In the summers she teaches at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur\, California and Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill. Her poems have been translated into French\, Spanish\, Italian\, Korean\, Romanian\, Dutch\, Afrikkans and Brazilian Portuguese and her selected works\, In a Room with a Rag in my Hand\, have been translated into Arabic by Camel/Kalima Press. Recent poems appear in The American Poetry Review\, Cimarron Review\, Cerise Press\, Margie\, The Seattle Review\, Tin House and The Valparaiso Review. Her fifth collection of poetry\, The Book of Men\,will be published by W.W. Norton in February\, 2011. She and her husband\, poet Joseph Millar\, moved to Raleigh in 2008 where she teaches poetry in the MFA program at North Carolina State University. Dorianne Laux’s fourth book of poems\, Facts about the Moon\, is the recipient of the Oregon Book Award and was short-listed for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.
Joseph Millar is the author of Fortune\, from Eastern Washington University Press. His first collection\, Overtime (2001) was finalist for the Oregon Book Award and the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Millar grew up in Pennsylvania\, attended Johns Hopkins University and spent 25 years in the San Francisco Bay area\, working at a variety of jobs\, from telephone repairman to commercial fisherman. His poems have appeared in numerous magazines including The American Poetry Review\, The Southern Review\, TriQuarterly Review\, Prairie Schooner\, Shenandoah\, DoubleTake\, New Letters\, Ploughshares\, Manoa\, and River Styx. His work has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in Poetry\, Montalvo Center for the Arts\, Oregon Literary Arts and a 2008 Pushcart Prize in Poetry. In 1997 he gave up his job as a telephone installation foreman to teach. He now lives in Raleigh\, NC and teaches at Pacific University’s Low Residency MFA Program in Oregon and yearly at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur\, CA. Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa has said\, “There's a tenderness at the core of Fortune\, where the commonplace becomes atypical and fantastical\, and each poem possesses a voice that summons and reveals. Joseph Millar is a poet we can believe.” He has a new chapbook from Red Dragonfly Press called Bestiary\, and his third collection of poems\, Blue Rust\, will be published in fall of 2011 by Carnegie Mellon Press.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100903T070115Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100926T190000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100926T200000Z UID:http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/diana-kennedy-famed-mexican-chef-and-cookbook-author-will-discuss-her-new-book-oaxaca-al-gusto URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/diana-kennedy-famed-mexican-chef-and-cookbook-author-will-discuss-her-new-book-oaxaca-al-gusto SUMMARY:Diana Kennedy\, famed Mexican chef and cookbook author will discuss her new book Oaxaca Al Gusto\: An Infinite Gastronomy DESCRIPTION:Sun 9/26 2pm-3pm
Diana Kennedy\, famed Mexican chef and cookbook author will discuss her new book Oaxaca Al Gusto\: An Infinite Gastronomy
Renowned as the Julia Child of Mexican cooking and author of the definitive books on the subject\, including The Cuisines of Mexico\, The Art of Mexican Cooking\, My Mexico\, and From My Mexican Kitchen\, Diana Kennedy has now written her magnum opus—an irreplaceable record of the traditional regional cuisines of Oaxaca.
A British citizen\, Diana Southwood went to Mexico in 1957 to marry Paul P. Kennedy of the New York Times. She is widely considered the foremost researcher\, teacher\, and writer on the regional foods of Mexico and has written eight books on the subject. She has been bestowed the highest honor given to foreigners by the Mexican government\, the Order of the Aztec Eagle\, for her work of disseminating Mexican culture through its foods. She has also received numerous awards from other gastronomic institutions and was decorated with an MBE by Queen Elizabeth for her work of strengthening cultural relations between Mexico and the United Kingdom\, as well as for her work for the environment\, which is always reflected in her texts. For the past thirty years\, her studies have been centered around her ecological house in the state of Michoacán.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100903T070115Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100929T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100929T010000Z UID:http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/sage-rountree-discusses-yoga-athletes URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/sage-rountree-discusses-yoga-athletes SUMMARY:Sage Rountree discusses Yoga For Athletes DESCRIPTION:
Tues 9/28 7pm-8pm
Sage Rountree discusses Yoga for Athletes
Coach\, yoga teacher\, and author Sage Rountree will discuss how yoga enhances sports training. Come get a sense of how yoga will improve your strength\, flexibility\, and focus\, and leave with concrete ideas about how you can incorporate yoga into whatever else you do.
Sage Rountree\, PhD\, is an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher and USA Triathlon\, USA Cycling\, and RRCA certified coach\, as well as a Star 3 level Spinning instructor. She is author of The Athlete’s Guide to Yoga and The Athlete’s Pocket Guide to Yoga\; creator of The Athlete’s Guide to Yoga DVD\; and a contributor to Runner’s World and USA Triathlon Life.
Co-owner of the Carrboro Yoga Company\, Sage writes articles on pedagogy for Yoga Journal\, teaching teachers how to best serve their students. Her popular online videos include a full class on YogaVibes.com and many short illustrations for Runner’s World.
Athletes of all sports and levels—from former Olympians to professional triathletes to the UNC football team—praise Sage’s practical\, straightforward teaching style\, which puts special emphasis on core strength and hip flexibility. She teaches workshops nationwide\, including annual retreats at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health and at ZAP Fitness\, an elite training facility for post collegiate runners. She trains\, teaches\, and coaches in Chapel Hill\, NC.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100903T070115Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100930T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100930T010000Z UID:http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/randall-kenan-editor-discusses-cross-redemption-uncollected-writings-james-baldwin URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/randall-kenan-editor-discusses-cross-redemption-uncollected-writings-james-baldwin SUMMARY:Randall Kenan\, editor\, discusses The Cross of Redemption\: Uncollected Writings of James Baldwin DESCRIPTION:
Wed 9/29 7pm-8pm
Randall Kenan\, editor\, discusses
The Cross of Redemption\: Uncollected Writings of James Baldwin
James Baldwin was one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the past century\, renowned for his fierce engagement with issues haunting our common history. In The Cross of Redemption we have Baldwin discoursing on\, among other subjects\, the possibility of an African-American president and what it might mean\; the hypocrisy of American religious fundamentalism\; the black church in America\; the trials and tribulations of black nationalism\; anti-Semitism\; the blues and boxing\; Russian literary masters\; and the role of the writer in society.
Prophetic and bracing\, The Cross of Redemption is a welcome and important addition to the works of a cosmopolitan and canonical American writer who still has much to teach us about race\, democracy\, and personal and national identity. As Michael Ondaatje has remarked\, “If van Gogh was our nineteenth-century artist-saint\, Baldwin [was] our twentieth-century one.”
James Baldwin was born in 1924 and died in 1987. Among his more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction are Giovanni’s Room\, Go Tell It on the Mountain\, Notes of a Native Son\, and The Fire Next Time.
Randall Kenan is the author of\, among other books\, the novel A Visitation of Spirits and the short story collection Let the Dead Bury Their Dead. He teaches creative writing at UNC Chapel Hill.
“There are gems in this collection compiled by Kenan (Let the Dead Bury the Dead)\: 'The Fight\: Patterson vs. Liston' is as impeccably crafted as a short story\; 'Blacks and Jews' captures the speaking Baldwin and echoes the call-and-response tradition. The 54 pieces\, none previously appearing in book form\, range from Baldwin's first published book review in 1947 to a 1984 colloquy with college students. Baldwin's topic can often be subsumed under race\, but he most consistently wrestles with questions of moral integrity--in the language ('The Uses of the Blues')\, in the artist's work ('Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare')\, in the assessment of history ('On Being White... and Other Lies')\, and in one's personal life ('To Crush a Serpent'). Kenan's introduction and headnotes are models of critical good sense\; his awareness of both 'Baldwin's achievements that beggar the imagination\,' and of the 'grab bag' quality of some pieces makes him the perfect shepherd for these 'lost' works.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Thurs 9/30 7pm-8pm
Susan Gregg Gilmore reads from her new novel
The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove
From Nashville\, TN\, Susan Gregg Gilmore began her writing career at the University of Virginia as a reporter for the school’s award-winning newspaper. A year after graduation\, she entered graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin where she earned a Master of Arts in American Studies and returned to her writing. She remembers asking a favorite professor about pursuing a writing career\, and he told her she needed to live life first. So she did. She married her husband in 1985 has now raised three daughters. She has made hundreds of cupcakes for bake sales\, chaired school book fairs\, volunteered in inner-city schools and taught Vacation Bible School all the while writing for papers including the Los Angeles Times\, The Christian Science Monitor and the Chattanooga News-Free Press. While on staff at the Free Press\, Gilmore wrote a weekly column about parenting in the South.
Her first novel\, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen\, is rooted in summer vacations spent with her paternal grandmother and grandfather\, a revival-bred preacher\, who after church on Sundays\, always took his granddaughters to the Dairy Queen. Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen was called a “stand-out coming of age novel” by NPR’s Alan Cheuse and was a Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) 2009 Book Award Nominee. Her second novel\, The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove is about a young woman searches for love in the most unlikely of places while fighting against the injustice of her time
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Jay Varner reads from his memoir
Nothing Left To Burn
A staff favorite! Nothing Left to Burn is a remarkable memoir that looks into the life of a family that has spent years harboring secrets\, both dark and volatile. It eloquently tells the story of a son’s relationship with his father\, the fire chief and a local hero\, and his grandfather\, a serial arsonist.
When Jay Varner\, fresh out of college\, returns home to work for the local newspaper\, he knows that he will have to deal with the memories of a childhood haunted by a grandfather who was both menacing and comical and by a father who died too young and who never managed to be the father Jay so desperately needed him to be. In digging into the past\, he uncovers layers of secrets\, lies\, and half-truths. It is only when he finally has the truth in hand that he comes to an understanding of the forces that drove his father\, and of the fires that for all his efforts his father could never extinguish.
Jay Varner is a recent graduate of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington\, where he earned his MFA in creative nonfiction. He currently lives in Charlottesville\, Virginia. This is his first book.
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