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Tuesday, March 9th 7pm
David Shields
Author of Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
This is a lyrical explosion of a book, a challenge to literature, and particularly to narrative non-fiction, as we know it.
Our books no longer reflect the way we understand our lives, Shields argues. They are not fractured enough, not various and stolen, too hemmed in. We are all of us increasingly hungry for the "real", and have created monuments of commodified irreality in a desperate attempt to find it.
This book is indeed a manifesto in the best sense, a call to action for readers and writers. Shields is demanding reader interaction, greater risk, more serendipity and - as difficult, possibly, to acheive as it is easy to say - more reality in our use of the written word. It's a stirring book full of more questions than answers, and one I'm very excited to have as the topic of a conversation here at the store..
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Ongoing Events |
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•THE SPANISH LANGUAGE DISCUSSION GROUP• Led by Javier Molea, this group meets Saturdays at noon in the Spanish literature section downstairs. It's open to all who wish to practice their Spanish while discussing literature.
•OUR FICTION BOOK CLUB• Led by Sarah McNally and Chris Jackson, this discussion group meets the first Monday of every month, at 7pm downstairs. They'll be discussing The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake on March 1st.
•OUR ART & BEAUTY BOOK CLUB• Led by Adjua Greaves, this discussion group meets the second Wednesday of every month, at 7pm downstairs. For the next meetings on February 10th and March 10th, the book club will be discussing The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich.
•OUR GRAPHIC NOVEL BOOK CLUB• Led by Angela Williams and Evan Narcisse, this discussion group meets the first Thursday of every month, at 7pm downstairs. At our next meeting on March 4th, the book club will be discussing The Winter Men by Brett Lewis and John Paul Leon.
•KIDS STORYTIME• Resident storyteller Yvonne Brooks leads a storytime with with arts and crafts for kids ages 3 - 7, every Saturday at noon in the children’s section. Baby Storytime with storyteller Stewart Dawes takes place on Friday at 4:00 PM for ages 0 - 2.
NOTE All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise indicated. For more information about store events, email events coordinator Dustin Kurtz. |
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| The Changing Role of American Farmers |
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Wednesday, September 30 2009, 7:00pm - 8:00pm |
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Lisa M. Hamilton, author of Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness (Counterpoint)
Verlyn Klinkenborg, author of The Rural Life (Little, Brown & Co.)
Fred Kirschenmann, farmer and leader in the sustainable agriculture movement
Mary-Howell Martens, New York organic family farmer
    Over the past decade, our relationship to food and how it’s grown has transformed. But what about our relationship to the people who grow it? There is hope in the legions of new, young, and urban farmers cropping up around the United States, and yet overall, our country’s agricultural community is shrinking by the day. How is the role of farmers in our society and in our lives shifting? And what still needs to change? Moderator Lisa M. Hamilton, author of Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness, will be joined by three panelists: organic pioneer Fred Kisrchenmann, a Distinguished Fellow at the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University; the New York Times’ Verlyn Klinkenborg, author of The Rural Life; and New York farmer Mary-Howell Martens.
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