August 20, 2012

Happenings, Week of August 20

Week of August 20

Lots of exciting literary happenings going on this week!  For a map of these events, click on over to the Happenings tab.  If we've missed an event, please let us know by sending it to NativeHomeOfHope@gmail.com


Utah Book Month, via The Bluestocking Society

Vegas Valley Book Festival Pre-festival events, August 13 to September 21 - Nominations Open For Crystal Bookmark Award, August 15 to November 3 - Wish I Was There!
international postcard project and exhibition, August 26 to October 5 - "Spark!" Poetry Contest (grades 9-12) entries, Las Vegas, NV


MONDAY, AUGUST 20

Rick Bass, The Black Rhinos of Namibia, 7:30 p.m., Powell’s Burnside, Portland, OR

Selden Edwards, The Lost Prince, 7 p.m., Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA

Bette Lynch Husted, Lessons from Borderlands, 5 p.m., BookPeople, Moscow, ID

David McDannald, The Last Great Ape, 7:30 p.m., Tattered Cover, Denver, CO



TUESDAY, AUGUST 21

Rick Bass, The Black Rhinos of Namibia, 7 p.m., Auntie’s Bookstore, Spokane, WA

Paul Bendix, Dance Without Steps, 7 p.m., Elliot Bay, Seattle,WA

Selden Edwards, The Lost Prince, 7 p.m., A Great Place for Books, Oakland, CA

Ruben Martinez, Desert America: Boom and Bust in the New Old West, 7 p.m., Books Inc., Berkely, CA

Jack Nisbet, “David Douglas in the Shrub Steppe,” 7:30 p.m., presentation at the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, Cheney, Washington

Aaron Patterson, In Your Dreams, Idaho Writers Guild Literary Lunch, Cafe Ole, Boise, ID

Alex Jacobs, with Janet Marie Rogers, “Got Your Back,” presentation of poetry and music, Bookworks, Albuquerque, NM

Julie Titone, Boocoo Dinky Dow: My Short, Crazy Vietnam War, 7 p.m., BookPeople, Moscow, ID


WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22

Selden Edwards, The Lost Prince, 1 p.m., Copperfield’s, Petaluma, CA

Selden Edwards, The Lost Prince, 7 p.m., Chaucer’s, Santa Barbara, CA

Shannon Hale, Palace of Stone, 7 p.m., Changing Hands, Tempe, AZ

Doyce Testeman, Hidden Things, 7:30 p.m., Tattered Cover, Denver, CO

Pauls Toutonghi, Evel Knievel Days, with Jac Jemc, My Only Wife, Mairead Case, and Beau Golwitzer, The Whistler, Chicago, IL


THURSDAY, AUGUST 23

Selden Edwards, The Lost Prince, 11:30 a.m., Mysterious Galaxy, Redondo Beach, CA

Selden Edwards, The Lost Prince, 7 p.m., Vroman’s, Pasadena, CA

The Green Front Excavation: Digging up an 1890s Chinatown Brothel,” 6 p.m., Lecture, Hager Auditorium, Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, MT

Cheryl Strayed, or Dear Sugar, Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things, 7 p.m., Prairie Lights, Iowa City, IA

Pauls Toutonghi, Evel Knievel Days, Boswell Book Company, Milwaukee, WI

Yuvi Zalkow, A Brilliant Novel in the Works, 7 p.m., Upstart Crow, San Diego, CA


FRIDAY, AUGUST 24

Thomas Keller, Bouchon Bakery, 7 p.m., Barnes and Noble Union Square, New York, NY

Wind River Outdoor Writers Conference, Central Wyoming College Sinks Canyon Center, near Lander, WY

Yuvi Zalkow, A Brilliant Novel in the Works, 7 p.m., Book Soup, Los Angeles, CA



SATURDAY, AUGUST 25

Jessica Hecket, The Water Words, 1 p.m., Hastings South, Spokane, WA

Amanda McTigue, Going to Solace, 7 p.m., Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA

Jane Mellor, Delicate Availability, 1 p.m., Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA

Pamela Ribon, You Take It from Here, 4 p.m., Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA

Pauls Toutonghi, Evel Knievel Days, Watermark Books, Wichita, KS

Wind River Outdoor Writers Conference, Central Wyoming College Sinks Canyon Center, near Lander, WY


SUNDAY, AUGUST 26

David Abel, Float, and Standard Schaefer, The Notebook of False Purgatories, 4 p.m., Powell’s Hawthorne, Portland, OR

Lian Gouw, Only a Girl, 4 p.m., Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA

Jean Symmes, A Daughter's Inheritance, 7 p.m., Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA

No comments:

Post a Comment