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Events
Events listed in white are at the bookshop; events listed in yellow are elsewhere.
All events are free & open to the public.
(Click on a picture or a title to check our inventory or to purchase.)
- Friday, July 13th at 8:00 P.M.(Reading)
Pop culture essayist & wild man,
Chuck Klosterman, author of
Fargo Rock City : A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota,
Sex, Drugs, & Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto &
Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story, will read from the new paperback release of
Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People & Dangerous Ideas. Likened to Hunter S. Thompson, Klosterman writes a monthly column, “Chuck Klosterman’s America,” for
Esquire. He is a regular contributor to
The New York Times Magazine &
ESPN Magazine. His work has been anthologized in Dave Egger’s
Best American Non–Essential Reading series & is regularly chosen for the prestigious Da Capo
Best Music Writing annual.
- Tuesday, July 17th at 8:00 P.M.(Reading)
Award–winning local writer/photographer
Charlie Hertan reads from
Dream Catcher: Selected Poems by Lynn Kernan, his compilation of his late mother's poetry which was released in December 2006. Kernan's evocative, elegant, & deeply moving work has received high acclaim from literary figures including Grace Cavalieri, long–time host of the Pacifica Radio program “The Poet & the Poem”, on which Kernan appeared as a featured poet.