Malaprop's Book Store/Cafe announces the following events for January 2014:
Tuesday, December
31 at 6 pm
NEW
YEAR’S EVE HOURS
It
doesn’t happen very often, but Malaprop’s will be closing early at 6 pm in
observance of New Year’s Eve. Happy and safe New Year everyone!
Wednesday, January
1 from 12-5 pm
NEW
YEAR’S DAY SALE!
Ring
in the New Year with books, coffee, and more at Malaprop’s! Most bookstore
items are 25% off as we celebrate another year of bookselling in this wonderful
community.
Sunday, January 5
at 3 pm
POETRIO
Join
us for readings and signings by Lisa Ezzard (Vintage), Deborah Bernhardt (Driftology),
and a third poet to be announced.
Tuesday, January 7
at 7 pm
ENNEAGRAM
SERIES WITH SANDRA SMITH: THE BASICS & TYPE 3
Learn about the Enneagram System as panels of Enneagram types
speak to their experience of their particular personality style. Certified
Enneagram consultant Sandra Smith introduces basic concepts of the Enneagram
and explores the gifts and challenges of each type. Tonight she will tackle the
basics and discuss Type Three: The Achiever.
Wednesday, January
8 at 6:30 pm
THE
RAG-PICKER’S GUIDE TO POETRY READING & SIGNING
The
Rag-picker’s Guide to Poetry: Poems, Poets, Process is
a new anthology that features poems and essays on process from 35 poets
teaching in the MFA Program at Warren Wilson College. We will be joined by the
book’s editors, Eleanor Wilner and Maurice Manning, as well as contributors Alan
Shapiro, Debra Allbery,
Marianne Boruch, Karen Brennan, Jennifer Grotz, James
Longenbach, Ellen Bryant Voigt,
and Alan Williamson. Royalties from the book go to Friends of Writers,
which provides scholarship and aid funds to WWC’s MFA Program. Please note the
unusual time for this event.
Friday, January 10
at 7 pm
ROGER
HUTCHINSON READING & SIGNING
A graduate
of Warren Wilson College, Roger Hutchison is the Canon for Children’s
Ministries and Director of the Trinity Center for Mission and Ministry at
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Columbia, SC. His new book, The Painting Table: A Journal of Loss and Joy, shares his
experiences and guides readers in using art to come together, create healing,
and manifest joy.
Saturday, January
11 at 3 pm
CHILDREN’S
STORYTIME PARTY!
This month
we are celebrating the books Angelina
Ballerina by Katherine Holabird and The
Snowy Day by Jack Ezra Keats. Robin will lead story time and activities,
and tantalizingly toothsome treats will be provided. Recommended for ages 4-10,
but all are welcome. All parents are invited to stay!
Sunday, January 12
at 3 pm
SELF-PUBLISHED
AUTHORS OPEN HOUSE
Please join us as eight of our local authors with recent
self-published titles read and sign books. Each author will present their work
for ten minutes and the presentations will be followed by Q&A. This is an
excellent opportunity to mix and mingle with many local writers, hear their
diverse works, and ask them about the process of writing and publishing.
Monday, January 13
at 7 pm
WRITING
WORKSHOP WITH ANNIE FAHY
This free workshop will use elements from The AWA method
described in Writing Alone and With
Others by Pat Schneider. Annie will write along with the group to create a
safe, honest, and non-hierarchical space for new work. Accomplished and
beginning writers learn from one another in a generous atmosphere of both
critical craft and personal respect for the value of every voice.
Friday, January 17
at 7 pm
OKEY
NDIBE READING & SIGNING
Nigerian
writer Okey Ndibe’s new novel, Foreign
Gods, Inc., follows a man from New York to Nigeria where he is bent on
stealing a religious artifact. Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, author of Wizard of the Crow, says, “Foreign Gods, Inc. reads like the
narrative of a taxi-driving Faust in modern Nigeria and America. . . . it teems
with characters and situations that make you laugh in order not to cry. ” Originally
invited to the US by Chinua Achebe, Ndibe was one of the founders of the
acclaimed magazine, African Commentary.
Ndibe teaches African and African Diaspora literatures at Brown University.
Saturday, January
18 at 10 am
TALK WITH
HUMANIST GRETA CHRISTINA
Join us for
a conversation with humanist Greta Christina. Christina is one of the most
widely-read and well-respected bloggers in the atheist blogosphere and is
author of the new book Coming Out
Atheist: How to Do It, How to Help Each Other, and Why and of Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That
Piss Off the Godless.
Saturday, January
18 at 7 pm
FAITH
HUNTER READING & SIGNING
Bestselling
local author Faith Hunter presents Black
Arts, the 7th in the series featuring her popular vampire
hunter, Jane Yellowrock. Booklist says,
“Hunter’s very professionally executed, tasty blend of
dark fantasy, mystery, and romance should please fans of all three genres.” A
native of Louisiana, Hunter sets many of the Jane Yellowrock series in New
Orleans, though she made a side trip to Asheville in a previous novel, Raven Cursed.
Sunday, January 19
at 3 pm
WRITERS
AT HOME WITH TOMMY HAYS
Join host
Tommy Hays for this monthly reading series featuring work from UNCA’s Great
Smokies Writing Program.
Friday, January 24
at 7 pm
SARAH
ADDISON ALLEN READING & SIGNING
Sarah
Addison Allen, beloved local author of the New
York Times bestselling novel, Garden
Spells, returns with a brand new novel, Lost Lake. Fannie Flagg (Fried
Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café) says, “This book is filled with mystery, magic and wonderful surprises” and Booklist, in a starred review, raves, “One
would need a heart of steel, or the skin of an alligator, not to fall in love
with Allen’s beguiling cast of misfits.” Please join us to celebrate her
return!
Sunday, January 26
at 3 pm
LUCY
DANIELS READING & SIGNING
Lucy
Daniels, now a clinical psychologist, shares flashes from her personal and
professional life in Walking with
Moonshine: My Life in Stories. The author of Caleb, My Son, a novel which led to her Guggenheim fellowship at
age 22—the youngest person to receive that honor—Daniels has written two other
novels, a memoir, and the primer Dreaming
Your Way to Creative Freedom.
Tuesday, January 28
at 7 pm
JAMES
SCOTT READING & SIGNING
James
Scott’s debut novel The Kept is “riveting
and memorable” according to Tom Perrotta (The
Leftovers). Set in New England in the late 19th century, it
follows a mother and son looking for answers to a dark family tragedy. Ron Rash (Nothing
Gold Can Stay) says, “With its vivid sense of time
and place, lyrical writing, and complex questions of what constitutes a family,
The Kept is an outstanding debut by
a bright new voice in American fiction.”
Wednesday, January
29 at 7 pm
BOOK
LAUNCH WITH JEANIENE FROST
Join
us to celebrate the release of Up From
the Grave, the seventh Night Huntress novel by bestselling author Jeaniene
Frost! According to the author, Up From
the Grave will be the last Cat & Bones novel, so don’t miss this chance
to meet her and have your book signed. If you haven’t discovered Jeaniene Frost
yet, come find out why Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse
series, always opens her books “with happy anticipation”!
Thursday, January
30 at 7 pm
STEVE
VINAY GUNTHER DISCUSSION & SIGNING
Founder
of the Northern Rivers Gestalt Institute, which he ran for 17 years, Steve
Vinay Gunther has been involved in psychotherapy practice and education for 25
years. His new book, Understanding the
Woman in Your Life, brings those years as well as his personal
relationships to the table in order to help men have better relationships with
the women they love.
Friday, January 31
at 7 pm
WILEY CASH READING & SIGNING
One of our favorite new writers, Wiley Cash, reads from and signs his second novel, This Dark Road to Mercy. Jill McCorkle, author of Life After Life, says, “Wiley Cash has written another winner. . . . a time capsule and at times an edgy thriller, but at its fine emotional center it’s all about what it means to be a father.” A native of North Carolina and a UNCA graduate, Cash’s first novel, A Land More Kind Than Home, is a staff favorite and a New York Times bestseller. This event is free and open to the public.
One of our favorite new writers, Wiley Cash, reads from and signs his second novel, This Dark Road to Mercy. Jill McCorkle, author of Life After Life, says, “Wiley Cash has written another winner. . . . a time capsule and at times an edgy thriller, but at its fine emotional center it’s all about what it means to be a father.” A native of North Carolina and a UNCA graduate, Cash’s first novel, A Land More Kind Than Home, is a staff favorite and a New York Times bestseller. This event is free and open to the public.
No comments:
Post a Comment