Events

« Week of September 19, 2010 »
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Start: 3:00 pm

Feminist poet, writer, photographer, and social activist Margaret Randall discusses and signs her newest book My Town: A Memoir of Albuquerque, New Mexico in Poems, Prose and Photographs(Wings Press, $16.00)

 

Start: 5:30 pm

 

Billy Upski Wimsatt discusses his latest book, Please Don't Bomb the Suburbs: A Mid-term Report on My Generation and The Future of Our Super Movement (Akashic, $14.95).  Following up on the '90s underground classic, Bomb the Suburbs, William Upski Wimsatt's sequel, Please Don't Bomb the Suburbs takes on the theme of the Super Movement: a theory that predicts the long-term convergence of progressive social and political movements around a shared vision, using a 21st Century operating system, as part of the fabric of everyday life. 

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Start: 7:00 pm

David Abram, author of The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World (for which he received the international Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction), discusses and signs his new book Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology (Pantheon, $26.95)

 

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Start: 3:00 pm

Enjoy live music at Bookworks from local band Felix Y Los Gatos, in celebration of their new CDGreen Chile Gumbo!  The new cd features John Popper of Blues Traveler on the track "Hot Damn."

The core of the band is composed of Felix Peralta on guitar, lead vocals and harmonica; David Barclay on button accordion and keyboard, Tim McDaniel on bass; and Melvin Crisp on drums.

Start: 5:30 pm
End: 7:30 pm
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