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Kim Stanley Robinson, New York 2140
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz and the Institute for Humanities Research are pleased to welcome New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson as he returns for a book talk and signing of his bold and brilliant vision of New York City in the next century: New York 2140. "In the not-so-distant future, a diverse cast of […]
Geraldine Brooks: “The Secret Chord”
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesNow out in paperback from Pulitzer Prize winning, bestselling author Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord traces the arc of King David's journey from obscurity to fame, from shepherd to soldier, from hero to traitor, from beloved king to murderous despot and into his remorseful and diminished dotage. The Secret Chord has received critical acclaim; The […]
Micah Perks: “What Becomes Us”
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us as we celebrate the launch of this wonderfully consuming new novel from local author, professor, and co-director of UCSC’s creative writing program Micah Perks. Following a near-fatal accident, Evie, a mild-mannered, pregnant school teacher, abandons her controlling husband and flees California for the wilds of western New York. She rents a farm house […]
Poetry Santa Cruz presents Michael Hannon and Gary Young
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMichael Hannon was born in California in 1939. He has been writing and publishing poetry for 53 years. His work has appeared in journals and anthologies both here and abroad. Much of his work has been published by California’s leading book artists in limited editions. His thirty-year collaboration with the artist William T. Wiley has produced […]
John Jordan, Supposing Bleak House
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJohn O. Jordan is giving a reading at Bookshop Santa Cruz in honor of Charles Dickens's bicentenary (born Feb 7, 1812). John will read from his book, Supposing Bleak House, and discuss Dickens, Bleak House, the Dickens Project, and the upcoming Dickens Universe (focusing on Bleak House this summer). There's a Bookshop link at http://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/john-jordan.
Community Book Group with Karen Tei Yamashita
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDazzling and ambitious, this hip, multi-voiced fusion of prose, playwriting, graphic art, and philosophy spins an epic tale of America’s struggle for civil rights as it played out in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Divided into ten novellas, one for each year, I Hotel begins in 1968, when Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated, students […]