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« Monday March 15, 2010 »
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An Evening of Western Writing with Mark Spragg & Laura Bell
Start: 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo: Mark Spragg is the author of Where Rivers Change Direction, a memoir that won the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers award, and the novels The Fruit of Stone and An Unfinished Life, which was chosen by the Rocky Mountain News as the Best Book of 2004. Spragg will read from and sign his new novel Bone Fire ($25.95 Random House), a gripping story that contains, along with harsh truths and difficult consolation, moments of hilarity and surprise and beauty. No one writes more compellingly about the modern West than Mark Spragg, and in Bone Fire he is at the very height of his powers. Visit Mark Spragg’s Facebook page. Request signed copies: books@tatteredcover.com Laura Bell’s work has been published in several collections, and from the Wyoming Arts Council she has received two literature fellowships as well as the Neltje Blanchan Memorial Award and the Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Award. Bell will discuss and sign her new book Claiming Ground: A Memoir ($24.95 Random House). Brimming with careful insight and written in a spare, radiant prose, Bell’s story is a heart-wrenching ode to the rough, enormous beauty of the Western landscape and the peculiar sweetness of hard labor, to finding oneself even in isolation, to a life formed by nature, and to the redemption of love, whether given or received. Visit Laura Bell’s Facebook page. Request signed copies: books@tatteredcover.com
An Evening of Thriller Writing with Linda Fairstein & Keith Thomson
Start: 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue: Head of the Sex Crimes Unit of the district attorney’s office in Manhattan for decades, Linda Fairstein is America’s most visible legal expert on sexual assault and domestic violence—which is why she writes some of the most compelling crime thrillers of our time and why her Alexandra Cooper series has been topping bestseller lists for more than a decade. Fairstein will read from and sign Hell Gate ($26.95 Dutton), in which Alex finds her attention torn between investigating a shipwreck that has contraband cargo—human cargo—and the political sex scandal of a promising New York congressman now fallen from grace. Visit Linda Fairstein’s website which includes a video of Linda talking about Hell Gate. Request signed copies: books@tatteredcover.com Keith Thomson, a former semi-pro baseball player in France, a filmmaker with a short film shown at Sundance, a cartoon artist for the Newsday editorial section, and a screenwriter, writes on intelligence and other matters for the Huffington Post. Thomson will discuss and sign his debut thriller Once a Spy ($25.95 Doubleday). “Once A Spy is the most enjoyable book I’ve read this year. Utterly original, it is an adrenaline-fueled concoction of sidesplitting humor and genuine suspense. Think Carl Hiassen taking on John Le Carré and the winner is the reader. What a find! I can’t imagine not loving this gem of a novel!” —Christopher Reich, author of Rules of Deception Visit Keith Thomson’s website which includes a book trailer for Once a Spy. Request signed copies: books@tatteredcover.com
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