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Start: 7:30 pm
Highlands Ranch: David Philipps is a features writer for the Colorado Springs Gazette. His coverage of the violence at Fort Carson won him the Livingston Prize for National Reporting, and he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Philipps will discuss and sign his book Lethal Warriors: When the New Band of Brothers Came Home ($25.00 Palgrave). When the 506th Infantry Regiment—known since World War II as the Band of Brothers—returned to Colorado Springs after their first tour in Iraq, a series of brutal crimes swept through the city. The Band of Brothers had been deployed to the most violent places in Iraq, and some of the soldiers were suffering from what they had seen and done in combat. After their second tour of duty, the battalion was renamed the Lethal Warriors, and, true to their name, the soldiers once again brought the violence home. Lethal Warriors brings to life the chilling true stories of these veterans—from their enlistment and multiple tours of duty to their struggles with PTSD and their failure to reintegrate in society. With piercing insight, and employing his relentless investigative skills, Philipps shines a light not only on this particular unit, but also on the painful reality of PTSD as it rages throughout the country. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com
Start: 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo: Journalist, author, and music and literary critic Thomas Larson will offer a PowerPoint presentation and sign his new book The Saddest Music Ever Written: The Story of Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings” ($26.95 Pegasus). In the first book ever to explore Barber’s “Adagio for Strings,” Larson tells the story of the prodigal composer and his seminal masterpiece: from its composition in 1936, when Barber was just twenty-six, to its orchestral premiere two years later, led by the great Arturo Toscanini, and its fascinating history as America’s secular hymn for grieving our dead. Older Americans know Adagio from the funerals and memorials for Presidents Roosevelt and Kennedy, Albert Einstein, and Grace Kelly. Younger Americans recall the work as the antiwar theme of the movie Platoon. Still others treasure the piece in its choral version under the name “Agnus Dei.” More recently, mourners heard Adagio played as a memorial to the victims of the 9/11 attacks. Barber’s Adagio is truly the saddest music ever written, enrapturing listeners with its lyric beauty as few laments have.
Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com
Start: 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue: Mary Catherine Bateson was Clarence J. Robinson Professor in Anthropology and English at George Mason University from 1987 to 2002, when she became Professor Emerita. She is a Visiting Scholar at the Center on Aging and Work/Workplace Flexibility at Boston College and, until recently, was president of the Institute of Intercultural Studies in New York City. Her bestselling books include Composing a Life, which was first published in 1991 and is still in print almost 20 years later. Bateson will discuss and sign her new book Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom ($25.95 Knopf), an inspiring exploration of a new stage of the life cycle, “Adulthood II,” created by unprecedented levels of health, energy, time, and resources—of which we have barely begun to be fully conscious. Visit Mary Catherine Bateson’s website. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com
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