Pegasus Books Downtown is pleased to welcome Hugo and Nebula award-winning authors\, Kim Stanley Robinson who will read from The Lucky Strike and Terry Bisson who will read from The Left Left Behind\, both issued as part of the Outspoken Author series from PM Press. Join us for a memorable evening.
PM Press honors Kim Stanley Robinson as part of its Outspoken Author series by re-issuing The Lucky Strike. This Outspoken Author book also includes a detailed interview and autobiography of the mind and work\, history and politics of Kim Stanley Robinson.
PM Press has released The Left Left Behind by Terry Bisson as part of its Outspoken Author series. Bisson is best known for his short stories\, which range from the southern sweetness of “Bears Discover Fire” to the alienated aliens of “They’re Made Out of Meat.” He is also a 1960’s New Left vet with a history of activism and an intact (if battered) radical ideology.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120517T124450Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091023T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091023T023000Z UID:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/offsite-event-evening-kay-redfield-jamison-author-nothing-was-same URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/offsite-event-evening-kay-redfield-jamison-author-nothing-was-same SUMMARY:Offsite Event\: An evening with Kay Redfield Jamison\, author of Nothing Was The Same DESCRIPTION:Tickets\: $12 advance ($6 students with ID advance) at Brown Paper Tickets or 800-838-3006 /$15 door
Perhaps no one but Kay Redfield Jamison -- who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with elegant and passionate writing -- could bring such a delicate touch to the subject of losing a spouse to cancer. Jamison looks back at her relationship with her husband\, Richard Wyatt\, a renowned scientist who battled debilitating dyslexia to become one of the foremost experts on schizophrenia. And with her characteristic honesty\, candor\, wit\, and simplicity\, she describes his death\, her own long\, difficult struggle with grief\, and her efforts to distinguish grief from depression.
But she also recalls the great joy that Richard brought her during the nearly twenty years they had together. Wryly humorous anecdotes mingle with bittersweet memories of a relationship that was passionate and loving -- if troubled on occasion by her manic-depressive (bipolar) illness -- as Jamison reveals the ways in which her husband encouraged her to write openly about her mental illness and\, through his courage and grace\, taught her to live fully.
Kay Redfield Jamison is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as well as Honorary Professor of English at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She is the author of An Unquiet Mind\: A Memoir of Moods and Madness\, Night Falls Fast\: Understanding Suicide\, and Touched with Fire\: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament. She is coauthor of the standard medical text on manic-depressive illness and author or coauthor of more than one hundred scientific papers about mood disorders\, creativity\, and psychopharmacology.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120517T124450Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091029T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091029T023000Z UID:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/chef-maria-helm-sinskey-reads-and-gives-cooking-demo URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/chef-maria-helm-sinskey-reads-and-gives-cooking-demo SUMMARY:CANCELLED\: Chef Maria Helm Sinskey reads and cooks at Pegasus Downtown DESCRIPTION:We regret that this event has been cancelled and will be rescheduled.
Named one of the "\;Best New Chefs in America"\; by Food &\; Wine magazine\, Maria Helm Sinskey will read and demonstrate recipes from her newest book\, Williams-Sonoma Family Meals\: Creating Traditions in the Kitchen.
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Formerly the executive chef of PlumpJack Café in San Francisco\, she now provides culinary direction and cooking classes at Robert Sinskey Vineyards\, the Napa Valley winery she owns with her husband. This evening's event will focus on including children in the culinary process. All are welcome.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120517T124450Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091102T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091102T020000Z UID:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/evening-poets-published-parthenon-west-review URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/evening-poets-published-parthenon-west-review SUMMARY:An Evening with Poets Published in Parthenon West Review DESCRIPTION:Poets Camile T. Dungy\, Chad Sweeney\, and Russell Dillon will read their work from the latest Parthenon West Review. Join us for a night of distinguished poets.
Camille T. Dungy is the author of What to Eat\, What to Drink\, What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen Press\, 2006) and Suck on the Marrow (Red Hen Press\, due January 2010). She is editor of Black Nature\: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (UGA\, due December 2009) and co-editor of From the Fishouse\: An Anthology of Poems that Sing\, Rhyme\, Resound\,Syncopate\, Alliterate\, and Just Plain Sound Great (Persea\, April 2009).
Dungy is associate professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University.
Chad Sweeney is the author of three books of poetry\, Parable of Hide and Seek (Alice James Books\, forthcoming 2010)\, Arranging the Blaze (Anhinga\, 2009)\, and An Architecture (BlazeVox\, 2007)\; and four chapbooks\, most recently A Mirror to Shatter the Hammer (Tarpaulin Sky Press\, 2006). Sweeney's poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2008 and Verse Daily\, and in numerous journals and magazines. Sweeney co-edits Parthenon West Review.
Russell Dillon is the author of Secret Damage (Forklift Ink\, 2009)\; he received degrees from Emerson College and the Bennington Writing Seminars and his work has appeared or is forthcoming in Alligator Juniper\, Big Bell\, Forklift\, Ohio\, Tight\, and Parthenon West Review\, among others.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120517T124450Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091105T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091105T023000Z UID:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/peter-beren-and-dan-jacobson-read-and-discuss-california-beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/peter-beren-and-dan-jacobson-read-and-discuss-california-beautiful SUMMARY:Peter Beren and Dan Jacobson read and discuss California the Beautiful DESCRIPTION:Peter Beren will read and discuss California the Beautiful\, along with Dan Jacobson\, Legislative Director of Environment California.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120517T124450Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091108T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091108T023000Z UID:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/loren-rhoads-reads-morbid-curiosity-cures-blues URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/loren-rhoads-reads-morbid-curiosity-cures-blues SUMMARY:Loren Rhoads reads from Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues DESCRIPTION:Loren Rhoads\, creator and editor of the magazine Morbid Curiosity\, has compiled some of her favorite stories from all ten issues into a sometimes shocking\, occasionally gruesome\, always fascinating anthology. For ten years\, Morbid Curiosity was a one-of-a-kind underground magazine that gained a devoted following for its celebration of absurd\, grotesque\, and unusual tales -- all true -- submitted from contributors around the country and across the world. Join us.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120517T124450Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091111T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091111T023000Z UID:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/joel-schalit-editor-zeek-online-reads-israel-vs-utopia URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/joel-schalit-editor-zeek-online-reads-israel-vs-utopia SUMMARY:Joel Schalit\, editor of Zeek Online\, reads from Israel vs. Utopia DESCRIPTION:Pegasus Downtown and Brit Tzedek present Joel Schalit\, editor of Zeek Online\, reading from his new book Israel vs. Utopia
In Israel vs. Utopia (Akashic Books\, 2009) Israeli American journalist Joel Schalit distinguishes between the Israel he knows\, and the image of it that exists in the imagination of Americans. Schalit will discuss his new book as well as European perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120517T124450Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091113T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091113T023000Z UID:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/getting-messy-guide-taking-risks-and-opening-imagination-teachers-trainers-and-mentors URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/getting-messy-guide-taking-risks-and-opening-imagination-teachers-trainers-and-mentors SUMMARY:Getting Messy\: A Guide to Taking Risks and Opening the Imagination for Teachers\, Trainers and Mentors DESCRIPTION:Kim Hermanson will read and discuss Getting Messy\, an invitation to a radically different way of teaching that emphasizes the human over the mechanical and the ethical over the material. The evening includes exercises from Getting Messy that will inspire us to turn the messy business of being human into the stuff that makes us grow. All are welcome.
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