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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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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. | 23
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