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Malaprop's This Week’s Events at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café 55 Haywood St., Asheville, NC 28801 828-254-6734 or 1-800-441-9829
Friday, March 10, 2006, at 3-5 pm: Mimsy Sadofsky will sign books and answer questions about the alternative Sudbury Valley model of education. A Sudbury Valley School is moving to Asheville in the near future. We are currently stocking a number of the School’s books (the books are living right now in our front window display). For more online information about the School, visit www. sudburyvalley.org. Or better yet, come in and meet the author and bring your questions! Mimsy Sadofsky returns on Saturday at 3 pm to be available to those who cannot make it in on Friday afternoon.
Friday, March 10 at 7 pm: Come celebrate Women’s History Month with four poets: Cheryl Boyce Taylor, Laura Hope-Gill, Glenis Redmond, and Patricia Starek. Each will read from their work. Glenis Redmond and Laura Hope-Gill, former Malaprop’s employees, are fantastic performers. I’m sure this will be a full house, so come early to get a good seat!
Saturday, March 11 at 7 pm: Kaye Gibbons, author of national bestseller and Oprah Winfrey book club selection, Ellen Foster, reads from the sequel to that novel, The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster. Kaye Gibbons is considered one of the South’s finest contemporary writers. Don’t miss this special event. An author reception follows the reading.
Sunday, March 12 at 2 pm: Robert Gongloff, the author of Dream Exploration: A New Approach, will conduct a dream exploration workshop. Robert L. Van de Castle, author of Our Dreaming Mind, writes of Gongloff’s work, “In this well-written and appealing book, Robert Gongloff presents an exciting new approach to comprehending the important messages we receive in our dreams. His theme identification approach is a novel one that is a significant step beyond the concept of Jung’s archetypal imagery. Extensive dream examples are used to demonstrate his provocative system in action.”
Tuesday, March 14 at 7 pm: Malaprop’s Bookclub with host Mary Park Ford meets in the Cafe to discuss Runaway by Alice Munro.
March 22 at 7 pm: Youth Poetry. If you are looking for some inspiration, please visit our website, or drop by the store, to see our calendar of events. One of our new monthly events, “Word!?: Youth Poetry Night” is a big success. This open mic for young people meets in the Cafe with host Riley Schilling. Come by Wednesday, March 22 at 7 pm to enjoy the energy and spirit of young people reading poetry. If your child wants to read, please come at least 15 minutes early to sign them up.
Notes About March: March flies by and before you know it, it’s springtime! We are seeing the annual springtime arrival of people checking out WNC as a new place to live, and are enjoying the company, at least on weekends, of visitors escaping their busy lives in Atlanta, Charlotte, Knoxville, and other points south, east, north and west to take in the beauty of our area. We are even seeing the first Appalachian Trail thruhikers emerging from the Smoky Mountains and coming into town to replenish supplies and rejuvenate before heading north.
Enjoy your weekends, Linda Barrett Knopp
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*** THIS WEEK AT MALAPROP'S Friday, March 3, 2006, at 7pm: Clarke Snell and Tim Callahan present Building Green, the definitive guide to alternative building methods, including straw bale, cob, cordwood, living roofs, and earth plaster. Rob Roy, Director of the Earthwood Building School, praises, “The authors have documented the construction of a small guesthouse project in great detail, showing and describing several natural building methods through wonderful illustrations and clear, entertaining text...the best overview of cordwood masonry that I have seen in the various ‘alternative’ and ‘natural’ building compendiums that have been published...An excellent work!” Saturday, March 4 at 5-6:30pm: Erik Schlimmer will answer questions and sign copies of his excellent reference book, Thru Hiker’s Guide to America: 25 Incredible Trails You Can Hike in 1-8 Weeks. If you dream of tackling the Appalachian, Continental Divide, or Pacific Crest Trail but lack the time or resources for a 2000-mile-plus journey, this is the book for you!
Saturday, March 4 at 7pm: Lyle Estill, author of Biodiesel Power, and VP of Piedmont Biofuels, will join with our local representative, Brian Winslett of Blue Ridge Biofuels, for an informative presentation and discussion of alternative fuel. This book will appeal to a wide audience including farmers, truckers, backyarders and commercial producers, politicians, and all those concerned about the end of oil. Other News: Our annual inventory, a day that I dread beyond words but others here perversely enjoy, took place yesterday. Why do I dread it? Well, because first we have to hand count every item for sale in the store. Then we reconcile this count with our own tracking of inventory throughout the year. The counting takes about 7 hours, the reconciliation mere minutes. Which part do I dread more? The reconciliation, of course, because it is then, when most everyone has left, that we, the weary few remaining, discover that we forgot to count several baskets of rolled maps, the 400 plus square magnets in the window display, the box of t-shirts in the back, etc, etc. Yet it all gets counted, the store put back together, and we move on. Phew. Compared to other kinds of stress one can endure, it wasn’t that bad, really.
More News: Yesterday was a much more thrilling day for the cafe. The cafe manager, Elyse, called it a rebirthing. The cafe staff, aided by a couple of plumbers and electricians, renovated and reorganized the space behind the counter. And, wow, does it look great! There are still a few areas that are being tinkered with, improved here and there, but the change is mostly done. The space looks, to quote at least two people today, quite comfy and spacious. Certainly more filled with light and very, very pretty. Come see! March is filled with great author events for all kinds of readers. Please visit our website, www.malaprops.com, for a complete listing.
Enjoy your weekends, Linda Barrett Knopp dta6malapropscalendarmar3bb
*** THIS WEEK AT MALAPROP'S Friday, September 30 7pm: Jean-Claude Koven will discuss his book Going Deeper: How to Make Sense of Your Life When Your Life Makes No Sense. Koven’s book is already a bestseller in our store! Going Deeper is written for the 70 million Wanderers (advanced souls who came from distant dimensions to help with the impending shift) currently incarnated on planet Earth. Koven provides the missing links to help Wanderers awaken to their true purpose. Jean Houston calls this work, “Mythic and masterful” and Jeannie Just proclaims it to be “A brilliant, creative, engaging sequel to the Celestine Prophecy…” 8:15pm: Music in the Café with Annie Hallman. Saturday, October 1 at 7pm: Sunday, October 2 at 2pm: Rev. Louisa A. Dyer, M.A. will discuss her new book, Themes of Illumination: Opening to God Within: 52 Weeks of Divine Contemplations. Dyer’s workbook is inclusive of all faiths, and offers tools for spiritual awakening, whatever your path. Exercises, mandalas to contemplate, and personal wisdom fill the pages of Dyer’s work. Other News: A number of big new books hit the shelves this week. Come check out our New Arrivals and Staff Favorites shelves and see what we’re excited about. Diana Gabaldon’s "A Breath of Snow and Ashes," the latest in the Outlander series, is finally here! There are few things more fun for a bookseller than to see customers so excited to read a book that their hands are shaking as they reach for it. And that has happened several times this week when selling the new Gabaldon to hyperventilating customers. And, boy, was the wait for this one ever worth it! Set in Western North Carolina during the years before the American Revolution, "A Breath of Snow and Ashes" will capture your attention and all your free time until the very last page. After reading this novel, I went on to read the current non-fiction national and Malaprop’s bestseller, 1776 by David McCullough. I highly recommend this work to anyone wanting to learn more about the strategy, battles, personalities of American and British commanders and soldiers, and behind the scenes power struggles on both sides of this extraordinary conflict in our history. This week’s poem is from After Every War: Twentieth-Century Women Poets, translated from the German by Eavan Boland, Princeton University Press, $19.95. The poem I selected is by Rose Auslander.
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My Fatherland is dead. Enjoy your weekends! Linda Barrett Knopp
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This Week’s Events at 55 Haywood St., Asheville, NC 28801 828-254-6734 or 1-800-441-9829 Thursday, September 8 at 6:30pm: An evening of poetry and song with The Traveling Bonfires. Friday, September 9 7pm: Chris Grabenstein will read from and sign copies of his mystery, Tilt-a-Whirl. “There isn’t much fun in the sun when a billionaire real estate tycoon is found murdered on the tilt-a-whirl at a seedy seaside amusement park in the otherwise quiet summer tourist town of Sea Haven.” James Patterson praises the novel as “a fast-paced thrill ride with lots of twists and turns and good writing from start to finish.” 8:15pm: Music in the Café with Deb Criss and The Buckerettes
Saturday, September 10 7pm: MariJo Moore will read poems from her new collection, "Confessions of a Madwoman." Emoke says of MariJo’s work, “Words bring MariJo to this beginning and ending, without hesitation she flies with wings un-fluttered by manmade events ..to be true to her words are to live and be.”
Tuesday, September 13 at 7pm: Malaprop’s Bookclub with host Mary Park Ford will discuss War Trash by Ha Jin.
Wednesday, September 14 at 7pm: Frannie Hoffman will read from her inspirational book of transformation, "From Modeling Clothes to Modeling Self." Excerpt: “ In each moment, we are modeling something. Sometimes it is fear. Sometimes it is love. The question is not, ‘How can we get rid of our fear?’ The question is “How can we hold our fear with love?’” This week’s poem is by Lisel Mueller from her collection "Second Language," Louisiana State University Press, $16.95.
“There are Mornings” Even now, when the plot Calls for me to turn to stone, The sun intervenes. Some mornings In summer I step outside And the sky opens And pours into me As if I were a saint About to die. But the plot Calls for me to live, Be ordinary, say nothing To anyone. Inside the house The mirrors burn when I pass. -Enjoy your weekends! Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café
*** Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café 55 Haywood St., Asheville, NC 28801 828-254-6734 or 1-800-441-9829 www.malaprops.com Saturday, September 3 at 7pm: Brian Jay Corrigan will read from his novel, The Poet of Loch Ness. Diana Gabaldon praises, “Compelling and beautifully written…The writing is wonderful, lyrical, and with great narrative flow. Corrigan has a marvelous grasp of Scotland—the country, the people, and the speech…He shows us real love, blooming in humility.” For readers who love a great love story, this novel sounds perfect. Other News: Through our staff’s willingness (eagerness!) to carpool, walk and bike to work, Malaprop’s will stay open our usual hours this weekend, 8am-10pm, Friday and Saturday, 8am-7pm on Sunday. We are also open on Monday, Labor Day, from 8am-9pm. The weather looks to be perfect for biking and walking, the best kind of weather for letting the car rest for a few days and enjoying the turn of the season here in WNC. Our daily shipments of books include our bestsellers, but also new books for the fall season. Every day brings excitement for the receiver, the bookseller who opens the boxes and enters the books into our inventory system, because she is always the first to know when the new “big book” arrives. Look for new books on our “New Arrivals” shelf as you walk in the store. And check our “Staff Favorites” section, as many wind up there, too. This week’s poem is by Henry Taylor from the anthology, Poetry 180, edited by Billy Collins, Random House, $13.95. Part of why I chose this poem is because it contains the line “we’re all in this together,” the name of a song by Ben Lee played on WNCW this morning. That is certainly a sentiment we share here at the store in our sadness and concern about what is happening in the Gulf Coast area. Our prayers are with all those affected by this ongoing tragedy. “Elevator Music” -Enjoy your weekends! *** Week of August 25 Events at Thursday, August 25: Friday, August 26 at Saturday, August 27 at Sunday, August 28 at 2 pm: Karen Favreau will discuss her book, Ridiculous Packaging: Or, My Long, Strange Journey from Atheist to Episcopalian, in Two Acts." Favreau has been described as “Anne Lamott meets David Sedaris.” “Karen Favreau is a Generation X seeker who has run the spiritual gamut. Raised Catholic, she lapsed into atheism and began a long, strange journey back to Christian faith. In her book, she chronicles her trip, offering a humorous, non-preachy and heartfelt memoir in which she attempts to decipher why a cynical thirty-three year old atheist would open her heart and accept God’s love after having spent an entire lifetime running away from him. Monday, August 29 at 7 pm: Malaprop’s Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Club with host Rich Rennicks meets in the Café to discuss The Briar King by Greg Keyes. This week’s poem is by Naomi Shihab Nye from her new collection You & Yours, BOA Editions, Ltd., $15.50, paperback. “Dictionary in the Dark” A retired general said “the beautiful thing about it” discussing war. We were making “progress” in our war effort. “The appropriate time to launch the bombers” pierced the A section with artillery as “awe” huddled in a corner clutching its small chest. Someone else repeated, “in harm’s way,” strangely popular lately, and “weapons of mass destruction” felt gravely confused about their identity. “Friendly” gasped. Fierce and terminal. It had never agreed to sit beside fire, never. Enjoy your weekends, Linda Barrett Knopp Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe |
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