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09.21: Carol Riggs
2015-08-24 01:03:52| Powells Books Events Calendar
Meet Morgan Dey, one of the top teen Reducers at The Body Institute. Thanks to cutting-edge technology, Morgan can temporarily take over another girl's body, get her in shape, and then return to her own body — leaving her client slimmer, more toned, and feeling great. But there are a few catches... The Body Institute (Entangled) is Carol Riggs's debut novel for young adults.
09.21: Anita Feng
2015-08-24 01:03:52| Powells Books Events Calendar
What would the life of Buddha look like if it were lived today? In her novel Sid (Wisdom Publications), Anita Feng has crafted a delightful jewel that captures both the classic story of the Buddha as well as a deeply personal and familiar reflection of the story in a contemporary retelling.
09.21: Joy Williams in Conversation with Karen Russell
2015-08-24 01:03:52| Powells Books Events Calendar
Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing as a given from one generation to the next. The Visiting Privilege (Knopf) is a collection showcasing her crisp, elegant prose, her dark wit, and her uncanny ability to illuminate our world through characters and situations that feel peculiar and foreign, yet disturbingly familiar. Williams will be joined in conversation by Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove.
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09.21: Sean Wilsey
2014-08-18 22:38:51| Powells Books Events Calendar
In More Curious (McSweeney's), Sean Wilsey, author of Oh the Glory of It All, travels across the U.S., from the launchpad at Cape Canaveral to the isolated artists' enclave of Marfa, Texas, to the boardrooms and ballrooms of post-9/11 New York City. Wherever he is, Wilsey captures his surroundings with the precision of a photographer and the raw grace of a skateboarder (he's an amateur practitioner of both arts). The essays in More Curious comprise nearly 15 years of Wilsey's most vital work on the glory and the misery, the beauty and absurdity of contemporary America.
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09.21: Poets Tyler Atwood & John Barrios
2014-08-18 20:39:24| Powells Books Events Calendar
Tyler Atwood's An Electric Sheep Jumps to Greener Pasture (University of Hell Press) shocks the system and brings words back from the brink. Atwood wields surrealism as a scalpel, dissecting memories, excising internal demons, and flaying rich narrative. With gripping personal narrative in extraordinary context, John W. Barrios's critically imagined first collection of poetry, Here Comes the New Joy (University of Hell Press), exemplifies the magnitude and stamina of the emotional revolution that is the new joy — the sum and the summit of all other emotions and experiences.
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