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We Had A Surprisingly Fun Conversation With Oracle CEO Mark Hurd. This Is What He Told Us
2015-01-25 20:17:58| Telecom - Topix.net
In September, nearly four years to the day after joining Oracle , Mark Hurd became CEO , a job he's sharing with Oracle's other CEO, long-time finance chief, Safra Catz. We were told in no uncertain terms that their title was not "co-CEO," but simply "CEO," by the way.
02.11: Scott McCloud in Conversation with Daniel H. Wilson
2015-01-21 23:05:33| Powells Books Events Calendar
David Smith is giving his life for his art — literally. Thanks to a deal with Death, the young sculptor gets his childhood wish: to sculpt anything he can imagine with his bare hands. But now that he only has 200 days to live, deciding "what" to create is harder than he thought, and discovering the love of his life at the 11th hour isn't making it any easier! Scott McCloud's The Sculptor (First Second) is a story of desire taken to the edge of reason and beyond; of the frantic, clumsy dance steps of young love; and of the world's greatest city gorgeously depicted at street level. It's about the small, warm, human moments of everyday life... and the great, surging forces that lie just under the surface. McCloud wrote the book on how comics work (Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art); now he vaults into great fiction with a breathtaking, funny, and unforgettable new work. McCloud will be joined in conversation by Daniel H. Wilson, author of Robogenesis and How to Survive a Robot Uprising.
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02.04: Gayle Forman in Conversation with Blake Nelson
2015-01-16 00:05:23| Powells Books Events Calendar
When her best friend Meg drinks a bottle of industrial-strength cleaner alone in a motel room, Cody is understandably shocked and devastated. She and Meg shared everything — so how was there no warning? Then Cody uncovers mysteriously encoded emails on Meg's computer, leading her to find an online suicide "support" group that encouraged Meg to take her own life. Like her bestselling If I Stay, Gayle Forman's I Was Here (Viking Children's Books) is a captivating story about losing people we love, redefining the meaning of family, and figuring out a way to move forward even when we're powerless to change difficult circumstances. Forman will be joined in conversation by Blake Nelson, author of Paranoid Park, Girl, and The Prince of Venice Beach.
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02.09: Nick Hornby in Conversation with Cheryl Strayed
2015-01-16 00:05:23| Powells Books Events Calendar
From Nick Hornby, the bestselling author of High Fidelity, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down, comes the highly anticipated new novel Funny Girl (Riverhead). Set in 1960s London, Funny Girl is a lively account of the adventures of the intrepid young Sophie Straw as she navigates her transformation from provincial ingénue to television starlet amid a constellation of delightful characters. Insightful and humorous, Hornby's latest does what he does best: endears us to a cast of characters who are funny if flawed, and forces us to examine ourselves in the process. Hornby will be joined in conversation by Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things.
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02.17: Kyle Boelte in Conversation with Justin Hocking
2015-01-16 00:05:23| Powells Books Events Calendar
At age 30, Kyle Boelte finds himself living in San Francisco, where the summer fog blows inland off the ocean and the landscape changes moment to moment. Amidst this ever-changing sea of fog, Boelte struggles to remember his brother Kris, who committed suicide in the family's Denver home when Boelte was just 13. In his impressive debut, The Beautiful Unseen (Soft Skull Press), Boelte sets up a dual narrative: one investigates San Francisco's climate to explain the science behind the omnipresent fog; another explores Boelte's memory as well as letters, notes, newspaper articles, and other artifacts that tell the story of his brother's short life and eventual suicide. Weaving a complex and engaging story from personal, historical, and environmental threads, Boelte's search for meaning takes him to a range of unexpected places. The Beautiful Unseen is as much a meditation on experiencing loss at an early age as it is a study of the impermanence of memory, the science of fog, and the history of San Francisco. Boelte will be joined in conversation by Justin Hocking, author of The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld.
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