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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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02.17: Betsy Chasse
2014-01-14 00:36:41| Powells Books Events Calendar
Wife, mother, and award-winning producer of the sleeper hit What the Bleep Do We Know!?, Betsy Chasse thought she had it all figured out... until she realized she didn't. In Tipping Sacred Cows (Beyond Words Publishing), Chasse takes readers on a playful romp through the muddy fields of life and spirituality. Witty, yet unflinching, Chasse exposes her own experience tipping sacred cows and dissects the fragile beliefs we all hold so dear. A candid, no-nonsense confession, Chasse's story gives readers the freedom to break free from their old patterns and gleefully frolic through fields — cow tipping at will — and in the process, create a new reality for themselves.
02.17: Bill Cotter
2014-01-14 00:36:41| Powells Books Events Calendar
Justine Moppett is 34, pregnant, and fleeing an abusive relationship in New York to dig up an even more traumatic childhood in Austin. Waiting for her there is a cast of more than a dozen misfits — each hurtling toward their own calamities and, ultimately, toward each other. A Texan Gabriel García Márquez who writes tragicomic twists reminiscent of John Kennedy Toole, Bill Cotter produces some of the most visceral, absurd, and downright hilarious sentences to be found in fiction today. The Parallel Apartments (McSweeney's) is a bold leap forward for a writer whose protean talents, whose sheer exuberance for language and what a novel can do, marks him as one of the most exciting stylists in America. Joining Cotter at the event will be Annie La Ganga and Rebecca Beegle of the storytelling outfit Grownup Lady Story Company.
02.17: Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
2013-01-15 00:37:55| Powells Books Events Calendar
Medicine is broken. We like to imagine that it's based on evidence and the results of fair tests. In reality, those tests are often profoundly flawed. We like to imagine that doctors are familiar with the research literature surrounding a drug, when in reality much of the research is hidden from them by drug companies. We like to imagine that regulators let only effective drugs onto the market, when in reality they approve hopeless drugs, with data on side effects casually withheld from doctors and patients. Dr. Ben Goldacre shows that the true scale of this murderous disaster fully reveals itself only when the details are untangled. With his characteristic flair and a forensic attention to detail, Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients (Faber & Faber) reveals a shockingly broken system and calls for something to be done.
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