| 07/22/10 |
Carol Vance: book signing and discussion
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July 22, 2010
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to welcome former District Attorney of Harris County, Carol Vance for an in-store appearance on Thursday, July 22, 2010, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM where he will discuss and sign his new book, Boomtown DA.
Boomtown DA takes you on a rollicking ride of Carol S. Vance's twenty-one years in the District Attorney’s office in Houston, our nation’s fourth largest city. Prosecuting everything from...
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| 07/19/10 |
Paula Butturini: book signing and discussion
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July 19, 2010
Brazos Bookstore presents a book signing and discussion with Paula Butturini, Monday, July 19 at 7:00pm. Brazos Bookstore is pleased to welcome author Paula Butturini for an in-store appearance where she will read from and sign her new book, Keeping the Feast.
In her exquisite and affecting memoir, Paula Butturini tells a tale of extraordinary strength born of extraordinary...
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| 07/16/10 |
Helena Andrews: book signing and discussion
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July 16, 2010
Please join us at Brazos Bookstore when we host author Helena Andrews as she signs her memoir Bitch Is the New Black on Friday, July 16 from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM.
Bitch Is the New Black follows Andrews—sexy, single, and a self-described smart-ass—on her trip from kidnapped daughter of a lesbian to Washington, D.C., political reporter who can't remember a single senator's name. Told in Andrews's singular voice, this addictive...
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| 07/16/10 |
Robert Perkinson: book signing and discussion
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July 16, 2010
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to welcome author Robert Perkinson for an in-store appearance on Friday, July, 16, 2010, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM where he will read from and sign his book, Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire.
Robert PerkinsonAn epic story of convict rebellions, spirited reform movements, and fearsome crackdowns, Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire makes clear why the world’s oldest republic has...
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| 07/08/10 |
CANCELLED Christopher Hitchens: book signing and discussion
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July 8, 2010
Brazos Bookstore and Hachette Book Group regret to announce that Christopher Hitchens has cancelled his July 8 appearance due to personal reasons.
Brazos Bookstore presents a book signing and discussion with Christopher Hitchens, Thursday, July 8 at 7:00pm. Get ready for this one! Brazos Bookstore welcomes best-selling author and journalist Christopher Hitchens. He will read from...
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| 07/07/10 |
Judy Shepard: book signing and discussion
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July 7, 2010
Brazos Bookstore is proud to welcome Judy Shepard, international gay rights activist and mother of hate crime victim Matthew Shepard. On Wednesday, July 7, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM Judy Shepard will appear at Brazos Bookstore where she will discuss and sign her book, The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed.
Today, Matthew Shepard is synonymous with gay rights, but until 1998, he was just Judy Shepard's son....
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| 06/22/10 |
Luis Alberto Urrea: book signing and discussion
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June 22, 2010
Brazos Bookstore presents a book signing and discussion with Luis Alberto Urrea, Tuesday, June 22 at 7:00pm. Please join Brazos Bookstore in welcoming Luis Alberto Urrea, author of Into the Beautiful North, for an in-store appearance to read from his book.
Luis Alberto UrreaLuis Alberto Urrea, 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction and member of the Latino Literature Hall of Fame,...
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| 06/16/10 |
John Hofmeister: book signing and discussion
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June 16, 2010
Brazos Bookstore presents a book signing and discussion with John Hofmeister, Wednesday, June 16 at 7:00pm.
As president of Shell Oil, John Hofmeister was known for being a straight shooter, willing to challenge his peers throughout the industry. Now, he’s a man on a mission, the founder of Citizens for Affordable Energy, crisscrossing the country in a grassroots campaign to...
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| 06/09/10 |
Justin Cronin: book signing and discussion
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June 9, 2010
Brazos Bookstore presents a book signing and discussion with Justin Cronin, Wednesday, June 9 at 6:00pm.
Born in New England, Justin Cronin is the author of Mary and O’Neil, which won the Pen/Hemingway Award and the Stephen Crane Prize, and The Summer Guest. Having earned his MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop, Cronin is now a professor of English at Rice University and lives with his family in Houston,...
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| 06/03/10 |
Sebastian Junger: book signing and discussion
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June 3, 2010
Brazos Bookstore presents a book signing and discussion with Sebastian Junger, Thursday, June 3 at 7:00pm.
BRAZOS BOOKSTORE is proud to present the author of the major bestseller The Perfect Storm to read from his new book, War. His on-the-ground account follows a single platoon through a 15-month tour of duty in the most dangerous outpost in Afghanistan's Korengal...
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| 05/13/10 |
Dean King: book signing and discussion
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May 13, 2010
Brazos Bookstore and Asia Society present a book signing and discussion with Dean King, Thursday, May 13 at 7:30pm.
Author Dean King reads from his latest book Unbound: A True Story of War, Love, and Survival. Based on the massive military retreat in 1934 by China's Red Army known as the Long March, the book explores the experiences of thirty women (the only women of 86,000) who participated in...
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| 05/11/10 |
Wilbert Rideau: book signing and discussion
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May 11, 2010
Brazos Bookstore presents a book signing and discussion with Wilbert Rideau, Tuesday, May 11 at 7pm.
Since his 2005 trial and release after 44 years in prison, former Angolite editor and award-winning journalist Wilbert Rideau has continued to devote himself to educating people about the realities of the world behind bars. Wilbert has spoken widely since his release on the subjects of the justice system,...
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| 05/10/10 |
Samuel Amadon & Alex Lemon: book signings and discussions
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May 10, 2010
Brazos Bookstore presents book signings and discussions with Samuel Amadon & Alex Lemon, Monday, May 10 at 7pm.
Samuel Amadon was born and raised in Hartford, Connecticut. His poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Tin House, Boston Review, VOLT, and elsewhere. A recipient of fellowships and scholarships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the author of...
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| 04/29/10 |
Jake Silverstein: book signing and discussion
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April 29, 2010
Brazos Bookstore presents a book signing and discussion with Jake Silverstein, Thursday, April 29 at 7pm.
In Jake Silverstein's Nothing Happened and Then It Did, fact and fiction vie to tell the story of a young journalist bedeviled by the devil and seeking greater truth. The timing couldn’t be better—as scandals erupt over journalists and memoirists who’ve cooked their...
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| 04/27/10 |
CANCELLED Alexander McCall Smith: book signing and discussion
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April 27, 2010
Thanks to the Icelandic volcano no one can pronounce, Alexander McCall Smith's entire American and Canadian tour has been cancelled. Needless to say, we are terribly disappointed that he will not appear at Brazos on April 27 as originally scheduled.
Brazos Bookstore presents a book signing and discussion with Alexander McCall Smith, Tuesday, April 27 at...
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| 04/26/10 |
Dr. Helen Rose Ebaugh: book signing and discussion
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April 26, 2010
Brazos Bookstore presents a book signing and discussion with Dr. Helen Rose Ebaugh, Monday, April 26 at 6pm.
The Ga1/4len Movement: A Sociological Analysis of a Civic Movement Rooted in Moderate Islam is one of the first academic books about Fethullah Gülen, a Turkish scholar and preacher, and the civic movement he inspired in Turkey and ultimately throughout the world. The movement is rooted in moderate Islam and is committed to educating...
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| 04/25/10 |
David Mikics & Tony Hoagland: book signings and discussions
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April 25, 2010
Brazos Bookstore presents book signings and discussions with writers David Mikics & Tony Hoagland, Sunday, April 25 at 4pm. Celebrate these two writers, both University of Houston faculty members, with Brazos Bookstore!
David Mikics
Who Was Jacques Derrida?
Who Was Jacques Derrida? is the first intellectual biography of Derrida, the first full-scale appraisal of his career, his influence, and his philosophical roots. It...
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| 04/22/10 |
Mark Kurlansky: book signing and discussion
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April 22, 2010
Brazos Bookstore presents a book signing and discussioin with author Mark Kurlansky, Thursday, April 22, at 7:00pm.
Mark Kurlansky was born in Hartford, Connecticut. After receiving a BA in Theater from Butler University in 1970, and refusing to serve in the military, Kurlansky worked in New York as a playwright, having a number of off-off Broadway productions, and as a playwright-in-residence at Brooklyn College....
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| 04/18/10 |
Emerging Writers Series: Tiphanie Yanique & Keya Mitra: book signings and discussions
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April 18, 2010
Brazos Bookstore presents the Emerging Writers Series: Tiphanie Yanique & Keya Mitra, Sunday, April 18, 5:30pm-7:30pm.
Brazos warmly welcomes Tiphanie Yanique (pictured) and Keya Mitra for our Emerging Writers Series. Yanique, who received her MFA in creative writing at UH in 2006 and was subsequently the Parks Fellow/Writer-in-Residence at Rice University, has earned stunning, well-founded...
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| 04/15/10 |
Jim Bevill & Jim Crisp: Talking About Texas: book signings and discussions
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April 15, 2010
Brazos Bookstore presents a book signings and discussions with Jim Bevill & Jim Crisp: Talking About Texas, Thursday, April 15, at 6pm. Texans one and all, native and adopted, join Brazos Bookstore for an evening with two Texas historians discussing their new books.
Jim Bevill
The Paper Republic: The Struggle for Money, Credit, and Independence in the Republic of Texas
Offering a new take on the stirring story of the...
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| 04/06/10 |
Edward Hirsch: book signing and discussion
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April 6, 2010
Brazos Bookstore presents a book signing and discussion with Edward Hirsch, Tuesday, April 6, at 7pm.
Another April means another National Poetry Month, and another book for Ed Hirsch means another delightful evening of poetry here at Brazos. We love welcoming Hirsch back to Houston and celebrating his work, past and present. His rich and significant upcoming collection of more than one hundred new and selected poems chronicle insomnia (“the blue-rimmed edge / of outer...
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| 03/24/10 |
Tamler Sommers: book signing and discussion
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March 24, 2010
Brazos Bookstore presents Tamler Sommers, who signs and discusses A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain, Wednesday, March 24, at 7pm.
Do we have free will? What counts as justice in the Peruvian Amazon? Is Catherine Zeta-Jones objectively hotter than Drew Barrymore? These are just a few of the questions that philosopher Tamler Sommers attempts to answer in far-spanning interviews with ten acclaimed researchers in the burgeoning field of moral psychology...
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| 03/09/10 |
Geoff Winningham: book signing and discussion
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March 9, 2010
Brazos Bookstore presents Geoff Winningham, who signs and discusses Traveling the Shore of the Spanish Sea: The Gulf Coast of Texas and Mexico, Tuesday, March 9, at 7pm.
In a work of sweeping breadth and beauty, Houston photographer Geoff Winningham has created a profusely illustrated, contemplative travel journal that showcases his talent as both a photographer and a writer and reveals his affection and respect for...
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| 02/28/10 |
Cele Keeper: book signing and discussion
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February 28, 2010
Please join Brazos Bookstore for an afternoon with Houston's own Cele Keeper, who will read and sign her memoir. Celebrate the book's release with a glass of wine and toast to the remarkable life of Cele Keeper.
Her mental marbles still rolling briskly in her ninth decade, Cele felt compelled to write this memoir right now. As a self-appointed General Manager of the Universe, she thought the benefit of her 80+ years of accrued wisdom, accompanied by the poor (and yes, often...
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| 02/25/10 |
Rebecca Spears, R.T. Castleberry & Stella Brice: a chapbook reading by three Houston poets
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February 25, 2010
Brazos Bookstore presents a chapbook reading by three Houston poets: Rebecca Spears, R.T. Castleberry & Stella Brice, Thursday, February 25 at 7pm.
Rebecca Spears, a poet and instructor, has an MFA from Bennington College. Her writing appears in If These Walls Could Speak: The Blanton Museum Poetry Project (University of Texas), The Weight of Addition (Mutabilis Press), Texas in Poetry 2 (TCU Press), Calyx,...
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| 02/24/10 |
Barry Lynn: book signing and discussion
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February 24, 2010
Brazos Bookstore presents Barry Lynn, Wednesday, February 24 at 7pm.
In Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction regular Harpers and Financial Times contributor Barry C. Lynn paints a genuinely alarming picture: most of our public debates about globalization, competitiveness, creative destruction, and risky finance are nothing more than a cover for the widespread consolidation of power in nearly every imaginable sector of the American...
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| 02/21/10 |
Adam Haslett: book signing and discussion
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February 21, 2010
Brazos Bookstore presents Adam Haslett, Sunday, February 21 at 4pm.
We are genuinely thrilled to be a stop on Adam Haslett's tour for his much-anticipated debut novel, Union Atlantic. His collection of stories, You Are Not a Stranger Here, was a finalist for both the National Book Award (2002) and the Pulitzer Prize (2003) and was named one of the five best books of 2002 by TIME Magazine. Now, Union Atlantic is becoming...
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| 02/17/10 |
Bill Minutaglio: book signing and discussion
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February 17, 2010
Join Brazos Bookstore February 17 for a discussion of Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life with co-author Bill Minutaglio, a professor of journalism at the University of Texas and author of several critically acclaimed books.
Molly Ivins was a groomed for a gilded life, having been born into a moneyed family prominent in Houston society. But Molly Ivins left the country club behind to become one of the most provocative,...
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| 02/15/10 |
David Dow: book signing and discussion
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February 15, 2010
Brazos Bookstore welcomes back David Dow, author of Executed on a Technicality, for a reading from his new book, published February 3, The Autobiography of an Execution.
"For a lot of good reasons, and some that are not so good, executions in the U.S. are carried out in private. The voters, the vast majority of whom support executions, are not allowed to see them. The Autobiography of an Execution is a riveting and compelling account of a Texas...
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| 02/06/10 |
Local Authors Day @ Brazos Bookstore
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February 6, 2010
Brazos Bookstore is proud to host our fourth biannual Local Authors Day, a group signing and meet-and-greet with local, regional, and self-published authors. February 6, 11am-5pm.
Always on a Saturday, our busiest day of the week, Local Authors Day is set up like an open house so customers can speak one-on-one with authors throughout the day. The authors of the books listed below will be present for this Local Authors Day:
Alan...
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| 01/28/10 |
Gwendolyn Zepeda: Book Launch Party!
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January 28, 2010
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present author Gwendolyn Zepeda and a Book Launch Party! Come celebrate at the first reading/signing for Houstonian Gwendolyn Zepeda's second novel, Lone Star Legend.
PARADISE LOST. If she can find the time, Sandy Saavedra will stop to breathe. New management has turned work upside down and her...
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| 01/20/10 |
Robyn O'Brien: book signing and discussion
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January 20, 2010
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present Robyn O'Brien, who signs and discusses her book, The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick - And What We Can Do About It.
Robyn O’Brien is not the most likely candidate for an antiestablishment crusade. A Houston native from a conservative family, this MBA and married mother of four was not someone who gave much thought to misguided government agencies and...
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| 01/18/10 |
Nick Flynn: book signing and discussion
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January 18, 2010
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present Nick Flynn, who signs and discusses his book, The Ticking Is the Bomb: A Memoir.
In 2007, during the months before Nick Flynn’s daughter’s birth, his growing outrage and obsession with torture, exacerbated by the Abu Ghraib photographs, led him to Istanbul to meet some of the Iraqi men depicted in those photos. Haunted by a history of addiction, a relationship with his...
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| 12/10/09 |
Brazos Bookstore 2009 Holiday Open House
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December 10, 2009
The owners of Brazos Bookstore invite you to a HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE Thursday, December 10, 5-8 PM.
Please join the Brazos staff and owners for our annual holiday party. It's a wonderful time for you to shop and sip and snack, and for us to say in person that we thank you for your constant support and wish you the best of the season! Distinguished architect George Hopkins, Jr., author of Creating Your Architectural Style, (pictured) will give a...
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| 11/23/09 |
Hank Stuever: book signing and discussion
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November 23, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present Hank Stuever, who signs and discusses his book, Tinsel: A Search for America's Christmas Present.
In Tinsel: A Search for America's Christmas Present, Hank Stuever turns his unerring eye for the idiosyncrasies of modern life to Frisco, Texas, a suburb at once all-American and completely itself, to tell the story of the nation’s most over-the-top celebration:...
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| 11/22/09 |
John Coats: book signing and discussion
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November 22, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present John Coats, who signs and discusses his new book, Original Sinners: A New Interpretation of Genesis.
In this vivid new interpretation of Genesis, former Episcopal priest John R. Coats looks at the ancient text and its characters in a new light, as stories about people whose day-to-day concerns, triumphs, and failures are not unlike our own. In fact, understanding the people and stories of Genesis can help you understand...
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| 11/19/09 |
Jesse Katz: book signing and discussion
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November 19, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present Jesse Katz, who signs and discusses his book, The Opposite Field: A Memoir.
“You need two things to make a fine, fine book: a story and a teller. The Opposite Field brings them together, like young love. It's a story about fathers and sons, and good love and failed love, and baseball. If that isn't by God a book I don't know what is....But the best thing about this...
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| 11/11/09 |
S. L. Wisenberg: book signing and discussion
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November 11, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present S. L. Wisenberg, who signs and discusses her book, The Adventures of Cancer Bitch.
Cancer is S. L. Wisenberg’s muse, and Cancer Bitch is her blog. Drawing on a wealth of personal, literary, and historical sources—from Jewish liturgy to the first crude mastectomies, from Anne Frank to Emma Goldman—The Adventures of Cancer Bitch creates an...
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| 10/29/09 |
Peter Maass: book signing and discussion
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October 29, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present Peter Maass, who signs and discusses his book, Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil.
In Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil, writer and journalist Peter Maass brings us a stunning and revealing examination of oil's indelible impact on the countries that produce it and the people who possess it. He takes us to Saudi Arabia, where officials deflect inquiries about...
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| 10/12/09 |
John Besh: book signing and discussion
Ouisie's Table
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October 12, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present John Besh. Please join Brazos at Ouisie's Table for a very special evening with Chef John Besh in celebration of the release of his new cookbook, My New Orleans.
John Besh is deeply dedicated to preserving the best local culinary traditions and ingredients that multicultural New Orleans has to offer and encouraging everyone he meets to do the same. Seafood gumbo,...
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| 10/04/09 |
Rich Levy: book signing and discussion
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October 4, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present Rich Levy, who signs and discusses his book, Why Me?: Poems.
Rich Levy is a poet and (since 1995) executive director of Inprint, a nonprofit literary arts organization in Houston. He earned his MFA at the Iowa Writers Workshop, and his poems have appeared in Boulevard, Gulf Coast, Pool, The Texas Observer, and elsewhere. A jazz obsessive, he and his wife have three...
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| 10/01/09 |
Kate Cambor: book signing and discussion
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October 1, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present Kate Cambor, who signs and discusses her book, Gilded Youth: Three Lives in France's Belle Epoque.
They were the children of France’s most celebrated men of nineteenth-century letters and science, the celebrity heirs and heiresses of their day. Their lives were the subject of scandal, gossip, and fascination. Léon Daudet was the son of the popular writer Alphonse Daudet. Jean-Baptiste Charcot was the son of...
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| 09/27/09 |
William Linden: book signing and discussion
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September 27, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present William Linden, who signs and discusses his book, The Historical Jesus for Beginners.
The last few decades have seen a resurgence of the scholarly quest for the historical Jesus -- for the words and deeds that probably can be attributed to the human Jesus who walked the hills of Galilee some two thousand years ago. You might not be aware of the recent scholarship, and the reason is simple. For the most part, many...
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| 09/24/09 |
Fady Joudah, Hayan Charara, Andrew Kozma & Sasha West: poetry reading, book signing and discussion
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September 24, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present Fady Joudah, Hayan Charara, Andrew Kozma & Sasha West. Thursday, September 24, 2009 7:00 p.m.
Please join us for the first reading from Against Agamemnon: four poets (all Houstonians) will read from their contributions to this new anthology of war poetry. Fady Joudah's first poetry collection, The Earth in the Attic, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize in 2007. City of Regret, Andrew Kozma's collection,...
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| 09/22/09 |
Douglas Brinkley: book signing and discussion
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September 22, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present Douglas Brinkley, who signs and discusses his latest book, The Wilderness Warrior, Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America.
TR's love of the outdoors is, of course, well known, but Brinkley proposes a thesis far more grand and significant. He argues that it was Roosevelt's ambitious Wild America program that turned conservationism into a universal endeavor. By tracing lines of influence on the future president's...
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| 09/20/09 |
Frank Jones: book signing and discussion
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September 20, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present Frank Jones, who signs and discusses his book, Lessons from the Courtroom.
With more than forty years of practice and one hundred jury trials to his name, Frank Jones has learned a thing or two about what it takes to win in the courtroom. In Lessons from the Courtroom, he distills his career into an accessible, insightful guide that will find a keen readership among new trial lawyers, experienced attorneys, and...
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| 09/17/09 |
John Grogan: book signing and discussion
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September 17, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present John Grogan, who signs and discusses his book, Marley Goes to School.
It's the first day of school, and Cassie is all set to go. So is her dog, Marley! Although he's told to stay, Marley digs a tunnel out of the backyard and sniffs his way to school. As he roams the halls looking for Cassie, he finds trouble instead. From wolfing down hot dogs in the cafeteria to...
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| 09/15/09 |
Tom Vanderbilt: book signing and discussion
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September 15, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present Tom Vanderbilt, who signs and discusses his book, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us).
In this brilliant, lively, and eye-opening investigation, Tom Vanderbilt examines the perceptual limits and cognitive underpinnings that make us worse drivers than we think we are. He demonstrates why plans to protect pedestrians from cars often lead...
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| 09/14/09 |
Benjamin Moser: book signing and discussion
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September 14, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present Benjamin Moser, who signs and discusses his book, Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector.
"That rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf," Clarice Lispector is one of the most popular but least understood of modern Latin American writers. Now, after years of research on three continents, drawing on previously unknown manuscripts...
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| 09/09/09 |
Maggie Anton: book signing and discussion
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September 9, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present Maggie Anton, who signs and discusses her book, Rashi's Daughters: Rachel.
Brazos Bookstore and the Initiative for Jewish Women are proud to present Maggie Anton, author of the popular series,Rashi's Daughters. The third book in the series is Rashi's Daughter, Book III: Rachel, A Novel of Love and the Talmud in Medieval France, which she...
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| 08/31/09 |
John Truax: book signing and discussion
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August 31, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present John Truax, who signs and discusses his book, Living in Mérida.
So many people are choosing to retire in Mexico and especially in Mérida, Yucatán, that a group of ex-pats living in Mérida and the Yucatán, wrote the book Living In Merida, as a guide with detailed information for living, working and traveling in Mérida and the State of Yucatán.
Mérida...
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| 08/30/09 |
Robert Phillips: book signing and discussion
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August 30, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present Robert Phillips, who signs and discusses his book, Now and Then: New and Selected Poems.
Robert Phillips is the author or editor of some thirty volumes of poetry, fiction, criticism, and belles lettres, and publishes in numerous journals. A professor of English, he was director of the Creative Writing Program from 1991 to 1996. His honors include a 1996 Enron Teaching Excellence Award, a Pushcart...
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| 08/25/09 |
David Dow: book signing and discussion
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August 25, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present David Dow, who signs and discusses his book, America's Prophets: How Judicial Activism Makes America Great.
America's Prophets: How Judicial Activism Makes America Great fills a major void in the popular literature by providing a thorough definition and historical account of judicial activism and by arguing that it is a method of prophetic adjudication which is essential to preserving American values. Dow...
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| 08/23/09 |
Growing Good Things to Eat in Texas: book signing, discussion, cooking demo, and farmers' markets
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August 23, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present Pamela Walker, who signs and discusses her book, Growing Good Things to Eat in Texas.
As more and more people seek locally grown food, independent, family owned and operated agriculture has expanded, creating local networks for selling and buying produce, meat, and dairy products and reviving local agricultural economies throughout the United States. In Growing Good Things to Eat in Texas, author Pamela Walker...
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| 08/18/09 |
Oscar Casares: book signing and discussion
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August 18, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present Oscar Casares, who signs and discusses his book, Amigoland.
Oscar Casares was born in the border town of Brownsville, Texas, the setting for his critically acclaimed story collection, Brownsville. The recipient of a 2006 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, Casares is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and now teaches creative writing at the University of Texas in Austin, where he lives with his...
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| 08/10/09 |
Shauna Glenn: book signing and discussion
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August 10, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present Shauna Glenn, who signs and discusses her book, Heaping Spoonful.
Author Shauna Glenn was recently named a Finalist in the Novella category of the 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Her first novel, Heaping Spoonful, was recognized with eight other books in this category. “Obviously it’s an honor to be recognized, but awards are just icing on the...
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| 08/02/09 |
POSTPONED Douglas Brinkley: book signing and discussion
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August 2, 2009
We regret to inform you that our event with Douglas Brinkley has been postponed because of the death of his young research assistant, Stone Weeks. Stone and his brother, who both lived in Houston, were tragically killed last weekend in a car accident in Virginia. Stone was Doug's protégé and was instrumental in the research and writing of The Wilderness Warrior. He was here at Brazos for Doug's last signing, thrilled with his new job. The...
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| 07/16/09 |
Scott Barzilla: book signing and discussion
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July 16, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present Scott Barzilla, who signs and discusses his book, Combating Ignorance Inside and Outside the Classroom.
Author, counselor, teacher and coach, Scott Barzilla brings us the book for anyone frustrated by today's educational system. In Combating Ignorance, Jack Sutherford, a teacher of ten years, takes on the challenges of dealing with administration, counselors, fellow teachers, students and parents, and discusses...
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| 07/10/09 |
Douglas Brinkley: book signing and discussion
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July 10, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present Douglas Brinkley, who signs and discusses his latest book, The Wilderness Warrior, Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America.
TR's love of the outdoors is, of course, well known, but Brinkley proposes a thesis far more grand and significant. He argues that it was Roosevelt's ambitious Wild America program that turned conservationism into a universal endeavor. By tracing lines of influence on the future...
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| 06/25/09 |
Kate Kirkland: book signing and discussion
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June 25, 2009
Brazos Bookstore presents Kate Kirkland, who signs and discusses his book The Hogg Family and Houston.
Progressive former governor James Stephen Hogg moved his business headquarters to Houston in 1905. For seven decades, his children Will, Ima, and Mike Hogg used their political ties, social position, and family fortune to improve the lives of fellow Houstonians.
As civic activists, they espoused contested causes like city planning and mental health...
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| 06/23/09 |
Ali Sethi: book signing and discussion
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June 23, 2009
Brazos Bookstore presents Ali Sethi, who signs and discusses his book The Wish Maker.
A major new international voice debuts with a sweeping story of love, friendship, and family ties that brings to life the turbulent world of modern Pakistan. The unforgettable story of a fatherless boy growing up in a household of outspoken women, The Wish Maker is also a tale of sacrifice, betrayal, and indestructible friendship. Zaki Shirazi and his female cousin...
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| 06/18/09 |
Andre Dubus III: book signing and discussion
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June 18, 2009
Brazos Bookstore presents Andre Dubus III, who signs and discusses his book The Garden of Last Days.
In his stunning follow-up to the #1 best-selling House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubus draws us into the lives of three deeply flawed, driven people whose paths intersect on a September night in Florida. April, a stripper, has brought her daughter to work at the Puma Club for Men. There she encounters Bassam, a foreign client both remote and too personal,...
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| 06/16/09 |
Nadine Eckhardt: book signing and discussion
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June 16, 2009
Brazos Bookstore and ROADWomen present Nadine Eckhardt who signs and discusses Duchess of Palms: A Memoir, Tuesday, June 16, at 5:30 PM at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 1805 W. Alabama St.
Child of the Great Depression, teenage "Duchess of Palms" beauty queen, wife of an acclaimed novelist and later of a brilliant U.S. congressman, and ultimately a successful single working woman and mother, Nadine Eckhardt has...
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| 06/06/09 |
Joe Doggett: book signing and discussion
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June 6, 2009
Brazos Bookstore presents Joe Doggett, who signs and discusses his book Outdoor Chronicles.
Joe Doggett joined the Houston Chronicle as a full time outdoor writer in 1972, and he retired 2007. In addition to writing for the Houston Chronicle, he was also a contributing editor of Field and Stream magazine for over twenty years and has won dozens of state and national awards for his writing and photography. .
This book features articles on saltwater,...
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| 05/27/09 |
Gene Baur: book signing and discussion
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May 27, 2009
Brazos Bookstore invites you to an inspiring and educational evening with Farm Sanctuary President and Co-founder Gene Baur, as he discusses his work and national best-selling book, Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food.
This landmark book has received rave reviews and praise from notables such as Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Dr. Jane Goodall, actress Alicia Silverstone and musical artist Moby among many others. Gene has more...
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| 05/17/09 |
POSTPONED Mark Kurlansky: book signing and discussion
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May 17, 2009
We regret to inform you that Mark Kurlansky will not be reading tomorrow, Sunday, May 17, as previously announced. The event has been postponed. Please stay tuned for information on a later visit.
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present Mark Kurlansky, who signs and discusses The Food of a Younger Land.
Mark Kurlansky is a New York Times bestselling and James A. Beard Award-winning author of a number of books, including Salt and Cod. He is the...
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| 05/16/09 |
Louise Parsley: book signing and discussion
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May 16, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present Louise Parsley.
Celebrate Houstonian Louise Parsley and her new book, Revelations in the Rearview Mirror: One Mother's Hard-Won and Hilarious Epiphanies on the Road to the Empty Nest, at Brazos this Saturday. Insightful and poignantly funny, this look-over-your shoulder, laugh-out-loud collection of essays pulls the facade off family life, revealing the true and unvarnished journey of coming to grips with...
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| 05/12/09 |
Deirdre Shaw: book signing and discussion
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May 12, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present Deirdre Shaw, who signs and discusses her book Love or Something Like It.
Deirdre Shaw's emotionally honest, clear-eyed debut follows a thirty-something woman forced to redefine love, career, and family after her young marriage falters.
“Bright and promising...Shaw's first novel unfolds easily, with well-crafted prose and vivid detail. A great young-in-L.A. novel.”...
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| 05/09/09 |
Wyatt McSpadden: book signing and discussion
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May 9, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present Wyatt McSpadden.
Photographer Wyatt McSpadden has spent some twenty years documenting barbecue -- specifically, the authentic family-owned cafes that are small-town mainstays. Traveling tens of thousands of miles, McSpadden has crisscrossed the state of Texas to visit scores of barbecue purveyors, from fabled sites like Kreuz's in Lockhart to remote spots like the Lazy H Smokehouse in...
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| 05/07/09 |
A Tribute to Fritz Lanham
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May 7, 2009
Come raise a glass at Brazos Bookstore in tribute to bookman Fritz Lanham, (pictured), Thursday, May 7, 5:30-7:00 PM.
In his sixteen years as the Book Editor at the Houston Chronicle, Fritz Lanham gave our city one of the country's best book sections. His weekly column informed Houstonians about events conducted by independent bookstores, the UH Creative Writing Program, and organizations such as Inprint, helping to create an active literary culture in the...
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| 05/01/09 |
Peter B. Hyland & Darin Ciccotelli: book signings and readings
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May 1, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present two alumni of the UH Creative Writing Program for an evening of poetry featuring Peter Hyland & Darin Ciccotelli.
Darin Ciccotelli has recently published poems in Colorado Review and Denver Quarterly, among others. He has received a James A. Michener Fellowship, an Inprint/C. Glen Cambor Fellowship, an inaugural Houston Writing Fellowship, and several Pushcart Prize nominations. He currently teaches at the University of...
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| 04/30/09 |
John Bradshaw: book signing and discussion
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April 30, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present John Bradshaw.
In his groundbreaking New York Times bestselling books and compelling PBS specials, John Bradshaw transformed our understanding of the family and became a dominant figure in the field of addiction and recovery. Now, in his new book, Reclaiming Virtue, he brings together a lifetime of experience and teaching to redefine virtue -- how we learn it and live it -- for our...
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| 04/27/09 |
Beth Kobliner: book signing and discussion
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April 27, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present Beth Kobliner.
Don't let the economy get you down! Personal finance expert Beth Kobliner presents the all-new edition of her New York Times bestseller Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties, completely rewritten to address the recession. This book busts open the system, teaching tricks for becoming master of your own money universe. Beth Kobliner is a contributor to the New York Times, and a...
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| 04/24/09 |
Paul Otremba & Catherine Bowman: book signings and readings
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April 24, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present Paul Otremba & Catherine Bowman.
Paul Otremba's poems and criticism have appeared in American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics, The Kenyon Review, Lyric, New England Review, Poetry Daily, Tikkun and Virginia Quarterly Review. He has won scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, a Barthelme Memorial Fellowship, and an Academy of American Poets prize. He is a former employee of Brazos Bookstore and is currently...
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| 04/23/09 |
David Ray Vance & Anna Journey: book signing and discussion
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April 23, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to host Anna Journey, current UH student of Creative Writing, and UH alum, David Ray Vance, for a special reading.
Winner of the Del Sol Press 2005 Poetry Prize, David Ray Vance's poetry collection combines science and art gloriously.
Mary Jo Bang, the Prize Judge, has this to say about his poetry collection Vitreous: "Part rewritten 1934 medical text, part Keatsian reflection, this is...
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| 04/22/09 |
Cristina HenrÃÂquez: book signing and discussion
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April 22, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present Cristina Henríquez, who signs and reads from her book The World in Half, Wednesday, April 22, at 7pm.
From the prizewinning author of Come Together, Fall Apart comes a mesmerizingly beautiful first novel about family, home, loss, and forgiveness that more than fulfills the promise of her earlier work.
Miraflores has never known her father, and until...
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| 04/15/09 |
Mary Roach: book signing and discussion
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April 15, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present Mary Roach, who signs and discusses her book Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex.
Mary Roach is not like other science writers. She doesn't write about genes or black holes or Schrödinger's cat. Instead, she ventures out to the fringes of science, where the oddballs ponder how cadavers decay (in her debut, Stiff) and whether you can weigh a person's soul (in...
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| 04/01/09 |
Barbara Ras: book signing and discussion
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April 1, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present Barbara Ras, who signs and reads from her book One Hidden Stuff, Wednesday, April 1 at 7pm.
Using long-lined, imaginative leaps to connect the everyday with the miraculous, the intimate with the visionary, Barbara Ras’s poems surge across the page like waves crashing on a beach. She crafts the forty-one new poems in this collection with a zany and spacious cunning that reaches from family to community, from...
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| 03/26/09 |
Bradford Gray Telford & Jericho Brown: book signing and discussion
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March 26, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is thrilled to present two poets, both UH alums, for a reading from their first books of poetry.
Bradford Gray Telford was educated at Princeton and Columbia and has published work in many journals including the Yale Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Pleiades, Laurel Review, and Bloom. A doctoral candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Houston, Telford recently won the Willis...
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| 03/25/09 |
Connie Voisine: book signing and discussion
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March 25, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present Connie Voisine, who signs and reads from her book Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream, Wednesday, March 25 at 7pm.
Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream is a book haunted by the afterlife of medieval theology and literature yet grounded in distinctly modern quandaries of desire. Connie Voisine’s female speakers reverberate with notes of Marie de France’s tragic heroines, but...
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| 03/13/09 |
Dan Beachy-Quick: book signing and reading
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March 13, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present Dan Beachy-Quick, Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Iowa and author of poetry and prose inspired by Melville's Moby Dick.
Don't miss him earlier in the day at Rice, where he will give a talk as part of the Humanities Research Center's "Poetry and Poetics Workshop".
At the evening portion, a reading and signing at Brazos, he will read selections from A Whaler's Dictionary...
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| 03/12/09 |
Emily Fox Gordon: book signing and discussion
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March 12, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present Emily Fox Gordon, who signs and discusses her book It Will Come to Me, Thursday, March 12 at 7pm.
This first novel from the acclaimed memoirist Emily Fox Gordon is a tart, intelligent comedy of manners set on the campus of a large Southern university. It is also a story about the comforts and grievances of a marriage of longstanding -- about change and continuity and the possibility of renewal in...
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| 03/08/09 |
Robin Romm: book signing and discussion
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March 8, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to present Robin Romm, who signs and discusses her book The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks.
When Robin Romm's The Mother Garden was published, The New York Times Book Review called her "a close-up magician," saying, "hers is the oldest kind [of magic] we know: the ordinary incantation of words and stories to help us navigate the darkness and finally to hold the end at...
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| 02/26/09 |
Katherine Center: book signing and discussion
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February 26, 2009
Local author Katherine Center comes to Brazos Bookstore as she signs and discusses her new novel, Everyone is Beautiful.
From the author of The Bright Side of Disaster, the entertaining and ultimately poignant story of what happens after happily ever after: how a mother of three recaptures her sense of self and falls in love with her husband all over again.
Everyone is Beautiful
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| 02/23/09 |
Janet McAdams: book signing and discussion
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February 23, 2009
Brazos Bookstore presents author Janet McAdams, who signs and discusser her book Feral, Monday, February 23 at 7pm.
The Rice Cherry Reading Series brings you Janet McAdams for a reading and signing of Feral.
How to understand the voice lost between forest and city, which cries, "I am not wild, I am not human." Why fear wildness? What lies in the need to tame ourselves and others? These are the questions raised in...
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| 02/12/09 |
Manil Suri: book signing and discussion
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February 12, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to welcome Manil Suri author of The Age of Shiva, for a book signing and discussion, Thursday, February 12, at 7:00 p.m.
When Manil Suri’s first novel, The Death of Vishnu, was published in 2001, it was universally celebrated as a literary phenomenon. Time magazine proclaimed Suri a “Person to Watch,” and praised Vishnu’s “eerie and...
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| 02/10/09 |
Antonya Nelson: book signing and discussion
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February 10, 2009
Brazos Bookstore presents author Antonya Nelson, who signs and discusses Nothing Right: Short Stories, Tuesday, February 10, at 6pm.
Set in the American Southwest, and featuring one previously unpublished story, Nothing Right shows one of our best writers working at the top of her game. Antonya Nelson’s stories are masterpieces: poignant, hilarious, truthful explorations of domesticity.
The artfully rendered characters in Nothing...
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| 02/07/09 |
Local Authors Day @ Brazos Bookstore
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February 7, 2009
Join Brazos Bookstore for its second Local Authors Day, featuring Houston/Texas authors and their books in all genres.
Stop by anytime from 11 am to 5 pm to meet the writers, buy their books, and learn about what's happening in your literary community.
Don't miss these amazing authors: R.J. Terrell, David Levin, Rita Z. Heck, Kimberly Huff, Margaret McManis, Capt. K.I. Selinidis, Dr. Elizabeth L. Travis, Claire Sanders, Ken Jones, Denise McCorkle, Gail Greenberg,...
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| 02/05/09 |
Diane Stanley: book signing and discussion
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February 5, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to welcome Diane Stanley author of Mozart: The Wonder Child: A Puppet Play in Three Acts, for a book signing and discussion, Thursday, February 5, at 6:00 p.m.
Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart was only three years old -- not much bigger than his name -- on the day his life changed forever. So begins this vivid biography about one of the most legendary prodigies in...
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| 02/04/09 |
Bryan Burrough: book signing and discussion
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February 4, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to welcome Bryan Burrough, who signs and discusses his book The Big Rich, Wednesday, February 4 at 7pm.
In The Big Rich, bestselling author and Vanity Fair special correspondent Bryan Burrough chronicles the rise and fall of one of the great economic and political powerhouses of the twentieth century -- Texas oil. By weaving together the epic sagas of the industry’s four greatest fortunes, Burrough has produced an...
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| 02/02/09 |
Emerging Writers Series: Allison Amend book signing and discussion
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February 2, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to welcome Allison Amend as part of its Emerging Writers Series, who signs and discusses her book Things That Pass for Love, Monday, February 2 at 7pm.
Allison Amend's writing is both thoughtful and entertaining, with a strong sense of humor throughout. These thirteen stories are stunning in their diversity of character and place, in their authenticity, and in their...
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| 01/27/09 |
Jami Attenberg: book signing and discussion
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January 27, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to welcome Jami Attenberg, author of The Kept Man, for a book signing and discussion, Tuesday, January 27 at 6pm.
Jami Attenberg has written for Jane, Print, Salon, Nylon, The San Francisco Chronicle, Nextbook, and Time Out New York. Her fiction has appeared in Nerve, Pindeldyboz, Spork, and Bullfight Review.
THE KEPT MAN was published by Riverhead Books in...
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| 01/26/09 |
David Sheff and Nic Sheff: A Reading with Father & Son
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January 26, 2009
Brazos Bookstore is pleased to welcome David Sheff and his son, Nic Sheff, for the paperback releases of their bestselling books, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction by David Sheff and Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff.
David Sheff's books include Game Over, China Dawn, and All We Are Saying. His many articles and interviews have appeared in...
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| 01/09/09 |
The Oxford Project: Reading and Signing with Stephen Bloom
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January 9, 2009
Brazos Bookstore presents The Oxford Project: Reading and Signing with Stephen Bloom, Friday, January 9, at 7pm.
The Oxford Project first began in 1984, when Peter Feldstein managed to photograph all but six people living in Oxford, Iowa (pop 676). Two decades later, Feldstein did it again. Considered side by side, the resulting “then & now” portraits reveal the startling and subtle ways...
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