From the monthly archives:

April 2010

 Thursday, June 3�  6:30 – 8:00 pm For our June gathering, we are reading Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford In 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has [...]

Friday, May 28, at 7pm Location: Beacon Feed Studio Free Birth is a miracle, a rite of passage, a natural part of life. But birth is also big business. Compelled to explore the subject after the delivery of her first child, actress Ricki Lake recruits filmmaker Abby Epstein to question the way American women have [...]

May Poetry Night Friday, May 28th 7:30 – 9:00 pm Location: Battenkill Books Bring a poem or two to share, or just come to listen.

Maureen McClintock presents an update on the project enabling Haitian women to earn a living through meaningful, creative work – improving their lives and those of their families.

Below are the books I spoke about on WAMC’s Roundtable this morning. The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli (St. Martins Press, 2010) Dracula: The Un-Dead by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt (Dutton, 2009) Mapping New York by Black Dog Publishing, 2009 Up River: Man-Made Sites of Interest on the Hudson from the Battery to Troy from [...]

A review a day from a great Indie bookstore in Portland, Oregon.

NPR Topics: Books from NPR.org.