Join us for a fascinating night of convers ation as authors Ray Robertson and Alex Pugsley discuss their new books.\n
Estate
s Large and Small by Ray Robe
rtson
Profound\, perceptive\, and wryly observed\, Estates Large
and Small is the story of one man&rsquo\;s reckoning and an ardent defense
of the shape books make in a life.
What decades of rent increases and declining readership couldn&rsquo\;t do\, a pandemic finally did: Phi l Cooper has reluctantly closed his secondhand bookstore and moved his bus iness online. Smoking too much pot and listening to too much Grateful Dead \, he suspects that he&rsquo\;s overdue when it comes to understanding the bigger picture of who he is and what we&rsquo\;re all doing here. So he&r squo\;s made another decision: to teach himself 2\,500 years of Western ph ilosophy.
\nShimmer by Alex Pugsley
In ten vividly told stor
ies\, Shimmer follows characters through relationships\, within social nor
ms\, and across boundaries of all kinds as they shimmer into and out of ea
ch other&rsquo\;s lives.
Outside a 7-Eleven\, teen boys Veeper and Wendell try to decide what to do with their night\, though the thought of the rest of their lives doesn&rsquo\;t seem to have occurred to them. In Laurel Canyon\, two movie stars try to decide if the affair they&rsquo\;re having might mean they like each other. When Byron\, trying to figure out the chords of a song he likes\, posts a question on a guitar website\, he ends up meeting Jessica as well\, a woman with her own difficult music. A nd when the snide and sharp-tongued Twyla agrees to try therapy\, not even she would have imagined the results.
\nThis program is presented in partnership with Words Worth Bo oks.
\nProgrammer: Nancy
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