Events

  • 05/29/2012 - 7:30pm
       Have you been searching for a rewarding, high-paying job but aren't making any progress?   Do you have a job but feel you’re just going through the motions?   Are you called to a life of travel and adventure, but feel chained to your desk or cubicle?    Do you want your life to have more meaning and purpose?   Chris Guillebeau wrote this book for you.   Still in his...
  • 05/30/2012 - 7:30pm
      In the tree-nestled Northern California town of Mira Flores, writer Rachel (“an aging typist with an unprofitable hobby”) and her Scottish husband Neil prepare dinner for a familiar “crew” -- among them Neil's best friend, the burly Mike Spender, an irrepressible hedonist -- and Mike's wife, the troubling Tilda Krall, a hardbitten figure who carries her dark unknowability like an...
  • 06/04/2012 - 7:30pm
      The day before Justin Halpern proposed to his now wife, he told his father what he was about to do. In typical fashion, his dad was unimpressed by this life-changing decision. “You’ve been dating her four years,” he said. “It ain’t like you found a parallel fucking universe.” But his dad could tell he was nervous and needed a push, so he gave Justin some advice: to take an entire...
  • 06/05/2012 - 7:30pm
     Who are American Muslim men?What do they think, do, and say?  We live in volatile times, where hysteria and scapegoating have reduced the rich diversity of Muslim experience to humiliating and disempowering stereotypes. The narratives of American Muslim men in particular seem forever anchored by stories of extremism, violence, terrorism, and intolerance. In the revealing ALL AMERICAN, 45...
  • 06/06/2012 - 7:30pm
        David Sedaris meets Bill Bryson meets Chelsea Handler     If Mark Coggins’s life were a supermarket, the stories from Prom Night and Other Man-made Disasters would be the aisle markers. Meander through the nostalgic, riotous, and sometimes cringe-inducing wares Coggins offers up in his version of Whole Fool. Whether he’s staking out the house of his two-timing, belly-dancing...