Bookworks Announces Summer Events Highlights

This summer, Bookworks hosts stellar events with nationally touring and local authors, in the realms of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Bookworks celebrates its newly remodeled space with an expanded area for in-store events, with a visit from David Sedaris on June 19. Sedaris will be on a national bookstore tour for his new essay collection, Calypso. A ticketed reading starts at 6 pm, followed by a signing. Afterward, Bookworks invites anyone who wants to meet Sedaris or check out the shop to come in. Bookworks and other shops in the plaza will have extended hours. More info and tickets at bkwrks.com/david-sedaris.

But first! The opening week of June and summer events booms into Bookworks with events about photography, education, fiction, poetry, and memoir.

On June 3, the author feature is Steve Raymer, a cultural photographer with National Geographic. Raymer will present a slideshow on his new book Somewhere West of Lonely, a book of 150 photographs from travels in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Alaska, in which he documents the lives of indigenous peoples, their struggles with natural disasters and environmental degradation and the joys of their daily lives.

On Thursday, June 7, Bookworks hosts another photo-oriented event--Rio Rancho journalist, Gary Herron, for his new book on the legendary UNM basketball bastion, The Pit.

Strong women writers grace the store on June 4 ,with Alexandra Fuller on tour for the paperback release of her novel set on the Lakota reservation, Quiet Until the Thaw. Then on June 8, mother-daughter duo Mary and Aja Oishi read from their new poetry collection, Rock, Paper, Scissors, just published by Albuquerque press Swimming with Elephants Publications.

On June 9, Natalie Goldberg, one of our New Mexico writing icons, talks about her new book, Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home--a memoir the role of Zen and writing as Goldberg coped with CLL, a potentially fatal form of blood cancer, alongside her partner Yu-kwan, who also had cancer.

Other New Mexico authors at Bookworks this summer include Victoria Josslin with new fiction in The Bookstore of Other Languages on June 10; poet Barbara Rockman with California sci-fi writer Sandra Hunter on June 27; New Mexico journalist David Correia presents his new work, The Police: A Field Guide, on June 26; and Ashley Biggers with an update to her 100 Things to do in Albuquerque Before you Die on June 30.

On July 4th, Bookworks is closed for the day. The rest of the month, Bookworks hosts its regular in store clubs and events.

Regulars Sage Harrington and Jared Putnam of the Happy Gland Band play a set on July 8 at 3 pm. The other Sunday afternoons in July include a classical guitar feature from Marc Friedlander at 3 pm.

On July 10, Dos Gatos Press hosts its monthly free poetry writing workshop with an exercise by Georgia Popoff, "Tales from the Bathroom: The Curious Path to a Poem." On July 11, Bookworks Book Club meets to discuss Malcolm Gladwell's David and Goliath.

On July 14, writer Clay Bonnyman Evans talks about his book, Bones of My Grandfather: Reclaiming a Lost Hero of WWII--the story of Marine Alexander Bonnyman, Jr., who was mortally wounded on the Pacific atoll of Tarawara.

Interested parties can see all Bookworks' events online at bkwrks.com/event.

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