Events
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Start: 11:00 am
Join us for this fun hour of readings from picture and storybooks ... Go to the castle in the children's section ... and the stories begin!
Start: 2:00 pm
Donald Unger tells the stories of half a dozen families of varied ethnicity, location and philosophy (including that of Seattle Deputy Mayor Darryl Smith), in which fathers are either primary caregivers, or share parenting equally. He documents the changing landscape of parenting in the U.S. today with his book, Men Can: The Changing Image and Reality of Fatherhood in America (Temple University Press). "Unger presents his arguments about the need for fathers to more fully embrace their role—which is central to children's healthy development—in a way that is both objective and refreshingly intimate and personal. Men Can has much to offer readers, with its well-organized and powerful narratives of men struggling to find their way in society's new openness and reliance upon fathers to be primary parents, not just breadwinners." - Jonathan Diamond. Donald Unger teaches in MIT's program for Writing and Humanistic Studies.
Start: 7:00 pm
Three terrific younger writers and poets, making a real tour of it, read here tonight. Aaron Michael Morales is the author of a powerful debut novel, set in his hometown, Drowning Tucson (Coffee House). "Morales wrestles with nothing less than the parameters of the human soul. This is subversive and sly work, as knowing in its effect as it is exciting to read. For all its thrilling nature, and for all his hard-edge style, this is a deeply moral effort." - Luis Alberto Urrea, joined in early praise by Leslie Marmon Silko and Benjamin Alire Sáenz. Most known as a poet (a collection is forthcoming from Copper Canyon), Travis Nichols is here with his first novel, Off We Go into the Wild Blue Yonder (Coffee House Press). "This is a beautiful crackpot's history of America. Travis Nichols takes us on a godly road trip through tobacco, love, and Boom Boom, landing us still at the world's loneliest tourist trap ... And happily Off We Go is also about a man loving women: 'A toast,' I say finally, 'to the mother's side.'" - Eileen Myles. Paul Martinez Pompa is a poet out of Chicago, and My Kill Adore Him (University of Notre Dame Press) is his first, full-length collection. "Like the poet's native Chicago, even when violent or troubling, Paul Martinez Pompa's poems risk beauty. His work possesses a fluidity that appears both effortless and well-earned. His is a Chicago Renaissance of one—Gwendolyn Brooks' Bronzeville and Carl Sandburg's 'city of big shoulders' becoming a city of 'broken lovers' and 'an entire city in your ears' in Martinez Pompa's capable hands. Playful and passionate, the poems in My Kill Adore Him mark an important debut." - Kevin Young.
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