Tattered Cover presents...
Past, Present, Future
History, Memoir, & Biography Events
May 2018
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Wednesday, May 2, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Craig Childs, the author of
Apocalyptic Planet
and commentator for
NPR's Morning Edition
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Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America
($27.95 Pantheon Books). This book is a vivid travelogue through prehistory, tracing the arrival of the First People in North America at least twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that tell of their lives and fates.
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Wednesday, May 2, 7:00 pm, Aspen Grove
Award-winning historian Brian A. Catlos will discuss and sign
Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain
($35.00 Basic Books), a magisterial, myth-dispelling history of Islamic Spain spanning the millennium between the founding of Islam in the seventh century and the final expulsion of Spain's Muslims in the seventeenth.
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Friday, May 4, 7:00 pm, Historic LoDo
Major Scott Huesing will discuss and sign
Echo in Ramadi: The Firsthand Story of US Marines in Iraq's Deadliest City
($29.99 Regnery History). Two-hundred-fifty Marines from Echo Company, Second Battalion, Fourth Marine Regiment fought daily in the dangerous, dense city streets of Ramadi, Iraq. Now Huesing, the commander who led Echo Company through Ramadi, takes readers back to the streets of Ramadi in a visceral, gripping portrayal of modern urban combat.
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Thursday, May 10, 7:00 pm, Aspen Grove
Karen Crouse, author and
New York Times
sports reporter, will discuss and sign
Norwich: One Tiny Vermont Town's Secret to Happiness and Excellence
($28.00 Simon & Schuster), the extraordinary story of the small Vermont town that has likely produced more Olympians per capita than any other place in the country--and whose citizens provide a model for achieving excellence while leading a well-rounded life.
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Tuesday, May 15, 7:00 pm, Historic LoDo
Author Tania Romanov will discuss and sign
Mother Tongue: A Saga of Three Generations of Balkan Women
($18.99 Travelers' Tales Guides), an exploration of lives lived in the chaos of a part of the world known as the Balkans. It follows the lives of three generations of women--Katarina, Zora, and Tania--over the last 100 years. It follows countries that dissolved, formed, and reformed. Lives lived in exile, in refugee camps, in new worlds.
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Wednesday, March 21, 7:00 pm, Historic LoDo
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Wednesday, May 23, 7:00 pm, Historic LoDo
James Pogue has written for
The New Yorker
and
The New York Times.
He will discuss and sign
Chosen Country: A Rebellion in the West
($28.00 Henry Holt & Company), an extraordinary inside look at America's militia movement that shows a country at the crossroads of class, culture, and insurrection. Maxim Loskutoff, a graduate of NYU's MFA program, has worked as a carpenter, field organizer, and writing teacher, among many other things. He will discuss and sign his debut collection
Come West and See: Stories
($25.95 W.W. Norton & Company).
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Thursday, May 24, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
In a powerful follow-up to his Pulitzer prize-winning first book
Boy on Ice
,
New York Times
reporter John Branch will discuss and sign
The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the New West
($26.95 W.W. Norton). In this book, Branch delivers an epic and intimate family story deep in the American grain.
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Tuesday, May 29, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Like many Korean adoptees of the 1980s, Megan Sound was brought up in an era when American parents were led to believe that the best way to raise their babies was to take a color-blind approach. Sound will discuss and sign
The Struggle for Soy: And Other Dilemmas of a Korean Adoptee
($16.00 Megan Sound), a powerfully intimate essay collection that shows how one transracial adoptee navigates from the margins to the middle.
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Tuesday, May 29, 7:00 pm, Historic LoDo
Like many Korean adoptees of the 1980s, Megan Sound was brought up in an era when American parents were led to believe that the best way to raise their babies was to take a color-blind approach. Sound will discuss and sign
The Struggle for Soy: And Other Dilemmas of a Korean Adoptee
($16.00 Megan Sound), a powerfully intimate essay collection that shows how one transracial adoptee navigates from the margins to the middle.
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Wednesday, May 30, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Daniel Kurtz-Phelan, the executive editor of
Foreign Affairs
, will discuss and sign
The China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War, 1945-1947
($28.95 WW Norton & Company) with Ambassador Christopher Hill. Drawing on eyewitness accounts both personal and official, this book offers a richly detailed and often surprising view of the central figures of the time as they stood face-to-face and struggled to make history, with consequences and lessons that echo today.
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Tuesday, May 8, 12:30 pm, Colfax Avenue
Join Active Minds for the story of the American Cowboy.
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Tuesday, May 22, 5:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Join Active Minds as they review Iceland's history and explore some of the characteristics of the country that make it unique among the countries of the world.
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Upcoming Events
Tuesday, June 5, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Thursday, June 7, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Sunday, June 10, 2:00 pm, Aspen Grove
Tuesday, June 11, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Monday, June 19, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Wednesday, June 20, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue,
TICKETS
Monday, June 25, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Thursday, June 28, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Friday, June 29, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Thursday, July 12, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Thursday, August 9, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Saturday, August 11, 2:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Sunday, September 16, 2:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
Sunday, September 16, 2:00 pm, Aspen Grove
Thursday, September 20, 7:00 pm, Colfax Avenue
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Surviving the Ordinary: Why We Need Memoirs of Regular Lives
I am 100 percent here for a good stranger-than-fiction memoir. Do I want to know how someone escaped a cult, pulled off a heist, or became famous after surviving a freak accident? Absolutely. Send me your tales of life-and-death adventure.
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The Bottomless Generosity of the Writer's Memoir
When I am struggling to write, there are a few different texts I reach for-old favorites, of course, the pages already soft and dogeared; or the books of writers I wish to emulate, margins peppered with asterisks and exclamation points, sentences ...
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