July 2019

Join us for all of our exciting upcoming events! Make it a new year's resolution to attend more stellar NCB events in 2020! Next Chapter Booksellers has a ton of new events this January. Join one of our book clubs or meet new authors. It's all happening here.

Thursday, January 16, 2020, 6:30pm  Bridges Reading presented by Cracked Walnut Bridges was formerly housed at Blue Harbor Center for the Arts, along with sister reading series, Literary Lights, hosted by Donna Isaac. Bridges is intended to bring together writers across genres and cultural backgrounds to express themselves, but also build links to each other. The title comes from a performance piece, Landbridge: The Beringia Project, that Stanley Kusunoki did with Jamison Mahto, an Anishinabe performance poet/trickster coyote. Starting with conflicting creation myths, we came to a point where the readers, understood and connected with the commonalities of their histories and cultures. It is the hope of the series that participants will do the same between themselves and audience members.

Friday, January 17, 2020, 5:00pm The Nonfiction Book Club discusses Impeachment: A Citizen's Guide by Cass R. Sunstein Harvard Law professor Cass R. Sunstein provides a succinct citizen's guide to this essential tool of self-government. Taking us deeper than mere partisan politics, he illuminates the constitutional design behind impeachment and emphasizes the people's role in holding presidents accountable. Join us for this discussion!

Friday, January 17, 2020, 7:00pm Mark K. Tilsen reads from It Ain't Over Until We're Smoking Cigars on the Drill Pad Mark K. Tilsen is an Oglala Lakota Poet Educator from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. At Standing Rock, he stepped into the role of a direct action trainer and police liaison. Since then, he has led trainings and teach ins about the lessons learned from Standing Rock.  He recently spent six months at L’eau est La Vie Camp helping fight against the Bayou Bridge Pipeline which is the tail end of the Dakota Access Pipeline ending in Louisiana. His first book of poetry, It Ain’t Over Until We’re Smoking Cigars on the Drill Pad recalls the struggle against the pipeline through a blend of journal entries and poems.

Sunday, January 19, 2020, 3:00pm  The Toni Morrison Book Club discusses Song of Solomon Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family’s origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world. 

Sunday, January 26, 2020, 4:00pm  The Next Chapter Book Club talks about Reinhardt's Garden by Mark Haber At the turn of the twentieth century, as he composes a treatise on melancholy, Jacov Reinhardt sets off from his small Croatian village in search of his hero and unwitting mentor, Emiliano Gomez Carrasquilla, who is rumored to have disappeared into the South American jungle--"not lost, mind you, but retired." Jacov's narcissistic preoccupation with melancholy consumes him, and as he desperately recounts the myth of his journey to his trusted but ailing scribe, hope for an encounter with the lost philosopher who holds the key to Jacov's obsession seems increasingly unlikely. From Croatia to Germany, Hungary to Russia, and finally to the Americas, Jacov and his companions grapple with the limits of art, colonialism, and escapism in this antic debut where dark satire and skewed history converge.  

Tuesday, February 4, 2020, 5:30pm  Outside the Margins: Speculative Fiction Book Club talks about Semiosis by Sue Burke Human survival hinges on an bizarre alliance in  Semiosis , a character driven science fiction novel of first contact by debut author Sue Burke. Colonists from Earth wanted the perfect home, but they’ll have to survive on the one they found. They don’t realize another life form watches...and waits... Only mutual communication can forge an alliance with the planet's sentient species and prove that humans are more than tools.  

Thanks for reading all the way to the end. We've got lots more great books in the store. We hope you'll come in soon for a recommendation. --all of us at Next Chapter Booksellers