FRIDAY •
JUNE 27 • 7 PM • TALK
& BOOK SIGNING Natalie
Reid THE
SPIRITUAL ALCHEMIST: WORKING
WITH THE VOICE OF YOUR SOUL
Steeped in the Jewish mystical tradition, Natalie Reid (M.A.) for over
10 years has conducted transformational
workshops centered on the confluence of creativity, self-awareness, and
spirituality. In addition to The Spiritual Alchemist, these workshops
include Writing in the Mythological Voice: Elevating the Mundane into
Myth and From Falsehood to Freedom: Writing Our Way out of the Masks We
Wear.
Natalie has developed a unique method for using the writing of fiction
to heal from a crisis in faith. Since 1998 she has been a workshop
director at the annual weeklong conference of the International Women’s
Writing Guild.
Natalie also designs workshops in English language skills for a
multinational clientele that has included the Smithsonian Institution
and the Peace Corps. She edits books and consults on papers for
European scholars in the field of social research and social policy.
She also presents at international conferences. When not on the road
giving workshops, she enjoys writing and living in New Mexico. To learn
about her workshops, or to request a workshop, go to
www.thespiritualalchemist.com
Insights begins with an introduction by professor of art history,
Victor Koshkin-Youritzin, followed by an in-depth interview with
Rushton by Professor Koshkin-Youritzin. In the interview, Rushton
dicusses how he got started in photography, his approach to
portraiture, and some of the more interesting people he has
photographed. The body of the book consists of 121 selected portraits
taken from the Artists, Advocates of the Arts, Children, Couples, and
Fathers Series, along with several miscellaneous portraits.
(The Mabee-Gerrer Museum Of Art)
Charles Rushton has studied photography under Zone System photographers
Fred Picker and Oliver Gagliani and photographic portraiture under
portrait photographers, Arnold Newman and Rodney Smith. He has taught
photography classes at Eastern New Mexico University, the Firehouse Art
Center (Norman, Oklahoma), the University of Oklahoma, Moore Norman
Technology Center, and Oklahoma City Community College.
SATURDAY
• JULY 5 •
3 - 5 PM • SPECIAL
EVENT SELF-PUBLISHING AND LOCAL AUTHOR
FAIR
Authors
are invited to bring their books to promote independently and sell at
Page One’s Self-Publishing Fair. This excellent networking opportunity
occurs the first Saturday of every month from 3 - 5 PM in the Page One
Cafe. Call 294.2026 X3060 for more information.
FRIDAY
• JULY 11 • 7
PM • TALK &
BOOK SIGNING Joseph Shaw TO HONOR
THE DEAD
First-time
novelist Joseph Shaw, tells the story of Colter Wayne Tyree, an aging
trucker escaping financial burden and a crumbling marriage by taking
cross-country dispatches despite his claustrophobia and fears of road
death. When Tyree runs over a coyote on a wintry stretch of
interstate in western Oklahoma, he’s forced to spend Easter weekend
waiting on repairs in his small hometown he has avoided for nearly
forty years.
A
chance reunion with his childhood friend Oliver Lonewolf, a
half-Cheyenne shell-shocked Vietnam vet, and a confrontation with a
corrupt local law enforcement officer with a propensity for violence
thrust Colter into a twisting tale of long-buried secrets, rapidly
escalating violence, and a deadly encounter that will forge the
redemption of one man’s character at the cost of another man’s
soul. (University of New Mexico Press)
Joseph
W. Shaw was born and grew up in western Oklahoma. A 1972
graduate
of the University of New Mexico and a 1973 graduate student at the
University of Southern Mississippi’s Center for Writers. Shaw
currently lives in Albuquerque with Gina, his wife and business partner
of forty-three years. Together they own and operate the real
estate firm of Shaw & Shaw Ltd., Realtors.
In
Cesar Chavez and the Common Sense of Nonviolence, Jose-Antonio Orosco
argues that Chavez developed original ideas about nonviolent theory and
practice that are significantly distinct from the work of Gandhi and
King and demonstrates how those views are appropriate for guiding us in
dealing with today’s social and political struggles. Engaging
Chavez in dialogue with a variety of political theorists and
philosophers, Orosco reconstructs what Chavez called “the common sense
of nonviolence” and sheds light on the philosophy that strengthened and
gave direction to his life as a utopian thinker and
activist. (University of New Mexico Press)
Henry
Tobias’ previous book A History of
Jews in New Mexico, covered the Jewish presence in the state
up to 1980. Tobias discovered, however, that there was more to the
story.
In Jews in New Mexico Since World
War II,
Tobias addresses the legacy of the Holocaust’s horrors and the
heightened Jewish consciousness in New Mexico that resulted.
Tobias looks at how New Mexico’s modest Jewish population grew
significantly in numbers and cultural influence after World War II and
how the awareness of Jewish history in the Southwest since the Spanish
entrada has increased in recent years. Add to his research the growing
number of studies about crypto-Jews and the flourishing art scene
including Jewish artists Ira Moskowitz, Arthur Sussman, and Judy
Chicago and a whole new history of Jews in New Mexico emerges.
(University of New Mexico Press)
Plame’s
story is now part of the history of the Iraq War. An undercover CIA
agent, she suggested that her husband, former Iraq ambassador and
Africa expert Joseph Wilson—at the urging of the vice president’s
office—be sent to Niger to investigate whether Saddam Hussein tried to
obtain yellowcake uranium—one of the Bush administration’s apocalyptic
talking points for the war. After he wrote an op-ed article in the New
York Times called What I Did Not Find in Africa, Plame was “outed” as a
CIA operative by columnist Robert Novak.(She was “fair game” according
to Karl Rove, Bush’s chief political strategist.) In a drawn out
melodrama, special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald rounded up the usual
Beltway suspects (Rove, Ari Fleischer, Matt Cooper, Judy Miller etc.)
before a grand jury, but eventually Lewis I. (Scooter) Libby, VP
Cheney’s chief-of-staff, was the only one sentenced in the case for
perjury and obstruction of justice (which was soon commuted by Bush).
Valerie
Wilson retired from the CIA in January 2006, and now, not only as a
citizen but as a wife and mother, the daughter of an Air Force colonel,
and the sister of a U.S. marine, she sets the record straight,
providing an extraordinary account of her training and experiences, and
answers many questions that have been asked about her covert status,
her responsibilities, and her life. As readers will see, the CIA still
deems much of the detail of Valerie’s story to be classified. As a
service to readers, an afterword by national security reporter Laura
Rozen provides a context for Valerie’s own story.
Fair Game is
the historic and unvarnished account of the personal and international
consequences of speaking truth to power. (Simon &
Schuster)
Valerie Plame Wilson now resides in Santa Fe with her husband Joseph
and their children.
WEDNESDAY
• JULY 30 • 7
PM • TALK &
BOOK SIGNING Bret Lott ANCIENT
HIGHWAY
Lott
picks up the themes that dominated his 1999 Oprah Book Club Selection,
Jewel, in this multigenerational saga. In 1927, 14-year-old Earl Holmes
runs away from his unhappy home in Hawkins, Tex., for Hollywood to
become a movie star. But poor bumpkin Earl has better luck in marrying
big band singer Saralee Kennedy than he ever does building his acting
resume. Earl and Saralee’s only child, Joan, grows up to resent her
father’s dogged pursuit of a practically nonexistent film career at the
expense of his family’s happiness. She has plenty of her own residual
problems by the time she has her son, Brad, who joins the navy and
returns in 1980 to live with his grandparents, Earl and Saralee, in
L.A. Estranged from Joan, Brad takes it upon himself to heal the
family’s rifts. The colorful off-camera anecdotes of filmmaking are
gems, particularly how Earl lands a bit role in a forgettable Three
Stooges skit. This chronicle of the Holmes family is sluggish in spots,
but Lott’s handling of characters and domestic conflicts picks up for
readers who stick through the first act. (Random House)
