Reception to honor author and Sandpoint native
Marilynne Robinson is out to prove Thomas Wolfe wrong.
Wolfe wrote a novel titled “You Can’t Go Home Again,” but that’s exactly what Robinson will be doing next Sunday.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the novel “Gilead,” who just happens to be a Sandpoint native, will be honored at a reception next Sunday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Sandpoint branch of the East Bonner County Library District, 1407 Cedar St.
The event, which is co-sponsored by the library district and Lost Horse Press, is free and open to the public (208-263-6390).
Robinson will then read from her works – which include “Housekeeping,” a novel set in a town that feels a lot like Sandpoint – and take questions at 3 p.m. at Sandpoint’s Panida Theater, 300 N. First. Admission is by donation; proceeds will help benefit the annual Young Writers of the Lost Horse creative-writing conference.
Preceding Robinson at the Panida, the Sandpoint Library’s young-writer’s group, the Blue Dragons, also will read.
For information, call the Panida at (208) 263-9191, Lost Horse Press at (208) 255-4410 or go online at www.losthorsepress.org.
Making the semis
Alvin Greenberg’s “Hurry Back,” a book of poetry published by Lost Horse Press, is one of 10 semifinalists for the 2006 Independent Publisher Book Awards. Finalists in each of the 60 IPPY categories will be announced on Wednesday.
Selling the book
The Web has given authors more control over selling their books.
Take Kari Joys, for example. The Spokane psychotherapist will be sending out an e-mail to 200,000 people on Tuesday as a way of drawing attention to her book, “Choosing Light-Heartedness: A 33-Day Journey to Overcome Anxiety, Depression and Dysfunctional Family Issues” (Higher Consciousness Books, 208 pages, $15.95 paper).
The e-mail directs readers to Joys’ Web site ( www.kari-joys.com/choosinglight heartedness/special.htm), where she offers the book and “many special bonuses” if you order through Barnes & Noble’s Web site.
Joys points out that the e-mails aren’t spam. They’re going to, she says, people who have signed up for newsletters and so are a target audience.
McCullers live
Ignite Community Theatre will do a reader’s-theater production of Carson McCullers’ novel “The Member of the Wedding” at 6:30 p.m. Friday at Auntie’s Bookstore, Main and Washington (838-0206).
Book talk
•Auntie’s Morning Book Group (“Broken for You,” by Stephanie Kallos), 11 a.m. Tuesday, Auntie’s Bookstore.
•Auntie’s Evening Book Group (“1,000 White Women,” by Jim Fergus), 7 p.m. Tuesday, Auntie’s Bookstore.
•Literary Freedom Book Group (“Sleeping with Schubert,” by Bonnie Mason), 1 p.m. Saturday, Auntie’s Bookstore.
The reader board
•Debra Dean (“The Madonnas of Leningrad”), reading, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Auntie’s Bookstore.
•Jean Hegland (“Windfalls”), reading, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Auntie’s Bookstore.
•Verne Patten (“Somewhere Everyday”), signing, 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Auntie’s Bookstore.
•Karen Jean Matsko Hood (“Mother’s Day Delights Cookbook”), 1 to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Valley Hastings, 15312 E. Sprague (924-0667).