March at Bookworks Includes Kim Gordon, Lisa See, and More!

Bookworks' March events highlight the contributions of women to arts and culture with features that tie into Women and Creativity and Women's History month.

On March 1, Bookworks teams up with the UNM Creative Writing program for an evening at the SUB with former Sonic Youth frontwoman, Kim Gordon, touring for her new memoir, Girl in a Band (Harper Collins/Dey Street Books). Girl in a Bandrecounts Ms. Gordon's early life in Southern California and her entrée and contributions to the "No Wave" movement of rock music. Gordon also recounts her marriage and recent divorce from Sonic Youth co-creator Thurston Moore. Gordon will be in conversation with Samantha Carrillo of the Weekly Alibi. Tickets are $27.99 and include a signed hardcover copy of Girl in a Band. A $5 guest ticket is available with the purchase of a regular priced ticket. Tickets are available at bkwrks.com/kim-gordon.

Popular novelist, Lisa See, visits March 10 for the paperback release of China Dolls, at Bookworks. China Dolls (Random House) is set in 1938 San Francisco, where a world's fair is opening, a war is brewing overseas, and three young very different women meet at the exclusive Forbidden City club. The girls become fast friends, and their dark secrets bind them together. Family secrets are the theme of Hannah Nordhaus's book American Ghost (Harper Collins), a history and true crime read that explores Staub family stories and her great-great grandmother, Julia Staub, who is said to haunt the Staub mansion in Santa Fe, now La Posada Hotel. Nordhaus shares her story March 12.

Kirstin Valdez Quade portrays a complex Santa Fe in her debut short story collection, Night at the Fiestas (Norton) March 25at Bookworks. Quade was one of the National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35" writers last year. Quade's New Mexico is one of love, loss, and violence with characters with troubled hearts and troubled pasts: the deadbeat father of a pregnant teenager tries to transform his life by playing the role of Jesus in a bloody penitential Passion. A young man discovers that his estranged father and a boa constrictor have been squatting in his grandmother's empty house. Quade's stories chart family life, race, class, and coming of age.

To wrap up the month, integrative medical doctor and author Michael Finkelstein visits the store with his book Slow Medicine,now out in paperback.

Kids' events in March include a celebration of Dr. Seuss's Birthday March 7 at 10:30 am. Big on Animals meets March 14 at 10:30 to honor butterflies. As usual, book clubs for both children and adults meet at the store in March: Vamos a Leer Book Club meets March 2; Bookworks Book Club convenes March 11; American Girl is March 18 and the Magic Treehouse Book Club meets March 25, both at 4pm. Visit bkwrks.com/events for full details and reading selections.