This Week at Bookworks Features a Memoir of Sam Peckinpah, Chuck Palahniuk, and More

This week at Bookworks includes a memoir of Sam Peckinpah, Chuck Palahniuk, an artist who revitalizes Cape May, and stories of the undead. For more information, visit bkwrks.com/event.

Friday, October 24
7pm • Kale Soup for the Soul: Portuguese Poets sharing stories about food, family & culture •
Readers at the Albuquerque Kale Soup reading include:
Carlo Matos (Chicago, Illinois), the author of three books of poetry.
Paula Neves grew up in and around Newark, NJ's Iron-bound section. She has worked in various wordsmithing capacities, and currently teaches English composition at Rutgers University-Newark, where she received her MFA in poetry.
Amy Sayre Baptista writes in Springfield, IL. Her stories have appeared inAlaska Quarterly Review, Ninth Letter, S'ouwester, LUSO American Voices, Chicago Noir.
Millicent Borges Accardi is the author of three poetry books.

Friday - Saturday, October 24 & 25th
9am-5pm • Handspring Conference • A Conference for Writers & Illustrators of Children's Books at the Ramada Albuquerque East, 10300 Hotel Ave NE
Scheduled activities include a social event on Friday evening, and a full dayon Saturday starting with a First Impressions Panel, individual presentations by our faculty of publishing professionals, and the opportunity to attend two of five breakout sessions.

Saturday, October 25
7pm • Jeremy Tolbert • Talking with the Devil About Love
Jeremy Tolbert is a poet and writer from Washington State and lives north of Seattle in Lynnwood, WA. Tolbert's poetry speaks to the struggle and hardships of the everyday and what it is like to feel truly alone even when surrounded by society.

Sunday, October 26
1pm • Jennifer Jacobson read Tarot Cards •
$10 for a 10-15 Tarot reading with her Soul Cards.

3pm • Max Evans & Robert Nott • Goin' Crazy With Sam Peckinpah and All Our Friends
Max Evans, one of Peckinpah's best friends, experienced the director's mercurial character and personal demons firsthand. In this enthralling memoir we follow Evans and Peckinpah through conversations in bars, family gatherings, binges on drugs and alcohol, struggles with film producers and executives, and Peckinpah's abusive behavior--sometimes directed at Evans himself.

Monday, October 27
6:30pm • Alvin Townley at the Albuquerque Academy's Community Academy Lecture Series for a free event • Defiant
During the Vietnam War, hundreds of American POWs faced years of brutal conditions and horrific torture at the hands of communist interrogators. This is a story of survival and triumph in the vein of Unbroken and Band of Brothers, Defiant will inspire anyone wondering how courage, faith, and brotherhood can endure even in the darkest of situations.

Monday, October 27
7pm • Chuck Palahniuk at UNMs Student Union Ballrooms B & C • Beautiful You
From the author of Fight Club, the classic portrait of the damaged contemporary male psyche, now comes this novel about the apocalyptic marketing possibilities of female pleasure. Sisters will be doing it for themselves. And doing it. And doing it. And doing it some more . . .Tickets available now on-line.

Wednesday, October 29
7pm • Janice Wilson Stridick •
Alice Steer Wilson: Light Particularly
Alice Steer Wilson (1926-2001) played a central role in sparking the renaissance of Cape May, New Jersey in the 1970s. Painting en plein air, she captured the changing light on neglected beaches and Victorian cottages, inspiring townspeople and tourists to see Cape May as a treasure worth preserving. An exceptional colorist, her work conveys the intrinsic character of a resort that had fallen on hard times.

For Kids

Thursday, October 30
7pm • Ray John de Aragon • New Mexico Book of the Dead
De Aragón lived most of his first thirty years in Old Town Las Vegas near the Arroyo Manteca, where his mother Maria Cleofas Sanchez de Aragón recounted stories to him of La Llorona roaming up and down the waterways in search of her lost children. An event sure to please all who love Dia de los Muertos.

Saturday, October 25
10:30am • Bilingual Story Time

Sunday, October 26
5pm • Harry Potter Book Club

Thursday, October 30
10:30am • STORY TIME with a Halloween theme!
Wear a costume and hear some holiday stories for the young set.

Looking Ahead

Wednesday, November 6
7pm • Valerie Plame & Sarah Lovett • Burned
Covert CIA ops officer Vanessa Pierson has dedicated her career to capturing one man: Bhoot, the world's most notorious nuclear arms dealer. That mission has been impeded by the murders of her assets, who were betrayed by a mole within her own agency.

Thursday, November 7
7pm • Ron Pevny • Conscious Living, Conscious Aging
We financially plan for our retirement, but do we plan for our wellbeing? Here is an empowering guide with practical tools to help you live a passionate, fulfilling second half of life.

Saturday, November 15
3pm • Toby Smith • Bush League Boys
This loving tribute to the defunct minor league teams of New Mexico and west Texas resurrects a forgotten period of baseball history. Through oral histories of players, umpires, fans, sportswriters, and team officials, Toby Smith brings to life the West Texas-New Mexico League, the Longhorn League, the Southwestern League, and the Sophomore League from 1946 to 1961, when the last of them folded.

Sunday, November 16
3pm • Jerry Mitchell • The Height of Secrecy
High on a treacherous canyon wall, a man from the pueblo clings to a ledge. Furiously working to rescue him, Ranger Jack Chastain is nearly killed. Now he wants an explanation and the man refuses to talk.

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