This Week at Bookworks Includes Chuck Palahniuk at UNM, Art on Cape May, NM Book of the Dead with Ray John de Aragon and More

Below are this week's events at Bookworks. For more information, visit bkwkrs.com/event.

Friday, October 24
7pm • Kale Soup for the Soul: Portuguese writers 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 (A School for Fishermen, Counting Sheep Till Doomsday and Big Bad Asterisk) along with a scholarly book (Ibsen's Foreign Contagion). He holds a PhD in Modern Drama and teaches writing at the City Colleges of Chicago.
Millicent Borges Accardi is the author of three poetry books: Injuring Eternity, Woman on a Shaky Bridge, and Only More So (forthcoming). She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the arts (NEA), CantoMundo, the California Arts Council, Fundação Luso-Americana (FLAD), and Barbara Deming Foundation's Money for Women.
Célia Cordeiro was born on the Azorean island of Saint Michael, Portugal. She holds a B.A. in Bilingual Education from the University of the Azores, an M.A. in Lusophone and Hispanic Literatures from the University of Minnesota, and is a 3rd year PhD student in Iberian and Latin American Languages at the University of Texas at Austin. Célia's dissertation deals with the recreation of Azorean popular culture in the southern part of Brazil.

Friday - Saturday, October 24 & 25th
9am-5pm • Handsprings 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 day on 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
3pm • 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.

3pm • Gail Sheehy • Daring: My Passages at the JCC Book Fest, 5520 Wyoming NE
The author of Passages, a book that changed millions of lives, now lays bare her own life passages in a captivating memoir that reveals her harrowing and ultimately triumphant path from groundbreaking 1960s "girl" journalist to fearless bestselling author who made a career of excavating cultural taboos--from sex, menopause, and midlife crisis to illness, caregiving, and death.

Monday, October 27
6:30pm • Alvin Townley • Defiant at the Albuquerque Academy Lecture Series, 6400 Woming NE
A story of survival and triumph during the Vietnam war in the vein ofUnbroken and Band of Brothers, Defiant will inspire anyone wondering how courage, faith, and brotherhood can endure even in the darkest of situations.

7pm • Chuck Palahniuk • Beautiful You at UNMs Student Union Ballrooms B & C
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
11:30am • Juliana Maio • City of the Sun luncheon at the JCC Book Fest, 5520 Wyoming NE
CAIRO, EGYPT 1941. As the Second World War rages, the city known as "Paris on the Nile" plays host to an international set who seem more interested in polo matches and swanky nightclubs than the Germans' unrelenting advance across North Africa. Meanwhile, as refugees, soldiers, and spies stream into the city, the Nazis conspire with the emerging Muslim Brotherhood to fuel the Egyptian people's seething resentment against their British overlords.

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.

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.

For Kids

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 5
7pm • Tony Hoagland • Twenty Poems That Could Save America and Other Essays
Live American poetry is absent from our public schools. The teaching of poetry languishes, and that region of youthful neurological terrain capable of being ignited only by poetry is largely dark, unpopulated, and silent, like a classroom whose shades are drawn. From Twenty Poems That Could Save America

Thursday, 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.

Sunday, November 9
5pm • CB McKenzie • Bad Country
The newest winner of the Tony Hillerman Prize, a debut mystery set in the Southwest starring a former rodeo cowboy turned private investigator, told in a transfixingly original style.

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.