Since it’s one of my favorite books, I have to tell you about Barnes & Noble Westlake’s First Book Storytime, this month a reading of Margaret Wise Brown’s Goodnight Moon. It happens on Wednesday, September 3 at 11am, and is that store’s first monthly event of children’s readings benefitting First Book, a national non-profit organization which receives funds from the publishers of books featured at these monthly storytimes in order to give disadvantaged children new books of their own. For more info, call 328-3155.
SFDMC
The San Francisco Digital Media Center wants the world to know about the Third Annual Digital Storytelling Festival held September 18-21 in Crested Butte, Colorado. The fest organizers hope to attract people with an interest in traditional and non-traditional storytelling, multimedia designers, indie film and video producers, and graphic artists and designers. Call 415/285-8955 for more info or visit http://www.dstory.com.
BP Events
BookPeople has several interesting events coming up in early September: On Wednesday, September 3 at 7pm Texas Center for Writers alumna and 1996 winner of the Bakeless Literary Prize for Fiction Katherine L. Hester reads from her collection of stories, Eggs for Young America. Universally lauded Junot Diaz comes to the store on Thursday, September 4 at 7pm to read from his collection of short stories, Drown. BookPeople has a new reading group whose theme is Life During Wartime, the first meeting to be held on September 10 from 7-8:30pm in the community room on the third floor, and the first book to be In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez. Sign up at the customer service desk and receive 10% off the cost of books used for the group. Contact Rena Korb at 371-1910.
Mixed Notes
You might want to visit Barnes & Noble’s website, http://www.barnesandnoble.com to “meet” with the following authors: Michael Moore of Downsize This! on Tue, Sept 2, 6pm; Kinky Friedman with Road Kill on Wednesday, September 3, 7pm; and lastly, on Sunday, September 7, 7pm, Cynthia Ozick discusses her latest, The Puttermesser Papers…
The Austin Writers’ League has announced their fall workshops and classes, 499-8914 for info. AWL is also gearing up for their fundraising drive which will culminate on October 26, 7pm at Esther’s Follies in an event titled Big Hair Follies, to star Ann Richards, Liz Carpenter, Shannon Sedwick, and the Esther’s gang…
Patricia Kennealy-Morrison called our offices this morning not to talk about her latest from HarperPrism in her wonderful Keltiad series, Blackmantle, but rather to ask Chron book editor Margaret Moser to take down her unofficial PKM fan page website. The conversation was cordial, though, and the two did end up making arrangements for an interview, with PKM hinting strongly at the possibility of a booksigning and reading in November…
The Austin Jewish Community Center Book Fair 1997 will consider your material to be read at its Works in Progress event as long as it contains some Jewish element within. Call 331-1144 for details.
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This article appears in August 29 • 1997 and August 29 • 1997 (Cover).