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Zinester, activist and doom metal rocker Imogen Binnie comes to Olympia for 1 night only for a reading of her first novel NEVADA.

About the book:
Nevada is the darkly comedic story of Maria Griffiths, a young trans woman living in New York City and trying to stay true to her punk values while working retail. When she finds out her girlfriend has lied to her, the world she thought she'd carefully built for herself begins to unravel, and Maria sets out on a journey that will most certainly change her forever.

About the author:
Imogen Binnie writes a monthly column in Maximum Rocknroll magazine, as well as the zines The Fact That It's Funny Doesn't Make It A Joke and Stereotype Threat. Her work has appeared in Aorta magazine, The Skinny, PrettyQueer, and the Topside Press anthology The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard. She lives with her girlfriend and their dog Pants. Her website is http://www.keepyourbridgesburning.com.

Where: Olympia Timberland Library, 313 8th Ave SE
When: Friday, March 8, 2013, 7PM
FREE - Books will be available for sale.
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/443264489077986/

More info: www.topsidepress.com/nevada

Advance Praise for Nevada

Artist David Lasky will present a multimedia slideshow documenting the creation of the graphic novel, “The Carter Family: Don't Forget This Song,” by Frank M. Young and Lasky, about the classic American folk group. Lasky will also discuss historical graphic novels and the depiction of music in comics. Join him at the Olympia Timberland Library on Friday, March 1 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Books will be available for purchase at the event. In The Carter Family: Don’t Forget This Song, and Lasky tell the story of the Carter Family—the first superstar group of country music—who made hundreds of recordings and sold millions of records between 1927 and 1944. The novel is both a unique biography, and an account that reveals the family’s rise to success, their struggles along the way, and their impact on contemporary music. It is also a story of success and failure, poverty and wealth, racism and tolerance, creativity and business, and the enduring power of music and love. The book shares the same goal as country music: to tell stories, and to capture them honestly. Illustrated with exacting detail and written in the Southern dialect of the time, the book is uniquely American. It includes a music CD of 11 rare Carter Family radio recordings.

Local author and art critic Alec Clayton will present his new novel Return to Freedom on the afternoon of Saturday, January 19th at 3pm. It's a free event, folks. And it should be a hoot and holler: Alec's bringing some superstars from the local theater scene to dramatize the text! Come on down - we're at 509 4th Ave E. in downtown Olympia.

Orca Books reading:

Lance Weller will read from his debut novel, Wilderness,  published by Bloomsbury. Taking placein the time after the Civil War, with the setting divided between the battle-scarred South and the wilds of the Pacific Northwest, this is the story of a country torn in two and of the hard healing afterward. Annie Dillard wrote:  “Here is a book in the great tradition of the novel: a vivid world that wraps and holds the reader who can well lose himself [or herself] in its grandeur."

Orca Books is located at 509 4th Ave E in downtown Olympia.

Questions? Call 352-0123.

Olympia author Stan Meyer will be at Orca Books to present his holiday book I Remember Christmas, which details his memories of Christmases past. Maybe some of his holiday traditions will inspire you to integrate them into your own family traditions too!

 

Orca Books is located in downtown Olympia at 509 4th Ave East.