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Upcoming EventsWednesday, June 25, 6pm - Fiction
author of To Enter Jerusalem ($24.00 Permanent Press) It seems a simple story, but Eisendrath, a former foreign service officer (and a current consultant on U.S. diplomatic policy), layers on the subtext until the book becomes both a character study and a snapshot of a contentious period in American political history. For more information see: http://www.robinsbookstore.com/events/062508.html Thursday, June 26, 6pm - Poetry
author of Pointing at the Moon ($17.00 Wordtech) In 2004, Bill Wunder was named Poet Laureate of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Current projects include a poetry manuscript titled Pointing at the Moon, concerning what the Vietnamese call the "American War." For more information see: http://www.robinsbookstore.com/events/062608.html Thursday, June 26, 6-7:30pm - Poetry Workshop - $50
For more information see: http://www.robinsbookstore.com/events/gontarek.html Friday, June 27, 7:30pm - Fiction
Tuesday July 1, 6pm – Fiction
Robin Messing author of Serpent in the Garden of Dreams ($16.00 Permanent Press) Joan Silber author of The Size of the World ($23.95 Norton) In her insightful and provocative debut novel, Messing probes into the wounded psyche of a thirtysomething woman. War, love and culture shock take various forms, but the size of the world, in Silber's magnificent fiction, is often no larger than the distance to the person in bed beside you. For more information see: http://www.robinsbookstore.com/events/070108.html Monday July 7, 6pm – Non-Fiction
author of The Score ($24.95 Avery Publishing) Offering a fascinating look at everything from transsexual snakes and the long corkscrew penises of ducks to club pickup techniques and the connection between male scum and scum that is male, Faye Flam ranges broadly over many disciplines to show how sexual strivings and strategies have shaped not only us, but virtually the whole animal kingdom. For more information see: http://www.robinsbookstore.com/events/070708.html Tuesday July 8, 6pm – Poetry
George Drew was born in Mississippi and raised there and in New York State, where he currently lives. Allen Hoey's first collection of poems, A Fire in the Cold House of Being, was chosen by Galway Kinnell for the 1985 Camden Poetry Award; subsequent volumes of poetry include What Persists, Provençal Light, The Precincts of Paradise, and Country Music. For more information see: http://www.robinsbookstore.com/events/070808.html Wednesday July 9, 6pm – Non-Fiction
present The Dailycandy Lexicon: Words That Don't Exist But Should ($14.95 Virgin Books) Maybe you're tired of talking the way you've talked for years (please stop calling things "dope"), or maybe you're embarrassed that you didn't know what your cubicle-mate meant by "desk burn" (it's an injury sustained during in-office sex). Either way, you need a dose of The DailyCandy Lexicon. For more information see: http://www.robinsbookstore.com/events/070908.html Thursday July 10, 7pm – Drama & Discussion
editor of The People of Clarendon County – A Play by Ossie Davis, with Photographs and Historical Documents and Essays on the Education that Can end Racism ($14.95 TWP) with drama students from New Freedom Theatre enacting scenes from the play and educator Monique Michael discuses the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method which allows children to learn successfully and fights racism. For more information see: http://www.robinsbookstore.com/events/071008.html Friday July 11, 8pm – After Hours
Live @ Robin's, 2nd Fridays is pleased to have Dennis Brutus, along with our usual cast of characters, for an after hours evening of music, spoken word and freestyle jam. Bring a poem, an instrument and a smile. Cover $5. Doors open at 7:30 pm (everyone must be in by 8:15) and then we close up shop and Live @ Robin's After Hours begins. Refreshments available. Followed by open reading For more information see: http://www.robinsbookstore.com/events/071108.html Saturday, July 12, 2pm – Non-Fiction
author of Player Hateher: How to Avoid the Beat Down and Live in a Drama-Free World ($11.95 Amistad) At last, a humorous, anecdote-filled exploration of the many ways in which women stab each other in the back and talk about each other behind closed doors. For more information see: http://www.robinsbookstore.com/events/071208.html Sunday July 13, 2pm – Group Reading
For more information see: http://www.robinsbookstore.com/events/071308.html Wednesday, July 16, 6pm – Writers Workshop
L. A. Banks, is the recipient of the 2008 Essence Storyteller of the Year award has written over 30 novels and contributed to 10 novellas, thus far, in multiple genres under various pseudonyms. For more information see: http://www.robinsbookstore.com/events/071608.html Thursday July 17, 6:30pm – Poetry
Le Hinton, is the author of two book-length collections of poetry For more information see: http://www.robinsbookstore.com/events/071708.html Sunday July 20, 2pm - Fiction
author of War ($24.95 Arcade) Offering a grunt’s-eye view of an urban battlefield where nothing is clear and everything is at stake, war is a harrowing tour de force, written in exquisitely inventive prose that blends the immediacy of a video feed with the blasted strangeness of a world reminiscent of Beckett. For more information see: http://www.robinsbookstore.com/events/072008.html Tuesday, July 22, 6pm - Fiction
author of Stevy Bonneville Walace: A Philly Urban Hip Hop Black Psychological studied short novel ($10.00) It's raw short psychological black urban study of fiction told by a brash, edgy, emotional, jump from one subject to the next, philosopher, analyzing, slang-talking narrator. For more information see: http://www.robinsbookstore.com/events/072208.html Wednesday, July 23, 6pm – Non-Fiction
author of Something More ($11.95 iuniverse) Mr. Redding escorts the reader on a pathway of discovery that leads to the poignant recognition that this earthly life, this reality, is a mere morsel in the fabric of the existence experience. For more information see: http://www.robinsbookstore.com/events/072308_d.html Thursday July 24, 6pm – True Crime/Art
is the subject of The Girl with the Crooked Nose: A Tale of Murder, Obsession, and Forensic Artistry by Ted Botha ($25.00 Random) Ted Botha tells the absorbing story of Frank Bender, a gifted, self-taught artist who can bring back the dead and the vanished through a unique, macabre sculpting talent. Bender has been the key to solving at least nine murders and tracking down numerous criminals. For more information see: http://www.robinsbookstore.com/events/072408.html Friday, July 25, 6pm – Science-Fiction Philadelphia Fantastic Science Fiction Authors and Editors Series Presents:
For more information see: http://www.robinsbookstore.com/events/072508.html Tuesday July 29, 6pm – Photography
author of Imposters ($24.95 Mark Batty) “Imposters is a photography book about people who dress as superheros and famous movie characters and walk around the tourist section of Hollywood Boulevard in hopes of getting a tip from tourists who wish to have their picture taken with them. For more information see: http://www.robinsbookstore.com/events/072908.html Wednesday, July 30, 7pm – Non-Fiction
author of The Agitator's Daughter ($26.00 Public Affairs) The Agitator's Daughter is Sheryll Cashin's memoir of her "emotional inheritance," the dedication to political activism that has coursed through her family for generations. During Reconstruction, Herschel V. Cashin was a radical republican legislator who championed black political enfranchisement throughout the South. For more information see: http://www.robinsbookstore.com/events/073008.html |
