Beth Holmgren will read from and sign copies of her new book\, Starring Madame Modjeska\: On Tour in Poland and America\, which traces Modjeska's fabulous life and career from her illegitimate birth in Krakow\, her successive reinventions of herself as a star in both Poland and America\, and her enduring legacy. Through extensive research on two continents Holmgren shows how Modjeska won renown as the greatest “American” Shakespearean actress of her day. Beth Holmgren is a professor in Duke's department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120526T163832Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120124T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120124T000000Z UID:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/anne-barnhill URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/anne-barnhill SUMMARY:Anne Barnhill DESCRIPTION:Local author Anne Barnhill will read from and sign copies of her debut novel At the Mercy of the Queen\: A Novel of Anne Boleyn which follows the life of Madge Shelton\, cousin and lady-in-waiting to Anne Boleyn torn between her loyalty to her cousin and the love of her life. Barnhill is the author of At Home In the Land of Oz\: Autism\, My Sister and Me\, and the short story collection\, What You Long For.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120526T163832Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120126T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120126T000000Z UID:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/north-carolina-literary-review-readers URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/north-carolina-literary-review-readers SUMMARY:North Carolina Literary Review Readers DESCRIPTION:Each year the North Carolina Literary Review hosts the Doris Betts Fiction Prize. Winners from the competition will read from their submissions. The 2011 first place winner\, Robert Wallace\, has had fiction and nonfiction published in various venues\, including Bryant Literary Review\, The Long Story\, and Racing Home\: New Short Stories by Award Winning North Carolina Writers. He is the author of the novel A Hold on Time and writes a monthly column for the News and Observer. Second place winner\, Gregg Cusick\, has had stories published in Chelsea\, The Bellevue Literary Review\, and Alligator. Cusick won the 2010 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition and in 2011 received a Pushcart Prize nomination. Melanie Raskin is a Chapel Hill resident whose work has been published in Seems and Spectator Magazine. In 1985\, she co-founded the Triangle Writers Group.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120526T163832Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120201T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120201T000000Z UID:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/kathy-hester URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/kathy-hester SUMMARY:Kathy Hester DESCRIPTION:Join us for a warm wintertime snack with Durham blogger and cookbook author Kathy Hester who will discuss and sign copies of her new book The Vegan Slow Cooker. Hester will provide a demonstration of her delicious slow cooker recipes and samples. For those who want to go vegan or just eat more meatless meals\, Hester provides standard slow-cooker fare such as stews and casseroles\, but also has recipes for bread\, breakfasts and desserts. "\;Kathy’s stellar recipes and straightforward instructions will have you creating hot\, fresh\, gourmet meals in just minutes a day. No more slaving away in the kitchen. With The Vegan Slow Cooker\, you’ll be eating like a queen with just the flip of a switch!"\;—Rory Freedman\, author of the Skinny Bitch.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120526T163832Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120202T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120202T000000Z UID:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/drew-magary URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/drew-magary SUMMARY:Drew Magary DESCRIPTION:Drew Magary will read from and sign copies of his new novel The Postmortal\, which imagines a world twenty minutes in the future wherein the cure for aging has been discovered. Magary explores the implications of such a discovery and the problems that may arise\, including evil green people\, euthanasia programs\, a new religious cult. This story of a pre-apocalypse is a dark comedy that is by turns tragic and comic. Drew Magary is a blogger for Deadspin.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120526T163832Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120203T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120203T000000Z UID:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/lisa-alther-0 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/lisa-alther-0 SUMMARY:Lisa Alther DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120526T163832Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120207T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120207T000000Z UID:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/adrian-bejan URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/adrian-bejan SUMMARY:Adrian Bejan and Peder Zane DESCRIPTION:Duke professor Adrian Bejan will read from and sign copies of his new book\, Design in Nature\, which he wrote with Peder Zane. This book explores the Contructal Law and the evolution of design in the natural world around us\, from biological life to inanimate systems – trees\, tributaries\, air passages\, neural networks\, and lightning bolts. Adrian Bejan is the J. A. Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Duke University. Peder Zane is an award-winning columnist who has worked for the New York Times and the Raleigh News and Observer.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120526T163832Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120208T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120208T000000Z UID:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/alan-shapiro URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/alan-shapiro SUMMARY:Alan Shapiro DESCRIPTION:Alan Shapiro will read from his debut novel Broadway Baby which follows aspiring entertainer Miriam Bluestein (who continues to look at the world as if it were\, indeed\, all a stage). A story of her obsessive love and self-deception\, this novel follows Miriam on and off Broadway. Shapiro captures her struggles with marriage\, the war\, and motherhood while chasing her dream of stardom. Shapiro has published ten books of poetry\, most recently\, Old War and has been the winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award and an LA Times Book Award in poetry. He teaches at UNC.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120526T163832Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120209T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120209T000000Z UID:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/henry-alford-0 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/henry-alford-0 SUMMARY:Henry Alford DESCRIPTION:Henry Alford will read from and sign copies of his new book\, Would it Kill You to Stop Doing That? A Guide to Modern Manners. As both a humorist and a journalist Alford explores how we can treat each other better in an unconventional way\: he teaches Miss Manners how to steal a cab\, interviews an army sergeant on etiquette\, volunteers himself as a tour guide for foreigners visiting New York City and provides answers to questions like Why shouldn’t you ask a cabdriver where’s he’s from? Sarah Vowell writes “The wry and endearing Alford has pulled off writing a book about wisdom that’s actually wise.” Alford is the author of How to Live and has a weekly column in the New York Times.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120526T163832Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120211T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120211T000000Z UID:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/sharon-ewell-foster-0 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/sharon-ewell-foster-0 SUMMARY:Sharon Ewell Foster DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120526T163832Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120212T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120212T000000Z UID:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/valentines-cabaret-ellen-ciompi-glenn-mehrbach URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/valentines-cabaret-ellen-ciompi-glenn-mehrbach SUMMARY:Valentine's Cabaret with Ellen Ciompi & Glenn Mehrbach DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120526T163832Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120214T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120214T000000Z UID:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/jacqueline-ogburn-0 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/jacqueline-ogburn-0 SUMMARY:Jacqueline Ogburn DESCRIPTION:Just in time for Valentine’s Day\, local author Jacqueline Ogburn will read from and sign copies of her book for children\, Little Treasures\: Endearments from Around the World\, which is a picture book of endearments in different languages\, illustrated by Caldecott winning artist Christ Raschka. Bring your honey\, babycakes\, pumpkin\, lampchop\, or sweetie pie. Ogburn is the author of nine other pictures books\, including A Dignity of Dragons and The Bake Shop Ghost.
Check out the book trailer posted on YouTube at http\://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU-4E1LLB34&\;feature=youtu.be
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120526T163832Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120216T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120216T000000Z UID:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/sydney-nathans URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/sydney-nathans SUMMARY:Sydney Nathans DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120526T163832Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120217T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120217T000000Z UID:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/marvin-kalb-deborah-kalb URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/marvin-kalb-deborah-kalb SUMMARY:Marvin Kalb & Deborah Kalb DESCRIPTION:Journalists Marvin Kalb and his daughter Deborah Kalb will read from and sign copies of their new book Haunting Legacy\: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama which includes five years of research and interviews and compelling insight on how President Obama and his advisors approach the wars in Iraq\, Afghanistan\, and Libya. Marvin Kalb is the Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice (Emeritus) at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and founding director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press\, Politics and Public Policy. His journalism career covers thirty years of award winning reporting and commentary for CBS and NBC News. Deborah Kalb is a freelance writer and editor writing for such outlets as the Gannett News Service\, Congressional Quarterly\, U.S. News &\; World Report\, and The Hill.
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