Thursday 5/23: Christian Kiefer's 'The Infinite Tides'--now in paperback!

 Thursday, May 23rd, 7:00pm

Christian Kiefer
reading, discussing, and celebrating
the paperback release of his highly-acclaimed debut novel
The Infinite Tides

"Smart, lyrical, deeply moving. The central character, a NASA astronaut who has touched the stars, must come to earth, as we all must. What he finds down here beneath the heavens is dizzying in its emotional complexity and pure aching beauty."
—T.C. Boyle, author of When the Killing’s Done

"This is a breathtakingly beautiful and honest rendering of one man's massive life crisis. Part Space Oddity, part Revolutionary Road, this is a magnificently original novel."

 —Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead

Set in depleted, post-recession suburbia, with its endlessly interlocking cul-de-sacs, mega-parking lots and big box stores, The Infinite Tides tells the story of star astronaut Keith Corcoran’s return to earth. Keith comes home from a lengthy mission aboard the International Space Station to find his wife and daughter gone, and a house completely empty of furniture, as if Odysseus had returned to Ithaca to find that everyone he knew had forgotten about him and moved on.

Keith is a mathematical and engineering genius, but he is ill equipped to understand what has happened to him, and how he has arrived at the center of such vacancy. Then, he forges an unlikely friendship with a neighboring Ukrainian immigrant, and slowly begins to reconnect with the world around him. As the two men share their vastly different personal and professional experiences, they paint an indelible and nuanced portrait of modern American life. The result is a deeply moving, tragicomic and ultimately redemptive story of love, loss and resilience, and of two lives lived under the weight of gravity.

Christian Kiefer earned his Ph.D. in American literature from the University of California, Davis, and is on the English faculty of American River College in Sacramento. His poetry has appeared in various national journals including the Antioch Review and Santa Monica Review. He is also an accomplished songwriter and recording artist. He lives in the hill country north of Sacramento with his wife and five sons.

This event is FREE and everyone is invited.

Paperback copies of The Infinite Tides are currently available at TTB.

Rosalie Riegle on 'Crossing the Line' - May 20th

Time Tested Books 

is pleased to welcome

Rosalie Riegle

Monday, May 20, 2013 at 7 p.m.

for a Reading & Discussion

of her newest book, 

Crossing the Line: Nonviolent Resisters

Speak Out for Peace,

a compelling history of those who say no to war making in the strongest way possible: by engaging in civil disobedience and paying the consequences in jail or prison.

Photo by Bob Fitch

 Rosalie Riegle, author of Doing Time for Peace: Resistance, Family and Community, is a peace activist and oral historian from Michigan and Illinois.  She taught English for 33 years at Saginaw Valley State University and co-founded two Catholic Worker houses in Saginaw, Michigan.

 Rosalie G. Riegle, D.A. is Professor Emerita in English at Saginaw Valley State University, University Center, MI. There she taught Humanities, Women’s Studies, Composition, and English literature; chaired the Honors Program; and received the Landee Award for Distinguished Teaching, the Ishihara Student Service Award, and the Faculty Research Award as well as the Rush Distinguished Lectureship. Degrees are from St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN; Wayne State University, Detroit, MI; and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Her pevious published oral histories are Voices from the Catholic Worker (Temple University Press, 1993) and Dorothy Day: Portraits by Those Who Knew Her (Orbis Books, 2003). Currently she retains membership in the Peace and Justice Studies Association and is active in the Oral History Association and the American Catholic Historical Association.

This event is FREE and everyone is invited.

Arturo Mantecón with Andrea D. Lingenfelter - May 16th

Thursday, May 16th at 7 p.m. 

Time Tested Books is pleased to welcome
Arturo Mantecón 

reading from his translation of

Leopoldo Maria Panero’s

Like an Eye in the Hand of a Beggar

co-featuring:
  Andrea D. Lingenfelter 

 reading from her recently published translations of the work 
of Zhai Yongming, one of China's leading poets, 
in an award winning volume titled 
"The Changing Room" 

Leopoldo María Panero (b. 1948 Madrid), is known as Spain’s poeta maldito and is the greatest living poet in Spanish and the most significant once since García Lorca and Aleixandre, yet he has been virtually unknown to the English speaking literary world until recently.

Arturo Mantecón
Translator, poet, and short story writer. MA, UC Davis (Philosophy).
His short stories have been published in The Americas Review, Café Bellas Artes, Bliss, and the Dunes Review and have appeared in various anthologies. His translations have been published in Poetry Now, Left Curve, and Skidrow Penthouse. He is the translator of the work of Leopoldo María Panero, the great, mad Spanish poet. His two published books of selected poems by Panero are "My Naked Brain" (Swan Scythe Press, 2011) and the just-released "Like and eye in the hand of a beggar" (Editions Michel Eyquem, 2013).
  

Andrea D. Lingenfelter
Translator and Poet. MA, Yale University (East Asian Studies), PhD, University of Washington (East Asian Languages and Literature). Her translations have appeared in Poetry International Festival (Rotterdam, 2004), Manoa: Mercury Rising: Contemporary Poetry From Taiwan (2003), Frontier Taiwan: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan (Columbia University Press, 2001), The Poem and the World (Seattle, 1994) and Time Asia, (October 23, 2000). She has recently published translations of the work of Zhai Yongming, one of China's leading poets, in an award winning volume titled "The Changing Room" (Zephyr Press, 2011). She is also the translator of the novels, Candy (Little, Brown, 2003), Farewell to My Concubine (1993), and The Last Princess of Manchuria (1992).

This event is FREE and everyone is invited.

An evening of Poetry & Jazz: O'Daly & Stanley ~ Bloom & Smith - May 7th

Time Tested Books & The Sacramento Poetry Center 

are pleased to present

William O'Daly, poet and translator of Pablo Neruda
With Paul Bloom, composer, piano and keyboards and
Laila Smith, vocalist and lyricist, of Polenta

and Bob Stanley, former Poet Laureate of Sacramento,
also performing and hosting

Tuesday, May 7th at 7 p.m.

$5.00

 

*PREVIEW* of ARC's SummerWords Conference - May 1st

Join us
Wednesday, May 1st, at 7:00pm 
for a "pre-party"/reading in anticipation of  
SummerWords:
The American River College Creative Writing Colloquium


(May 30-June 2...more info here)

FEATURING: 

Lois Ann Abraham

Emily Hughes

Harold Schneider

Tammy Montgomery

+more!
 

*FREE* and open to the public

NorCal Surfing legend Frosty Hesson on 'Making Mavericks' - April 25th

Time Tested Books is pleased to present:

 Frosty Hesson

Reading & Signing

Making Mavericks

Thursday, April 25th at 7 p.m.

  

 

 

The inspiring story beyond the major motion picture “Chasing Mavericks”...

When Richard “Frosty” Hesson was first approached by a young Jay Moriarty in 1990, the skinny kid with a sparkle in his eye only wanted one thing from the icon: his help in becoming a better surfer. Hesson, one of the first to conquer the huge waves off northern California known as Mavericks, recognized that the kid “had a vision.” Jay quickly demonstrated a resolve that reminded Frosty of his younger self, pursuing his goal with a seriousness far beyond his years. His attitude and work ethic earned Frosty’s respect and, eventually, his friendship. Making Mavericks is the inspiring story of their father-son bond and of the challenges that made each of them who they were—surf legends, and the subject of the film Chasing Mavericks.

 In Making Mavericks, Frosty talks about his turbulent youth spent under difficult circumstances, with parents who tried to find a positive way to handle a child with a passion for water and a disregard for his own safety. Throughout his life he developed principles to live by, principles that would become the core tenets of his teaching philosophy. Most significantly, Frosty talks about how one of his best students, Jay Moriarty, used his philosophy to become a surfing phenomenon, and whose life inspired the phrase, “Live like Jay.” Affecting and poignant, Making Mavericks is a celebration of Hesson’s determination to live with joy and purpose, and his desire to help others do the same.

This event is FREE & everyone is invited.

Remembering PULSE! Magazine - The Sacramento Living Library - April 21st

Time Tested Books 

is pleased to announce the

 next installment of the Sacramento Living Library:

Remembering PULSE! Magazine

Sunday, April 21st at 7 p.m. 

      

 
Thirty years ago, Tower Records published the very first issue of PULSE! Magazine, a scrappy, independent take on music and culture.  Editor Mike Farrace created a platform for creative journalism that was an early home to many outstanding talents including Jackson Griffith, Marc Weidenbaum and Adrian Tomine.  On Sunday, April 21 we take a look back at Tower Records' amazing music publication and the people who made it happen.

This event is FREE & everyone is invited.

Won't you join us?