Time Tested Books

Sacramento Living Library: Ed Carroll 2/19 at 7 p.m.

2012-01-17T15:03:00.000-08:00

Coming February 19th at 7 p.m.

In honor of Sacramento Beer Week, Beer Historian Ed Carroll, author of Sacramento's Breweries will discuss the region's rich brewing heritage.

The Sacramento Living Library, curated by Time Tested Books' Peter Keat and hosted by Midtown Monthly Editor Time Foster, is a new edition to the River City's cultural scene, with talks, lectures and discussions featuring some of Sacramento's best and brightest.

The events are free and everyone is invited.

Judie Panneton Reading/Signing Thurs. 1/5 at 7 p.m.

2011-12-27T17:47:00.000-08:00

Time Tested Books is proud to present
Judie Panneton
Thursday, January 5th at 7 p.m.

About 40 adults, who grew up as children of immigrants in the United States are featured in a new book entitled PROUD AMERICANS: GROWING UP AS CHILDREN OF IMMIGRANTS. The book is a collection of inspirational stories about people’s joys and struggles while coming of age in the United States.

Included are Hollywood stars, high-profile business and media people, award-winning athletes, members of the President’s cabinet, elected officials and those whose names may not be recognizable but whose stories are filled with wisdom and inspiration.

Children of immigrants are different. They are their parents’ bridge to American ways, their translators, their support system, and their hope for a more promising future. They have fought to live independent lives while being true to their families’ roots and expectations.

The stories in PROUD AMERICANS: GROWING UP AS CHILDREN OF IMMIGRANTS are based on research and extensive interviews with people who live across the United States and whose family roots stretch around the globe. During each personally conducted interview, the subjects tap into their memories about growing up in America and how being children of immigrants has affected their lives.

This event is FREE and everyone is invited.

Sacramento Living Library: Michele Hebert in conversation with Becky Grunewald

2011-10-20T18:43:00.000-07:00

Sunday, November 20, 7PM

Michele Hebert

in conversation with
Becky Grunewald

Midtown Monthly wine writer Michele Hebert will share her insights

about how to learn about, shop for, and taste wine.

Coming 2012: We're working on next year's Living Library calendar now. Have ideas? Send 'em our way: info@timetestedbooks.net or on our SLL facebook page.

This event is FREE and everyone is invited.

Hobos to Street People: Wed 10/26 at 7 p.m.

2011-10-15T15:57:00.000-07:00

Hobos to Street People presents a social, cultural and political history of Homelessness from the Great Depression to the present as seen through the work of artists from Dorothea Lange, Rockwell Kent and Fritz Eichenberg to contemporary artists Kiki Smith, Eric Drooker,
Jos Sances, David Bacon and local artist Francisco Dominguez.

Power Point Presentation and book signing by author, Art Hazelwood and special guest speaker Shaka Curry from SAFEGROUND.

Hobos to Street People is a touring exhibition that originated in San Francisco in 2008 and is currently on view through December 4, 2011 at the de Saisset Museum Santa Clara University.

This event is *FREE.
*Donations are welcome to cover transportation costs for the author traveling
from the bay area. Any additional funds raised will be donated to SAFEGROUND.

Co-sponsored by:

Loaves & Fishes
Soul Food Homeless Foundation
Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee
SAFEGROUND
Sacramento Housing Alliance
Francis House
Tubman House

Tim Holt's Ramblin' Round - 10/16 at 3 p.m.

2011-10-01T15:27:00.000-07:00

RAMBLIN' ROUND:
SONGS OF THE OPEN ROAD
Sunday, October 16 at 3 p.m.

Tim Holt, founder and publisher of the legendary Suttertown News, will be performing and discussing the songs of Tom Paxton, Utah Phillips, Woody Guthrie and a number of others in a program that will include railroad songs, hobo songs, songs of the Western migration, and Dust Bowl ballads. He'll encourage everyone to sing along on classics like "500 Miles," "The Wabash Cannonball," and Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl ballad, "So Long It's Been Good To Know Ya." Along the way he'll weave in some of the poetry of that great bard of The Open Road, Walt Whitman.

Learn more about the history of this restless nation, as expressed in its music and poetry, in this new folksong program by Tim Holt.

This event is FREE and everyone is invited.

EVENT CANCELLED! Sunday 10/16 at 7 p.m.

2011-09-20T14:08:00.000-07:00

Due to health reasons, Dr. Lee will be unable
to joins us and this event has been CANCELLED.

The Sacramento Living Library welcomes
Dr. William Lee
Sunday, October 16 at 7 p.m.

A leader in the Sacramento community, and indeed throughout the nation, Dr. William H. Lee, founder and publisher of THE OBSERVER Newspapers, continues to exceed audiences’ expectations in providing high quality publications and media services for African American audiences in the markets served by THE OBSERVER.

Dr. Lee’s publications, the weekly OBSERVER newspaper as well as many of THE OBSERVER’S special editions, are recognized as the most stylish and educational publications published anywhere. THE OBSERVER, recognized as “The Most Honored Black Newspaper in America,” has received the coveted John B. Russwurm Trophy, the highest award in Black journalism, six times — more than any other Black newspaper in the nation.

Of his many, many community service roles, Dr. Lee says his greatest joy has come from serving as chair of the statewide Governor-appointed Dr. Martin Luther King Commission, which helped to lead California to ultimately establishing the statewide MLK holiday.

The Sacramento Living Library, curated by Time Tested Books' Peter Keat and hosted by Midtown Monthly Editor Tim Foster, is a new addition to the River City's cultural scene, with talks, lectures and discussions featuring some of Sacramento's best and brightest.

The events are free and everyone is invited. Come early to get a good seat!

Sunday 9/18 - Historic Sacramento Architecture

2011-09-14T20:04:00.000-07:00

Sunday, September 18th, 7:00pm
The Sacramento Living Library

William Burg & Gretchen Steinberg

Historian William Burg will describe the architectural styles found in Sacramento's historic neighborhoods, from the Gold Rush through the 1930s.

Gretchen Steinberg of Sacramento Modern will continue the discussion through the Mid-Century era, looking at how postwar architects left their own mark on Sacramento.

The Sacramento Living Library, curated by Time Tested Books' Peter Keat and hosted by Midtown Monthly Editor Tim Foster, is a new addition to the River City's cultural scene, with talks, lectures and discussions featuring some of Sacramento's best and brightest.

This event is FREE and everyone is invited.

Poet David Rowe 9/14/2011

2011-09-13T15:06:00.000-07:00

Time Tested Books is pleased to welcome
David Rowe of New Orleans
for a poetry reading/discussion
also reading are
Bob Stanley and Trina Drotar of Sacramento
Wednesday, September 14th at 7 p.m.

After a successful Kickstarter.com campaign, The Unsolicited Poetry Tour featuring poet David Rowe of New Orleans arrives in Sacramento for a reading at Time Tested Books September 14^th at 7pm. Along with his publisher Peter Anderson (Verna Press), Mr. Rowe will be traveling from Santa Fe to Seattle and points between September 6^th-21^st to promote his collection ‘Unsolicited Poems’ and bring life to the words Bookslut.com called, “beautiful and chaotic and sexy and sonorous.”

Mr. Rowe’s work has appeared in such publications as Exquisite Corpse, The North American Review, The Cortland Review, and Big Bridge and he has been featured on The Moe Green Poetry Show and Susan Larson’s The Reading Life. A large part of the mission on The Unsolicited Poetry Tour is to establish connections with the local poetry communities, so along with promoting ‘Unsolicited Poems,’ Rowe and Anderson will focus on gathering submissions for the forthcoming issue of Dorado, a letterpress literary magazine that Verna Press publishes. So poets bring your poems and listeners bring your ears and join us for an outstanding evening of poetry in Sacramento.

This event is FREE and everyone is welcome.

Sacramento Living Library: Rivkah Sass & Stacey Aldrich

2011-08-08T11:46:00.000-07:00

Rivkah Sass

Stacey Aldrich

Join us on Sunday, August 21st at 7 p.m.

What does a library look like in the 21st century?

The Sacramento Living Library
is pleased to welcome
Rivkah Sass, Library Director of the Sacramento Public Library,
and Stacey Aldrich, California State Librarian,
discussing the future of libraries as an institution.

This event is FREE and everyone is welcome!

Brad Warner Sunday, Aug 7th 3 p.m.- 5 p.m.

2011-08-01T17:06:00.000-07:00

Brad Warner is author of the books Hardcore Zen, Sit Down and Shut Up, Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate and Sex Sin and Zen. He is an ordained Zen teacher in the Soto lineage. He has practiced Zen for over 25 years, beginning when he was a student at Kent State University. He was ordained by Gudo Nishijima in 1999. He’s the bass player for the hardcore punk rock group Zero Defex and worked for the company founded by the man who created Godzilla.

This event, co-sponsored by the Sacramento Buddhist Mediation Group is FREE and all are welcome.

All of Brad Warner's titles are currently in stock here at the store and available to purchase now or at the event.

July 17 at 7 p.m.: "What I LOVE about Sacramento"

2011-06-23T16:14:00.001-07:00

In this very special edition of the Sacramento Living Library, we're
opening the floor to our audience: You'll have three minutes to talk
about what makes this city special to you.

Living Library: Tim Holt, Sunday, June 19 at 7 p.m.

2011-05-31T16:01:00.001-07:00

For our next installment of the Sacramento Living Library series, we are pleased to have Tim Holt.

The publisher of the legendary Suttertown News returns to Sacramento to speak about his life, writing and the neighborhood newspaper that spoke for a generation of Sacramentans.

This event is FREE and everyone is invited.

Coming July 17:

Open Mic:

"What I Love About Sacramento"

In this very special edition of the Sacramento Living Library, we're opening the floor to our audience: You'll have three minutes to talk about what makes this city special to you.

Roy Blount Jr. Tuesday 5/24 at Central Library 7:30

2011-05-20T16:07:00.000-07:00

Roy Blount, Jr.

In conversation with Sands Hall

Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Tsakopoulos Galleria | 7:30 p.m.
828 I Street, Sacramento
California Lectures In Partnership with the Sacramento Public Library

Roy Blount Jr. is well known for his regular stint on Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me! and as a recurring guest on A Prairie Home Companion. He is a humorist, sportswriter, poet, performer, dramatist, and screenplay writer and the author of 22 books. He has written about everything from the first woman president of the United States to what barnyard animals are thinking. His recent books include Alphabetter Juice: The Joy of Text (May 2011), Hail, Hail Euphoria and Long Time Leaving: Dispatches From Up South. Blount has been a columnist for Esquire and The New York Times, among others, and his work has appeared extensively in many periodicals and books, including The New Yorker, Gourmet, Playboy, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone,The Best of Modern Humor, Baseball: A Literary Anthology, and Best American Essays l997. Blount is a former president of the Authors Guild, a member of PEN and the Fellowship of Southern Authors, a New York Public Library Literary Lion, a Boston Public Library Literary Light, a usage consultant to the American Heritage Dictionary, and an original member of the Rock Bottom Remainders. In 2009 he received the Thomas Wolfe Award from the University of North Carolina.

Time Tested Books is proud to be the official bookseller for California Lectures. We will be in the lobby of the Central Library selling books. Don't want to wait in line? Drop by the bookstore and pick up your copy ahead of time, or give us a call at 447-5696 and we'd be happy to put one on hold for you to pick up at the event!

A Fundraiser: Dr. Rick Hodes Friday, May 20th 6 p.m.

2011-05-15T18:03:00.000-07:00

Time Tested Books and UC Davis School of Medicine, Class of 2011 is pleased to present a special evening with Dr. Rick Hodes, a benefit for his work in Ethiopia. Dr. Hodes will be discussing his work and signing his biography This Is a Soul: The Mission of Rick Hodes by Marilyn Berger.

This event is a fundraiser to benefit Dr. Hodes' work and is open to the public. $50 at the door/$20 for students (includes a signed copy of his biography)

"Whoever Saves a Life, It Is Considered as If He Saved an Entire World"

Dr. Rick Hodes arrived in Africa more than two decades ago to help the victims of a famine, but he never expected to call this extremely poor continent his home. Twenty-eight years later, he is still there.

This Is a Soul tells the remarkable story of Rick Hodes's journey from suburban America to Mother Teresa's clinic in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. As a boy, Rick was devoted to helping those in need, and eventually he determined that becoming a doctor would allow him to do the most good. When he heard about famine in Africa, that's where he went, and when genocide convulsed Rwanda, he went into the refugee camps to minister to the victims. When he was told that Ethiopia was allowing its Jews to emigrate to Israel, he went to help. While there, he was drawn to Mother Teresa's mission in Addis Ababa. It was there that Rick found his calling when he began caring for the sickest children in one of the world's poorest countries. But he did more than that—he began taking them into his home and officially adopted five of them.

This Is a Soul is also a book filled with great joy and triumph. When Rick's kids return from surgery or life-saving treatments, he is exultant. "Seeing these people after surgery is like going to heaven," he says.

Marilyn Berger went to Africa to write about Dr. Hodes, but while there, she became involved with the story. When she came upon a small, deformed, and malnourished boy begging on the street, she recognized immediately that he had the exact disease Rick could cure. She took him to Rick, who eventually arranged for the boy to have a complicated and risky surgery, which turned out to be incredibly successful. The boy's story—intertwined with Rick's, and Marilyn's as well—is unforgettable in its pathos and subtle humor.

This Is a Soul is not just a story of the savior and the saved, it is a celebration of love and wisdom, and an exploration of how charity and devotion can actually change lives in an overcrowded, unjust, and often harsh world.

Marilyn Berger is a contributing writer to the New York Times. She was previously a diplomatic correspondent for Newsday and the Washington Post, and was the United Nations correspondent for ABC News and the White House correspondent for NBC News. She was the moderator on the public affairs program The Advocates and anchored WNET's City Edition. She was the director of programs and public affairs for the Council on Foreign Relations. Her articles have been published in the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and New York magazine.

Sacramento Living Library: Daisy Mah 5/15 at 7 p.m.

2011-05-08T18:04:00.000-07:00

Sunday, May 15th at 7 p.m.

Daisy Mah

A visit with expert Horticulturist Daisy Mah who has shaped

Sacramento's public gardens (including McKinley Park's Rose

Garden and Land Park) for decades.

The Sacramento Living Library, curated by Time Tested Books'
Peter Keat and hosted by Midtown Monthly Editor Tim Foster, is
a new addition to the River City's cultural scene, with talks, lectures and
discussions featuring some of Sacramento's best and brightest.

This event is FREE and everyone is invited.

Ishmael Reed discusses Juice! on KDVS 5/8 at 5 p.m.

2011-05-06T15:14:00.000-07:00

We'd like to thank everyone who turned out last month for Ishmael Reed and special thanks to our friend Justin Desmangles for organizing the event.

For those of you who weren't able to make it, tune in to Justin's wonderful show New Day Jazz on KDVS (90.3 FM) this Sunday, May 8th, at 5pm to hear Reed discuss his new novel JUICE! (Check link for a spot-on review from the LA Times.)

Remembering KZAP Radio 1968-1992

2011-04-07T23:59:00.000-07:00

2011 Sacramento Living Library

Sunday, April 17th, 7 pm

Remembering KZAP 1968-1992

a look back at the valley's much-beloved rock station with

Bob Keller, Dennis Newhall,

Robert Williams and Jeff Hughson.

This event is FREE and everyone is invited.

Seating subject to availability: arrive early to guarantee a good spot!

Ishmael Reed, Sunday April 10th at 12 p.m.

2011-04-07T23:16:00.000-07:00

ISHMAEL REED Reads & Discusses His New Novel JUICE!

Sunday, April 10th at 12 p.m.

Book Signing & Sale To Follow

Free & Open To The Public

For a writer whose sensibility has always tilted toward the surreal and experimental (Nathanael West was an early and important influence), whose political incorrectness has been so brazen, his public feuds with other writers (pre-eminently feminists) so frequent and bitter, and his critique of white America so relentless, it might seem astonishing that he's been as lavishly feted by the very establishment and in the very mainstream he typically excoriates.

In his latest book, Juice! (Dalkey, Apr.), Reed holds his mirror up to the media coverage of trials—and especially its portrayal of black and Latino men—as his protagonist Paul Blessing becomes obsessed with the coverage of the O.J. Simpson trial and spectacularly unravels.

"Not only has the media become instrumental in deciding elections, but they now decide criminal cases. It's essentially a spare all-white jury that convicts people even before the first witness is sworn in. This doesn't happen anywhere else in the world," he says. "My book is a playful pastiche, but it raises serious reasonable doubt of O.J's guilt."

CA Lectures presents: Thomas McGuane

2011-04-05T11:36:00.000-07:00

THOMAS MCGUANE
In conversation with Pam Houston
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Crest Theatre | 7:30 p.m.

The renowned author of ten novels, three works of non-fiction, two short story collections and numerous screenplays, Thomas McGuane is described as the quintessential modern American “poet–philosopher.” His writing masterfully explores the depths of human relationships from Michigan to the Florida Keys, to the plains of Montana and the American West. His novel, The Bushwhacked Piano, won the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and his novel, Ninety-Two in the Shade was nominated for a National Book Award. McGuane later wrote and directed the successful film by the same name starring Peter Fonda. He is the recipient of the Wallace Stegner Award and a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters. An avid outdoorsman and Fly Rod & Reel Magazine’s 2010 Angler of the Year, McGuane infuses his works with a rich appreciation for the natural world. McGuane’s latest novel, Driving on the Rim, returns to one of his favorite settings, the picturesque Montana landscape, to provide a “hilarious and profound illumination of the threads by which we are all hanging.”

“A virtuoso … a writer of the first magnitude. His sheer writing skill is nothing short of amazing.” –New York Times Book Review

Pam Houston is the author of Cowboys Are My Weakness, Waltzing the Cat, and A Little More About Me. Her stories have been selected for the Best American Short Stories, the O. Henry Awards, the Pushcart Prize and the Best American Short Stories of the Century. She is the director of creative writing at UC Davis and lives in Colorado near the headwaters of the Rio Grande.

Lecture Preview | Crest Theatre | 6:30-7:00 p.m.
Steve Cook

Time Tested Books is pleased to be the official bookseller for California Lectures. We will be in the lobby of the beautiful Crest Theater selling books for this event.

Dr. Mazin Quimsiyeh Sunday, April 3rd at 2 p.m.

2011-03-28T15:09:00.000-07:00

Sacramento-Bethlehem Sister City and Time Tested Books present

Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment

a conversation with activist and author

Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh

FREE and open to the public.

For more information, click here.

Sacramento Living Library: March 20th Patrick Mulvaney & Shawn Harrison

2011-02-25T15:36:00.000-08:00

How and where our food is grown affects nearly every aspect of our lives. Noted chef and restaurateur Patrick Mulvaney and Soil Born Farms Executive Director Shawn Harrison talk about local agriculture and its place in Sacramento dining.

The event starts at 7 p.m. and is FREE. Limited seating is available and all are invited.

Living Library: Thanks to all who turned out on Sunday!

2011-02-22T16:48:00.000-08:00

Fred Dalkey, MidMo's Tim Foster, Victoria Dalkey

It was standing room only!

Sunday 2/20: Fred & Victoria Dalkey - The Sacramento Living Library

2011-02-11T11:27:00.000-08:00

Join us February 20th at 7pm
for our next installment of
the Sacramento Living Library. . . .

*An evening with Fred and Victoria Dalkey*

Fred Dalkey is a well-known local artist and educator; Victoria Dalkey is the longtime art critic for the Sacramento Bee. This cultural "power couple" will speak about the history, state and future of Sacramento's art and artists.

The Sacramento Living Library is curated by Time Tested Books' Peter Keat and hosted by Midtown Monthly's Tim Foster. The series continues in 2011 on the third Sunday of each month at Time Tested Books. Doors open at 6:30pm, and things kick off at 7pm. The events are free and everyone is invited. See you here!

(Photos by Russ Solomon)

Thursday, February 10th at 7 p.m.

2011-01-25T15:14:00.000-08:00

We are pleased to present author Bill Pieper reading and signing his latest novel, What You Wish For.

The divide between personal ethics and the law is often slippery, as everyone learns in this medical/legal drama played out in California wine country.

This event is FREE and everyone is invited.

Time Tested Books
1114 21st Street
Sacramento CA 95811
916-447-5696

Next SLL: The State of Live Music in Sacramento

2011-01-06T15:08:00.000-08:00

Sunday, January 15, 7 p.m.

The State of Sacramento Live Music

A discussion featuring Jerry Perry, Brian McKenna, Rick Ele and Mindy Giles, moderated by Dennis Yudt

Four of Sacramento's most active music promoters discuss the trials and tribulations of hosting live music in Sacramento today and look at the future of music in the River City.

Coming February 19

Ed Carroll

In honor of Sacramento Beer Week, Beer Historian Ed Carroll, author of Sacramento's Breweries will discuss the region's rich brewing heritage.

Sunday 1/16: Covering Jerry Brown - The Sacramento Living Library

2011-01-04T16:16:00.001-08:00

January 16th at 7 p.m.
Covering Jerry Brown

Jim Lewis & Jeff Raimundo

As young reporters in the capitol press corps, Jim Lewis and Jeff Raimundo covered Governor Jerry Brown’s first two terms for the Sacramento Bee. These longtime capitol insiders will share their stories and memories of Jerry Brown and the era of his administration.

The Sacramento Living Library is curated by Time Tested Books' Peter Keat and hosted by Midtown Monthly's Tim Foster. The series continues on in 2011 on the third Sunday of every month at Time Tested Books. Doors open at 6 p.m. , with things kicking off at 7 p.m. The events are free and everyone is invited.

Stay tuned for the lineup for the rest of the year...

End of Year Sale!!!

2010-12-24T09:03:00.000-08:00

2010 is almost over and we'd like to say "Thank You" by inviting you to our Annual End of the Year Sale!

20% off New & Used Books
10% off Records

Sunday 12/26 through Friday 12/31

Trade Credit cannot be used on sale.
Discount cannot be combined with any other discount and cannot be applied to special ordered books.

Author David Prybil, Monday January 3 at 7 p.m.

2010-12-08T15:10:00.000-08:00

Time Tested Books is pleased to present David Prybil on Monday, January 3, 2011 at 7 p.m., reading and signing his debut Novel, GOLDEN STATE.

On a late-night talk show in August 2003, Arnold Schwarzenegger announces his candidacy for Governor of California. Two months later, he wins, despite having no qualifications for the job other than playing a hero on screen.

With Arnold's rapid rise to power as a seductive backdrop, GOLDEN STATE follows a disparate quartet of characters in the capital city of Sacramento as they feed off this anything-goes atmosphere and undertake a variety of misbegotten schemes of their own, all in poignant pursuit of this same kind of validation and fulfillment.

There is tightly-wound realtor Missy Carver, determined to find Arnold his "Sacramento dream estate" in order to secure the partnership she's certain will make her feel complete; Spencer Brine, a depressed obituarian at the Sacramento Bee, whose star-crossed love for a local stripper provides the inspiration for his unlikely rise through the paper's ranks; widower Todd Tisdale, a former local high school sports star, lost in past glories, whose hopes for saving his struggling tuxedo shop are all pinned on befriending Arnold, no matter what it takes to do so; and finally, Rowena Pickett, a directionless tanning-salon employee who only wants to be loved, even if it's with an Alzheimer's-afflicted mother who can barely remember her name, or a prison inmate pen pal she can't even touch.

As these characters' lives cross, often in unexpectedly fateful ways, David Prybil's provocative, darkly humorous work provides a timely meditation on the seamy underbelly of dashed hopes, and the enduring power of the American Dream.

This event is FREE.

Sunday 12/5: Ginger Elizabeth Hahn - The Sacramento Living Library

2010-11-22T11:48:00.000-08:00

The Sacramento Living Library is proud to present
Ginger Elizabeth Hahn on Sunday, December 5th, at 7 pm.

Ginger Elizabeth Hahn grew up in Camino, California, a small town in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. She discovered early on that cooking could be much more than a hobby. At the age of 16, a summer course at the CIA Greystone in Napa Valley convinced her that working with food was her passion.

Ginger took a position at the Ritz Carlton in Chicago after graduating from the Culinary Institute of America in New York. There she apprenticed under the world famous pastry chefs. To be closer to her family, Ginger returned to California and lives in Sacramento. She was the Pastry Chef at Masque Ristorante in El Dorado Hills for three years.

In 2005, at the age of 24, Ginger opened the wholesale chocolate company Couture Chocolates by Ginger Elizabeth. The company allowed her to practice and showcase the talents and skills she had acquired, while continuing to learn and explore new ideas. Keeping up with the industry trends, she completed a chocolate science and technology course at UC Davis in 2006.

By 2007 Ginger had decided to expand her business by opening her first retail location. The boutique chocolaterie would feature all things chocolate including individual desserts, hot chocolate, cakes, cookies, chocolate sculptures, and of course a variety of chocolate confections. In 2008, Ginger launched the retail store in Midtown Sacramento under the company's new name, Ginger Elizabeth Chocolates.

This event is FREE and all are invited.

(+ stay tuned for our 2011 SLL lineup . . . coming soon!)

Sunday 11/21: Jeffrey Callison - The Sacramento Living Library

2010-11-10T09:12:00.000-08:00

For this month's Living Library event Time Tested Books and Midtown Monthly proudly present Jeffrey Callison, beloved host of Capital Public Radio's Insight program; this time Callison takes the interviewee's seat for a change: he'll be talking with David Watts Barton of Sacramento Press. As always, the event starts at 7pm and admission is free. See you here!

Upcoming in the 2010 Sacramento Living Library:

December 5th - Ginger Elizabeth Hahn
The world-renowned Midtown chocolatier, who graduated top of her class at the Culinary Institute of America, talks about the magic and the miracle of chocolate.

....+more TBA!

Delectable Deals Oct. 27th - Nov. 10th

2010-10-27T12:04:00.000-07:00

FOOD & BEVERAGE
ALL COOKBOOKS

**50% OFF SELECT TITLES OF COOKBOOKS ON OUR DISCOUNT TABLE!
October 27th-November 10th

Don't Miss these great events this week!

2010-10-18T14:24:00.001-07:00

We're proud to be the official bookseller for California Lectures. We'll be in the lobby of the beautiful Crest Theater (1013 K Street) not once, but twice this coming week selling books for these great events:

Monday, October 18, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Alex Ross
Music Critic-- The New Yorker
Discussing his new book, The Rest is Noise

For more information about this event, or for ticket information, click here.

Also at the Crest Theater this week, Sacramento Public Library presents in conjunction with California Lectures and The Sacramento Bee:

Wednesday, October 20, 7:30 p.m.
Author Dave Eggers,
Discussing his book Zeitoun.

This event is FREE to the public. Seating is limited and will be on a first come, first serve basis. For more information about this event, click here.

Sacramento Living Library Sunday, 10/17: Richard Simpson

2010-10-05T18:23:00.000-07:00

Time Tested Books and Midtown Monthly are excited to announce the October event in our Sacramento Living Library series: a very special one-night-only screening of Sacramento filmmaker Richard Simpson's 'Marshes of 2 Street' (1966), followed by a discussion and Q&A with Simpson himself.  Not to be missed!

In 1966, as wrecking balls destroyed much of Sacramento's historic downtown to make way for I-5, Richard Simpson took his camera to 2nd Street to document the end of an era.  The result is 'Marshes of 2 Street', one extraordinary half-hour that captures life in Sacramento's West End waterfront district before it was "Old Sacramento"--a film rarely seen and even more rarely shown!  Join us for this unique opportunity to see film and filmmaker together at dusk inside Midtown's favorite bookstore....

The event starts at 7:00pm on Sunday, October 17th, and admission is free.

Time Tested Books is located at 1114 21st Street in Midtown Sacramento.


Upcoming in the 2010 Sacramento Living Library:

November 21st - Jeffrey Callison with David Watts Barton
Capital Public Radio's Jeffrey Callison, host of KXJZ's popular 'Insight' program, takes the interviewee's seat for a change.

December 5th - Ginger Elizabeth Hahn
The world-renowned Midtown chocolatier, who graduated top of her class at the Culinary Institute of America, talks about the magic and the miracle of chocolate.

California Lectures presents Michele Norris

2010-09-28T15:29:00.000-07:00

Michele Norris
in conversation with Pamela Wu

Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Crest Theatre 7:30 p.m.

Michele Norris hosts NPR’s All Things Considered, public radio’s longest-running national program. Before joining NPR in 2002, Norris worked as a reporter for ABC News, a position in which she garnered both an Emmy Award and a Peabody Award for her coverage of 9/11. Norris has reported extensively on issues of inner city poverty, race and education for The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times. Her powerful Washington Post series on the drug trade's impact on young children was published along with essays by Nelson Mandela and Gabriel Garcia Marquez in the book Ourselves Among Others. Norris’s journalism has earned her four Pulitzer Prize nominations, the 1990 Livingston Award, the National Association of Black Journalists’ 2006 Salute to Excellence Award and the 2009 Journalist of the Year Award. In her new book, The Grace of Silence, Michele Norris shows extraordinary candor in examining her own complex racial legacy. This memoir is inspired by hundreds of interviews with ordinary Americans and wise observations about evolving attitudes toward race in America.

“Journalists should look to people like Michele Norris, who shows that through determination, intelligent analysis and careful investigation come journalism’s highest level of respect.” –Barbara Ciara, President of the National Association of Black Journalists

Pamela Wu served as news anchor and reporter for KCRA 3 in Sacramento for over seven years. She received an Emmy nomination and Unity Award for her work as host of the cultural affairs program “KCRA 3 Common Ground.” Prior to joining KCRA, Wu worked as news anchor and reporter at stations across Northern California. She currently serves as Director of Marketing and Communications for UC Davis School of Law.

Lecture Preview | Crest Theatre | 6:30-7:00 p.m.
Professor Chevelle Newsome

Time Tested Books is proud to be the official bookseller for CA Lectures!

Scholarshare Children's Book Festival at Fairytale Town

2010-09-24T17:17:00.000-07:00

ScholarShare Children's Book Festival

Saturday & Sunday, September 25 & 26
10AM - 4PM

Time Tested Books is proud to be the official bookseller for the ScholarShare Children's Book Festival. We will be donating 10% of every purchase back to Fairytale Town. With your purchase at the festival, receive a 20% off coupon, valid for the next year, anytime you make an in-store purchase!

Join us for a fun filled weekend as Fairytale Town celebrates literacy with this two day festival, thanks to generous support from ScholarShare College Savings Plan, guests receive free admission both days!

Activities include author and illustrator presentations on the Mother Goose Stage, a wide array of hands on literacy activities provided by several local arts organizations, one of the most popular weekends of the year. Puppet Art Theater will be performing The Three Billy Goats Gruff in the Children's Theater. Tickets are $1 for members and $2 for nonmembers.

For more information, click here.

Alan O'Connor & Cuno Barragan Sept. 19th at 7 p.m.

2010-09-06T17:45:00.000-07:00

Time Tested Books is pleased to present our next installment of The Sacramento Living Library, with baseball historian Alan O'Connor. He will talk Sacramento baseball history with hometown hero Cuno Barragan who played for the Sacramento Solons and later, the Chicago Cubs. O'Connor is the author of Gold on the Diamond, the rollicking story of Sacramento baseball- his encyclopedic knowlege of the players, their records and their lives marks him as THE expert on this aspect of Sacramento history.

The event is FREE and everyone is invited. Limited seating-- get here early!

Thursday, September 16th 7 p.m. Author Will Fellows reading & signing "Gay Bar"

2010-08-26T20:57:00.000-07:00

GAY BAR: The Fabulous, True Story of a Daring Woman and Her Boys in the 1950s.

Vivacious, unconventional, candid, and straight, Helen Branson operated a gay bar in Los Angeles in the 1950s—America’s most anti-gay decade. After years of fending off drunken passes as an entertainer in cocktail bars, this divorced grandmother preferred the wit, variety, and fun she found among homosexual men. Enjoying their companionship and deploring their plight, she gave her gay friends a place to socialize. Though at the time California statutes prohibited homosexuals from gathering in bars, Helen’s place was relaxed, suave, and remarkably safe from police raids and other anti-homosexual hazards. In 1957 she published her extraordinary memoir Gay Bar, the first book by a heterosexual to depict the lives of homosexuals with admiration, respect, and love.

In this new edition of Gay Bar, Will Fellows interweaves Branson’s chapters with historical perspective provided through his own insightful commentary and excerpts gleaned from letters and essays appearing in gay publications of the period. Also included is the original introduction to the book by maverick 1950s psychiatrist Blanche Baker. The eclectic selection of voices gives the flavor of American life in that extraordinary age of anxiety, revealing how gay men saw themselves and their circumstances, and how others perceived them.

Will Fellows is author of the pathbreaking, acclaimed books Farm Boys: Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest and A Passion to Preserve: Gay Men as Keepers of Culture, both published by the University of Wisconsin Press. He lives in Milwaukee.

This event starts at 7 p.m. and is FREE. Books will be available for purchase at the event.

NWPC Presents: Iron Jawed Angels, Thurs. Aug. 26th at 7 p.m.

2010-08-18T17:27:00.000-07:00

Sacramento Chapter of the National Women’s Political Caucus is celebrating the 90th Anniversary of Women's Right to Vote, with a showing of the film Iron Jawed Angels on Thursday, August 26, here, at Time Tested Books.

Doors will open at 6:30pm and the film will start at 7pm. The cost is modest ($19 per person, $9 for students with ID) and the chance to have a great time, meet good people, and enjoy a terrific film is priceless! *** limited seating available - Please contact NWPC for reservations *** at sacnwpctreasurer@gmail.com / 916-548-4435

More details on the Sac NWPC website at www.sacnwpc.org.

The Sacramento Living Library: Dick Bertolucci, August 22 at 7 p.m.

2010-08-13T12:37:00.000-07:00

We are pleased to kick off our second season of The Sacramento Living Library on Sunday, August 22, 2010 at 7 p.m., with Dick Bertolucci.

The legendary Sacramento car customizer will speak about the early days of Sacramento's 'kustom' and racing auto scene. In the 1940's Bertolucci's designs gained fame in the rarefied world of car customizers-- today his work is celebrated by auto enthusiasts around the globe.

This event is free and everyone is invited.

California State Fair

2010-07-22T13:29:00.000-07:00

New from Arcadia Publishing!

Starting in San Francisco in 1854, the California State Fair and Exposition began as a vehicle to showcase, encourage, and expand California's agricultural industry. It quickly became an attraction for thousands of residents, both local and from across the state. By 1884, it occupied the largest exhibit hall in the United States. Within 100 years, it became the largest fair in the country by adding horse racing, elaborate exhibits from every county in the state and from around the world, thrill rides, top-flight entertainment, and, of course, the best food. The original goal of the fair was met some 50 years ago, as California remains the nation's top producer of agricultural products.

Using historic collections from the Sacramento Room in the Sacramento Public Library, the California State Archives, the California Section of the California State Library, and, most notably, the Center for Sacramento History, historian and archivist Carson Hendricks has gathered vintage photographs, texts, and ephemera to illustrate the history of the California State Fair and Exposition. Meet you at the Golden Bears!

We have copies here at the store available for purchase for $21.99.

June 20th: Peter Schrag - Sacramento Living Library #6

2010-06-11T17:41:00.000-07:00

We are pleased to present the sixth installment of our Sacramento Living Library series with journalist and author Peter Schrag, who will discuss issues of immigration in US and California history. Schrag will offer insights into recent events in Arizona and put them into historical perspective. His new book, Not Fit for our Society: Immigration and Nativism in America, was published in May 2010.

The event starts at 7pm on Sunday, June 20th. Admission is free and everyone is invited.

We're taking July off, but the Sacramento Living Library will resume in August. Future speakers will include Dick Bertolucci, Jeffrey Callison, and baseball historian Alan O'Connor.

The Sacramento Living Library, curated by Time Tested Books's Peter Keat and hosted by Midtown Monthly Editor Tim Foster, is a new addition to the River City's cultural scene, with talks, lectures and discussions featuring some of Sacramento's best and brightest. Guests have included Russ Solomon, Ginger Rutland, Darrell Corti, David Mogavero, and former Sacramento Mayors Isenberg, Miller, Rudin and Fargo.

Susan Moon, Saturday, June 19th at 7 p.m.

2010-06-11T17:18:00.000-07:00

Time Tested Books is pleased to welcome Susan Moon for a reading and signing Saturday, June 19th at 7 p.m.

Susan Moon is a writer and teacher and for many years was the editor of Turning Wheel, the journal of socially engaged Buddhism. She is the author of The Life and Letters of Tofu Roshi, a humor book about an imaginary Zen master, and editor of Not Turning Away: The Practice of Engaged Buddhism. Her short stories and essays have been published widely. Her new book, This Is Getting Old: Zen Thoughts on Aging with Dignity and Humor, is forthcoming from Shambhala in June, 2010.

This event is FREE and books are currently available at the store for $14.95.

John Waters in conversation with Edward Ortiz

2010-05-21T17:59:00.000-07:00

CA Lectures, Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Crest Theatre | 7:30 p.m

American filmmaker and writer John Waters is the successful creator of several cult-classic films, including Hairspray, Pink Flamingos, and Cecil B. DeMented. He has been awarded the Jack Smith Lifetime Achievement Award by the Chicago Underground Film Festival, and his film Hairspray has been adapted into an award-winning Broadway musical and 2007 film. Waters has published several collections of photographs and writings, including Role Models (2010), Unwatchable and Shock Value.

Edward Ortiz is arts writer and classical music critic for the Sacramento Bee. He has worked as an environment reporter for the Providence Journal and as general assignment reporter for the Boston Globe. A MFA graduate from New York University’s Dramatic Writing Program, Edward is also a produced playwright and lecturer of screenwriting and documentary film writing at Sacramento State University.

Time Tested Books is proud to be the official bookseller for California Lectures. We will be on-site selling books at the event.

Four Mayors: Sacramento Living Library 5/16/10

2010-05-05T11:11:00.000-07:00

Time Tested Books and Midtown Monthly present part five in our 2010 Sacramento Living Library series, this month featuring four of Sacramento's former mayors--Isenberg (1975-82), Miller ('82-83), Rudin ('83-92) and Fargo (2000-08)--all together and all in one night! Trust us: this will be a BIG one....

The discussion will center on the participants' individual experiences in office as well as their thoughts on the city's current government and its future--including budget issues, the "strong mayor" question and the ever-shifting landscape of local (and state and national) politics. We anticipate a conversation that expands and contracts as necessary, and attendees will have a unique opportunity to be a part of it.

The event starts at 7:00pm on Sunday, May 16th, and admission is free.
(We do expect a large turnout, so arrive early or risk being turned away!)

BTW: Thanks to everyone who's made the SLL a major success so far; Peter Schrag will be with us in June, and please stay tuned for the second half of the 2010 lineup. If you haven't already signed up for email notifications through our googlegroup, look for the clipboard on the counter at the store--and get on there!

David Mogavero: Sacramento Living Library, April 18th

2010-03-31T13:47:00.000-07:00

Time Tested Books and Midtown Monthly are excited to announce part four of our 2010 Sacramento Living Library series, this time featuring David Mogavero.

David Mogavero has over 30 years experience with special expertise in the areas of ecological building, environmental planning, infill development, urban design, and energy efficient design.

His commitment to human-based architecture, the revitalization of existing neighborhoods, economic and ecological sustainability of communities, and participation in the planning and design process by end-users is well-known and recognized within professional and citizen communities.

As one of the most experienced advocates and practitioners in land use transit issues in the Central Valley, Mr. Mogavero has actively lectured, written and advocated for environmentally-sound urban development, including infill and higher density transit and pedestrian oriented development.

Through Mogavero Notestine Associates and his past presidencies of the Environmental Council of Sacramento and Sacramento Old City Association, architect David Mogavero has had a unique opportunity to influence the character of Sacramento. He talks about his vision of sustainable planning and development in the River City.

The event is on Sunday, April 18th, at 7:00pm, and admission is free (arrive early to secure a good seat).

The Lecture is Sold Out, but we can get you signed copies of any of her books...

2010-03-24T14:08:00.000-07:00

Ruth Reichl

Presents "Garlic and Sapphires"

Ruth Reichl

Friday, March 26, 2010
Crest Theatre | 7:30 p.m.

Ruth Reichl is host of the PBS-TV show Gourmet’s Adventures with Ruth and author of the memoirs Not Becoming My Mother, Tender at the Bone, Comfort Me with Apples, and Garlic and Sapphires. The former Editor-in-Chief of Gourmet magazine, a chef and former restaurant owner, she has served as restaurant critic for The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, editor of The Modern Library Food Series, and contributor to numerous books. Reichl has been honored with four James Beard Awards.

“While all good food writers are humorous. . .few are so riotously, effortlessly entertaining as Ruth Reichl.” – The New York Times Book Review

Time Tested Books is proud to be the official bookseller for California Lectures. We will be on-site selling books at the event. If you can't make the event or want to avoid the lines, give us a call and we can reserve a signed copy of any of Ruth Reichl's titles and you can pick them up at the store at your convenience. We have all of her titles, including pre-release copies of For You Mom, Finally (the paperback version of Not Becoming My Mother), as well as Gourmet Today: More than 1000 All-New Recipes for the Contemporary Kitchen, which was released last September.

March 28: Wendy Rouse Jorae, author of The Children of Chinatown

2010-03-03T12:17:00.000-08:00

Time Tested Books welcomes Sacramento author and educator Wendy Rouse Jorae for a reading, discussion and signing of her recent book, The Children of Chinatown: Growing Up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850-1920 (University of North Carolina Press).

Through the untold stories of a pioneer generation of young Chinese Americans, The Children of Chinatown looks at the families of early Chinatown in the midst of efforts to combat American policies of exclusion and segregation. Jorae challenges depictions of early Chinatown as a bachelor community by showing that families--and children in particular--played an important role in its daily life: facing barriers of exclusion, cultural dislocation, child labor, segregated schooling, crime and violence, San Francisco's American-born Chinese were attempting to define themselves as Chinese-American and build a world for themselves in the margins of two cultures. Their history is part of the larger American story of the struggle to overcome racism and realize equality, and Jorae's book is an important document of both Californian and American history.

Wendy Rouse Jorae teaches history at St. Francis College Preparatory School in Sacramento; at the University of California, Davis; and at California State University, Sacramento. Copies of The Children of Chinatown are available for purchase through Time Tested Books.

The event is on Sunday, March 28th, at 7:00pm, and admission is free.

Darrell Corti: Sacramento Living Library 3/21/10

2010-03-03T12:09:00.000-08:00

Time Tested Books and Midtown Monthly are excited to announce part three of our 2010 Sacramento Living Library series, this time featuring Sacramento's legendary food and wine expert Darrell Corti in conversation with food journalist Elaine Corn.

The son of Frank Corti, who with brother Gino founded world-class Sacramento grocery and wine mecca Corti Brothers in 1947, Darrell has been working with food and wine, as well as traveling the world, writing and teaching (and learning) since 1964, and is one of the planet's leading experts on all things vino. He was named a cavaliere by the government of Italy--the equivalent of British knighthood--for his pioneering dedication to and promotion of Italian wines, cheeses and olive oils, and he has been recognized by everyone from Ruth Reichl to Herb Caen to Heather Fargo for his contributions to food culture and for putting Sacramento on the culinary map in the 1970s. In 2008, after Darrell was inducted into the Vintners Hall of Fame, the rumor that Corti Bros would be losing its Folsom Boulevard lease led to an outpouring of support from the Sacramento cooking (and eating) community, culminating in a protest-cum-celebration when it was announced that the store wouldn't be going anywhere.

Darrell will discuss the rich, savory, complicated history of Corti Brothers and the state of the culinary arts today (in Sacramento and beyond) with Elaine Corn, the award-winning food journalist and cookbook author who has worked for the Sacramento Bee and in 2009 produced the excellent "Broadway: Around the World in 30 Blocks" series for Capital Public Radio.

The event is on Sunday, March 21st, at 7:00pm, and admission is free (arrive early to secure a good seat).

Ginger Rutland: Sacramento Living Library February 21

2010-02-15T10:30:00.000-08:00

Time Tested Books is proud to announce the second entry in our 2010 Sacramento Living Library series, this time focusing on the local media landscape with award-winning Sacramento journalist Ginger Rutland. January's kick-off event with Russ Solomon packed the house, and we're excited about the response the series is getting already. The 21st is sure to be another don't-miss evening, so don't miss it!

Rutland, a columnist and associate editor with the Sacramento Bee and a frequent commentator on Capital Public Radio, will talk about media and journalism in the digital age as well as the kinds of issues she is known for covering with passion and penetration, including homelessness, politics, crime and the environment. She will appear in conversation with fellow CPR and NPR reporter Mark Jones.

Before joining the Bee, Ginger was the Capital Bureau reporter for KRON-TV, the NBC affiliate in San Francisco, from 1978-88, where she earned an Emmy for a documentary on the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. She also reported extensively on pesticide issues and selenium contamination at the Kesterson Wildlife Refuge in California’s San Joaquin Valley, and in 1993 she won the National Council on Crime and Delinquency’s PASS Award for her editorials on juvenile justice. Mark Jones has worked in almost every department at Capital Public Radio. He currently engineers most of the stations’ special live productions, as well as working on Insight, KXJZ’s Morning Edition, and Stephen Peithman's Connections program.

The event is on Sunday, February 21st, at 7:00pm, and admission is free.

February 7: Jack Boulware, co-author of Gimme Something Better

2010-01-17T17:17:00.000-08:00

On February 7, Time Tested Books welcomes Jack Boulware, co-author of Gimme Something Better, an oral history of the San Francisco Bay Area's legendary punk rock scene, published by Penguin Books.

While the punk scenes of New York and Los Angeles have been thoroughly documented, the San Francisco Bay Area's has not had an extensive look ... until now. Gimme Something Better is the first major attempt to do justice to the Bay Area's deep-rooted underground music story. Boulware and co-author Silke Tudor not only trace the history (using the words of the musicians and scenemakers who were there) of early SF punk legends--Crime, The Avengers, Dead Kennedys--and the untold tale of the early 80s hardcore scene, but they also draw a connection from those roots to the 1990s Gilman scene and the revolutionary effect of bands like Operation Ivy and Green Day on contemporary rock & roll. Gimme Something Better is both an important piece of music history and an excellent read.

Jack Boulware is the author of Sex, American Style and San Francisco Bizarro. His freelance writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, Playboy, Maxim, Salon, and San Francisco Chronicle, among others. For ten years he was a columnist and features writer for SF Weekly. He is co-founder of San Francisco’s annual Litquake literary festival.

The event is on Sunday, February 7, at 7pm, and is free to the public. Gimme Something Better is available at the bookstore now!

January 16: James Baraz, author of Awakening Joy

2010-01-07T17:07:00.000-08:00

Time Tested Books is pleased to host author and teacher James Baraz for a reading and signing of his first book, Awakening Joy: 10 Steps That Will Put You on the Road to Real Happiness (Bantam).

In Awakening Joy, James Baraz and co-author Shoshanna Alexander use the curriculum of Baraz's popular “Awakening Joy” course as the basis for a practical guide to reorienting the mind away from dissatisfaction and distraction and toward the contentment and delight that is abundantly available in our everyday lives. Grounded in Buddhist principles--though accessible to people of all faiths, or no faith at all--and filled with engaging exercises and advice on how to make happiness your natural default setting, the book takes you step-by-step through cultivating behaviors and attitudes that bring well-being into your life. With a foreword by Jack Kornfield and advance praise from Marci Shimoff, Angeles Arrien, Rick Hanson and many more, Awakening Joy is a groundbreaking and extremely useful new book.

James Baraz is a co-founder of Spirit Rock Meditation Center and has been a renowned meditation teacher for over 30 years. Thousands of people have participated in his "Awakening Joy" course since it began in 2003.

The event is on Saturday, January 16, at 7:00pm, and admission is free.

January 17: Sacramento Living Library with Russ Solomon

2010-01-07T17:03:00.000-08:00

Time Tested Books is proud to announce the first installment in our 2010 Sacramento Living Library. On January 17th we welcome Tower Records founder Russ Solomon.

In 1960 Russ Solomon founded Tower Records in his father's drugstore at 16th and Broadway in Sacramento. Solomon's original vision of a record store that served the masses but catered to the connoisseur made Tower the most successful international music retailer of all time. At its height Tower boasted stores--record, book and video--across the United States and on every continent (except Antarctica). Solomon's operation also included TRIP, a major music distributor, and Pulse magazine. Tower ended in 2006, but, being a record man, Russ bounced back in 2007 with R5 Records, featuring the familiar red and yellow logo and located in the former Tower Records/Books/Video complex on Broadway.

Solomon will discuss his time with Tower Records and the music industry, as well as what's happening now at R5, with David Watts Barton, editor in chief at SacramentoPress.com and former music writer for the Sacramento Bee.

This event is on Sunday, January 17th, at 7:00pm, and is free to the public.

Announcing The Sacramento Living Library 2010

2010-01-01T10:08:00.000-08:00

We're very excited to announce something we've been putting together for a while now: a monthly series of free talks and presentations happening at Time Tested Books in 2010 which we are calling The Sacramento Living Library

Sacramento is more than California's state capitol, a town of politicians and lobbyists. Sacramento has a rich cultural life made up of scholars and athletes and artists; writers and architects; poets, culinary geniuses, and people who have, quite simply, lead interesting lives. We think of this city as a living library. Time Tested Books is tapping into this resource with talks, lectures and discussions featuring some of Sacramento's best and brightest.

The Sacramento Living Library, curated by Time Tested Books’ Peter Keat and hosted by Midtown Monthly editor Tim Foster, is a unique addition to the River City ’s cultural scene, giving stage to local legends like Tower Records founder Russ Solomon and Darrell Corti, president of Corti Brothers and internationally noted food & wine expert. The series features thoughtful and provocative social critics such as Peter Schrag and Ginger Rutland, and visionary architect-planner David Mogavero. We are also very excited to present a panel of Sacramento’s former mayors – Burnett Miller, Phil Isenburg, Anne Rudin, and Heather Fargo in conversation about "Sacramento and its Mayors: Past Present and Future".

Starting in January 2010, the Sacramento Living Library will be happening on the third Sunday of every month at Time Tested Books. Doors open at 6 p.m. , with things kicking off at 7 p.m. The events are free and everyone is invited.

Sacramento Living Library
Schedule of Events 2010 (first half)

January 17
Russ Solomon
The founder of Tower Records & Books and CEO of R-5 Records discusses his life in music and the record business with David Watts Barton, editor of SacramentoPress.com.

February 21
Ginger Rutland
As an associate editor at the Sacramento Bee, as well as a member of its editorial board and a commentator on Capital Public Radio, Rutland is well prepared to give us her thoughts on journalism in Sacramento - its past, present and future.

March 21
Darrell Corti
A talk with the president of Corti Brothers Italian Grocery Store - a Sacramento institution - and internationally recognized wine expert.

April 18
David Mogavero
Through Mogavero Notestine Associates and his past presidencies of the Environmental Council of Sacramento and Sacramento Old City Association, architect David Mogavero has had a unique opportunity to influence the character of Sacramento. He talks about his vision of sustainable planning and development in the River City.

May 16
Mayors Burnett Miller, Phil Isenberg, Anne Rudin & Heather Fargo
A discussion by Sacramento‘s former mayors on their experience in office and what they think of the city’s future government, including the proposal for a “strong mayor.”

June 20
Peter Schrag
Sacramento journalistic icon Peter Schrag talks about California and the issues our state faces. Schrag was a longtime editorial page editor and columnist at the Sacramento Bee. He is a regular contributor to The Nation and author of California: America’s High Stake Experiment and the forthcoming Not Fit for Our Society: Immigration & Nativism in America.

Yes we have gift certificates!

2009-12-16T12:28:00.000-08:00

Have a friend or family member who is a book lover and/or Time Tested Books fan and don't know what to get them? Well, we have gift certificates! You can buy them at the store or give us a call at (916) 447-5696 and purchase one over the phone. We can mail it to anyone you'd like us to and we will pay the post. They do not expire and we aren't going to disappear anytime soon!

Dec. 13 Poetry: Indigo Moor & Theresa Vinciguerra

2009-12-09T11:43:00.000-08:00

For the final entry in our 2009 poetry series we're delighted to have Theresa Vinciguerra and Indigo Moor. All good things must come to an end, and we feel lucky to have two more excellent wordsmiths closing out what has been a great year for the Sacramento poetry community. Thanks to all who participated.

Indigo Moor is a former vice president of the Sacramento Poetry Center and editor for the Tule Review, and was the winner of the 2005 Vesle Fenstermaker Poetry Prize for Emerging Writers and the 2009 Jack Kerouac Poetry contest. His most recent book is Tap-Root, and his next, Through the Stonecutter's Window, will be published by Northwest Univeristy Press.

Theresa Vinciguerra is the founder of the Sacramento Poetry Center (aka Poet Tree, Inc.), and served as its Director from 1979-1984. On its Board from 1984-1985, she edited the landmark anthology of Sacramento poetry Landing Signals with Victoria Dalkey.

The event is on Sunday, December 13, at 7pm. Admission is free, though a donation - which goes to the poets - is requested.

Jack Rose RIP

2009-12-06T16:02:00.000-08:00

We'd like to note the passing of guitarist Jack Rose. Back in 2007, Jack played a fantastic set at the bookstore. He not only put on a great show, but was a pleasure to work with. Our thoughts to his friends and fans. Thanks Jack for some special music.

December 6: Peter J. Hayes

2009-11-23T11:00:00.000-08:00

On December 6, we welcome author Peter J. Hayes for the release of his new book An American River Journal. A collection of short essays on the flora and fauna of the American River, An American River Journal is a great tribute to one of Sacramento’s best features! The book has terrific illustrations by Jo Glasson Smith.

Peter Hayes is author of An American River Almanac and edited The Outdoor World of the Sacramento Region (with Jo Smith) and The Lower American River, the best history of this historic waterway. He started his writing career as a reporter for UPI, before moving to Sacramento and becoming an editor for the Sacramento Union. In 2008 he was recognized as the Outstanding Volunteer of the Year by the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors for his service to the county’s regional parks.

The event is on Sunday, December 6, 2009. 3:00 pm

Please note: This event is free to the public. The News & Review mention that a donation is requested is wrong.

December 5: Eva Rutland

2009-11-22T11:38:00.001-08:00

Time Tested Books is happy to welcome back Eva and Ginger Rutland for the presentation of Eva’s book, No Crystal Stair.

Born and raised in Georgia, the granddaughter of a slave, after World War II, Eva Rutland and her husband moved to Sacramento, where they raised four children. During this time Eva took on a quiet Civil Rights struggle, integration at the family level. She was the first African American mother to join the PTA, as well as the a member of the first black family to live in their neighborhood. By seeking common ground with white mothers during this challenging time, Eva Rutland was able to break down stereotypes and help create part of the foundation that transformed American race relations. It is from this life experience and more that Eva draws from for her novel No Crystal Stair.

A departure from her prior novels, No Crystal Stair was originally published in 2000 by Mira Books. December sees a new edition of the book thanks to IWP Book Publishers. Eva is also the author of the much acclaimed autobiography, When We Were Colored.

Eva’s daughter Ginger Rutland will also be talking about the book. Ginger Rutland is an editor at the Sacramento Bee and a regular commentator on Capitol Public Radio.

The event is on Saturday, December 5, 2009, 7 pm.

Nov. 15: poetry w/ Mary Mackey & Francisco X. Alarcon

2009-11-10T17:30:00.000-08:00

We are now into November with Time Tested Books’ 2009 poetry series. This time around we have two excellent poets in Mary Mackey & Francisco X. Alarcon.

Mary Mackey is related through her father's family to Mark Twain. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. During her twenties, she lived in the rain forests of Costa Rica. In the‘90s she served as Chair of PEN American Center, West. She is a fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and has recently served on the Governing Board of PEN Oakland. Mackey is a Professor of English and Writer in Residence at California State University where she teaches creative writing and film. She is the author of many volumes of poetry and novels, including her most recent book, “The Widow’s War.”

Francisco X. Alarcón is an acclaimed poet and educator, author of ten volumes of poetry. Alarcón is the recipient of 1993 American Book Award, the 1993 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and the 1984 Chicano Literary Prize. In April 2002 he received the Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award from the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association (BABRA). He was one of the three finalists nominated for the state poet laureate of California. Alarcón's books include Sonnets to Madness and Other Misfortunes / Sonetos a la locura y otras penas (Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Company 2001) and From the Other Side of Night / Del otro lado de la noche: New and Selected Poems (University of Arizona Press 2002). He currently teaches at the University of California, Davis.

Time Tested Books is located at 1114 21st Street in Midtown Sacramento.

The event is on Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 7 pm. The event is free, however a donation - which goes to the poets - is requested.

November 11: David Kulczyk author of "Death in California"

2009-10-28T19:23:00.000-07:00

Sacramento author David Kulczyk visits us on Wednesday November 11 at 7 pm for an odd look at a darker side of California, one involving death!

In his new book, “Death in California: The Bizarre, Freakish, and Just Curious Ways People Die in the Golden State” (Quill Driver Books), Kulczyk turns a sardonic, but always humane, eye to strange and gruesome events from the earliest California pioneers to the present day. A grimly humorous history of hangings, murders, accidents, overdoses, suicides, and fatal stupidity, “Death in California” offers a bizarre, lighthearted and cheerfully perverse glimpse into California’s deadly past. From the tragic tale of 14 tourists swept to their deaths over Vernal Fall in pastoral Yosemite National Park, and the gritty details of Bob “Bear” Hite overdosing on heroin in a seedy Hollywood nightclub, to the shocking chronicle of a 10-ton jet crashing into a Bay Area kitchen, this zany collection is delightfully weird and enthrallingly human.

David Kulczyk (pronounced Coal-check) is a Sacramento-based historian, freelance writer and award-winning author of short fiction. His work has appeared in the SF Guardian, the East Bay Express, Strange Magazine and the Sacramento News and Review. He is also the author of “California Justice: Shootouts, Lynchings and Assassinations in the Golden State.”

Monte Schulz - author of This Side of Jordan - book talk 10/28/09

2009-10-18T21:00:00.000-07:00

Time Tested Books is pleased to welcome novelist Monte Schulz for a book talk and reading.

Monte Schulz is the son of Charles M. Schulz, creator of Peanuts, and in This Side of Jordan one of his ambitions was to recreate the time of his mother’s and father’s Jazz Age childhood, when America was making the irresistible transition from rural to urban life.

“When I was in my early twenties, and Dad saw that I was developing an interest in writing, he showed me some of the beautiful passages of Thomas Wolfe and John Steinbeck, and lent me his copies of Complete Poems by Carl Sandburg and Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology, and Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem. He told me the writer’s gift is to be able to express for people certain ideas and emotions they cannot express for themselves,” says Schulz.

This Side of Jordan is a tapestry of American life in the summer before the economic crash of 1929, and a quintessential novel of the rural Midwest offered unexpectedly as a crime thriller. Full of American landscapes and totems, images and notions, foibles and fables, beasts and the blessed, it follows the experiences of 19-year-old tubercular farm boy Alvin Pendergast.

This Side of Jordan is Schulz’s second novel. His first, Down by the River, was published by

Viking in 1991. Library Journal raved that it compared to Stand by Me and Twin Peaks, and seemed "ready-made for Hollywood." He spent ten years writing Crossing Eden, from which This Side Of Jordan is drawn as the first of three interconnected novels; the second and third, Fields of Eden and The Big Town, will be published in 2010 and 2011.

"Schulz, son of the beloved Peanuts cartoonist, proves himself to be a handy wordsmith in this literarily ambitious novel of pre-Depression America. Hand this straight-faced and multifaceted almost-satire to fans of the southern gothic tradition, all the way from Flannery O’Connor to John Kennedy Toole." — BOOKLIST

“Monte Schulz's novel This Side of Jordan shows that Like Father Like Son —both superb!” — RAY BRADBURY

Time Tested Books is located at 1114 21st Street in Midtown Sacramento.

The event is Wednesday, October 28, 2009. 7 pm.

October 18 poetry with Julia Connor and Joshua McKinney

2009-10-14T20:33:00.000-07:00

Time Tested Book’s poetry series continues with an October 18 reading by Julia Connor and Joshua McKinney.

Julia Connor began study at the Poetics Program of New College of California in San Francisco at the age of forty., where she studied with poets Robert Duncan, Diane di Prima, and David Meltzer. Since 1988, she has taught poetry in a wide variety of situations from Graduate MFA Programs such as Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics to State Prisons. Her teaching has taken her every place from Martha's Vineyard to Sussex, England. A life-long protégée of renowned potter, poet, and educator, M.C. Richards, author of Centering in Poetry, Pottery and Person, she now serves as Ms Richards literary executor. She was named Poet Laureate of Sacramento in April of 2005.

Joshua McKinney is a professor of English at California State University - Sacramento, where he won the 2008 President’s Award for Research and Creativity, for “his accomplishments in the field of poetry. His book Saunter won the University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Series Competition for 2001. He has published in American Letters & Commentary, Colorado Review, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere.

We are very happy to host this dynamic pair of poets. The event is on Sunday, October 18, 2009, 7 pm

Harvey Schwartz on the ILWU 10/14/09

2009-10-02T01:49:00.000-07:00

Time Tested Books is thrilled to host historian Harvey Schwartz for a talk on his new book, “Solidarity Stories: An Oral History of the ILWU”. Schwartz, an oral historian at the Labor Archives and Research Center, San Francisco State University, and curator of the Oral History Collection, ILWU Library, has written extensively on the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the San Francisco Bay Area labor movement (“The March Inland”, “Union Carpenters, Navy Town”, “Harry Bridges”, etc.). “Solidarity Stories” is his most recent contribution to this history.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union, born out of the 1934 West Coast maritime and San Francisco general strikes under the charismatic leadership of Harry Bridges, has been known from the start for its strong commitment to democracy, solidarity, and social justice. In this collection of firsthand narratives, union leaders and rank-and-file workers - from the docks of Pacific Coast ports to the fields of Hawaii to bookstores in Portland, Oregon - talk about their lives at work, on the picket line, and in the union.

Published by University of Washington Press, “Solidarity Stories” is a unique contribution to the literature on unions. There is a power and immediacy in the voices of workers that is brilliantly expressed here. Taken together, these voices provide a portrait of a militant, corruption-free, democratic union that can be a model and an inspiration for what a resurgent American labor movement might look like. The book will appeal to students and scholars of labor history, social and economic history, and social change, as well as trade unionists and anyone interested in labor politics and history.

"Harvey Schwartz is the dockworkers' Studs Terkel. Solidarity Stories is right up there with the best of Terkel's books, an inspiring account in their own words of how the men and women working the Pacific Coast docks and beyond built a great union and won dignity and fair pay on the job. Schwartz's oral history is so well organized and fully annotated that it rises to the level of a genuine history of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union." --David Brody, professor emeritus, University of California, Davis

The event is on Wednesday, October 14, 2009. 7 pm.

2009-09-12T11:23:00.000-07:00

ScholarShare Children's Book Festival
at Fairytale Town

Saturday - Sunday, September 26 – 27, 2009

10AM – 4PM

Once again, Time Tested Books is pleased to be the Official Bookseller for Fairytale Town's Annual Children's Book Celebration. A great event for the whole family! The event features free admission both days, presentations and storytelling performances by authors and illustrators on the Mother Goose Stage. Also enjoy fun hands-on literacy activities provided by a host of local arts organizations, more literacy fun than you can imagine!

For more information, visit http://fairytaletown.org/

D.R. Wagner & Phil Weidman, poetry 9/20/09

2009-09-11T12:03:00.000-07:00

Time Tested Book’s poetry series continues with this September reading by D.R. Wagner and Phil Weidman, both longtime contributors to Sacramento’s literary and artistic scenes.

A visual artist, poet and musician, D.R. Wagner has published over twenty books of poetry and letters. He writes musical compositions and is currently recording a CD of original vocal music with his band, R. Spoon. He has had over thirty one person exhibitions and has participated in well over one hundred group shows, may of them international exhibitions. He founded and directed for six years, the Open Ring Galleries, a not-for-profit corporation for the arts in Sacramento, CA. D.R. currently is a Lecturer in Design at University of California, Davis.

Phil Weidman is from Alturas, grew up in Chico, and lives in Pollock Pines. He’s worked as a soldier, a reporter, a gardener, a teacher, and a hospice worker. He is also a poet. He’s had eight books of his poetry published, his first in 1968 on D.R. Wagner’s Runicible Spoon press. A visual artist, he’s exhibited throughout California.

The event is on Sunday, September 20, 2009. 7 pm.

MEADOWLARK
by Phil Weidman

Two geezers in their early
60’s, scouting the High Rock
Desert of Nevada (meadow-
larks, free spirited hawks,
night songs of coyotes &
Piute ghosts their only
company), are feeling a
bit freaked by a profound
silence in a vast, open
country that appears to
be everything & nothing.

They agree to drive 60
miles to Cedarville for
a hot breakfast. After a
lively young waitress takes
their order, Ernie, the tall romantic
geezer says, God, it’s good
to see a woman again.

Pete, his short, less emotional
sidekick, answers, I thought
that was a meadowlark.

Second Saturday 9/12/09: Art Lessing & the Flower Vato

2009-09-10T12:56:00.001-07:00

We are very pleased to have Art Lessing & the Flower Vato performing in front of the bookstore on the Second Saturday of September 12. Our favorite psychedelic freakoids will be playing from 6 pm until 9 or so. Tune in, turn on, and drop on by.

Mary Mackey & The Widow's War: Book Talk Sept 3

2009-08-19T09:40:00.000-07:00

Time Tested Books is pleased to announce a reading & book signing with Mary Mackey for her new book, The Widow's War.

Last year saw Mackey’s historical novel The Notorious Mrs. Winston. Now in The Widow’s War (Berkley Trade Paperback Original), she presents a novel of a woman’s fierce spirit, rebellious love, and struggle for justice set against the backdrop of the early days of the Civil War.

Mary Mackey’s published works include five volumes of poetry, a novella, and twelve novels. Her works have sold over a million copies and have been translated into eleven foreign languages. A screenwriter as well as a novelist, she has sold feature-length screenplays to Warner Brothers as well as to independent film companies. Mackey’s nonfiction and memoirs have appeared in various anthologies. She has reviewed books for The San Francisco Chronicle, the San Jose Mercury News, the American Book Review, and a variety of other publications; has lectured at Harvard and the Smithsonian; and has contributed to such diverse print and on-line publications as The Chiron Review, Redbook, and Salon.

Mackey is related through her father's family to Mark Twain. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. During her twenties, she lived in the rain forests of Costa Rica. In the‘90s she served as Chair of PEN American Center, West. She is a fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and has recently served on the Governing Board of PEN Oakland. Mackey is a Professor of English and Writer in Residence at California State University where she teaches creative writing and film.

The event is on Thursday, September 3, 2009 at 7 pm. It is free to the public. The Widow’s War will be available for purchase at Time Tested Books on the first of September.

August 16: Ann Menebroker & Joyce Odam

2009-08-05T08:59:00.000-07:00

For our last poetry reading of the Summer (though not of the year!), we have two great poets: Ann Menebroker and Joyce Odam!

Ann Menebroker has published over 20 collections of poems, has appeared in hundreds of literary journals, and........very rarely give readings. A longtime resident of Sacramento, she is much loved by the poetry community and well respected worldwide.

Joyce Odam is another longtime voice in Sacramento's literary community. Like her friend Ann, Joyce has been much published. She is also an editor for the California Quarterly, Rattlesnake Press, and her own monthly Brevitities. We are very excited to host Ann and Joyce.

The reading starts at 7 pm. Donations suggested, money goes to poets.

Turtle Man by Ann Menebroker

The turtle man writes me about the dog, Lucy,
getting old and beginning to limp, and how his
friend, Wolfgang, in Germany, caught the train
to Paris for the ping-pong games. “Wouldn’t it
be nice,” turtle man says, “to be a train ride away
from Paris?” Then he spoke of Radar, the cat, who
recently got neutered and how he refuses
to look at any of the family, or allow them
near him. In answer I, the dog girl of summer,
write back and tell him how my barking
annoys the neighbors and how it used to be
when I thought about more than food or barking.
The BART goes underneath the bay
from Oakland to San Francisco. I lick water
from my bowl.

Hide & Seek by Joyce Odam

He wanted me to find him. I found him in
gold weeds, in a field so wide it took all day.
He left no paths. He could have been anywhere,
widespread, asleep, or looking at the sky while he
waited for me. I looked 'til coolness came over the
searching—came low and covered the bright weeds
with its soft blue shadowings. I called, but he would not
answer, lying there like a cross. He wanted me to find him.

Bookstore friend Shon Mackfessel dodges Iranian jail thanks to cold!

2009-08-03T11:21:00.001-07:00

You know the story of the Americans who were nabbed hiking across the Iran/Iraq border? Part of that story is that one guy got sick and didn't go on the hike. His name is Shon Meckfessel and he is a Sacto guy. We've known him for years. He was member of Cake early on and after that went traveling around wartime/postwar Yugoslavia and wrote a book about it called Suffled How it Gush. Great guy! Lucky guy! We're glad he got that cold!

Montoya reading cancelled

2009-07-15T19:00:00.000-07:00

The July 19th reading with Jose, Joe, and Tomas Montoya has been cancelled due to the sudden and untimely death their friend and comrade Armando Cid of the Royal Chicano Air Force. Hopefully we will be able to reschedule the reading. Our thoughts to the family and friends of Armando Cid.

July 15: Jaimal Yogis, author of Saltwater Buddha

2009-07-15T08:15:00.000-07:00

Time Tested Books welcomes Jaimal Yogis, author of Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea, for a book talk and signing on Wednesday, July 15.

Tired of with his Sacramento suburban teenage life, Jaimal Yogis ditched to Hawaii with a copy of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha and enough cash for a surfboard. In Saltwater Buddha he recounts his journey, a coming-of-age saga that takes him from communes to monasteries and the icy New York shore. Saltwater Buddha has earned praise from Publisher’s Weekly and The Huffington Post, as well as Mixed Martial Arts champ Urijah Faber and the Yoga Journal’s Karen Macklin. To say Jaimal's writing has broad appeal would be an understatement! Saltwater Buddha is published by Wisdom Publications.

Saltwater Buddha will be available at the bookstore. The talk is free.

July 9: Chuck Durrett, author of CoHousing and the Senior CoHousing Handbook

2009-06-22T11:38:00.000-07:00

Time Tested Books is proud to announce a talk and signing by Chuck Durrett, author of CoHousing: A Contemporary Approach To Housing Ourselves and most recently Senior CoHousing Handbook, on Thursday, July 9 at 7 pm.

A leading cohousing architect, Durrett has won numerous awards, including the United Nations World Habitat Award and the Best of 50+ Housing Award (National Home Builders Assoc. 2008). Durrett is credited with coining the term ‘cohousing’ and together with wife and professional partner, Kathryn McCamant, introduced cohousing projects to America.

Chuck’s visit to Time Tested will be right after his involvement with the International Cohousing Summit at the University of Washington, Seattle and the 2009 National Cohousing Conference, also in Seattle.

Chuck's books will be available at the event. The talk is free.

Kathryn & Laura Hohlwein, June 21, 2009

2009-06-17T08:34:00.000-07:00

Every former student of Kathryn Hohlwein will tell you that she is one of the best. For over 30 years she taught English at CSU Sacramento, editing the journal “Studia Mystica“, as well as publishing a collection of letters with her friend Patricia Lamb (Touchstones). Retired from CSUS, she still teaches. Nowadays, she holds seminars on the Greek poet Homer, and does so worldwide.

Laura Hohlwein is a writer and artist. She is the author of two volumes of poetry “The Company of Space” and “The Reciprocal Questionnaire” . Her paintings have shown nationwide and she is currently represented by the Solomon Dubnick Gallery. Laura teaches at the Art Institute of California, American River College, and Sacramento City College. She is also the daughter of Kathryn Hohlwein.

Time Tested Books is located at 1114 21st Street in Midtown Sacramento.

The event is on Sunday, June 21, 2009. 7:00 pm.

Todd Walton & Marcia Sloan on May 14

2009-04-30T10:23:00.000-07:00

A fiction writer and musician, Todd Walton is the author of hundreds of short stories and eight books including Inside Moves, Forgotten Impulses, The Writer’s Path, and Buddha In A Teacup. The DVD of the motion picture Inside Moves featuring an interview with Todd has just been released by Lions Gate Entertainment. Todd lived in Sacramento from 1980 to 1995 and was a frequent contributor to the Sacramento News & Review.

Marcia Sloane has been a classical and improvising cellist for forty years. Her CD Cello Drones for Tuning and Improvisation is used by musicians throughout the world. Her CD Skyward is a collection of her original compositions for cello and voice.

Todd and Marcia’s performance will feature songs from their CD When Light Is Your Garden, and Todd reading from Buddha In A Teacup and from his hilarious new novel Under the Table Books, which features poetry by Sacramento poets D.R. Wagner, Ann Menebroker, and Quinton Duval, who will be on hand for the event. Time Tested Books was the inspiration for the setting of Under the Table Books.

Poetry with Gourdine & Duval, April 19

2009-04-08T22:02:00.000-07:00

Announcing the fourth reading in our poetry series: This time around we are hosting Quinton Duval and Traci Gourdine.

Quinton Duval is the author of three books of poems: Guerrilla Letters, Dinner Music, and Joe’s Rain. He teaches English and Creative Writing at Solano Community College and is the editor and publisher of Red Wing Press. Dennis Schmitz has called Duval's poems " buoyant and smart, full of feeling, suddenly deep---I think they are marvelous in every way."

Traci Gourdine is a terrific poet whose work has appeared in Calliope, ZYZZYVA, and other small magazines. She is the co-editor of "Night is Gone, Day is Still Coming," a collection of work by young American Indian writers. Her letters to poet Quincy Troupe have been anthologized in the book "Letters to Poets." He currently teaches English at American River College.

The reading is at Sunday, April 19. It starts at around 7 pm. A donation (which goes to the poets) is requested.

Coming April 8th: The Wheel of Nuldoid

2009-03-31T12:27:00.000-07:00

On Wednesday, April 8, we welcome Russ Woody, author of The Wheel of Nuldoid. Woody's first novel, "The Wheel of Nuldoid" is a dark tongue-in-cheek look at the very center of our world, where a society of short, quarrelsome creatures live and operate the machinery that rotates the earth. Russ is a Sacramento native who has written and produced Murphy Brown, Mad About You, and The Drew Carey Show, among other comedies. He has also written for Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere. The event is free and starts at 7 pm.

Douglas Blazek reads on March 15

2009-03-06T11:52:00.000-08:00

A Political Documentary

Admission for tonight’s show of crickets
is to scratch music from a violin
the price for the morning’s birds
is to chant an egg out of your chest

Alternative?

The sun will clench itself
into a hammer at noon
and flatten your heart

Winter will strangle your
reproductive organ like a swan’s neck
in the hands of a madman

Alternative?

Turn your power into snow
you will melt into summer—
the avenue of your voice
without a trace of artillery
parading like the wind

- Douglas Blazek

Our March poetry reading features Douglas Blazek. We are very excited about this one as Doug gives very few readings nowadays and in small press circles is somewhat of a legend. During the 1960s, he was one of the main people behind the "mimeograph revolution", a small press movement which, following the Beats, gave voice to a lot of non-mainstream poets, people who worked outside the academy. With his literary magazine Ole and the Open Skull Press, as well as editing for other presses, he introduced poets Like Charles Bukowski to people. He is the author and editor of over 35 books, including a forthcoming volume of poems to be published by Poems-for-All/The Book Collector's Richard Hansen. The Time Tested Books reading is on Sunday March 15. We will be open at 7 pm and poetry will start soon after. We are asking for a $5 donation, money which will go to the poet.

Sam McPheeters, Thursday, February 26

2009-02-21T21:26:00.000-08:00

On Thursday, February 26, we will be hosting a spoken word performance by Sam McPheeters. Sam was a key member of the early 90s hardcore punk scene, writing a number of zines (including "Error", Dear Jesus) and singing in seminal hardcore band Born Against. His more recent musical projects include Wrangler Brutes and Men's Recovery Project and recording spoken word records. McPheeters also ran the now-defunct but highly regarded Vermiform Records. He lives in Pomona, California and is currently a writer for local newspapers the OC Weekly and the Pomona Picayune. McPheeters also frequently contributes artwork for the band the Locust. Some of Sam's spoken word here. This one starts at 7:30 pm.

Doug Pauly Trio, Saturday February 21

2009-02-19T12:12:00.000-08:00

This Saturday, February 21, the Doug Pauly Trio will have a CD release party at the bookstore. Doug has been playing guitar since 1971, appears through-out Northern California both as a leader and sideman He currently performs with and arranges for Habañero, a Latin music ensemble; Big Guitars, a swing & bebop quartet with Charlie Baty of “Little Charlie and the Nightcats” and performs under his own name. He's had several releases as well. For more info and sounds check out Doug's site. The event starts at 8 pm.

Some of Doug's songs: Da Bo Dae Yo, Come Together, Cubanchero

William O'Daly & Louis V. Johnson, February 15

2009-02-08T08:50:00.000-08:00

My truest vocation
was to become a mill:
singing in the water, I studied
the motives of transparency
and learned from the abundant wheat
the identity that repeats itself.

---Pablo Neruda, translated by William O'Daly

On February 15 at 7 pm we will have a reading by William O'Daly. O'Daly is a poet and fiction writer, though lately he's been most noted for his series of translations of the great poet Pablo Neruda. This month will see the release of his 8th volume of Neruda translations, "World's End" on Copper Canyon Press (we will have copies available). O'Daly will be accompanied by guitarist Lous V. Johnson, who has several CDs on the Dos Almas label. We are asking for a $5 donation, which will go to the poets.

William O'Daly will be appearing on Capital Public Radio's Insight program at 2 pm on Monday, February 9th.

"The Towers of Trebizond" and Other Treasures

2009-01-23T14:39:00.000-08:00

When Peter Keat asked me to offer up to the internet gods a list of my favorite books I thought immediately of the category of "novels of ideas" and its top-feeders, Dostoyevsky's Brother's Karamazov, Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain and (a rung down) William Gaddis' The Recognitions.

But I would rather spend my time in wholesale, because there is a way for readers to choose from dozens of titles. Even now, a decade after the imprint began, many simply do not know abou thte titles published by New York Review of Books. Their backlist has now passed two hundred, a massive literarary resurrection mostly of mid-20th Century fiction. I count myself well-read but have, through the NYRB asupices, "discovered" many authors known largely to English Dept. specialists. Many appeared with critical heraldry but won few readers. There is, for instance, J.G. Farrell's trilogy on the collapse of the British Empire, most memorably his The Troubles about Ireland; a pair of Ivy Compton-Burnett's acidic portrayals of English domestic patriarchs (start with A House and its Head); John (not John A.) Williams' Stoner introduces a now-forgotten National Book Awardee; Mavis Gallant, Barbara Comyns and Caroline Blackwood are others. If most are unknown to you now, that is exactly the point of this wholesale menu.

Often, as with Christiana Stead (Letty Fox) and Patrick Hamilton the selection may not be the author's most important, but each serves as an entry worth reading. There are as well lesser- known works by authors we all have read: Balzac, Henry James, Turgenev, Maupassant, Moravia, Svevo, Colette; nine titles by Georges Simenon that are not mysteries and the collected "Adventures" of Arthur Conan Doyle's other hero. If you treasure memorable opening sentences, two of the best ever to appear can be found in NYRB editions: "'TaKe my camel,' dear said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass." (from The Towers of Trebizond) and "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." (L.C. Hartley's The Go-Between.)

The best news of all is that the back pages of the periodical, The New York Review of Books, announce two additions a month to the NYRB list. I buy and read most as soon as they appear. None has proved to match the Dostoyevsky/Mann/Gaddis brace mentioned above, but most are introductions to writers you might find boty fun to discover and congenial for those moments when The Greatest Though are not welcome.

~John McFarland

John McFarland taught history for many years at Sierra College and is the recipient of the California Community College Hayward Award. He is also a long time customer of Time Tested Books (and one of our favorites!).

Pat Grizzell & BL Kennedy, January 18, 7 pm

2009-01-12T12:19:00.000-08:00

Time Tested Books is pleased to announce the opening of our 2009 Poetry series. It has been a decade since we have hosted a regular poetry series and figured the time is right to focus on the Sacramento area’s wealth of veteran voices, folks who have spent time on their craft, promoting poetry, and teaching others. We start our series with two names familiar to literary Sacramento, Pat Grizzell and B.L. Kennedy.

Pat Grizzell is a poet, songwriter and visual artist. He is a founding member and former director of the Sacramento Poetry Center. His collections of poems include Dark Music, Menotaure Into Night (with painter Jimi Suzuki) and the forthcoming 13 Poems from Rattlesnake Press. His work has been anthologized in collections such as Landing Signals and was editor of Tule Review, On the Wing, and other publications. He performs original music solo and with his band, Junkyard Burlesque.

B.L. Kennedy is a poet, artist, and lifelong performer. He studied with Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, & Ed Sanders at the Naropa Institute’s Poetics from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, where he holds a MFA (and one from CSU Sacramento, too). Swimming in controversy, his is ever prolific, the author of fourteen books of poetry. He is the Reviewer and Interviewer in Residence for Rattlesnake Review. He’s produced three major Poetry Marathons and has spent his life in Sacramento tirelessly promoting the area‘s poets. He is currently a host for Luna's Café's Poetry Unplugged reading series.

The event is on Sunday, January 18, 2009. 7 pm. A $5 donation will be requested at the door. All money going to the featured readers.

(Our February reader will be poet and translator William O’Daly, who will be celebrating the release of his newest volume of translation of Pablo Neruda. O’Daly will be accompanied by guitarist Louis V. Johnson. More info to come.)

Who is "Richard Nadeau"?

2009-01-04T07:43:00.000-08:00

If you've been browsing the shelves of Time Tested Books lately, especially the philosophy or politics sections, you are bound to have seen the name "Richard Nadeau" written on the front flyleaf of a book. It could be a volume of Hegel or something by Adorno or perhaps a book by Arundhati Roy. Book after book, you see the name Nadeau and think, "Man, this guy had some great books! I wonder who he is?"

Well, Richard was a writer, a scholar, and political activist. And he was a good friend of the bookstore. A student of the philosopher Herbert Marcuse, he had a razor sharp mind and, because of that and his great sense of humor, it was always a pleasure when Richard visited the store. A trip to the bookstore was never an in & out affair for him, at least not at our shop. After a few minutes of browsing, either Richard would get suckered into a conversation or sucker one of us into one and the next half hour would pass over discussions of politics, philosophy, or jazz. The store always perked up when he passed through our doors. For the last few years, Richard had been sick with cancer of the liver. He fought it with what strength he had but in late November it finally took him.

For about a year, Richard's books have made their way into the store. It is a wonderful collection. Going through boxes and boxes of great books is a pleasure. All the words, and thoughts, and classic volumes of literature - it is a rush to sort through Richard's collection. But it is also quite sad. We regularly get collection of books from people who have passed on, but when the person is one of your own, the books are more than just books. We lost a good friend and he will be missed. RIP, Richard.

More on Richard Nadeau.
Some of Richard's writings.

Hey there!

2008-12-31T08:45:00.000-08:00

Thank you for your support during these tight times! During 2008, we've done our best to offer you quality books at good prices, and to provide a nice place for you to browse through them. And we will work hard in 2009 to do the same! Without your support Time Tested Books couldn't happen, so, once again, from all of us at Time Tested Books: Thank you! And have a Happy New Year!

2008-12-26T03:45:00.000-08:00

On Monday, December 29, the Sacramento Poetry Center presents a reading by Jeane Wagner and Indigo Moor at Time Tested Books.

Jeanne Wagner’s poetry has appeared in many journals including Nimrod, Atlanta Review, Poet Lore, Quarterly West and The Southern Poetry Review. She has been the recipient of several national awards, including Writers-at-Work, Ann Stanford Prize, and the Ina Coolbrith Award Wagner has two chapbooks, The Falling Woman and The Conjurer. A full length manuscript, The Zen-Pianomover, was published in 2004. She grew up in Sacramento . Her latest collection, Medusa in Therapy was one of the last releases from Poets Corner Press before the death of its editor, David Humphreys. She was born in San Francisco in 1943 and grew up in Sacramento.

Indigo Moor’s “Tap-Root” was published in 2006 as part of Main Street Rag’s Editor’s Select Poetry Series . He is a 2003 recipient of Cave Canem’s Writing fellowship in poetry, former vice president of the Sacramento Poetry Center, and editor for the Tule Review. He is the winner of the 2005 Vesle Fenstermaker Poetry Prize for Emerging Writers. Other honors include finalist finishes for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Saturnalia First Book Award. His work has appeared in the Xavier Review, LA Review, the Pushcart Prize nominated Out of the Blue Artists Unite, Poetry Now, as well as other publications. Indigo Moor is pictured above.

The reading starts at 7 p.m. and there will be a moderately priced donation requested. For more information, please email grahampoet@aol.com

Featuring Poets on Deck

2008-12-05T10:53:00.000-08:00

Just in time for the holiday season, Time Tested Books has a unique gift for the poetry lover in your life: POETS ON DECK!

A project of the Sacramento Poet Laureate Program supported by the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, Poets on Deck is a deck of playing cards that celebrates the evolution of the Sacramento poetry scene. With regrettable omissions all of the poets featured on the cards were active in the creation and solidification of the poetry scene in Sacramento spanning the years roughly from the late 1960’s to the very early 1980’s. The joker cards are “wild” and feature supporters active ‘behind the scenes’ (including Time Tested Books' own Peter Keat!).

Poets on Deck are available at Time Tested Books or you can order yours online, for pick up or delivery via US Post. If ordering five or more online, please give us a day or two to fill the order. And please leave your phone number in the paypal comments box.

Order your copy for $15 each, plus post (and CA sales tax, if applicable). You can also pay through paypal and pick up at the store, but please print out your paypal receipt and bring it with you...or you can just drop by the store and but it direct from us.

Upcoming Author Event

2008-11-21T09:58:00.000-08:00

Sasha Watson will sign and read from her young adult novel, Vidalia in Paris, at Time Tested Books on Saturday, December 13, at 11 a.m.

Vidalia in Paris was recently released by Viking Press and it tells the story of Vidalia, who wins a scholarship to study art in Paris for the summer. When Vidalia falls in love with an art thief, her plans go awry.

This event is free and copies of the book will be available for purchase.

Featured in Sunset Magazine November 2008

2008-10-28T17:05:00.000-07:00

Flip through the pages of the November 2008 issue of Sunset Magazine, which highlights various things to do in Midtown Sacramento, and you might recognize this picture--one of the coziest corners here at the bookstore.

We agree, if you're looking for something to do,
we're definitely worth checking out!

Peter's Pick(s) O'The Week

2008-10-28T14:16:00.000-07:00

Soto Zen Buddhist Lin Jensen made an appearance here at the store this last Sunday. Peter enjoyed the discussion so much, he gives any of Jensen's books, Bad Dog!, Pavement and Together Under One Roof, his green pick of approval. (I know you can't see that it's green, but trust me, it is.)

As you can see, he also eagerly posed for this picture--just so you could see how serious he is about his recommendation, and of course, as he would say, "to increase your temptation to buy a book".

Under Our Roof: Soto Zen Buddhist, Lin Jensen

2008-10-17T12:49:00.001-07:00

Sunday, October 26, 2008
3 p.m.

LIN JENSEN is the critically acclaimed author of the memoir Bad Dog! A Memoir of Love, Beauty, and Redemption in Dark Places and Pavement: Reflections on Mercy, Activism, and Doing "Nothing" for Peace, a fearless and funny account of curbside social action. His most recent book, Together Under One Roof: Making a Home of the Buddha’s Household is his newest book.

Jensen will be reading and discussing from each of his books, which will be available for purchase at the store.

William Burg talks about Sacramento on October 16

2008-10-12T11:20:00.000-07:00

We are pleased to welcome William Burg back to Time Tested Books for a presentation on his new book Sacramento: Then & Now. Sacramento... is a collection of photographs from Sacramento's past and present, juxtaposed so the reader gets an idea of how far the Capital City has come (or fallen...depending on your POV). Burg comments on the photographs with wit and insight, providing vital historical context. If you've read Burg's writing in the Midtown Monthly you know that he is a thorough and entertaining writer and pretty much the unofficial historian of post-Gold Rush Sacramento.

The event starts at 7 p.m. and is free. A book signing follows, Burg's presentation. Copies of Sacramento: Then & Now are available at Time Tested Books.

Target Children's Book Celebration at Fairytale Town

2008-09-11T12:08:00.000-07:00

Face painting at our booth at 2007's event

Saturday & Sunday, September 27th and 28th
10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Check out presentations by children's authors and illustrators on the Mother Goose stage and participate in fun literacy activities. There are special theatrical performances in the Children's Theater all weekend long.

Renowned children's writer Barbara Joosse - author of "I Love You the Purplest," "Mama, Do You Love Me?" and other titles - headlines this year's event.

Joosse has authored more than 25 children's books since 1982, winning over children and parents alike with her unique creativity and inspiration. One of her most popular books, I Love You the Purplest, was named the best children's book of 1997 by the Association of Booksellers for Children, Parents Magazine, and Child Magazine. Some of her other titles include Please Is a Good Word to Say; Alien Brain Fryout; Nikolai, The Only Bear; and Mama, Do You Love Me?

Time Tested Books is proud to be one of the local sponsors and Official Bookseller for this annual event. Visit our booth to check out our wonderful selection of new & used children's books-- including titles by authors featured at the event!

Admission is FREE. (Adults will not be admitted without children.)

Norman Fischer appears on August 30

2008-08-23T10:02:00.000-07:00

We are happy to announce a book talk and signing with Zen roshi, poet, and author Norman Fischer on Saturday, August 30 at 7:30 p.m. Having served as co-abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center from 1995—2000, he has published several works of poetry and books on Buddhism. Fischer founded the Everyday Zen Foundation in 2000, a network of Buddhist sanghas with chapters throughout North America. He has also served as mentor to teenage boys—all of which is chronicled in his book Taking Our Places: The Buddhist Path to Truly Growing Up. Fischer also serves on the Board of Directors for the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco.

Norman Fischer's books include The Narrow Roads of Japan, Slowly but dearly (with poet Philip Whalen), and Jerusalem Moonlight: An American Zen Teacher Walks the Path of His Ancestors. His most recent work is Sailing Home, which is available at the book store.

The event is free.

Gene Baur appearing Friday July 25

2008-07-22T10:56:00.000-07:00

"Filled with hope, this book is written for all who strive for a more compassionate world. I highly recommend it." -- Dr. Jane Goodall

We are pleased to host the UAN sponsored appearance of Farm Sanctuary founder and president Gene Baur. Since 1986, Farm Sanctuary has been "combating the abuses of factory farming", while raising the awareness of the plight of farm animals. Baur will be speaking on this, his new book, and other topics. A question and answer session will follow. The event is free and copies of the book, Farm Sanctuary, are available at Time Tested Books. We will be set up by 7 pm and the event will start shortly thereafter.

From Peter Walker's Show at TTB

2008-07-20T21:05:00.000-07:00

Hey there! If you missed the Peter Walker show last Friday, I respectfully say that you blew it! Walker was fantastic, playing a mix of flamenco and Indian ragas adapted for guitar. And his between song comments were part storytelling, part history of music. Hopefully we can get him back if he hits the West Coast again. Opening the show was Sacramento's Silver Darling who played a fine set. Brian Faulkner did a wonderful job (once again) setting up the show (and bringing some fine single malt Scotch). Below are a couple video clips from the night.

Folk legend Peter Walker on July 18

2008-07-15T14:39:00.000-07:00

We are please to welcome legendary guitarist Peter Walker to Time Tested Books. Walker came up in the Cambridge MA and Greenwich Village folk scenes of the Sixties. He recorded two albums for the Vanguard label in the late Sixties in a style best described as American folk-raga. He studied with Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan, and was Dr. Timothy Leary's musical director, organizing music for the LSD advocate’s “celebrations.” In recent years, Walker has developed an intense interest in flamenco guitar and, through regular trips to Spain, has been accepted into flamenco’s exclusive musical elite.

Walker's music has been recorded by artists such as Steffen Basho-Junghans, Thurston Moore, and Jack Rose. Says Ben Chasny of Six Organs of Admittance, “Peter Walker was actually a bigger influence on my acoustic playing than John Fahey or Robbie Basho.”

Sacramento's Silver Darling will be opening.

The show starts at 8 p.m. The door price is $6.

Hear "Hot Fusion" by Peter Walker.
Hear some Silver Darling.

Jeffrey St. Clair appearing July 15

2008-07-11T04:22:00.000-07:00

On Tuesday July 15 at 7 p.m., we a pleased to welcome investigative journalist, writer and editor Jeffrey St. Clair, for a talk about his new books Born Under a Bad Sky and Red State Rebels. St. Clair is the co-editor, with Alexander Cockburn, of the political newsletter CounterPunch, and a contributing editor to the monthly magazine In These Times. He has also written for The Washington Post, San Francisco Examiner, The Nation and The Progressive. His reporting specializes in the politics surrounding environmental and military issues.

After attending the American University in Washington, D.C., St Clair worked as an environmental organizer and writer for Friends of the Earth, Clean Water Action Project and the Hoosier Environmental Council. In 1990, he moved to Oregon to edit the influential environmental magazine Forest Watch. In 1994, he joined journalists Alexander Cockburn and Ken Silverstein on CounterPunch. He now co-edits the newsletter and the popular website.

In 1998, he published his first book, with Cockburn, Whiteout: the CIA, Drugs and the Press, a history of the CIA's ties to drug gangs from World War II to the Mujahideen and Nicaraguan Contras. Since then he has published numerous books including End Times, Grand Theft Pentagon, Imperial Crusades, and Al Gore: A User’s Guide.

The talk is free and copies of Jeffrey St. Clair’s books will be available for purchase.

Jeffrey St. Clair will also be appearing on Capital Public Radio's Insight show, at July 14, 2 p.m. on KXJZ 90.9 FM.

Art Lessing & the Flower Vatot on Second Saturday, 9/12/09

2008-07-07T10:00:00.000-07:00

Time Tested Books: A place to call home

2008-07-05T12:31:00.000-07:00

For more than a year, Time Tested Books has been home to the Sacramento Women's Book Club. The group meets at least once a month at the store for book group discussions and a potluck. In addition to their regular monthly meetings, the group also organizes dinners, occasional volunteer opportunities and special events like Meet the Author to get to know one another better and socialize.

Irene Spencer, author of Shattered Dreams,
speaking to the book club March '08.

Says book club organizer, Cheryl, "We're just a fun, deeply thoughtful group that has open and meaningful discussions about the books. Everyone feels comfortable sharing their opinions even when they clash. And the whole group benefits from hearing all the different perspectives and insights."

So if you are looking for a book club to call home or just interested in great way to meet new people, make friends and read more books, you can join and RSVP through the group's meetup.com page. Book club members receive a 10% discount on book club books.

Ten for the Fourth

2008-07-01T16:19:00.000-07:00

To celebrate the birthday of the United States, why not dive into a little American History? Don't know where to start? Looking for something a bit different? Just want to read a good book? Well, here are ten to seek out:

Howard Zinn A People's History of the United States
A classic! A history of America written from the point of view of the people who engaged in struggles for freedom and equality. Written in lively prose, this is not a boring run through of names and dates, but a story that will give you hope for the future by learning about the struggles of the past.

Ernesto Galarza Barrio Boy
Galarza was born in Mexico, but grew up in Sacramento. This is the story of his youth in the 1940s. Galarza grew up to help establish the field of Latino Studies and wrote many groundbreaking works, including Merchants of Labor, his study of immigrant farm workers.

Anthony Swofford Jarhead
Since we are on the subject of local boys, time to push Sacramentan Anthony Swofford's excellent memoir of his stint as a Marine during the Gulf War. Surreal, frustrating, exciting, and insightful, this is one hell of a book.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn The Rebel Girl
Wobbley, radical, communist, feminist, and All American rabble rouser, Flynn's story is a great read. Why no one has made a movie of her life is beyond my comprehension.

Edward Sanders America: A History in Verse
Poet and Fug, Ed Sanders lays out the history of this country in poetry, in verse that reminds me both of Carl Sandberg's The People Yes! and Alan Ginsberg's The Fall of America.

John Hope Franklin From Slavery to Freedom
Franklin's From Slavery to Freedom is easily one of the most import books of American history written. A thoughtful, even poetic look at the struggle of African Americans to throw off slavery and live lives as free Americans.

Martin Lee Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD, & the Sixties Rebellion
If that titles doesn't sell you, I don't know what will. A great journey through the psychedelic Sixties, peopled with as strange a cast as you will find.

Peter Guralnick Sweet Soul Music
The story of the Memphis rhythm & blues label Stax is as relevant a story of America as any other on this page. Plus if you want to do further research, the music you will be turned onto is dynamite.

David Halberstam The Best & the Brightest
Halbertam's award-winning study of the lead into the War on Vietnam and how a bunch of "smart guys" "stayed the course" despite every sign that the war had turned into little more than a meat grinder, as well as what happens when politics trump everything.

Alvin Josephy The Patriot Chiefs
Subtitled "A Chronicle of American Indian Resistance," Josephy sketches the lives of nine Native American leaders - Hiawatha, King Philip, Pope, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola, Black Hawk, Crazy Horse, and Chief Joseph - who resisted the European conquest of America.

--Scott S.

Time Tested Books

Sacramento Living Library: Ed Carroll 2/19 at 7 p.m.

Judie Panneton Reading/Signing Thurs. 1/5 at 7 p.m.

Sacramento Living Library: Michele Hebert in conversation with Becky Grunewald

Hobos to Street People: Wed 10/26 at 7 p.m.

Tim Holt's Ramblin' Round - 10/16 at 3 p.m.

EVENT CANCELLED! Sunday 10/16 at 7 p.m.

Sunday 9/18 - Historic Sacramento Architecture

Poet David Rowe 9/14/2011

Sacramento Living Library: Rivkah Sass & Stacey Aldrich

Brad Warner Sunday, Aug 7th 3 p.m.- 5 p.m.

July 17 at 7 p.m.: "What I LOVE about Sacramento"

Living Library: Tim Holt, Sunday, June 19 at 7 p.m.

Roy Blount Jr. Tuesday 5/24 at Central Library 7:30

Roy Blount, Jr.

In conversation with Sands Hall

Tuesday, May 24, 2011Tsakopoulos Galleria | 7:30 p.m.828 I Street, SacramentoCalifornia Lectures In Partnership with the Sacramento Public Library

A Fundraiser: Dr. Rick Hodes Friday, May 20th 6 p.m.

Sacramento Living Library: Daisy Mah 5/15 at 7 p.m.

Ishmael Reed discusses Juice! on KDVS 5/8 at 5 p.m.

For those of you who weren't able to make it, tune in to Justin's wonderful show New Day Jazz on KDVS (90.3 FM) this Sunday, May 8th, at 5pm to hear Reed discuss his new novel JUICE! (Check link for a spot-on review from the LA Times.)

Remembering KZAP Radio 1968-1992

Ishmael Reed, Sunday April 10th at 12 p.m.

CA Lectures presents: Thomas McGuane

Dr. Mazin Quimsiyeh Sunday, April 3rd at 2 p.m.

Sacramento Living Library: March 20th Patrick Mulvaney & Shawn Harrison

Living Library: Thanks to all who turned out on Sunday!

Sunday 2/20: Fred & Victoria Dalkey - The Sacramento Living Library

Thursday, February 10th at 7 p.m.

Next SLL: The State of Live Music in Sacramento

Sunday 1/16: Covering Jerry Brown - The Sacramento Living Library

End of Year Sale!!!

Author David Prybil, Monday January 3 at 7 p.m.

Sunday 12/5: Ginger Elizabeth Hahn - The Sacramento Living Library

Sunday 11/21: Jeffrey Callison - The Sacramento Living Library

Delectable Deals Oct. 27th - Nov. 10th

Don't Miss these great events this week!

Sacramento Living Library Sunday, 10/17: Richard Simpson

California Lectures presents Michele Norris

Scholarshare Children's Book Festival at Fairytale Town

Alan O'Connor & Cuno Barragan Sept. 19th at 7 p.m.

Thursday, September 16th 7 p.m. Author Will Fellows reading & signing "Gay Bar"

NWPC Presents: Iron Jawed Angels, Thurs. Aug. 26th at 7 p.m.

The Sacramento Living Library: Dick Bertolucci, August 22 at 7 p.m.

California State Fair

June 20th: Peter Schrag - Sacramento Living Library #6

Susan Moon, Saturday, June 19th at 7 p.m.

John Waters in conversation with Edward Ortiz

CA Lectures, Wednesday, May 26, 2010Crest Theatre | 7:30 p.m

Four Mayors: Sacramento Living Library 5/16/10

David Mogavero: Sacramento Living Library, April 18th

The Lecture is Sold Out, but we can get you signed copies of any of her books...

Ruth Reichl

Presents "Garlic and Sapphires"

Ruth Reichl

Friday, March 26, 2010Crest Theatre | 7:30 p.m.

March 28: Wendy Rouse Jorae, author of The Children of Chinatown

Darrell Corti: Sacramento Living Library 3/21/10

Ginger Rutland: Sacramento Living Library February 21

February 7: Jack Boulware, co-author of Gimme Something Better

January 16: James Baraz, author of Awakening Joy

January 17: Sacramento Living Library with Russ Solomon

Announcing The Sacramento Living Library 2010

Yes we have gift certificates!

Dec. 13 Poetry: Indigo Moor & Theresa Vinciguerra

Jack Rose RIP

December 6: Peter J. Hayes

December 5: Eva Rutland

Nov. 15: poetry w/ Mary Mackey & Francisco X. Alarcon

November 11: David Kulczyk author of "Death in California"

Monte Schulz - author of This Side of Jordan - book talk 10/28/09

October 18 poetry with Julia Connor and Joshua McKinney

Harvey Schwartz on the ILWU 10/14/09

D.R. Wagner & Phil Weidman, poetry 9/20/09

Second Saturday 9/12/09: Art Lessing & the Flower Vato

Mary Mackey & The Widow's War: Book Talk Sept 3

August 16: Ann Menebroker & Joyce Odam

Bookstore friend Shon Mackfessel dodges Iranian jail thanks to cold!

Montoya reading cancelled

July 15: Jaimal Yogis, author of Saltwater Buddha

Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Tsakopoulos Galleria | 7:30 p.m.
828 I Street, Sacramento
California Lectures In Partnership with the Sacramento Public Library

CA Lectures, Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Crest Theatre | 7:30 p.m

Friday, March 26, 2010
Crest Theatre | 7:30 p.m.