"Sacramento True Crime" - The Sacramento Living Library - October 21st

The Sacramento Living Library 

presents 

"Sacramento True Crime"

with reporter

Steve Martarano

Sunday, October 21st, at 7:00pm

The seventies and eighties were a scary, weird time in Sacramento, rife with notorious crime cases including Dorothea Puente, Richard Trenton Chase (the Vampire of Sacramento) and more. Just in time for Halloween, former Sacramento Union reporter Steve Martarano hosts this panel discussion with the cops and prosecutors who were on the front lines: James Morris, retired Sacramento County Superior Court Judge and former Deputy District Attorney; retired Sacramento City Police Captain Joe Barnes; and retired Sacramento County Sheriff homicide detective Bob Bell. Other experts will be in the audience. See you here!

This event is FREE and everyone is invited. 

'Hendrix on Hendrix...' with Steve Roby - October 18th

 Thursday, October 18th, at 7:00pm

Steven Roby discusses
Hendrix on Hendrix: Interviews and Encounters with Jimi Hendrix

 "This is the first Hendrix book without an author's agenda. My role was to collect and present some of the best interviews Hendrix did at the peak of his career, starting with his first press interview shortly after arriving in England right up until his final interview given the week before he died. I stood back and let Jimi do the talking in this book."    ~Steven Roby

 Steven Roby is a respected Jimi Hendrix historian/archivist and author of Black Gold: The Lost Archives of Jimi Hendrix and Becoming Jimi Hendrix. Steven was editor and publisher of Straight Ahead: The International Jimi Hendrix Fanzine, and editor of the Hendrix family's authorized fanzine Experience Hendrix.   

This event is FREE and everyone is invited.

Copies of Hendrix on Hendrix are currently available at TTB.

Bruce Holbert's 'Lonesome Animals' - October 11th

Time Tested Books is very proud to present a reading and signing with Bruce Holbert--author of the stunning debut novel Lonesome Animals--on Thursday, October 11th, at 7:00pm. The book has been receiving very strong praise from very high places--and with very good reason.....

 

In Lonesome Animals, Holbert completely reinvents the Western Novel, the Crime Novel and the Noir Novel--and turns the dialectic of "Literary Fiction" versus "Genre Fiction" into a very difficult proposition indeed. He also presents the world through one of the most darkly memorable antiheroes in literary history: Russell Strawl, aging ex-lawman and ruthless killer, hired by three counties to track down and reckon with a serial killer who's been mutilating his Native American victims' corpses in ways that can only be described as "memorable". The time and place is depression-era Washington State, where the nihilism and lawlessness of the frontier still hang in the air and echo in the memories of the living--but the language and the sense of place and the insights into the human animal are better described in such terms as biblical, harrowing, astonishing, breathtaking. Rarely has such dark and frightening material been rendered so beautifully and in such depth; the book is a masterpiece and puts Holbert firmly in the tradition of giants: Cormac McCarthy, Charles Portis and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle come to mind. Bruce's appearance at TTB is not to be missed! 

Bruce Holbert grew up in the country described in Lonesome Animals, a combination of Washington's rocky scabland farms and desert brush at the foot of the Okanogan Mountains. He is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, and his award-winning writings have appeared in The Iowa Review, Hotel Amerika, Other Voices, The Antioch Review, Cairn, RiverLit, The New Orleans Review, and The Daily Iowan. Holbert's great-grandfather, Arthur Strahl, was an Indian scout and among the first settlers of the Grand Coulee. A fictionalized Strahl is the subject of Lonesome Animals. 

Lonesome Animals is currently in stock at TTB. 

The event is on Thursday, October 11th, at 7:00pm, and is FREE and open to the public.

Tony Burroughs - October 2nd

Tuesday, October 2nd, 7:00pm

Time Tested Books is pleased to present

This event is FREE & everyone is invited!

Miko Peled's 'The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine' - September 20th

Time Tested Books is proud to present a reading and signing with Miko Peled--activist and author of The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine--on Thursday, September 20th, at 7:00pm.

In 1997 a tragedy struck the family of Israeli-American Miko Peled: his beloved niece Smadar was killed by a suicide bomber in Jerusalem. That tragedy propelled Peled onto a journey of discovery. It pushed him to re-examine many of the beliefs he had grown up with--as the son and grandson of leading figures in Israel's political-military elite--and transformed him into a courageous and visionary activist in the struggle for human rights and a hopeful, lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Esteemed author Alice Walker has contributed a very moving and thoughtful foreword to The General's Son.

Copies of the book are currently available for purchase at TTB.

The event is on Thursday, September 20th, at 7:00pm, and is FREE and open to the public.

Paul Gallender Reading & Signing - September 13th

 The Mystery of the
“Phantom Punch” Has Been Solved!

  Someone finally has Sonny Liston’s back. 

Paul Gallender’s revealing biography, 

Sonny Liston – 

The Real Story Behind the Ali-Liston Fights, 

sheds new light on Liston’s tragic life and extraordinary talent.

for more information on the book, visit

www.sonnyliston.net 

Books are in stock and for sale now and at the event.

This event is FREE and everyone is invited.

 Join us Thursday, Sept. 13th at 7 p.m.

The Sacramento Living Library Returns! - September 16th

The Sacramento Living Library took a break for the summer.  We're pleased to be able to announce the schedule for the rest of the season, and we hope you'll join us! 

Sunday, September 16, 7:00pm
Remembering the Belmonte Gallery

 

Sal and Masako Yniguez opened Oak Park's Belmonte Gallery in December 1962.  The Belmonte instantly became the headquarters for Sacramento's avant garde, showcasing groundbreaking artists like Bruce Nauman, Robert Arneson and Wayne Thiebaud. Sacramento Living Library host and organizer Tim Foster will host this very special panel discussion featuring original owner-operator Masako Yniguez and artists Irving Marcus and Kurt Fishback. 

All SLL events are FREE and everyone is invited.

Upcoming in the Sacramento Living Library:

*Sacramento True Crime with reporter Steve Martarano!

Sunday, October 21


*Sacramento's Lost Movie Houses with Matias Bombal!
Sunday, November 18

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100 Thousand Poets for Change - September 6th

 

 

September 6, 2012 --- 7 p.m.

Creating Change Through Poetry

A 2012 Sacramento 100 Thousand Poets for Change Event

An evening with some of the area’s finest poets

at

Time Tested Books

1114 21^st Street

Sacramento, CA  95811

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with

Traci Gourdine

Jeff Knorr
Sacramento's newest Poet Laureate!

Geoffrey Neill

William O’Daly

Emily Wright

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This official 100 Thousand Poets for Change event proudly sponsored by

Amber Moon Press, Crossroads Reading Series, Trina L. Drotar, Sandy Thomas, Two Trees Indie Press

For more information about 100 Thousand Poets for Change, click here.

This event is FREE and everyone is invited!