This Week's Events at
Malaprop's Bookstore/Café
55 Haywood St., Asheville, NC 28801
828-254-6734 or 1-800-441-9829
www.malaprops.com

 
Saturday, August 1 at 7PM: Denise Giardina Reading.
Malaprop's welcomes celebrated author Denise Giardina, who will present her new novel, Emily's Ghost. This reimagining of the Bronte family revolves around the passion of Emily Bronte and her relationship with an idealistic young clergyman. Giardina, the writer in residence at West Virginia State University, is also a deacon in the Episcopal Church and an activist for land reform and social justice in the Appalachian mining community.

 
Sunday, August 2 at 3PM: Poetrio.
Our three poets reading series features Greg McBride, Felicia Mitchell, and Gene Fehler.

 
Malaprop's closes early at 5PM on Sunday, August 2 to celebrate the wedding of booksellers Gina Glenn and Matt Moon. Gina and Matt met through their work at Malaprop's and, appropriately and romantically enough, will be married in the bookstore! We will post pictures of the wedding on our website as soon as possible. Congratulations, Gina and Matt Moon!!!! We all wish you the happiest of marriages.

 

Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice goes on sale August 4th.  If you would like to reserve a copy, let us know! Pynchon's novel received a great review from Alan Cheuse on NPR last night.

 
This week's poem is by Jim Harrison from his collection, In Search of Small Gods, Copper Canyon Press, $22.00.

 
"Goat Boy"

 
I no longer lead my life. I'm led.
The sexuality of insects tells us that intentional
life is a hoax but the gods tell us
that we are also gods. The sun kindly rises
on the snoring goat out by the barn.
He'll only do what he wants to do.
He eats potato peels and stares at the rising moon.
I believe in my calling like he believes in the moon.
How else could I see clearly at night?
We are nature, too, and some of us do less well
In this invented world, or if we do well for a while
There is that backward stare from these overplowed fields
To the wild woodlot and creek in the distance.
At seven I went out to play and was lost in the woods
For a day and never understood the way back home.

 

Enjoy your weekends!

Linda Barrett Knopp
lbarrettknopp@malaprops.com