Kevin Brockmeier

Get to know your booksellers through their favorite books! Join us the 3rd Monday of April at 6:30 for Lisa's pick for the Staff Favorites Book Club. We will discuss The Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier.

Coffee, espresso drinks, beer, and wine can be purchased from Nightbird Books. Nomad's Natural Plate will be serving food.

NY Times review

What if our pain was the most beautiful thing about us?"

At 8:17 on a Friday night, The Illumination begins. Every wound begins to shine, every bruise to glow and shimmer. And in the aftermath of a fatal car accident, a journal of love notes, written by a husband to his wife, passes into the keeping of Carol Ann Page, and from there through the hands of five other people--a photojournalist, a schoolchild, a missionary, a writer, and a street vendor. As their stories unfold, we come to understand how intricately and brilliantly they are connected, in all their human injury and experience. With the artistry and imagination that have become his trademark, Kevin Brockmeier reveals a world that only he could imagine, casting his gaze on the wounds we bear and the light that radiates from us all.

Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, The Seattle Times, The Kansas City Star, and Philadelphia City Paper.

Location: Street: 205 W Dickson St City: Fayetteville, Province: Arkansas Postal Code: 72701 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Kevin Brockmeier reads from The View From the Seventh Layer.

"Kevin Brockmeier is the author of The Brief History of the Dead, The Truth about Celia, Things That Fall from the Sky, and two children's novels. He has taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and his stories have appeared in many publications, including The New Yorker, McSweeney's and The Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, and Granta's Best of Young American Novelists. Brockmeier will read from and sign his new book The View From the Seventh Layer ($21.95 Pantheon), a collection of stories both daring and moving, and crafted with the remarkable voice and vision that have become hallmarks of his acclaimed fiction." (jpmoore)… (more)

Kevin Brockmeier , The View from the Seventh Layer.

KEVIN BROCKMEIER: THE VIEW FROM THE SEVENTH LAYER 7pm New York Times bestselling author Kevin Brockmeier (The Brief History of the Dead) visits with his latest story collection, The View from the Seventh Layer, thirteen tales which, according to Publishers Weekly, "show Brockmeier's mastery of the tricky intersection between fantasy and realism." His stories have appeared in the New Yorker, McSweeney's, The Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, Granta's Best Young American Novelists, and elsewhere. (booksense)… (more)