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“Torres’s sentences are gymnastic, leaping and twirling, but never fancy for the sake of fancy, always justified by the ferocity and heartbreak and hunger and slap-happy euphoria of these three boys. It’s a coming-of-age novel set in upstate New York that rumbles with lyric dynamite. It’s a knock to the head that will leave your mouth agape. Torres is a savage new talent." Esquire

"Some books quicken your pulse. Some slow it. Some burn you inside and send you tearing off to find the author to see who made this thing that can so burn you and quicken you and slow you all at the same time. A miracle in concentrated pages, you are going to read it again and again, and know exactly what I mean." Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard out of Carolina

Justin Torres was raised in upstate New York. His work has appeared in Granta, Tin House, and Glimmer Train. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he was the recipient of a Rolón Fellowship in Literature from United States Artists and is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. Among many other things, he has worked as a farmhand, a dog walker, a creative writing teacher, and a bookseller.

Location: Street: Porter Square Shopping Center Additional: 25 White Street City: Cambridge, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02140 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Randall Kenan reads from Let the Dead Bury Their Dead (Harvest American Writing Series).; Dorothy Allison reads from Bastard Out of Carolina.

The Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program of Pine Manor College announces its January Reading Series. All readings are held in the Founder's Room of Pine Manor College located at 400 Heath Street in Chestnut Hill. Copies of authors' books will be available for sale after all readings; cash-bar receptions will follow the readings on January 3 and 7. Plenty of free parking! (lemontwist)… (more)

Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina.

Books Inc. in the is pleased to announce our next Book Group selection: Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison. Greenville County, South Carolina, a wild, lush place, is home to the Boatwright family-rough-hewn men who drink hard and shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who marry young and age all too quickly. At the heart of this astonishing novel is Ruth Anne Boatwright, known simply as Bone, a South Carolina bastard with an annotated birth certificate to tell the tale. Observing everything with the mercilessly keen eye of a child, Bone finds herself caught in a family triangle that will test the loyalty of her mother, Anney. Her stepfather, Daddy Glenn, calls Bone "cold as death, mean as a snake, and twice as twisty," yet Anney needs Glen. At first gentle with Bone, Daddy Glen becomes steadily colder and more furious-until their final, harrowing encounter, from which there can be no turning back. * * * Our next Book Group meeting is Wednesday, January 14, at 7 PM at Books Inc. in the Castro, 2275 Market St.. As always, I'd like everyone to come with any observations they may have as well as at least one question to pose to the group. Also, please come equipped with any title suggestions for our next joint venture. Hope to see you there. The Books Inc. Book Group is free and open to everyone. We encourage inclusiveness and promote diversity. We meet the 2nd Wednesday of every month. ****PLEASE NOTE**** With great regret, we pass on the news that the Three Dollar Bill Café, Where the Book Group has met for the past 4 years, has closed. We will be meeting at Books Inc. for the foreseeable future. We thank Vince & Pete for their hospitality and wish the best. * * * Books Inc. is a locally owned and operated independent bookseller with 10 locations in California. Books Inc.'s origin dates back to the Gold Rush Days of 1851 when Anton Roman struck it rich in Shasta City, California and set himself up in business selling books. That small bookstore was moved, bought, sold, burned, rebuilt, renamed and became Books Inc., as we know it today, in 1946. Today, with 10 Stores and 200 employees, Books Inc. serves as a shining example that independent bookselling can survive and prosper, even if we must dance among the elephants. This Event is Free at Books Inc. 2275 Market St., San Francisco 94114 For Questions:415.864.6777 or on the web at http://www.booksinc.net and http://www.myspace.com/booksinccastro (amadeus06)… (more)