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Saturday, Apr 26, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm, Registration required
The Yarrow Library will be hosting Christian Fiction author, Beverly Fox, who will read excerpts from her novel Piper’s Call, and her second novel released in October 2013, Piper's Crisis. Piper’s Call is a contemporary Christian fiction series of triumph over tragedy, set against the rich local background of the Cariboo. Beverly will give insight into her writing journey, followed by a discussion period. She will also be available for book signing. Light refreshments will be served. (starfishian)… (more)

Justin Taylor reads from Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever.

The debut fiction collection by 26-year-old Brooklyn writer Justin Taylor, Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever, will shock you, move you to tears, make you laugh out loud, and make you both fearful for and hopeful about the promise of American twenty-somethings – sometimes all in the same sentence. Each story in this crystalline, spare collection cuts to the quick. Taylor introduces readers to a young man who has reasoned away certain boundaries in relation to his female cousin; a high schooler whose desire to win back his crush leads him to experiment with black magic; a man whose girlfriend is stolen by angels; and a Tetris player who, as the advancing white wall of the Apocalypse slowly churns up his driveway, decides that Death is a kindness. This is a collection that paints a dark picture of Taylor's generation – one that is upwardly mobile yet adrift, fumbling for connection but hopelessly self-involved. And clearly, this is a debut by a distinct and emerging literary talent. "Mr. Taylor has perfect touch, to frightening effect, does not presume, has power, and promises us new things. There is a debt paid to Donald Barthelme, gratifying to see, and a strange undertow of Philip Roth, which makes for a new literary beast." – Padgett Powell, author of The Interrogative Mood "Taylor's superb debut short story collection is explorative and fresh with well-crafted empathic characters. . . . Each story is spare and clean and speaks the truth in beautiful resonant prose." – Publishers Weekly "The characters in Justin Taylor's stories may be lost, unmoored, and out of control, but their creator is astonishingly sure-handed. He unerringly locates the center of these centerless lives, and discerns the shape of their shapelessness." – David Gates, author of Jernigan If you cannot attend the reading, but would like a signed copy of Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever, you may reserve it at http://www.acappellabooks.com/ev_taylor.asp. (jasbro)… (more)