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 Fall!
Finally! Enough relentless good weather and sunshine, time for
cool winds, dark rainy afternoons, and a valid reason to be inside.
I love October, so I have saved the best events for Great Pumpkin
month-
October
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 Friday
10.01 6:00pm UIC
Readers
are immediately pulled into this poignant novel based upon
the complexities of intra-racial relations, as Kristin
Broussard overlaps a heartfelt third person voice that
details the experiences of an expectant mother, with the
intimate, forthright, first person voice of Ann Girard,
a mixed race woman “speaking” to
her unborn child about her own painful journey, and her
discovery of WHAT LOOKS LIKE BLACK. |
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 Sunday
10.03 4:00pm Oak Park
Carson
Kressley, the most fabulous member of the hit TV show “Queer
Eye for the Straight Guy,” has a style
guide for even the most fashion-challenged man. OFF
THE CUFF : The Essential Guide to Style for Men and the
Women
Who Love Them explains when to break the rules, and when
you absolutely, positively must follow them. Come to Barbara’s
and receive the gospel according to Kressley, and never
be anything less than fantastic again. |
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 Tuesday
10.05 7:30 pm UIC
From
the bestselling author of Prague comes a witty, inventive
novel
about THE EGYPTOLOGIST obsessed with finding the tomb of
an apocryphal king. Just as Carter unveils the tomb of
Tutankhamun, making the most dazzling find in the history
of archeology, Oxford-educated Ralph Trilipush is digging
himself into trouble, having staked his reputation, and
his fiancee’s fortune, on a scrap of
hieroglyphic pornography. |
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 Wednesday
10.06 7:30 pm UIC
In MAPS
OF THE IMAGINATION: Writer as Cartographer, Peter
Turchi takes readers on a delightful journey that explores
cartography’s
and writing’s many parallels. For example,
Turchi explores the challenges of blank space and the blank
page, the role of geometry in maps and of formal devices
in writing, the goals of exploration and challenges of
presentation, and the balance of intuition with intention.
Each idea is richly illustrated with maps, drawings and
other illustrations. |
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 Wednesday
10.06 7:30pm Oak Park
To
fill the ever-widening gaps in his Ivy League education,
AJ
Jacobs sets for himself the daunting task of reading all
32 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica. His wife tells
him it’s a waste of time, his friends
think he is losing his mind, and his father, a brilliant
attorney who once attempted the same thing and quit somewhere
around Borneo, is encouraging but, um, unconvinced. And
yet AJ struggles forward, sharing his Quixotic quest in
THE KNOW IT ALL: One
Man’s Humble Quest
to Become the Smartest Person in the World. |
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Matt “Mattilda” Bernstein
Sycamore |
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 Friday
10.08 7:30pm UIC
Bab’s
favorite Matt (Pulling Taffy) Bernstein Sycamore returns,
reading, writing and editing as his own distaff alter-ego
with THAT’S
REVOLTING: Queer Strategies For Resisting Assimilation. That’s Revolting demands more than what can be offered by assimilation into
the mainstream-using queer identity and struggle as a starting
point from which to reframe, reclaim and reshape the world. |
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 Sunday
10.10 4:30 pm UIC
MAGICAL
THINKING is defined as: a schizotypal personality
disorder attributing to one’s own actions
something that has nothing to do with him or her and thus
assuming
that one has a greater influence over events than is actually
the case. Needless to say Augusten (Running With Scissors,
Dry) Burroughs has suffered from it most of his
life. These short stories from Burroughs life are written
in the harrowing,
hilarious style that his fans have come to crave. Come
out, have a snack have a drink, and experience the magic.
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October
2004 Book Recommendations & Events Calendar