Dec 10, 2012 | Book Store Events
Acclaimed journalist Randall Stross discusses his new book The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s Most Exclusive School for Startups. Investment firm Y Combinator is the most sought-after home for startups in Silicon Valley. Twice a year, it funds...
Dec 3, 2012 | Book Store Events
Justin Cronin is the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Passage, in which he constructed an unforgettable world transformed by a government experiment gone horribly wrong. Cronin reads from and discusses his new novel The Twelve, the...
Nov 26, 2012 | Book Store Events
Jess Walter, the acclaimed, award-winning author of the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets, reads from and discusses his new novel Beautiful Ruins, the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962, and is rekindled in...
Nov 19, 2012 | Book Store Events
Damien Echols was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1993, only to be found innocent upon appeal and released in 2011. Westword journalist Alan Prendergast joins Damien in conversation in honor of his beautifully written memoir Life After Death,...
Nov 12, 2012 | Book Store Events
Brilliantly whimsical yet oddly informative, The Oatmeal is an entertainment web site full of comics, quizzes, and stories. The site gets more than 5 million unique page views a month; 250,000 blogs and web sites have linked to it. The Oatmeal is written, drawn, and...
Nov 5, 2012 | Book Store Events
Jasper Fforde, the author of the bestselling Thursday Next mysteries and the Nursery Crime books, reads from and discusses his first novel for young readers The Last Dragonslayer. In his witty, effervescent new novel Fforde introduces fifteen-year-old Jennifer...
