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Jeff VanderMeer at Chapel Hill Comics
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Trinoc*coN -- July 25th - 27th
After a long hotel search and a bit of a debate about our format, we've settled into the Crestwood Suites in Durham and decided to hold a relaxacon this year. We'll be lighter on programming, but we'll still have a slate of panels and workshops, as well as gaming, an art show, dealers, and a few main events like the costume contest and charity ( Read more... ) -
LEWIS SHINER & ANDRE VANN-Fictional & Real Looks At Hayti
Time: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 7:00 p.m.
Location: Quail Ridge Books and Music
Title of Event: LEWIS SHINER & ANDRE VANN-Fictional & Real Looks At Hayti
Lewis Shiner joins us with his new novel, BLACK AND WHITE. Jonathan Lethem describes it as "both a page-turner and an urban documentary with a big, fierce heart." Andre Vann presents his DURHAM'S ( Read more... ) -
Event Calendar: April Update (yeah, I know, it's late)
Friends of the Durham Library 2008 SPRING BOOK SALE: Friday, Apr. 11th to Sunday, Apr. 13
Great bargains at the Friends of the Durham Library Spring Book Sale April 11 to 13. Sale includes fiction & nonfiction books, audiobooks, CD’s and DVD’s. Prices start at 50 cents for paperbacks and $1 for hardbacks. Thousands of books are categorized for ( Read more... ) -
LEMONY SNICKET-Yes, It's A Fortunate Event, Friday, March 7, 2008 5:00 p.m.
Time: Friday, March 7, 2008 5:00 p.m ( Read more... ) -
Free Speculative Fiction Online
Free Speculative Fiction Online
I found this site the other day. It has tons of links to online fiction. For those of you who need something to read onscreen while at work, it has some really good stuff. -
scott mccloud in raleigh next tuesday
To celebrate the HarperCollins release of Making Comics, Scott McCloud (aka smccloud) has packed his family in the car, and is visiting all 50 states on a speaking/lecture tour (being blogged at mccloudtour). Check out the 50 State Tour Homepage to see when he'll be coming to your town.
Luckily for those of us in the Raleigh area, he'll be speaking at NCSU next ( Read more... ) -
2006 Wake County Public Library Booksale
Via: http://www.wakegov.com/libraries/programs/booksale.htm
"The annual Wake County Public Library Booksale is moving to a new location and offering expanded hours to accommodate the sale of more than 500,000 books! The sale will be in the former Super Kmart ( Read more... ) -
FREE short film viewing and book launch party
Just a reminder...
"(VISION)ARY FANTASY": A SHOWING OF THE MOVIE SHRIEK AT THE COLONY THEATER, HOSTED BY JASON ERIK LUNDBERG AND JANET CHUI OF RALEIGH'S OWN TWO CRANES PRESS
Colony Theater
5438 Six Forks Road
Raleigh, NC 27609
Host contact: Jason Erik Lundberg
jelundberg@nc.rr.com
On Saturday, August 19, 2006, at 11:00 a.m., The Colony Theater, ( Read more... ) -
John Berendt @ The Regulator
Dunno how this one slipped by me.
Time: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 7:00 PM
The author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil will read from and sign copies of his new book, The City of Falling Angels. Whereas Midnight took Savannah, Georgia as its setting, Berendt now turns his attention to Venice, Italy. Moving there in 1997, he paints a ( Read more... )