Skylight Books

Who I'd like to meet:

Thursday, January 22, 2009 7:30 p.m.
AMITY GAIGE and SARAH SHUN-LIEN BYNUM
The Folded World Ms. Hempel Chronicles (Random House Trade)

Selected by the National Book Foundation for their first ever "5 Under 35" honor, Amity Gaige returns with an ambitious and luminous new novel. Acclaimed for her exquisite prose and crystalline insights, Amity Gaige returns with "The Folded World," the story of an idealistic young social worker drawn into the lives of his mentally ill clients.A collision of extraordinary characters, "The Folded World" addresses the universal dilemma of love, wherein giving to another can seem like "the death of the world of oneself." With an unerring eye for both the joys and devastations of life, Amity Gaige once again reminds us of the pleasures and depths to be found in her fiction.


Friday, February 6, 2009 7:30 p.m.
CRISTY C. ROAD
Bad Habits: A Love Story (Soft Skull Press)

Bad Habits is the mostly-autobiographical story of Road’s personal revolution. Growing up Cuban in West Miami, the protagonist clashes with the confining and repressive aspects of that culture, and, like countless other young people, leaves for New York as soon as she's able. Landing in Brooklyn, she moves into a house full of wild characters, and enters an underground scene that few ever see. Of her new family, she writes, “We were the things that went bump, crack, and hump in the night.” Cubana artist Cristy Road's work makes me so happy. Where else can you see drawings of a black genderqueer boy flashing his top surgery scars and grinning, or two girls hitchiking in the desert holding a sign that reads 'Indigenous Soverrignty or Bust,' all drawn with love, color, and punk rock grit? —Bitch Magazine

Saturday, February 7, 2009 5:00 p.m.
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH
WRITE GIRL - readings from girls and their mentors Listen to Me: Shared Secrets from WriteGirl

WriteGirl is a nonprofit organization for high school girls centered on the craft of creative writing and empowerment through self-expression. Through one-on-one mentoring and monthly workshops, girls are given techniques, insights and hot tips for great writing in all genres from professional women writers.


Saturday, February 21, 2009 5:00 p.m.
CARINE TOPAL & DAVID ST. JOHN
In the Heaven of Never Before (Moon Tide Press)

Monday, February 23, 2009 7:30 p.m.
T.C. BOYLE
The Women (Viking Books)

Boyle's new novel (his 12th) is a dazzling account of Frank Lloyd Wright’s life as told through the tempestuous experiences of the four women who loved him.