PART 1 of 2: Three 19 year old girls, all high school friends, are heading back from Santa Barbara after a day at the beach. Two exits from home, they make an unplanned stop. No one makes it home unscathed. On Raudio this week, injuries affect people differently, and so does recovery. If you like what you hear, tell Ira Glass!
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Author James Kaelan embarks on his book tour July 2nd. 1900 miles, by bike, no electricity, formal lodging, or technology requiring the use of
carbon. He will be followed by documentarian Mile Kittredge. Here are the dates thus far:
Jul-2 Los Angeles, Ca: [Skylight Books, 730pm](RSVP via Facebook)
Jul-3 Oxnard, Ca: camping @ Join the Farm
Jul-4 Carpenteria, Ca: camping @ Shepard Farms
Jul-7 Santa Maria, Ca: camping @Blosser Urban Garden
Jul-8 San Luis Obispo, Ca: [Barnes & Nobles] pending
Jul-13 Santa Cruz, Ca: [Santa Cruz Bookshop] pending
Jul-16 San Francisco, Ca: [Green Apple Books] (RSVP via Facebook)
Jul-19 Davis, Ca: [Avid Reader: Davis] [730pm] (RSVP via Facebook)
Jul-20 Sacramento, Ca: |M| James to appear on NPR/CPR’s Insight 10-11a
(90.9 FM KXJZ Sacramento; 90.5 FM KKTO Tahoe City/Reno; 91.3 FM KUOP Stockton/Modesto; 88.1 FM KQNC Quincy)
Jul-20 Sacramento, Ca: [Pangaea Cafe & Pub] (map) [7pm and after-party to follow] (RSVP via Facebook)
Jul-21 Marysville, Ca: camping @ Godfrey Family Farms
Jul-22 Chico: [Lyon's Books] pending
Jul-23 Marysville, Ca: camping @ Kitchel Family Organics
Aug-2 Tiller, Or: camping @ Perma Organic Farm
Aug-6 Lebanon, OR: camping @ The Mushroomery
Aug-7 Salem, OR: camping @ Minto Island Growers
Aug-8 Portland, OR: [Powell's Books] (map) (details) 4pm (RSVP via Facebook)
Aug-10 Colama, WA: camping @ R & C Ranch
Aug-13 Puyallup, WA: camping @ Mother Earth Farm
Aug-14 Seattle, WA: [Ravenna Third Place Books] (7pm) (RSVP via Facebook)
Aug-17 Arlington, WA: camping @ Garden Treasures
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Bookcourt: 163 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY | 7PM
The paperback edition of Josh Weil’s critically acclaimed collection of novellas, THE NEW VALLEY, will be released by Grove on May 11th. Alyssa Knickerbocker’s novella, YOUR RIGHTFUL HOME, just came out with Flatmancrooked. We’re all friends. What better way to celebrate than a reading/battle of wits!
Come meet the authors, hear them talk about themselves, get your books signed, and then watch them sword fight. It’ll be sick.
The Flatmancrooked editors will be in town, so you know there will be a party afterwards, probably somewhere like a bar.
Oh, by-the-bye, this thing is Hella Free. RSVP NOW!
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JOSH WEIL is the author of The New Valley (Grove, 2009), a New York Times Editors Choice and winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from The American Academy of Arts and Letters; the New Writers Award from the Great Lakes Colleges Association; and a “5 Under 35” Award from the National Book Foundation. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, Glimmer Train, Poets & Writers and American Short Fiction, among others, and he has received the Dana Award in Portfolio as well as fellowships from the the Writer’s Center, the MacDowell Colony, the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences, and the Fulbright Foundation. As the 2009 Tickner Fellow, Weil is the writer-in-residence at Gilman School in Baltimore.
ALYSSA KNICKERBOCKER is currently completing her MFA in fiction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her novella “Your Rightful Home” was recently published by Flatmancrooked, and other work has appeared in Avery Anthology, Bat City Review, Meridian, Sou’wester, and elsewhere. She and her husband will soon move to Kentucky, where she has been awarded the Axton Fellowship at the University of Louisville.
March 3rd, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Great great great.
March 4th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Wonderful! Thank you so much…. any idea when the 2nd part will come?
March 5th, 2009 at 9:18 am
I know what happens next, but I’m still totally anxious. Well done!
March 5th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Ach, we need Part 2!
March 5th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
It is so hard to hear this. I love you girls, and still can’t believe what amazing survivors you are. Thank you for sharing your story. Please let me know when Part II is out. – A(H)L
March 5th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Wow, I had no idea, ;et me know when part 2 comes out!!
March 6th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
Unfortunately I remember this all to well. I don’t remember how I received the news but I know I was at Matt’s house. As soon as I was off the phone we jumped in Matt’s truck and rushed down to Mercy to see Laura. After about 20 minutes of searching we finally found where they were keeping her. It took me about a full minute to pull back the curtain. I was afraid of what I might see. She looked so helpless, so lifeless, almost like a wax doll. It was so scary because of the thoughts that go through your head, especially when the nurses tell you she just has to take it one day at a time. I am so thankful that Laura came thought that tragedy. It may have been with a different perspective on life, but certainly not in a negative way.
March 21st, 2009 at 6:21 pm
WOW! Listening to that just brought back so many memories – many that have been tucked away for almost ten years! It’s crazy to think that I was that girl in the backseat. So much has happened since then, but I am so thankful that everyone come out of this alive. Laura and Megan are true survivors. They will always hold a special place in my heart because without them, I don’t think I would be the person I am today!