Part 2 of 2: This is the conclusion of Not A Scratch, a story of two friends and how they’ve coped with a shared trauma. Part 1 was originally aired on March 2nd, 2009 and can be found in the RAUDIO archive. Note: At the request of the subjects of this story, here is a link to the Centre for Neuro Skills, located in Bakersfield, California. And 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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| 7:00 pm |
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 25th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Elijah, thank you so much! This turned out great.
March 25th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
I am who I am because of the accident. If that had not happened to me I would not be where I am now. For better and worse. My sight will never be as good as it was, but I would not have had the time nor opportunity to spend time in Texas if it weren’t for what happened. I am both saddened and greatful for the incident. Kendra and my parents may not be so opptimistic about the whole ordeal.
November 12th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
cant seem to find a guy who isnt a coward