Wed, Oct 02
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Essayists Zach Hively & Betsy James
Award-winning humorist, and Casa Uraca publisher Zach Hively will read from his new book of short essays "Call Me Zach Hively Because That Is My Name", and author-illustrator Betsy James will read from her latest work, "Breathing Stone: Living Small in a Southwest Village."
Date, Time & Location
Oct 02, 2024, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
This will be an in-store event and live streamed to Zoom, please register for Zoom here.
Pre-order My Name is Zach Hively (paperback, $19, publishes September 10) from CW here and Betsy James' book, Breathing Stone (paperback, $17) can be ordered online here, or call the store to order (505) 988-4226. Signed copies will be available after the event.
About My Name is Zach Hively
Few challenges are greater than navigating the world as a so-calledadult. Yet syndicated humor columnist Zach Hively does his best to evade them all. The perils of rental housing? Finding friendship as a hermit who rather dislikes people? Bears? There’s nothing he can’t talk his way through—or out of—in the short essays in Call Me Zach Hively Because That Is My Name.
The book’s initial campaign was selected as a Kickstarter Project We Love, and Hively himself is the four-time recipient of the Society of Professional Journalists’ Top of the Rockies award for his Fool’s Gold column.
In addition to Call Me Zach Hively (which really is his name), Hively has written three books of poetry, including Desert Apocrypha, which earned the Reading the West Book Award. He lives in northern New Mexico with his dogs. Lest you try to find him in person, be warned: he plays the harmonica but refuses to get better at it. Read more at zachhively.com.
About Breathing Stone
For four years in the 1990s, writer, artist, and backcountry hiker Betsy James shared an old adobe in the village of Placitas at the northern foot of the Sandias. Breathing Stone: Living Small in a Southwest Village is a cache of warm, minute observations of nature and neighbors—the dogs and birds, cats and children, weather and weeds of rural New Mexico. It is both a small haven and a quiet suggestion that we observe our own lives, nudging us to catch the small things that are so easy to forget. It is illustrated with field sketches from James’ own journal.
Betsy James is the author-illustrator of seventeen books. Her latest novel, Roadsouls, was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award. A watercolorist, she is represented by Nedra Matteucci Galleries, Santa Fe. She leads writers’ workshops in the University of New Mexico Honors College and lives in Albuquerque’s North Valley. Read more at www.betsyjames.com.