Tue, Sep 09
|Collected Works Bookstore
Joan Brooks Baker, In the Swampyland
B’rer Rabbit, trickster of the Uncle Remus tales. A chicken’s head bobbing in a bowl of soup, its dead eyes accusing the diner. Cockroaches, venomous snakes, biting frogs. These are among the lively characters in Joan Brooks Baker’s second book, a collection of stories called "In the Swampyland"
Date, Time & Location
Sep 09, 2025, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Joan will be in conversation with CWB’s Event Producer, Cecile Lipworth.
Join us in-store or register to watch on Zoom here.
Pre-order In the Swampyland from CWB online here ($24.00, paperback) or call the store to order (505) 988-4226
In the Swampyland is a collection of stories that spans the author’s life, from her childhood in New York City to her eye-opening, sometimes risky world travels. In the Swampyland examines the world in which Baker grew up and aims equally intense scrutiny at the exotic cultures her innate curiosity has motivated her to visit, from the jungles of Colombia to the streets of India and the attractions of the American South, in her search for belonging. In the Swampyland persuades us to ponder the notion of our own swampyland and discover how we can survive these dark, dangerous, and yet fecund locales in our minds and hearts—and in the process, if we…