| DAVID PAYNE Thursday, August 6, 7:00 p.m. In the year 2000, while moving his household from Vermont to North Carolina, author David Payne watched from his rearview mirror as his younger brother, George A., driving behind him in a two-man convoy of rental trucks, lost control of his vehicle, fishtailed and flipped over in the road. David's life hit a downward spiral. From a cocktail hour indulgence, his drinking became a full-blown addiction. His career entered a standstill. His marriage disintegrated. He found himself haunted not only by George A.'s death, but also by his brother's manic depression, a condition that overlaid a dark family history of mental illness, alcoholism and suicide, an inherited past that now threatened David's and his children's futures. The only way out, he found, was to write Barefoot to Avalon: A Brother's Story, a memoir about his brother. He will be in the store to read and sign books. David Payne is the NY Times notable author of five novels. Payne has written for Libération, The Washington Post, The Oxford American and other publications and has taught at Bennington, Duke and Hollins. He is a founding faculty member in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Queens University of Charlotte. He lives in Hillsborough. NONFICTION AUTHORS ASSOCIATION (NFAA) Wednesday, August 12, 6:30 p.m. Experienced and aspiring nonfiction authors are invited to attend the Nonfiction Authors Association of Durham/Chapel Hill's meeting on Wednesday, August 12 at 6:15pm. Kathy Pories and Chuck Adams from Algonquin Books will speak. Sign up and find out more here: http://www.meetup.com/Durham-Chapel-Hill-Chapter-Nonfiction-Authors-Association/events/223015674/. YA BOOK CLUB Friday, August, 21, 6:00 p.m. Come one, come all to the greatest book club of all! Do you love YA? Are you interested in discussing or starting to read YA? The we'd love to have you! This is a book club for all ages, the only requirement is that you are interested in the young adult genre. (This is to discuss the book alone, not a writer's group). Hosted by Isabel of Tween 2 Teen Book Reviews. Snacks will be provided. This month we'll be reading Daughter of Deep Silence by Carrie Ryan. Books Ordered? No (1 here as of 7/21/15) DIRK PHILIPSEN Thursday, August 27, 7 p.m. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has expanded from a narrow economic tool into a universal yardstick of progress. In The Little Big Number, How GDP Came to Rule the World and What to Do About It Dirk Philipsen shows how the GDP fails to account for critical issues such as sustainability, quality of life, costs, or purpose. It only measures output. Philipsen explores the economic and historical development of the GDP and suggests new ways to measure economic health that will sustain us in the finite world in which we live. Dirk Philipsen is a professor of economic history at Duke University, a senior fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics, and a Duke Arts and Sciences Senior Research Scholar. He is the author of We Were the People: Voices from East Germany's Revolutionary Autumn of 1989. Trained in Germany and the United States, he currently lives in Durham. He will be in the store to read and sign books. Learn more on these and all of our upcoming events on the Events Calendar on our web site. | 
convoy of rental trucks, lost control of his vehicle, fishtailed and flipped over in the road, killing him instantly. David's life hit a downward spiral. From a cocktail hour indulgence, his drinking became a full-blown addiction. His career entered a standstill. His marriage disintegrated. He found himself haunted not only by George A.'s death, but also by his brother's manic depression, a condition that overlaid a dark family history of mental illness, alcoholism and suicide, an inherited past that now threatened David's and his children's futures. The only way out, he found, was to write about his brother.
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