Monday, October 26, 2015

Tonight! A delicious food tasting as we Savor the South three different ways

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 We'll be serving up some crab and shrimp calas...
...butter bean, corn and tomato salad; and green beans with fingerling potatoes tonight as we host the authors of three new cookbooks. (And we will of course have some wine on hand in case anyone gets thirsty). See more below, followed by an update on our events for the next two weeks.

BILL SMITH, BRIDGETTE LACY, AND SANDRA GUTIERREZ
Monday, October 26, 7:00 p.m.
The authors of UNC Press' three most recent Savor the South cookbooks, Bill Smith (Crabs and Oysters: A Savor the South Cookbook), Bridgette Lacy (Sunday Dinner: A Savor the South Cookbook) and Sandra Gutierrez (Beans and Field Peas: A Savor the South Cookbook) will be sharing food, recipes, and stories, and signing their books.
 
BILL SMITH, born and bred "down east" in coastal NC, is the chef at Crabs and Oysters Crook's Corner in Chapel Hill. He will be discussing Crabs and Oysters: A Savor the South Cookbook. Smith is the author of two  previous cookbooks, Seasoned in the South and Food & Wine. Smith is a two-time finalist for best chef in the South from the James Beard Foundation and the Chef's Collaborative nominated him for a sustainability award.
 
In Sunday Dinner: A Savor the South Cookbook BRIDGETTE LACY reminisces about the classic Sunday family dinner, with stories about the grandfather whose culinary enthusiasm inspired her and the book's 51 recipes. Lacy is a journalist who writes about food for the NC Arts Council and The Independent Weekly. She also works as a features and food writer for the Raleigh News & Observer.

SANDRA GUTIERREZ calls legumes the "culinary equalizer." In Beans and Field Peas: A Savor the South Cookbook, she explores the many roles beans and field peas have played at the Southern table, serving rich and poor, traditional and trendy, and now a favorite of nutritionists. Gutierrez is the author of two previous books, Latin American Street Food and the New Southern-Latino Table. She is a well-known culinary instructor, who lives in Cary, NC
 
CHARLIE LOVETT
Wednesday, November 4, 7:00 p.m.
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol has defined a holiday for countless generations inspiring Scrooge
numerous film and theatrical adaptations.  Its characters, from Scrooge to Tiny Tim, have become cultural icons. In The Further Adventures of Ebenezer Scrooge Charlie Lovett picks up where Dickens left off to see if Scrooge is still keeping the spirit of Christmas alive twenty years after the spirits' visitation.

On a hot summer day some twenty years after he was famously converted to kindness, Ebenezer Scrooge still roams the streets of London, spreading Christmas cheer, much to the annoyance of his creditors, nephew, and his employee Bob Cratchit. However, when Scrooge decides to help his old friend and former partner Jacob Marley, as well as other inhabitants of the city, he will need the assistance of the very people he's annoyed. He ll also have to call on the three ghosts that visited him two decades earlier. By the time they re done, they ve convinced everyone to celebrate Christmas all year long by opening their wallets, arms, and hearts to those around them. 
 
CHARLIE LOVETT is a former antiquarian bookseller, an avid book collector and a member of The Grolier Club, the oldest and largest club for bibliophiles in America. A teacher and playwright, his plays for children have been seen in more than three thousand productions. He and his wife split their time between Winston Salem, North Carolina and England. Lovett's other titles include, First Impressions and The Bookman's Tale.
 
 
JEHANNE GHEITH and DR LAURA HANSON DISCUSS "BEING MORTAL" BY ATUL GAWANDE
Thursday, November 5, 7:00 p.m.
Thursday evening November 5th we host the second in our series of "community conversations," a discussion of Atul Gawande's deep, compassionate best-seller,Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End Our discussion will be led by DR LAURA HANSON, Professor of Geriatric Medicine and co-director of UNC's Palliative Care Program and JEHANNE GHEITH, a Duke professor who is also a Licensed Clinical Social Worker working with Duke Hospice
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In Being Mortal, physician Atul Gawande uses stories of his father, his Being Mortal patients, and friends to bring a thoughtful insider's view to the issues that are most important when dealing with death and the dying, including the conflicts that can result between a patient's wishes for their last days-a good quality of life and a "good death"-and the goals of medical care to extend life and insure safety. Gracefully written, Being Mortal opens a door to discussion of a subject that all too often engenders only fear and denial.
 
Our community conversation on Being Mortal is open to all mortals, of all ages. The discussion will get underway at 7:00 p.m.
(The Regulator's Community Conversation series uses books to initiate conversations about important issues in our lives and in our world. The series started in September, when we hosted a marvelous discussion of Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me, led by Randall Kenan and Tim Tyson. Plans are underway for a third installment in January, focused on global warming).
 
UNIVERSITY PRESS WEEK AT THE REGULATOR
Monday November 9 through Saturday November 14
The Regulator joins with some of our best publisher friends to help celebrate University Press Week. Our downstairs will converted into a "pop-up" store featuring a fascinating collection of titles from Duke University Press, the University of North Carolina Press, and Columbia, Harvard, NYU, Princeton, University of California, University of South Carolina, and the University of Georgia presses. Be sure to schedule time for a browse through this special selection of books! For more about University Press Week see http://www.aaupnet.org/events-a-conferences/university-press-week/university-press-week-2015
 

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Durham, NC 27705
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Monday, October 19, 2015

"Being Mortal"--our next Community Conversation

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Atul Gawande's Being Mortal: the focus of our next Community Conversation
Thursday evening November 5th we will host the second in our series of "community conversations," a discussion of Atul Gawande's deep, compassionate best-seller, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. Our discussion will be led by Dr Laura Hanson, Professor of Geriatric Medicine and co-director of UNC's Palliative Care Program and Jehanne Gheith, a Duke professor who is also a Licensed Clinical Social Worker working with Duke Hospice.

In Being Mortal the physician Atul Gawande uses stories of his father, his Being Mortal patients, and friends to bring a thoughtful insider's view to the issues that are most important when dealing with death and the dying, including the conflicts that can result between a patient's wishes for their last days-a good quality of life and a "good death"-and the goals of medical care to extend life and insure safety. Gracefully written, Being Mortal opens a door to discussion of a subject that all too often engenders only fear and denial.

Our community conversation on Being Mortal is open to all mortals, of all ages. The discussion will get underway at 7:00 p.m.

(The Regulator's Community Conversation series uses books to initiate conversations about important issues in our lives and in our world. The series started in September, when we hosted a marvelous discussion of Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me, led by Randall Kenan and Tim Tyson. Plans are underway for a third installment in January, focused on global warming).
 Events through the end of the month
 
MICHAEL MCGREGOR
Tuesday, October 20, 7:00 pm
Michael McGregor's Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax, is a biography of a poet who was an influential figure in avant-garde circles in the late 20th century and the best friend of writer and monk Thomas Merton.  Lax lived a fascinating life, working for the New Yorker and Time, writing scripts in Hollywood, and traveling with a circus while restlessly searching for a place that was right.    In the midst of his search, Lax pursued graduate studies in Philosophy and taught for a while at the University of North Carolina.  Among the philosophies he studied at UNC was that of Thomas Aquinas, which deeply influenced his life.  Lax maintained a strong love for the Raleigh-Durham area and wrote about it in several lovely poems. He finally found his place among poor fishermen and sponge divers on a remote island in Greece. The biographer, Michael McGregor met him in Greece in 1985 when Lax was 69 (and McGregor was 26) and the two kept up a friendship for the last 15 years of Lax's life.
 
MICHAEL McGREGOR is a Professor of English and Creative Writing and a former Director of the MFA in Creative Writing program at Portland State University.   He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University and a BA in Journalism from the University of Oregon. His essays, articles and short stories have appeared in a wide variety of publications. Before earning his MFA, he worked as a lecturer and guide for European tours and editor-in-chief of World Concern magazine.  He has lectured at universities, conferences and community events on both Robert Lax and Thomas Merton and is a member of Biographers International Organization and the Thomas Merton Society.
 
IAN MILLHISER
Thursday, October 22, 7:00 pm
Since the establishment of the Supreme Court, the justices have shaped a nation of child labor in factories and mines, internment camps based on race and forced sterilization of women. The modern Court is no better, with its rulings on voting rights and its willingness to place elections for sale. In Injustices: The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted Ian Millhiser explores how the Supreme Court has hurt everyday people. In Injustices, Millhiser argues that the Supreme Court usurped power for itself that rightfully belongs to elected representatives, steering American history away from justice.
 
IAN MILLHISER lives in Washington, DC. He is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund and the Editor of ThinkProgress Justice. His writings have appeared in such publications as, the "New York Times", the "Nation", and the "Duke Law Journal".
 
JULIA ELLIOTT
Saturday, October 24, 7:00 p.m.
Nothing is going right for Romie Futch, a South Carolina taxidermist. His wife is gone; his mortgage overdue, and his nights lost to drunken web-surfing. But The New and Improved Romie Futch is the result of his enrollment as a research subject at the Center for Cybernetic Neuroscience. Romie and his newly enhanced brain return home to revolutionize his taxidermy and win back his wife. As he looks for specimens for his new elaborate works, he becomes obsessed with "Hogzilla," a huge wild hog. Drawn into an underworld of biotech operatives, FDA agents, and environmental activists, Romie investigates Hogzilla's origins.
 
JULIA ELLIOTT, winner of a Pushcart Prize and a Rona Jaffe Writer's Award, has written for Tin House, the Georgia Review, and other publications. The Wilds, her debut story collection, was chosen by Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Buzzfeed, and Book Riot as one of the Best Books of 2014 and was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. She is working on a new novel about Hamadryas baboons, a species she has studied as an amateur primatologist. She teaches English and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, where she lives with her daughter and husband.
 
BILL SMITH, BRIDGETTE LACY, AND SANDRA GUTIERREZ
Monday, October 26, 7:00 p.m.
The authors of UNC Press' three most recent Savor the South cookbooks, Bill Smith (Crabs and Oysters: A Savor the South Cookbook), Bridgette Lacy (Sunday Dinner: A Savor the South Cookbook) and Sandra Gutierrez (Beans and Field Peas: A Savor the South Cookbook) will be reading discussing and signing their books. And of course there will be food to sample! 
 
BILL SMITH, born and bred "down east" in coastal NC, is the chef at Crook's Corner in Chapel Hill. He will be reading Crabs and Oysters: A Savor the South Cookbook. Smith is the author of two  previous cookbooks, Seasoned in the South and Food & Wine. Smith is a two-time finalist for best chef in the South from the James Beard Foundation and the Chef's Collaborative nominated him for a sustainability award.
 
In Sunday Dinner: A Savor the South Cookbook, BRIGETTE LACY reminisces about the classic Sunday family dinner, with stories about the grandfather whose culinary enthusiasm inspired her and 51 recipes. Lacy is a journalist who writes about food for the NC Arts Council and The Independent Weekly. She also works as a features and food writer for the Raleigh News & Observer.
 
SANDRA GUTIERREZ calls legumes the "culinary equalizer." In Beans and Field Peas: A Savor the South Cookbook, she explores the many roles beans and field peas have played at the Southern table, serving rich and poor, traditional and trendy, and now a favorite of nutritionists. Gutierrez is the author of two previous books, Latin American Street Food and the New Southern-Latino Table. She is a well-known culinary instructor, who lives in Cary, NC
 
 
Learn more on these and all of our upcoming events  
Shop Independent Durham
Tom Campbell
Regulator Bookshop
720 Ninth St.
Durham, NC 27705
(919) 286-2700
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Friday, October 9, 2015

9th Street Sidewalk Sale, Bland Simpson and more!

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Ninth Street Sidewalk Sale this weekend!

North end, South end, all along the block. There will be lots of good reasons to stroll down Ninth Street this weekend, as the wonderful Ninth Street independent businesses join together for an old-fashioned sidewalk sale. See the poster below for a list of some of the businesses participating.

Here at The Regulator we'll have carts of great sale books out in front of the store (weather permitting). In the store we will be offering 20% off on all books whose authors last names include the letters "n," "i," "t," or "h." To get the discount, just ask for the "Ninth Street Special" when you bring your books to the sales counter!  


Sidewalk Sale
Upcoming Events
LUCY ROZIER
Saturday, October 10, 3:00 Note the time
Jackrabbit McCabe and the Electric Telegraph is a handsomely illustrated tall tale for preschool and elementary grade children. McCabe is the fastest boy around. He runs errands and carries important messages in his town of Windy Flats. When the newest technology, the telegraph, comes to town, it's McCabe against the machine! Who will win the race?

LUCY ROZIER was born in West Virginia but grew up in the mountains of North Carolina. Rozier grew up to be an artist, illustrator, and folk dancer in Boston and Philadelphia. In 2010, she moved back to North Carolina and began to write. She currently lives in Durham.
 
BLAND SIMPSON and ANN CARY SIMPSON
Tuesday, October 13, 7:00 pm
In Little Rivers and Waterway Tales: A Carolinian's Eastern Streams, Bland Simpson presents the ways that waterways-- streams, creeks, and Simpsons rivers--shape coastal North Carolina's culture and geography. Simpson and his wife/photographer Ann Cary Simpson tell the stories of those who have lived and worked in this country, chronicling both a distinct environment and a way of life.
 
With nearly sixty of Ann Simpson's photographs, Little Rivers joins the Simpsons' two previous works, Into the Sound Country and The Inner Islands, in offering a rich narrative and visual document of eastern North Carolina. BLAND SIMPSON is Kenan Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and pianist for the Red Clay Ramblers. Photographer ANN CARY SIMPSON is a consultant with Moss + Ross of Durham and interim director of NC Catch, a nonprofit supporting fishermen and local seafood.

YA BOOK CLUB
Friday, October 16, 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 Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard.
 
 
MICHAEL MCGREGOR
Tuesday, October 20, 7:00 pm
Michael McGregor's Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax, is a biography of a poet who was an influential figure in avant-garde circles in the late 20th century and the best friend of writer and monk Thomas Merton.  Lax lived a fascinating life, working for the New Yorker and Time, writing scripts in Hollywood, and traveling with a circus while restlessly searching for a place that was right.    In the midst of his search, Lax pursued graduate studies in Philosophy and taught for a while at the University of North Carolina.  Among the philosophies he studied at UNC was that of Thomas Aquinas, which deeply influenced his life.  Lax maintained a strong love for the Raleigh-Durham area and wrote about it in several lovely poems. He finally found his place among poor fishermen and sponge divers on a remote island in Greece. The biographer, Michael McGregor met him in Greece in 1985 when Lax was 69 (and McGregor was 26) and the two kept up a friendship for the last 15 years of Lax's life.
 
MICHAEL McGREGOR is a Professor of English and Creative Writing and a former Director of the MFA in Creative Writing program at Portland State University.   He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University and a BA in Journalism from the University of Oregon. His essays, articles and short stories have appeared in a wide variety of publications. Before earning his MFA, he worked as a lecturer and guide for European tours and editor-in-chief of World Concern magazine.  He has lectured at universities, conferences and community events on both Robert Lax and Thomas Merton and is a member of Biographers International Organization and the Thomas Merton Society.
 
IAN MILLHISER
Thursday, October 22, 7:00 pm
Since the establishment of the Supreme Court, the justices have shaped a nation of child labor in factories and mines, internment camps based on race and forced sterilization of women. The modern Court is no better, with its rulings on voting rights and its willingness to place elections for sale. In Injustices: The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted Ian Millhiser explores how the Supreme Court has hurt everyday people. In Injustices, Millhiser argues that the Supreme Court usurped power for itself that rightfully belongs to elected representatives, steering American history away from justice.
 
IAN MILLHISER lives in Washington, DC. He is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund and the Editor of ThinkProgress Justice. His writings have appeared in such publications as, the "New York Times", the "Nation", and the "Duke Law Journal".
 
JULIA ELLIOTT
Saturday, October 24, 7:00 p.m.
Nothing is going right for Romie Futch, a South Carolina taxidermist. His wife is gone; his mortgage overdue, and his nights lost to drunken web-surfing. But The New and Improved Romie Futch is the result of his enrollment as a research subject at the Center for Cybernetic Neuroscience. Romie and his newly enhanced brain return home to revolutionize his taxidermy and win back his wife. As he looks for specimens for his new elaborate works, he becomes obsessed with "Hogzilla," a huge wild hog. Drawn into an underworld of biotech operatives, FDA agents, and environmental activists, Romie investigates Hogzilla's origins.
 
JULIA ELLIOTT, winner of a Pushcart Prize and a Rona Jaffe Writer's Award, has written for Tin House, the Georgia Review, and other publications. The Wilds, her debut story collection, was chosen by Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Buzzfeed, and Book Riot as one of the Best Books of 2014 and was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. She is working on a new novel about Hamadryas baboons, a species she has studied as an amateur primatologist. She teaches English and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, where she lives with her daughter and husband.
 
BILL SMITH, BRIDGETTE LACY, AND SANDRA GUTIERREZ
Monday, October 26, 7:00 p.m.
The authors of UNC Press' three most recent Savor the South cookbooks, Bill Smith (Crabs and Oysters: A Savor the South Cookbook), Bridgette Lacy (Sunday Dinner: A Savor the South Cookbook) and Sandra Gutierrez (Beans and Field Peas: A Savor the South Cookbook) will be reading discussing and signing their books.
 
BILL SMITH, born and bred "down east" in coastal NC, is the chef at Crook's Corner in Chapel Hill. He will be reading Crabs and Oysters: A Savor the South Cookbook. Smith is the author of two  previous cookbooks, Seasoned in the South and Food & Wine. Smith is a two-time finalist for best chef in the South from the James Beard Foundation and the Chef's Collaborative nominated him for a sustainability award.
 
In Sunday Dinner: A Savor the South Cookbook, BRIGETTE LACY reminisces about the classic Sunday family dinner, with stories about the grandfather whose culinary enthusiasm inspired her and 51 recipes. Lacy is a journalist who writes about food for the NC Arts Council and The Independent Weekly. She also works as a features and food writer for the Raleigh News & Observer.
 
SANDRA GUTIERREZ calls legumes the "culinary equalizer." In Beans and Field Peas: A Savor the South Cookbook, she explores the many roles beans and field peas have played at the Southern table, serving rich and poor, traditional and trendy, and now a favorite of nutritionists. Gutierrez is the author of two previous books, Latin American Street Food and the New Southern-Latino Table. She is a well-known culinary instructor, who lives in Cary, NC
 
 
Learn more on these and all of our upcoming events  
Shop Independent Durham
Tom Campbell
Regulator Bookshop
720 Ninth St.
Durham, NC 27705
(919) 286-2700
http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/
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