Patrick Phillips is an award-winning poet, translator, and professor. A Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, his most recent book, Elegy for a Broken Machine, was a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry. Phillips lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Drew University.
RYAN MCKAIG
Tuesday, October 4, 7:00PM
Raleigh author Ryan McKaig will read from his new crime thriller, set in Durham, Bull City Blues,
When a beautiful TV reporter is killed, her boyfriend, a middleweight boxing contender, is charged with the murder. He turns to John Egan, a former homicide detective and his father's old police partner, to save his life and clear his name. Egan, now living a quiet life with his loving girlfriend, soon finds himself surrounded by danger. His investigation leads him through the world of street criminals, a secret sadomasochistic underworld, a cartel boss, and a squad of rogue cops who spread violence and fear throughout the city. Pursuing his leads will place Egan in the crosshairs of a terrifying and elusive killer and place at risk his life and everything that he has ever loved.
Ryan McKaig was born in Raleigh and graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill. He worked as a newspaper reporter in Colorado, Idaho, and New York City, covering politics and Wall Street. He returned to Raleigh to attend Campbell Law School and now works as a criminal defense and civil litigator. He lives in Raleigh.
MANUEL ROSA
Friday, October 7 at 7:00PM
Manuel Rosa will read and sign his latest book, Columbus -- The Untold Story, a biography which unravels historical discrepancies surrounding Columbus and presents answers to the many reasonable questions that have never been explained. Columbus is truly an enigma with a much more complicated personal and professional life than history has told, including the high probability that he was of Polish royal blood.
Rosa has spent over a quarter century investigating America's legendary "discoverer" and his books have garnered International media attention and inspired dialogue amongst scholars, historians and educators. Now regarded as the world's foremost authority on Columbus, his own "voyage of discovery" began during the Columbus quincentennial, when his doubts were stirred by the supposed marriage of the lowly Italian peasant to a highborn Portuguese lady. Rosa has essentially proven that Columbus served as a double-agent for the Portuguese crown, that the Santa Maria never sank, but, rather, was purposefully marooned and that Columbus' 1498 Last Will and Testament is a forgery.
Manuel Rosa is a Portuguese-American investigative historian. He has authored six foreign books on Columbus, has advised UNESCO and the Haitian government on matters related to Columbus' lost ship, the Santa Maria, and has appeared on BBC, NPR, the Travel Channel's "Expedition Unknown," and numerous foreign-language media.
ELISSA ALTMAN
Saturday, October 8 at 7:00PM
Washington Post columnist and James Beard Award-winning author Elissa Altman (Poor Man's Feast) discuss and sign her memoir, Treyf: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw.
Elissa Altman's memoir explores tradition, religion, family expectation, and the forbidden that were the fixed points in her 1970s Queens, NY, childhood. Every part of Altman's youth was laced with contradiction and hope, betrayal and the yearning for acceptance: synagogue on Saturday and Chinese pork ribs on Sunday, her old-country grandparents, whose kindness and love were tied to unspoken rage, and her bell-bottomed neighbors, whose adoring affection hid dark secrets. Spanning from 1940s wartime Brooklyn to 1960s and '70s Queens to present-day rural New England, Treyf captures the collision of youthful cravings and grown-up identities; it is a vivid tale of what it means to come to yourself both in spite of and in honor to your past.
Elissa Altman is the award-winning author of Poor Man's Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking, and the James Beard Award-winning blog of the same name. She also writes the Washington Post column Feeding My Mother. Altman writes full time from her home in Newtown, Connecticut where she lives with her spouse, book designer Susan Turner.
APS CAT ADOPTION EVENT
Sunday, October 9, 2016 2:00 pm
Durham Animal Protection Society will hold a monthly cat adoption event at the Regulator. Come visit our furry friends from 2:00 - 3:30. Note the time and date.
D.G. MARTIN
Monday, October 10 at 7:00PM
Join D.G. Martin for the launch of his new book, North Carolina's Roadside Eateries: A Traveler's Guide to Local Restaurants, Diners, and Barbecue Joints.
Want to eat like the locals? D. G. Martin has spent years traveling the major 
roadways of North Carolina, on the lookout for community, local history, and, of course, a good home-cooked meal. Here D. G. is your personal tour guide to more than 100 notable local roadway haunts that serve not only as places to eat but also as fixtures of their communities. You're going to want to keep a copy of this book in your glove compartment!
David Grier "D. G." Martin, Jr. is a newspaper columnist and the current host of UNC-TV's North Carolina Bookwatch. Born in Atlanta, Martin grew up in Davidson, North Carolina, where his father served as president of Davidson College. He attended Davidson, where he played on the basketball team for Coach Lefty Driesell and then served in the U.S. Army's Special Forces. After active duty, Martin graduated from Yale Law School and practiced law in Charlotte, NC.Martin served as both the Secretary and a Vice-President for the University of North Carolina system, and served in interim leadership positions at North Carolina Central University, and UNC-Pembroke. In addition to writing a weekly column that appears in over 40 newspapers across North Carolina and hosting North Carolina Bookwatch on UNC-TV since 1999, Martin hosts a daily radio interview show on AM radio station WCHL in Chapel Hill. He is married, has two adult children, enjoys running and has completed several marathons.
TIM CROTHERS
Wednesday, October 12, 7:00 P.M.
Chapel Hill author Tim Crothers will be at The Regulator Bookshop for a reading and book signing of The Queen of Katwe: One Girl's Triumphant 
Path to Becoming a Chess Champion, the astonishing and inspirational true story of Phiona Mutesi, a teenage chess prodigy from the slums of Uganda, who -- inspired by an unlikely mentor-- has become an international chess champion. The highly praised* motion picture of The Queen of Katwe has just opened nationwide.
* "If there is anyone out there capable of remaining unmoved by this true-life triumph-of-the-underdog sports story, I don't think I want to meet that person..." A. O. Scott, The NYTimes.
"To be African is to be an underdog in the world. To be Ugandan is to be an underdog in Africa. To be from Katwe is to be an underdog in Uganda. And to be a girl is to be an underdog in Katwe. The Queen of Katwe is the ultimate underdog story."
Tim Crothers is a former senior writer at Sports Illustrated who is currently a journalism professor and a freelance sportswriter. He is the author of The Man Watching, a biography of Anson Dorrance, the legendary coach of the University of North Carolina women's soccer team, co-author of Hard Work, the autobiography of UNC basketball coach Roy Williams, and author of The Queen of Katwe, the story of a 16-year-old female chess champion from the slums of Kampala, Uganda. Crothers lives with his wife and two children in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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