Thank You for 40 Wonderful Years!

As The Regulator celebrates its 40th anniversary this weekend ...we'd like to take a moment to thank everyone who has helped to sustain this place for four decades. Thank you, so very much, for your support of this special space for books, reading, friendship, and conversation. The Regulator has always been an on-going collaboration between those of us who run the store and our customers and community. It is quite literally true that without you, there would be no us.   Books open pathways to wonder, to learning, to understanding, to empathy. To life. It has been our great privilege to share all of this with you, our wonderful customers and friends. To quote from a piece I wrote on the occasion of the store's 30th anniversary: "Thanks to all of our friends, customers, and supporters throughout the area, the state, and the country. Thanks to all the incredible people who have worked at the store over these many years. Thanks to the authors who have visited us, and to all our friends in the publishing industry. And thanks finally to you, our wonderful customers, who walk through our door every day and help keep our still improbable bookstore alive and well. In our best moments we realize that this place exists only as a partnership with our community and our customers. We hope you always feel free to contribute to our ongoing dialogue, and that you will want to participate in our partnership for many years to come."    From "Our History," which you can read here: http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/our-history   Come Celebrate with us this Saturday! We'll be raffling off $40.00 gift certificates throughout the day and serving anniversary cake from the Ninth Street Bakery (starting at 1:00 in the afternoon). We've put up a great display of Regulator memorabilia on the wall downstairs--like the poster above. Giving back to the community, we will be donating 10% of our sales on this special day to The Durham Literacy Center and Book Harvest. And save the date! Saturday evening, February 18th we'll have a big anniversary party at the store, with refreshments, great company, local authors, and more!
Upcoming Events: Including Shop Independent Durham Week and The Regulator's 40th Anniversary! (You can also see our complete events calendar on our website)         SHOP INDEPENDENT DURHAM WEEK CONTINUES! Saturday November 26 through Sunday December 4th We will be joining more than 40 local businesses all over town who will be offering special discounts and promotions to help everyone Keep Your Dough in Durham this holiday season! The Regulator will have dozens of our most present-a-bull books on sale, 20% off. THE CAROLINA TABLE: North Carolina Writers on Food With editor Randall Kenan and contributors Jaki Shelton Green, Emily Wallace and Jeffery Beam Thursday, December 1 at 7:00PM The Regulator will host a reading and book signing of The Carolina Table: North Carolina Writers on Food  (edited and introduced by Randall Kenan) from Eno Publishers.   The Carolina Table offers a collection of food-related stories set in North Carolina, though geography is sometimes secondary to the main theme, which is food in any form: meals and manners, cooking and ingredients, recipes and recollections. Some of North Carolina's favorite writers regale us with stories: Lee Smith, Daniel Wallace, Marianne Gingher, Jill McCorkle, Jaki Shelton Green, Wayne Caldwell, Marcie Cohen Ferris, Cathy Cleary, John McElwee, Tom Rankin, Michael McFee, Stephen Petrow, Zelda Lockhart, Crook's Corner's popular chef Bill Smith, noted cookbook author Nancie McDermott, and many others.   "Read The Carolina Table and you pull up your chair to the best groaning boards in the state. Randall Kenan's choices are acute, delicious, and big-hearted. I love the family lore, the discourse on butter beans, the recipe for grape hull pie, free use of the word 'fatback,' and the elements of cleaning crab-beer, a hose, mosquitos. Most of all, I love the humor and the quirky voices of my Southern brethren." --Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun and most recently Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir. THE REGULATOR'S 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION! Saturday, December 3, 2016 The Regulator first opened its doors to the public this weekend in 1976. Join us as we say THANK YOU to our wonderful community. We'll be raffling off some $40.00 gift certificates, and serving out anniversary cake (starting at 1:00 in the afternoon). We'll have a display of Regulator memorabilia up on the wall downstairs. And we will be donating 10% of our sales on this special day to The Durham Literacy Center and Book Harvest.   HOLLY ROGERS Thursday, December 8, 2016 at 7:00PM Holly Rogers, MD will discuss and sign her new book, The Mindful Twenty-Something: Life Skills to Handle Stress & Everything Else...This guide, based on the popular Koru mindfulness program, offers a unique approach for navigating your twenties with clarity and confidence. You'll learn to tackle stress, gain a healthier perspective, get in touch with what really matters to you, and make important life decisions guided by self-knowledge and understanding. Most importantly, you'll discover mindfulness techniques to manage life's day-to- day challenges from a calm, balanced center-a useful skill at any age. Holly B. Rogers, MD, is a psychiatrist and mindfulness teacher at Duke University's student counseling center. Along with Margaret Maytan, MD, she developed Koru Mindfulness, a popular mindfulness training program for college-aged adults. Rogers is coauthor of Mindfulness for the Next Generation. Her latest book, The Mindful Twenty-Something, is a guide for young adults who want to learn all about mindfulness and meditation. She lives in Durham with her family.   JEAN BOLDUC Friday, December 9, 7:00 PM Chapel Hill writer Jean Bolduc comes to The Regulator for a reading and book signing of African Americans of Durham & Orange Counties: An Oral History. Durham and Orange Counties have vibrant and active African American communities. Throughout the region's unjust past, generations have shown extraordinary strength and resolve. Floyd McKissick became the first African American student at the University of North Carolina School of Law after Thurgood Marshall argued for his admittance in court. The struggle for civil rights in Durham shaped the poetry of Jaki Shelton Green, one of the state's most esteemed wordsmiths. More recently, local leaders such as Michelle Johnson find the work of equality is far from over. Journalist and writer Jean Bolduc reveals the voices of Durham and Orange County African Americans in a series of inspirational oral histories. Jean Bolduc holds a journalism degree from UNC-CH and has worked for the Herald-Sun newspapers and News & Observer. She was a University of Oregon Payne Award nominee for ethics in journalism. In between newspaper jobs, Jean has worked as the communications director for the Durham Housing Authority and as a private consultant working with clients in several states. She and her family live in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. MARILYN MARKEL and CHRIS HOLADY Saturday, December 10, 1:00 PM (note the time) Southern culinary instructor Marilyn Markel and Southern history author Chris Holaday have combined their talents in their new book, Southern Breads: Recipes, Stories and Traditions. Join them at an in-store reading and signing. The warmth of the oven and the smell of fresh-baked bread conjure comforting memories of tradition and place. Aside from being a staple on every table in the South, these breads and their recipes detail the storied history of the region. Biscuits emerged from Native American and European traditions. Cornbread, with its vast variety, is a point of debate among Southerners over which recipe yields the most delicious results. The hushpuppy, developed possibly to quiet whining dogs, is a requirement for any true catfish or barbecue meal. Author Chris Holaday and top culinary instructor Marilyn Markel offer the mouthwatering history, famous recipes and heartwarming stories of Southerners in their kitchens. Marilyn Markel is the Culinary Director for A Southern Season. Chris Holaday is a photographer and historian who specializes in Southern culture.   APS CAT ADOPTION EVENT Sunday, December 11, 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.
Tom Campbell Regulator Bookshop 720 Ninth St. Durham, NC 27705 (919) 286-2700 http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/

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Shop Independent Durham Week! And more Present-a-Bull Books

Shop Independent Durham Week Starts Saturday! after the darkness of Black Friday, when the corporate vampires try (but fail!) to suck all the life out of local communities, we emerge back into the sunlight of Shop Independent Durham Week. We will be joining more than 40 locally-owned businesses all over town who will be offering special discounts and promotions through Sunday December 4th to help everyone Keep Your Dough in Durham this holiday season! The Regulator will be featuring dozens of our most present-a-bull books on sale, 20% off.   More than 45% of the money you spend at The Regulator stays in Durham.  Almost none of the money you spend on amazon stays here. Keep Durham Weird and Wonderful! Shop Local! Present-A-Bull Books--Nonfiction   The 60s: The Story of a Decade by The New Yorker Magazine What a boring decade the 60's were...Not! The New Yorker of course had some folks on its staff that knew how to write about it all. Add to this contributions from folks like Rachel Carson and James Baldwin (Silent Spring and The Fire Next Time both appeared first in the New Yorker), and you have the makings of an excellent anthology. But for those of us here in Durham, this collection is worth buying for one essay alone. It's called "It Doesn't Seem Quick to Me," and it was written by a staff writer named Katherine Kinkead in April 1961. It describes a group of students from NCCU and Hillside High, organizing to picket and protest segregated seating in the Carolina Theatre (yes, the same Carolina Theatre we know today). This is breathtaking local history. Anyone involved in protests today can learn a lot from the organization, focus, and dedication of these brave souls from the early days of the civil rights movement.   Indelible Ink: The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America's Free Press by Richard Kluger The 1735 trail of a New York newspaper editor for attacking the colonial governor is a big reason freedom of expression is Number One in the list of amendments to our constitution. Ahead even of that other one that is number two...   Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color by Chandler O'Leary and Jessica Spring Based on the gorgeously illustrated Dead Feminists letterpress poster series, this illuminating look at 27 women who've changed the world features new art, archival photographs, and ephemera to tell the stories of feminists such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Gwendolyn Brooks, Rachel Carson, and more.   Looking for the Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic by Alice Kaplan How did a young man in his twenties who had never written a novel turn out a masterpiece that still grips readers more than seventy years later? With Looking for The Stranger Alice Kaplan tells that story. In the process, she reveals Camus's achievement to have been even more impressive and more unlikely than even his most devoted readers knew.    Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey by Elena Ferrante A self-portrait by the intensely private author of the Neapolitan Quartet. Here are over 20 years of essays, letters and interviews, in which Ferrante discusses her work, motherhood, childhood, feminism, and her choice to stand aside and let her books live autonomous lives.
Upcoming Events: Including Shop Independent Durham Week and The Regulator's 40th Anniversary! (You can also see our complete events calendar on our website)         SHOP INDEPENDENT DURHAM WEEK! Saturday November 26 through Sunday December 4th We will be joining more than 40 local businesses all over town who will be offering special discounts and promotions to help everyone Keep Your Dough in Durham this holiday season! The Regulator will have dozens of our most present-a-bull books on sale, 20% off. ELIZABETH COX Tuesday, November 29 at 7:00 PM Elizabeth Cox will be at The Regulator Bookshop for the launch of her new book, A Question of Mercy: A Novel -- a cross-country odyssey that examines the blurred line between what is legal and what is right.   Adam Finney, a young man who is mentally disabled, faces sterilization and lobotomy in a state-supported asylum. When he is found dead in the French Broad River of rural North Carolina, his teenaged stepsister, Jess, is sought for questioning by their family and the police. Jess's odyssey of escape across four states leads into dark territories of life-and-death moral choices where compassion and grace offer faint illumination but few answers. Author Jill McCorkle provides a foreword to the novel.   Former Durham resident Elizabeth Cox is the author of poetry and short story collections and four novels. She has been recognized with the Robert Penn Warren Award and the North Carolina Fiction Award, and she has been inducted into the Fellowship of Southern Writers. THE CAROLINA TABLE: North Carolina Writers on Food With editor Randall Kenan and contributors Jaki Shelton Green, Emily Wallace and Jeffery Beam Thursday, December 1 at 7:00PM The Regulator Bookshop will host a reading and book signing of The Carolina Table: North Carolina Writers on Food  (edited and introduced by Randall Kenan) from Eno Publishers.   The Carolina Table offers a collection of food-related stories set in North Carolina, though geography is sometimes secondary to the main theme, which is food in any form: meals and manners, cooking and ingredients, recipes and recollections. Some of North Carolina's favorite writers regale us with stories: Lee Smith, Daniel Wallace, Marianne Gingher, Jill McCorkle, Jaki Shelton Green, Wayne Caldwell, Marcie Cohen Ferris, Cathy Cleary, John McElwee, Tom Rankin, Michael McFee, Stephen Petrow, Zelda Lockhart, Crook's Corner's popular chef Bill Smith, noted cookbook author Nancie McDermott, and many others.   "Read The Carolina Table and you pull up your chair to the best groaning boards in the state. Randall Kenan's choices are acute, delicious, and big-hearted. I love the family lore, the discourse on butter beans, the recipe for grape hull pie, free use of the word 'fatback,' and the elements of cleaning crab-beer, a hose, mosquitos. Most of all, I love the humor and the quirky voices of my Southern brethren." --Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun and most recently Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir. THE REGULATOR'S 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION! Saturday, December 3, 2016 The Regulator Bookshop first opened its doors to the public this weekend in 1976. Join us as we say THANK YOU to our wonderful community. We'll be raffling off some $40.00 gift certificates, and serving out anniversary cake (starting at 1:00 in the afternoon). We'll have a display of Regulator memorabilia up on the wall downstairs. And we will be donating 10% of our sales on this special day to The Durham Literacy Center and Book Harvest.   Look for news of a big Anniversary Party at Motorco in January or February!
Tom Campbell Regulator Bookshop 720 Ninth St. Durham, NC 27705 (919) 286-2700 http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/

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Dan Ariely, Tamara Saviano, and more Present-a-Bull Books!

This Saturday you're just going to want to hang out at The Regulator all day... ...as we host Dan Ariely at 4:00 and Tamara Saviano at 7:00. Dan will be talking about his new book, Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivation, and Tamara will be talking with Tom Rankin about her new book, Without Getting Killed or Caught: The Life and Music of Guy Clark. See our complete events schedule below! And before we get to more of our ideas for holiday gifts, we have to take a moment to shout out a big CONGRATULATIONS to our friend Colson Whitehead, last night's well-deserved winner of the National Book Award for Fiction! With fond memories of his many appearances at The Regulator since 1999 (including 9/22/2016!). He's a marvelous writer and a great guy. We still have lots of signed first editions of The Underground Railroad in the store... Present-A-Bull Books--Eating Local!  There's a bumper crop of good books about local and Southern food this year. Give one of these to the right person and you might find you get something (tasty) back! Deep Run Roots: Stories and Recipes from My Corner of the South by Vivian Howard of Kinston's Chef and the Farmer restaurant. As much a storybook as it is a cookbook, Deep Run Roots tells a tale of Southern food: rooted in family, place and tradition, yet calling out to the rest of the world. Signed copies available! Poole's: Recipes and Stories from a Modern Diner by Ashley Christensen and Kaitlyn Goalen. From Raleigh's 2104 James Beard Award winner for the Best Chef in the Southeast.   Learn to Cook 25 Southern Classics 3 Ways: Traditional, Contemporary, International by Jennifer Brule' So, for example, there's classic creamy coleslaw, crunchy dill slaw, and Mexican slaw. With a last name like Brule'... Signed copies available.   Southern Breads: Recipes, Stories and Traditions by Marilyn Markel and Chris Holaday, foreword by Bill Smith Biscuits, cornbread, hush puppies and more! From Durham's own Chris Holaday.   North Carolina's Roadside Eateries: A Traveler's Guide to Local Restaurants, Diners, and Barbecue Joints by D.G. Martin Be careful with this one. Put a copy in your glove compartment and all you are going to want to do is drive around North Carolina! Signed copies available.   The Carolina Table: North Carolina Writers on Food, edited by Randall Kenan Read all about Mater Day, The Mesopotamia of Pork, and why Pie Love You, Cake Do Without You. And more!
Upcoming Events: Including Shop Independent Durham Week and The Regulator's 40th Anniversary! (You can also see our complete events calendar on our website)       ROY SCRANTON -- War Porn: A Conversation Friday, November 18, 7:00PM Join author Roy Scranton, author of the Iraq war novel, War Porn, in conversation with Duke University Professor, author and literary scholar, Abdul Sattar Jawad. This event is co-hosted by The Regulator Bookshop and the Duke University Forum for Scholars and Publics. In War Porn, three lives fit inside one another like nesting dolls: a restless young woman at an end-of-summer barbecue in Utah; an American soldier in occupied Baghdad; and Qasim al-Zabadi, an Iraqi math professor, who faces the US invasion of his country with fear, denial, and perseverance. As War Porn cuts from America to Iraq and back again, we come to see America through the eyes of the occupied.     Roy Scranton is the author of Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of Civilization. His essays, articles, and reviews have been published in Rolling Stone, the New York Times, The Nation, and elsewhere. Abdul Sattar Jawad is an Iraqi-born Professor of Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University. He received a Ph.D in English Literature and Journalism, London's City University (UK).  Before coming to Duke, he was Dean of College of Arts Mustansiriya University in Baghdad and edited the Baghdad Mirror.     DANIEL ARIELY Saturday, November 19 at 4:00PM (note the time)  Bestselling author Dan Ariely returns to The Regulator for a lively discussion and book signing of his new book, Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations.   Ariely reveals fascinating new insights into motivation-showing that the subject is far more complex than we ever imagined. Payoff investigates the true nature of motivation, our partial blindness to the way it works, and how we can bridge this gap. With studies that range from Intel to a kindergarten classroom, Ariely digs deep to find the root of motivation-how it works and how we can use this knowledge to approach important choices in our own lives. Along the way, he explores intriguing questions such as: Can giving employees bonuses harm productivity? Why is trust so crucial for successful motivation? What are our misconceptions about how we value our work? How does your sense of your mortality impact your motivation?   Dan Ariely, James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University, is a founding member of the Center for Advanced Hindsight. He is the author of Payoff and the New York Times bestsellers Predictably Irrational, The Upside of Irrationality, and The Honest Truth About Dishonesty.   TAMARA SAVIANO in conversation with Tom Rankin Saturday, November 19 at 7:00PM Author Tamara Saviano comes to the bookshop for an evening celebrating the release of her biography of Guy Clark, Without Getting Killed or Caught: The Life and Music of Guy Clark. Saviano traces the life of music pioneer Guy Clark, who, with his wife Susanna, shaped the contemporary folk and American roots music scene much like F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald fashioned the jazz age in Paris. TheNew York Times once described Clark as "a king of the Texas troubadours", declaring his body of work "was as indelible as that of anyone working in the Americana idiom in the last decades of the 20th century" Artists such as Johnny Cash, David Allan Coe, Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs, Steve Wariner, Brad Paisley, John Denver, Alan Jackson, Rodney Crowell, The Highwaymen, and Kenny Chesney have recorded Clark's songs. For more info.:: http://nodepression.com/article/without-being-killed-or-caught-life-and-music-guy-clark   Tamara Saviano is a Grammy and Americana award-winning producer, a music business consultant, artist manager, publicist and author. Saviano has been curious about the lives of songwriters since she first discovered Guy Clark at the age of 14. A business woman and entrepreneur, Saviano directs a full service creative agency serving folk and Americana artists. Tom Rankin is the Director of Duke's Masters of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary Arts. EMILIE SPAULDING Tuesday, November 22, 7:00 PM Red Clay Girl is the heartbreaking, hilarious, and tenacious story of a middle child's journey from small town Georgia to New York City and beyond. When she reaches her unplanned destination, self-acceptance, you'll shout hallelujah!   Emilie Spaulding grew up in Auburn, Alabama and graduated from Duke University (B.A.; M.Ed.) and Pace (MBA). After graduating from Duke, she taught at Holloway Street School in Durham. She went on to become a television interviewer and general manager in New York and was the second woman elected to local office in 103 years in Sleepy Hollow. Spaulding is a writer, storyteller, and gospel singer when not watching and eavesdropping on strangers to put in her next book.   SHOP INDEPENDENT DURHAM WEEK! Saturday November 26 through Sunday December 4th We will be joining more than 40 local businesses all over town who will be offering special discounts and promotions to help everyone Keep Your Dough in Durham this holiday season! The Regulator will have dozens of our most present-a-bull books on sale, 20% off. ELIZABETH COX Tuesday, November 29 at 7:00 PM Elizabeth Cox will be at The Regulator Bookshop for the launch of her new book, A Question of Mercy: A Novel -- a cross-country odyssey that examines the blurred line between what is legal and what is right.   Adam Finney, a young man who is mentally disabled, faces sterilization and lobotomy in a state-supported asylum. When he is found dead in the French Broad River of rural North Carolina, his teenaged stepsister, Jess, is sought for questioning by their family and the police. Jess's odyssey of escape across four states leads into dark territories of life-and-death moral choices where compassion and grace offer faint illumination but few answers. Author Jill McCorkle provides a foreword to the novel.   Former Durham resident Elizabeth Cox is the author of poetry and short story collections and four novels. She has been recognized with the Robert Penn Warren Award and the North Carolina Fiction Award, and she has been inducted into the Fellowship of Southern Writers. THE CAROLINA TABLE: North Carolina Writers on Food With editor Randall Kenan and contributors Jaki Shelton Green, Emily Wallace and Jeffery Beam Thursday, December 1 at 7:00PM The Regulator Bookshop will host a reading and book signing of The Carolina Table: North Carolina Writers on Food  (edited and introduced by Randall Kenan) from Eno Publishers.   The Carolina Table offers a collection of food-related stories set in North Carolina, though geography is sometimes secondary to the main theme, which is food in any form: meals and manners, cooking and ingredients, recipes and recollections. Some of North Carolina's favorite writers regale us with stories: Lee Smith, Daniel Wallace, Marianne Gingher, Jill McCorkle, Jaki Shelton Green, Wayne Caldwell, Marcie Cohen Ferris, Cathy Cleary, John McElwee, Tom Rankin, Michael McFee, Stephen Petrow, Zelda Lockhart, Crook's Corner's popular chef Bill Smith, noted cookbook author Nancie McDermott, and many others.   "Read The Carolina Table and you pull up your chair to the best groaning boards in the state. Randall Kenan's choices are acute, delicious, and big-hearted. I love the family lore, the discourse on butter beans, the recipe for grape hull pie, free use of the word 'fatback,' and the elements of cleaning crab-beer, a hose, mosquitos. Most of all, I love the humor and the quirky voices of my Southern brethren." --Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun and most recently Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir. THE REGULATOR'S 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION! Saturday, December 3, 2016 The Regulator Bookshop first opened its doors to the public this weekend in 1976. Join us as we say THANK YOU to our wonderful community. We'll be raffling off some $40.00 gift certificates, and serving out anniversary cake (starting at 1:00 in the afternoon). We'll have a display of Regulator memorabilia up on the wall downstairs. And we will be donating 10% of our sales on this special day to The Durham Literacy Center and Book Harvest.   Look for news of a big Anniversary Party at Motorco in February!
Tom Campbell Regulator Bookshop 720 Ninth St. Durham, NC 27705 (919) 286-2700 http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/

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