Friday Night! A Very Special Event...

Listen Up! The author of a wonderful, important, riveting new novel will be at The Regulator Friday night, in conversation with Lee Smith ...an event you are not going to want to miss!     Friday evening at 7:00 Wiley Cash will be in conversation with the marvelous Lee Smith, discussing Cash's powerful new book, The Last Ballad. The Last Ballad is a fictional account of a woman named Ella May Wiggins, who, until now, was a largely forgotten textile worker in Gastonia, North Carolina in the late 1920's. (Wiley Cash grew up in Gastonia in the 1980's). Ella May worked in terrible conditions in a textile mill, six days a week, 12 hours a day, for $9.00 a week. Her alcoholic husband had left her, and four of her nine children died from malnutrition or diseases she couldn't afford to treat.      Realizing that her life as a mill worker was killing her children, Ella May became a union organizer, and the protest songs she wrote became one of the union's most powerful recruitment tools. (Pete Seeger once called Ella May Wiggins the greatest songwriter in America). The 1929 Gaston County textile mill strikes were an infamous event in our country's labor history, and Wiley Cash brings the strikes and Ella May's world fully to life in his new novel. There's an amazing story here, and Wiley Cash simply blows it away. Almost 80 years on, Ella May Wiggins has found a storyteller worthy of her tale.   If you don't want to rely solely on my word, here are some of the reviews the book has already received:   "Wiley Cash reveals the dignity and humanity of people asking for a fair shot in an unfair world. Fraught with the turmoil of social change, The Last Ballad moves inexorably toward a devastating moment of reckoning. A timely and topical portrait of a community in crisis." (Christina Baker Kline, author of A Piece of the World and Orphan Train) "Cash pulls no punches in this gorgeous, gut-wrenching novel, and that's entirely as it should be for a story of desperate people. In an era when American workers are besieged as they haven't been since the Great Depression, I can think of no more relevant novel for our times." (Ben Fountain, Author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk) "Inspired by the events of an actual textile-mill strike in 1929, Cash creates a vivid picture of one woman's desperation. . . . A heartbreaking and beautifully written look at the real people involved in the labor movement." (Kirkus Reviews) "It's impossible not to hear echoes of Steinbeck in Cash's sprawling, multi-voiced account of a battered, hopeless woman who rises up to become the symbol of a movement... Ella May Wiggins, it seems, sings not only of the forgotten past, but for our time too." (Chapter 16) "Beautifully and courageously told. Wiley Cash dares give voice to people lost in the margins of history, and he brings to life their inspiring fight for justice with graceful prose, honesty and intensity, and best of all, a wonderful bigness of heart." (Lydia Peelle, author of The Midnight Cool) "Resonates with pain, love, the struggle of life and the gross injustices of the world. I hated leaving Ella May's world, reveled in watching her bravery against unspeakable odds and her unending support of racial equality... A riveting story." (Louisiana Book News) "With his vibrant imagination, vigorous research, and his architectural skill in structuring this novel, Wiley Cash has lifted the events of the past into the present and immortalized a time that holds valuable lessons for our country today." (Charlotte Observer)  "Wiley Cash's third novel is a sweeping, old-fashioned saga with an inspirational but ill-fated heroine at its center... Ella May is such a rich, sympathetic character... Powerful and moving, exploring complex historical issues that are still with us today." (BookPage.com)   See you at The Regulator Friday night!
Upcoming Events: More good times to be had at   The Regulator!   PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Wednesday, October 18, 10:15AM Join us for Preschool Storytime at The Regulator with Amy Godfrey. Free!   NONFICTION AUTHORS ASSOCIATION (NFAA) Wednesday, October 18, 6:15PM -- 7:45PM Info: http://www.meetup.com/Durham-Chapel-Hill-Chapter-Nonfiction-Authors-Association   CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE Thursday, October 19, 7:00 PM OFFSITE: 21c Museum Hotel, 111 North Corcoran Street  This is a ticketed event; Tickets prices vary. (See details below.) 7:00 pm event tickets are $30 5:30 pm VIP tickets are $100 and include a signed, personalized copy of Orphan Train and an intimate reception before the event. All proceeds benefit the Durham Literacy Center! Event details can be found here: www.durhamliteracy.org/kline      Join the Literacy Center for an intimate event with bestselling author Christina Baker Kline at on October 19 at the 21c Museum Hotel. Kline will talk about the true story behind her #1 New York Times bestseller Orphan Train (about the 250,000 orphaned and abandoned children sent on trains from the East Coast to the Midwest as indentured servants). Copies of Orphan Train and her new novel, A Piece of the World will be available for purchase at the event, courtesy of The Regulator.   DAVID GOODWIN Thursday, October 19, 7:00PM The Regulator welcomes David Goodwin, author of Left Bank of the Hudson: Jersey City and the Artists of 111 1st Street, for a reading and book signing. Left Bank of the Hudson is a smart history of Jersey City through the microcosm of a small artist community repurposing a building and forming a collaborative network. Goodwin offers a window into the demographic, political, and socio-economic changes experienced by Jersey City during the last thirty and addresses the question of the role of artists in economically improving cities. Left Bank of the Hudson provides an illustrative lesson to government officials, scholars, students, activists, and everyday citizens attempting to navigate the "rediscovery" of American cities. David J. Goodwin works by day as a librarian at Fordham University School of Law. An alum of Drexel, St. Bonaventure, and Fordham University, Goodwin is a past commissioner and chairman of the Jersey City Historic Preservation Commission. Currently, he serves as a board member of the Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy.   WILEY CASH in conversation with LEE SMITH Friday, October 20, 7:00PM The Regulator welcomes Wiley Cash in conversation with Lee Smith for a reading and signing of Wiley's wonderful new book, The Last Ballad. The New York Times bestselling author of the celebrated A Land More Kind Than Home and This Dark Road to Mercy returns with this eagerly awaited new novel, set in the Appalachian foothills of North Carolina in 1929 and inspired by actual events. The chronicle of an ordinary woman's struggle for dignity and her rights in a textile mill, The Last Ballad is a moving tale of courage in the face of oppression and injustice. Lyrical, heartbreaking, and haunting, this eloquent novel confirms Wiley Cash's place among our nation's finest writers.   A native of North Carolina, Wiley Cash has held residency positions at Yaddo and The MacDowell Colony and teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Southern New Hampshire University. He and his wife live in Wilmington, North Carolina. Lee Smith began writing stories at the age of nine and selling them for a nickel apiece. Since then, she has written seventeen works of fiction and most recently, the memoir, Dimestore: A Writer's Life.Smith lives in Hillsborough with her husband, the writer Hal Crowther.   JAMIE DEMENT Saturday, October 21, 3:00 PM (note the time) Piedmont restaurant co-owner Jamie DeMent will discuss her new book, The Farmhouse Chef: Recipes and Stories from My Carolina Farm, which offers 150 recipes for every occasion--from down home to downright elegant--inspired by Coon Rock Farm's yield through the four seasons. DeMent's deliciously observant stories illuminate what life is really like on a working farm. The Farmhouse Chef will inspire those who may not have a lot of time to cook, let alone farm, but who care about eating and preparing seasonal, healthfully grown food. Jamie DeMent farms and cooks on Coon Rock Farm in Hillsborough. A well-known cooking teacher, she also owns, with her partner, Richard Holcomb, Piedmont Restaurant in Durham and Bella Bean Organics.   KIA CALDWELL Monday, October 23, 7:00PM Please join us at The Regulator Bookshop as we celebrate the launch of Dr. Kia Caldwell's newest book, Health Equity in Brazil: Intersections of Gender, Race and Policy. Dr. Michele Berger will join Dr. Kia Caldwell in conversation about her book. A book signing will follow. Light refreshments will be provided. Kia Lilly Caldwell is an associate professor of African, African American, and Diaspora studies at the The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of "Negras in Brazil: Re-envisioning Black Women, Citizenship, and the Politics of Identity." Michele Tracy Berger is associate professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is also the Director of the Faculty Fellows Program at the UNC Institute for the Arts and Humanities.   JEFFREY MEYER Tuesday, October 24, 7:00PM The Regulator welcomes Jeffrey Meyer, author of the book, A Call to China, for a reading and book signing. A child of American missionaries disappears at a Beijing festival in 1940 and is never seen again. Set against the background of revolutionary change in 20th century China and America, China-born and American-raised Olivia hears her "call to China" and embarks on her own mission through the exotic country to find the sister she never knew. Jeff Meyer (Ph.D., University of Chicago) taught at UNC Charlotte from 1971 until 2008. He is a specialist in the religions of China and East Asia.   PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Wednesday, October 25, 10:15AM Join us for Preschool Storytime at The Regulator with Amy Godfrey. Free!   CHARLES CLOTFELTER Wednesday, October 25, 7:00 PM Duke Professor Charles Clotfelter will discuss his new book, Unequal Colleges in the Age of Disparity. For decades, leaders in higher education have voiced their intention to expand college education to include disadvantaged groups. In Unequal Colleges in the Age of Disparity, Clotfelter presents quantitative comparisons across selective and less selective colleges from the 1970s to the present, in exploration of three themes: diversity, competition, and inequality. Clotfelter shows that exclusive colleges have benefited disproportionately from America's growing income inequality. Despite a revolution in civil rights, billions spent on financial aid, and the commitment of colleges to greater equality, stratification has grown starker. Top colleges cater largely to children of elites. "A deeply researched, stimulating, and thoughtful analysis of the role of undergraduate education in America in sustaining the growing inequalities of our nation. A treasure trove of relevant data and careful analysis."-Harold T. Shapiro, Princeton University Charles T. Clotfelter is Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy Studies at Duke.   LANE WINDHAM Thursday, October 26, at 7:00PM The Regulator welcomes Lane Windham, author of Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide, for a reading and book signing. Through close-up studies of workers' campaigns in shipbuilding, textiles, retail, and service, Windham overturns myths about labor's decline, showing instead how employers united to manipulate weak labor law and quash a new wave of worker organizing. Recounting how employees attempted to unionize against overwhelming odds, Knocking on Labor's Door refashions the narrative of working-class struggle during a crucial decade and shakes up current debates about labor's future. Windham's story is a must-read in labor, civil rights, and women's history. Lane Windham is a fellow with Georgetown University's Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.   TRICK-OR-TREAT ON NINTH ST. (and a Scary Story Time!)  Tuesday, October 31, 3:00 p.m-5:00 p.m Come Trick-or-Treat on 9th Street! The Regulator Bookshop will join our fellow Ninth Street merchants in welcoming Halloween trick or treaters. The bookshop will hold a "Scary Stories Storytime" starting at 4:00. And we will, (of course!) be handing out candy to all our trick or treaters.
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A Sidewalk Sale and a Discount Club Sale

Its all happening on Ninth Street this weekend! Saturday we will be joining our fellow Ninth Street merchants for a big Ninth Street Sidewalk Sale from 10-6. And all day Saturday and Sunday we'll be having a Discount Club Sale, with all books in the store 20% off for discount club members.   Sunny skies are in the forecast. What could be better than a stroll down Ninth Street? Meet your neighbors, browse, grab a bite to eat. We'll see you on the street-or better yet, on the sidewalk and in the bookstore!
Upcoming Events    9TH ST. SIDEWALK SALE Saturday, October 14, 10AM -- 6PM Take an autumn stroll down 9th Street as The Regulator joins our neighboring independent businesses for a big old-time sidewalk sale! We'll have lots of bargains both in the store and out on the sidewalk!   DISCOUNT CLUB SALE Saturday October 14 and Sunday October 15 All books in the store will be 20% off for discount club members. Shop early and often!   JULIE J. THOMSON Tuesday, October 17 at 7PM The Regulator welcomes Julie J. Thomson, editor of Begin to See: The Photographers of Black Mountain College, a photography book about Black Mountain College in Black Mountain, NC. This event will be taking place during The Click! Photography Festival. During its relatively brief existence (1933-1957), Black Mountain College was an experimental liberal arts college that placed the arts at the center of its curriculum with faculty from the American avant-garde such as Josef and Anni Albers, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Buckminster Fuller, Charles Olson, and Robert Creeley. While Black Mountain College is best known for its contributions to the visual arts, literature, music, and dance, Begin to See: The Photographers of Black Mountain College shows how photography was also an important part of the curriculum. Josef Albers and Hazel Larsen Archer played important roles in this, including inviting many notable photographers to teach during the college's summer sessions.   Julie J. Thomson is an independent scholar and curator who lives in Durham. She has been researching and writing about photographers at Black Mountain College since 2015.   PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Wednesday, October 18, 10:15AM Join us for Preschool Storytime at The Regulator with Amy Godfrey. Free!   NONFICTION AUTHORS ASSOCIATION (NFAA) Wednesday, October 18, 6:15PM -- 7:45PM Info: http://www.meetup.com/Durham-Chapel-Hill-Chapter-Nonfiction-Authors-Association   CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE Thursday, October 19, 7:00 PM OFFSITE: 21c Museum Hotel, 111 North Corcoran Street  This is a ticketed event; Tickets prices vary. (See details below.) 7:00 pm event tickets are $30 5:30 pm VIP tickets are $100 and include a signed, personalized copy of Orphan Train and an intimate reception before the event. All proceeds benefit the Durham Literacy Center! Event details can be found here: www.durhamliteracy.org/kline      Join the Literacy Center for an intimate event with bestselling author Christina Baker Kline at on October 19 at the 21c Museum Hotel. Kline will talk about the true story behind her #1 New York Times bestseller Orphan Train (about the 250,000 orphaned and abandoned children sent on trains from the East Coast to the Midwest as indentured servants). Copies of Orphan Train and her new novel, A Piece of the World will be available for purchase at the event, courtesy of The Regulator.   DAVID GOODWIN Thursday, October 19, 7:00PM The Regulator welcomes David Goodwin, author of Left Bank of the Hudson: Jersey City and the Artists of 111 1st Street, for a reading and book signing. Left Bank of the Hudson is a smart history of Jersey City through the microcosm of a small artist community repurposing a building and forming a collaborative network. Goodwin offers a window into the demographic, political, and socio-economic changes experienced by Jersey City during the last thirty and addresses the question of the role of artists in economically improving cities. Left Bank of the Hudson provides an illustrative lesson to government officials, scholars, students, activists, and everyday citizens attempting to navigate the "rediscovery" of American cities. David J. Goodwin works by day as a librarian at Fordham University School of Law. An alum of Drexel, St. Bonaventure, and Fordham University, Goodwin is a past commissioner and chairman of the Jersey City Historic Preservation Commission. Currently, he serves as a board member of the Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy.   WILEY CASH in conversation with LEE SMITH Friday, October 20, 7:00PM The Regulator welcomes Wiley Cash in conversation with Lee Smith for a reading and signing of Wiley's wonderful new book, The Last Ballad. The New York Times bestselling author of the celebrated A Land More Kind Than Home and This Dark Road to Mercy returns with this eagerly awaited new novel, set in the Appalachian foothills of North Carolina in 1929 and inspired by actual events. The chronicle of an ordinary woman's struggle for dignity and her rights in a textile mill, The Last Ballad is a moving tale of courage in the face of oppression and injustice. Lyrical, heartbreaking, and haunting, this eloquent novel confirms Wiley Cash's place among our nation's finest writers.   A native of North Carolina, Wiley Cash has held residency positions at Yaddo and The MacDowell Colony and teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Southern New Hampshire University. He and his wife live in Wilmington, North Carolina. Lee Smith began writing stories at the age of nine and selling them for a nickel apiece. Since then, she has written seventeen works of fiction and most recently, the memoir, Dimestore: A Writer's Life.Smith lives in Hillsborough with her husband, the writer Hal Crowther.   JAMIE DEMENT Saturday, October 21, 3:00 PM (note the time) Piedmont restaurant co-owner Jamie DeMent will discuss her new book, The Farmhouse Chef: Recipes and Stories from My Carolina Farm, which offers 150 recipes for every occasion--from down home to downright elegant--inspired by Coon Rock Farm's yield through the four seasons. DeMent's deliciously observant stories illuminate what life is really like on a working farm. The Farmhouse Chef will inspire those who may not have a lot of time to cook, let alone farm, but who care about eating and preparing seasonal, healthfully grown food. Jamie DeMent farms and cooks on Coon Rock Farm in Hillsborough. A well-known cooking teacher, she also owns, with her partner, Richard Holcomb, Piedmont Restaurant in Durham and Bella Bean Organics.   KIA CALDWELL Monday, October 23, 7:00PM Please join us at The Regulator Bookshop as we celebrate the launch of Dr. Kia Caldwell's newest book, Health Equity in Brazil: Intersections of Gender, Race and Policy. Dr. Michele Berger will join Dr. Kia Caldwell in conversation about her book. A book signing will follow. Light refreshments will be provided. Kia Lilly Caldwell is an associate professor of African, African American, and Diaspora studies at the The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of "Negras in Brazil: Re-envisioning Black Women, Citizenship, and the Politics of Identity." Michele Tracy Berger is associate professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is also the Director of the Faculty Fellows Program at the UNC Institute for the Arts and Humanities.   JEFFREY MEYER Tuesday, October 24, 7:00PM The Regulator welcomes Jeffrey Meyer, author of the book, A Call to China, for a reading and book signing. A child of American missionaries disappears at a Beijing festival in 1940 and is never seen again. Set against the background of revolutionary change in 20th century China and America, China-born and American-raised Olivia hears her "call to China" and embarks on her own mission through the exotic country to find the sister she never knew. Jeff Meyer (Ph.D., University of Chicago) taught at UNC Charlotte from 1971 until 2008. He is a specialist in the religions of China and East Asia.   PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Wednesday, October 25, 10:15AM Join us for Preschool Storytime at The Regulator with Amy Godfrey. Free!   CHARLES CLOTFELTER Wednesday, October 25, 7:00 PM Duke Professor Charles Clotfelter will discuss his new book, Unequal Colleges in the Age of Disparity. For decades, leaders in higher education have voiced their intention to expand college education to include disadvantaged groups. In Unequal Colleges in the Age of Disparity, Clotfelter presents quantitative comparisons across selective and less selective colleges from the 1970s to the present, in exploration of three themes: diversity, competition, and inequality. Clotfelter shows that exclusive colleges have benefited disproportionately from America's growing income inequality. Despite a revolution in civil rights, billions spent on financial aid, and the commitment of colleges to greater equality, stratification has grown starker. Top colleges cater largely to children of elites. "A deeply researched, stimulating, and thoughtful analysis of the role of undergraduate education in America in sustaining the growing inequalities of our nation. A treasure trove of relevant data and careful analysis."-Harold T. Shapiro, Princeton University Charles T. Clotfelter is Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy Studies at Duke.   LANE WINDHAM Thursday, October 26, at 7:00PM The Regulator welcomes Lane Windham, author of Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide, for a reading and book signing. Through close-up studies of workers' campaigns in shipbuilding, textiles, retail, and service, Windham overturns myths about labor's decline, showing instead how employers united to manipulate weak labor law and quash a new wave of worker organizing. Recounting how employees attempted to unionize against overwhelming odds, Knocking on Labor's Door refashions the narrative of working-class struggle during a crucial decade and shakes up current debates about labor's future. Windham's story is a must-read in labor, civil rights, and women's history. Lane Windham is a fellow with Georgetown University's Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.
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October's Literary Calendar

From the Bible to Bankers to Biltmore ...and a whole lot more. Here is a listing of our October events.     Some immediate highlights include Wednesday night's discussion of the history and impact of Durham's Self-Help Credit Union; local mystery author Eryk Pruitt on Monday October 9; Sarah Vowell (offsite) the same night (Mon., Oct 9); a fascinating history of Asheville's Biltmore Estate on Tuesday October 10; Cathy Davidson talking about The New Education on Thursday October 12; and a fabulous Ninth Street Sidewalk Sale all day Saturday October 14.
October Events  MARC BRETTLER and AMY-JILL LEVINE Tuesday, October 3, 7:00PM Marc Brettler joins co-author Amy-Jill Levine at The Regulator for the release of the 2nd edition of The Jewish Annotated New Testament. In The Jewish Annotated New Testament, eminent experts under the general editorship of Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Z. Brettler put the New Testament writings back into the context of their original authors and audiences and explain how these writings have affected the relations of Jews and Christians over the past two thousand years. For non-Jewish readers interested in the Jewish roots of Christianity and for Jewish readers who want a New Testament that neither proselytizes for Christianity nor denigrates Judaism, The Jewish Annotated New Testament places these writings in a context that will enlighten students, professionals, and general readers.   Marc Z. Brettler is Dora Golding Professor of Biblical Studies at Brandeis University. Amy-Jill Levine professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University and an affiliated professor of Jewish Studies at Cambridge University.   PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Wednesday, October 4, 10:15AM Join us for Preschool Storytime at The Regulator with Amy Godfrey. Free! Amy Godfrey loves telling stories. With 10 years of experience as a Children's Librarian, Amy Godfrey is known for her energetic musical story times and is bringing that fun to The Regulator every Wednesday!   HOWARD COVINGTON JR. with Martin Eakes Wednesday, Oct. 4, 7:00PM The Regulator welcomes Howard E. Covington, Jr. for a reading and signing of his new book, Lending Power: How Self-Help Credit Union Turned Small-Time Loans into Big-Time Change. Joining Howard Covington at this event will be Martin Eakes, Self-Help's co-founder and current CEO. Lending Power narrates the compelling story of Self-Help's founders and coworkers as they built a progressive and community-oriented financial institution. With nearly two billion dollars in assets, Durham-based Self-Help shows that such a model for nonprofits can be financially successful while serving the greater good. At a time when calls for economic justice are growing ever louder, Lending Power shows how hard working and dedicated people can help improve their communities.   Howard E. Covington, Jr. is a freelance historian and biographer and the author or coauthor of several books, including Terry Sanford: Politics, Progress, and Outrageous Ambition; and Favored by Fortune: George W. Watts and the Hills of Durham. An award-winning newspaper reporter and editor, Covington received the Ragan Old North State Award for nonfiction in 2004.   WENDALL THOMAS Thursday, October 5, 7:00PM The Regulator welcomes UCLA Professor Wendall Thomas, author of Lost Luggage, for a reading and book signing. Lost Luggage is the first in a series of mystery adventure novels featuring Brooklyn travel agent Cyd Redondo. The novel follows Cyd on her first safari, where she is framed by endangered animal smugglers.   E. Wendall Thomas teaches in the Graduate Film School at UCLA, lectures internationally on screenwriting, and has worked as an entertainment reporter, script consultant, and film and television writer. She graduated with double degrees from UNC-CH and grew up in Chapel Hill and Durham.   PHIL COHEN Saturday, October 7, 3:00PM The Regulator welcomes union organizer and author Phil Cohen who will talk about his new book, The Jackson Project: War in the American Workplace, which describes an organizing campaign in a textile mill in west Tennessee in 1989.   In the spring of 1989, union organizer Phil Cohen journeyed to Jackson, Tennessee, to sort out the troubled situation at a historic cotton mill as a representative of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. In the tumultuous months ahead, he would come to fear for his life and consider desperate measures to salvage the union's cause. A compelling, dramatic story that alternated between major triumphs and frustrating setbacks, The Jackson Project provides a rare look at the labor movement in the American South from an insider's perspective.   Phil Cohen left home at sixteen, managed a skid-row hotel and drove taxis in New York City before moving to Chapel Hill, where he became a union activist while working as a municipal bus driver. In 1988 he joined the staff of ACTWU (now known as Workers United), from which he has since retired. An accomplished singer-songwriter, he has recorded four albums with vocalist Patricia Ford.   APS Cat Adoption Event Sunday, October 8, 2:00PM Durham Animal Protection Society will hold a monthly cat adoption event at the Regulator. Come visit our furry friends from 2:00 - 3:30. Please note the time and date.   A to ZINE!: MAKE A ZINE FROM START TO FINISH with TRISTIN MILLER Sunday, October 8, 2:00PM--5:00PM Greensboro artist Tristin Miller will host her popular zine-making workshop at The Regulator Bookshop. For ages 13 and up. Class fee: $25. includes materials and refreshments. Pre-registration is recommended. To register, email the instructor: tristinmillerart@gmail.com   ERYK PRUITT Monday, Oct. 9, 7:00PM The Regulator welcomes Durham author and filmmaker Eryk Pruitt in conversation with author Katy Munger, creator of the Dead Detective series, for the launch of Pruitt's Southern fiction crime thriller, What We Reckon. Meet Jack Jordan, a smooth-talking con artist. He's snuck into Lufkin, Texas, in the dead of night with little more than a beat-up Honda, a hollowed-out King James Bible full of cocaine, and enough emotional baggage to sink a steam ship. His partner-in-crime, Summer Ashton, has stuck by him through thick and thin, but lately she's been hearing voices. Unfortunately for both of them, she's the brains of the operation. "What We Reckon is the insane love child of James Cain and Jim Thompson, a modern piece of folk lore covered in gasoline and set on fire. This baby rocks like a motel bed during a cheap honeymoon. You need it." -Joe R. Lansdale, author of Honky Tonk Samurai   Eryk Pruitt is a screenwriter, author and filmmaker living in Durham with his wife Lana and cat Busey. His short films FOODIE and LIYANA, ON COMMAND have won several awards at film festivals across the US. He is the host of the Noir at the Bar series in Durham.   DURHAM COUNTY LIBRARY PRESENTS AN EVENING WITH SARAH VOWELL, Monday, October 9, 7:00 p.m. Carolina Theatre, 309 W. Morgan St., Durham, NC 27701 Free and open to the public Join us for our very special Durham Reads Together 2017 headliner event! Sarah Vowell is the New York Times' bestselling author of six nonfiction books on American history and culture, Including, most recently, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States In addition to her noteworthy influences on the literary world, Ms. Vowell is also known for her editorial contributions to public radio and her voiceover work as superhero Violet Parr in the Pixar Animation Studios film, The Incredibles. Further, Ms. Vowell has served as a columnist for several major publications, including Salon.com, Time, and San Francisco Weekly, and her essays have appeared in the New York Times. Ms. Vowell's work incorporates exhaustive research and is interspersed throughout with witty observations and wonderful dry humor.   Ms. Vowell's highly anticipated presentation will be in interview format with humorist, cartoonist, and artisanal pencil sharpener, David Rees. In addition to his many talents, Mr. Rees is also known for his recent National Geographic Channel show, Going Deep with David Rees. There will be a book signing following the presentation.   SARAH VAN GELDER Monday, October 9, 7:00 PM Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 4907 Garrett Rd, 27707  Sarah Van Gelder, author and co-founder/editor of YES! Magazine will talk about her work at YES! and her 2016 book, The Revolution Where You Live, which highlight what ordinary Americans are doing to transform their communities to address issues of climate, economic, and racial justice.   DENISE KIERNAN Tuesday, October 10, 7:00PM The Regulator welcomes Denise Kernan (The Girls of Atomic City) for a reading and signing of her new book, The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home. The Last Castle tells the incredible true story behind Asheville's Biltmore Estate-the magnificent gilded-age mansion that is the largest, grandest private residence ever built in the United States. Each year, more than 1 million visitors tour Biltmore's gorgeous gardens and cavernous halls. But even more striking than the property's staggering dimensions is the story of how this extraordinary place came to exist, the luminaries who made it their playground, and the setbacks faced by its inhabitants. The Last Castle reveals a fascinating saga of unimaginable excess, devastating tragedy, inspiring generosity, and unlikely endurance   Denise Kiernan's previous book, The Girls of Atomic City, is a New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and NPR bestseller. Kiernan has also worked in television, serving as head writer for ABC's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire during its Emmy award-winning first season and producing for media outlets such as ESPN and MSNBC.   PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Wednesday, October 11, 10:15AM Join us for Preschool Storytime at The Regulator with Amy Godfrey. Free!   DANA COEN: 25 SHORT PLAYS Wednesday, October 11, 7:00PM The Regulator welcomes Dana Coen, editor of Twenty-Five Short Plays, Selected Works from the University of North Carolina Long Story Shorts Festival, for a dramatic presentation of three plays taken from the book, with actors Michael Shannon, Jane Holding and John Paul Middelsworth. Dana Coen, who is Director of the UNC Writing for the Screen and Stage Program, will also discuss the Long Story Shorts Festival in its seventh year at UNC-Chapel Hill. The Long Story Shorts One Act Festival features performances of short plays written by undergraduate students in the Writing for the Screen and Stage program at UNC-CH. Marking the first five years of the festival, the anthology Twenty-Five Short Plays showcases works written to be performed in ten minutes with a small production budget. *Please note that some mature language is used during this performance.   A former New York actor, director, and produced playwright, Dana Coen has written extensively for television, including the Fox series Bones, and eight seasons with the CBS series JAG. He was also a staff writer for television comedies and did comedy development for Walt Disney Studios.   CATHY DAVIDSON Thursday, October 12, 7:00PM The Regulator welcomes Cathy Davidson, author of The New Education: How To Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux, for a reading and book signing. If we want our students to succeed in our age of precarious work and technological disruption, we need a revolution in higher learning. In The New Education, Davidson profiles iconoclastic educators who are remaking their classrooms by emphasizing creativity, collaboration, and adaptability over expertise in a single, often abstract discipline. Working at the margins of the establishment, these innovators are breaking down barriers between ossified fields of study, presenting their students with multidisciplinary, real-world problems, and teaching them not just how to think, but how to learn. We can educate students not only to survive but to thrive amid the challenges to come.     "Davidson's The New Education manages to pull of the neat trick of being relevant and fascinating for both the consumers and the producers of higher education. This is a book that I recommend to every tuition-paying parent and newly-enrolled student, as well as to all who make their living in academe."-Joshua Kim, Inside Higher Ed.   Cathy N. Davidson is a Distinguished Professor and Founding Director of the Futures Initiative at the Graduate Center, The City University of New York.  Davidson has held two distinguished chairs at Duke University in English and Interdisciplinary Studies and is the co-founder and director of the world's first and oldest academic social network, the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC.org or "haystack"). She, and HASTAC co-founder David Theo Goldberg, received the Educator of the Year Award (2012) from the World Technology Network for "Visionary Contribution to Science and Technology in Education. Davidson was appointed to the National Council on the Humanities by President Obama in 2011, and she serves on the Board of Directors of Mozilla      9TH ST. SIDEWALK SALE Saturday, October 14, 10AM -- 6PM Take an autumn stroll down 9th Street as The Regulator joins our neighboring independent businesses for a big old-time sidewalk sale! We'll have lots of bargains both in the store and out on the sidewalk!   And later in the month....(more details to come)   JULIE J. THOMSON   Tuesday, October 17 at 7PM The Regulator welcomes Julie J. Thomson, editor of Begin to See: The Photographers of Black Mountain College. This event will be taking place during The Click! Photography Festival happening in Durham.   PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Wednesday, October 18, 10:15AM Join us for Preschool Storytime at The Regulator with Amy Godfrey. Free!   NONFICTION AUTHORS ASSOCIATION (NFAA) Wednesday, October 18, 6:15PM -- 7:45PM For more info.: http://www.meetup.com/Durham-Chapel-Hill-Chapter-Nonfiction-Authors-Association   [OFFSITE: 21c Museum Hotel] CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE Thursday, October 19, 7:00 PM This is a ticketed event; Tickets prices vary. (See details below.) 7:00 pm event tickets are $30. 5:30 pm VIP tickets are $100 and include a signed, personalized copy of Orphan Train and an intimate reception before the event. All proceeds benefit the Literacy center. To order tickets to the event: https://www.durhamliteracy.org/kline    DAVID GOODWIN Thursday, October 19, 7:00PM The Regulator welcomes David Goodwin, author of Left Bank of the Hudson: Jersey City and the Artists of 111 1st Street, for a reading and book signing.   WILEY CASH in conversation with LEE SMITH Friday, October 20, 7:00PM   The Regulator welcomes Wiley Cash in conversation with Lee Smith for a reading and signing of Wiley's great new novel The Last Ballad (Which Tom thinks is absolutely fabulous!)        JAMIE DEMENT Saturday, October 21, 3:00 PM (note the time) Piedmont restaurant co-owner Jamie Dement will discuss her new book, The Farmhouse Chef: Recipes and Stories from My Carolina Farm.   KIA CALDWELL Monday, October 23, 7:00PM Professor Kia Caldwell joins us at The Regulator for a talk and book signing of Health Equity in Brazil: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Policy, about the effect of women's activism on public health and the treatment of HIV in Brazil.   JEFFREY MEYER Tuesday, October 24, 7:00PM The Regulator welcomes Jeffrey Meyer, author of the book, A Call to China, for a reading and book signing.   [OFFSITE: The Kitchen Specialist] ELIZABETH HEISKELL Tuesday, October 24, 6:00 PM -- 8:00PM Please note that this is a paid, ticketed event; pre-registration is required. Location: The Kitchen Specialist, 3407 University Drive, Durham Join us at The Kitchen Specialist for a one-time event as Chef Heiskell prepares recipes from her new cookbook, What Can I Bring? Southern Food For all Occasions. Tickets are $20 and includes heavy appetizers. For tickets: https://app.getoccasion.com/p/n/8ymgzdcc   PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Wednesday, October 25, 10:15AM Join us for Preschool Storytime at The Regulator with Amy Godfrey. Free!   CHARLES CLOTFELTER Wednesday, October 25, 7:00 PM Duke Professor Charles Clotfelter will discuss his new book, Unequal Colleges in the Age of Disparity.   LANE WINDHAM Thursday, October 26, at 7:00PM The Regulator welcomes Lane Windham, author of Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide     TRICK-OR-TREAT ON 9TH ST! Tuesday, October 31, 3:00PM -- 5:00PM Come Trick-or-Treat on 9th Street! The Regulator will join our fellow Ninth Street merchants in welcoming Halloween trick or treaters. The bookshop will hold a "Scary Stories Storytime" starting at 4:00. And we will, (of course!) be handing out candy to all our trick or treaters.
Tom Campbell Regulator Bookshop 720 Ninth St. Durham, NC 27705 (919) 286-2700 http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/

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