MARC BRETTLER and AMY-JILL LEVINE
Tuesday, October 3, 7:00PM
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
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
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
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)
KIA CALDWELL
Monday, October 23, 7:00PM
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
LANE WINDHAM
Thursday, October 26, at 7:00PM
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.
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