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Literary Calendar: January 2008

FINE BOOKS
Fearrington Village Center, Pittsboro
542-3030
fearrington.com/village/mcintyres

Jan 4, 2pm
Bill and Susan Seaforth Hayes
Daytime soap operas’ first golden couple Bill and Susan Seaforth Hayes will be starring in Sanford’s Temple Theatre’s production of Love Letters. The pair will take a break to discuss, Like Sands Through The Hourglass, which chronicles their love story on and off the screen and their rise to stardom as Doug and Julie on Days of Our Lives.

Jan 5, 11Am
Budd Titlow, wetland scientist and wildlife biologist, will discuss Seashells: Jewels From The Ocean. In this book he takes a non-technical approach and portrays the life histories and uses through the ages of a wide variety of mollusks that occur along the Atlantic and Gulf Coastlines of the United States. He will also give a brief overview of Low Impact Development.

Jan 12, 11Am
UNC Professor of creative writing and Kenan Visiting Writer Joni Tevis will read from The Wet Collection. Tevis gathered much of the material for her collection of essays during the summers she spent as a seasonal park ranger in state parks in SC, GA, and Oregon.

Jan 30, 7pm
Rita Mae Brown reads from the new Sneaky Pie Brown mystery, The Purrfect Murder.
Market Street Books
610 Market Street in Southern Village
933-5111
marketstreetbooks.com

Jan 10, 7pm
Writer and food enthusiast Ross Pipes will read and sign Paris Chef

Jan 17, 7p.m.
Valerie Yow will read and sign Betty Smith: Life of the Author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Jan 18, 8pm
Book launch with Joanna Catherine Scott for the paperback edition of Charlie

Jan 24, 7pm
UNC Professor of creative writing and Kenan Visiting Writer Joni Tevis will read and sign The Wet Collection.

Jan 27, 3 pm
Marcy Smith will discuss and sign An Idiot’s Guide to Crochet as well as teach a little crochet. Attendees can make squares to donate to Project Linus (www.projectlinus.org)

Chapel Hill Public Library
100 Library Drive, Chapel Hill
968-2777
chapelhillpubliclibrary.org/

Jan 8, 11:30am
1pm “Books Sandwiched In” Bring a brown-bag lunch to the Friends’ bookclub for a discussion on My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk.

Jan 18, 3:30
5pm Meet-the-Author Tea, After Jackie: Pride and Prejudice and Baseball’s Forgotten Heroes by Cal Fusman.
Classes, Seminars

Chatham County Artists Guild
Writers Series
Conference Room, Building 2
Central Carolina
Community
College,
Pittsboro

Jan 12, 1-4pm
Technical Writing with Victor Manos

Jan 19, 1-4pm
Poetry Workshop with
Ruth Moose
To register call
Molly Matlock at
919-542-0394 or email
molly.matlock@
chathamarts.org