2010 Releases About To Be Announced
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We are ripped up with joy about this year’s new releases: dirt roads, love and sense-of-place will all be covered! Check back soon!
The Sky Begins At Your Feet Facebook Fan Page
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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg Events in Tuscon, Arizona
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Ice Cube Book author Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg will be touring in Arizona To read more go here.
Fri., Jan. 15: 7 p.m. at the Silverbell Trading Company, 7119 N. Oracle Rd. : A reading from The Sky Begins At Your Feet, Her Memoir on Cancer, Community and Coming Home to the Body. Dr. Goldberg will be available for book-siging following the reading. The Sky Begins At Your Feet. For more information call 520/797-6852.
Sat., Jan. 16: 6 p.m., a reading from The Sky Begins At Your Feet :Finding the Sky That Begins At Our Feet As We Change and Age: Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg Reading From Her Memoir on Cancer, Community and Coming Home to the Body, following the Havdallah Service, Temple Emanu-El, 225 N. Country Club Road. The Sky Begins at Your Feet is a story of finding strength and beauty through our connections with each other, the earth and sky, and our own bodies. Come to a reading by the Poet Laureate of Kansas followed by an opportunity to write what holds light for each of us (reading aloud optional). 520/327-4501.
Sun., Jan. 17: 10 a.m. followed by a reception, Temple Emanu-El, 225 N. Country Club Road. “Landed: Poetry, Wonder, and the Power of the Word to Land Us in the Center of Our Own Hearts: A Reading with Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg.
Sunday, Jan. 17: 2 p.m., Historic Y Courtyard (5th Ave. and University) “Coming Home to Earth, Sky, Body and Community: A Reading with Kansas Poet Laureate Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg and Special Guest Jefferson Carter” sponsored by Sky Island Alliance. Jefferson Carter is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently My Kind of Animal.
Kansas City Pitch review Sky Begins At Your Feet
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Cancer patient. The phrase brings to mind a bald head and a frail body, chilly in a thin hospital gown. The loss of hair, strength and tissue can reduce anyone to the basics of skin and bone, as the body undergoes war at the cellular level, invasive surgeries and waves of radiation and harsh chemicals. (read more)
A Good Man Spring Tour Announced
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This March Larry Baker will do a spring tour for his novel, A Good Man.
3/14——-McIntyre’s in Chapel Hill, NC
3/15——-Quail Ridge in Raleigh, NC
3/16——-Flannery O’Connor estate in Milledgeville, GA
3/17——-Malaprops in Asheville, NC
3/19——-VA Book Festival appearance, Charlottesville, NC
3/20——-Ashland, VA @ Ashland Coffee & Tea, 100 N. Railroad Ave., 1:00 – 3:00 pm
The reviews for A Good Man are positive!
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The reviews for Larry Baker’s A Good Man are starting to come in and they are good, from Iowa to Florida people are impressed:
“Baker is a smart writer. That’s obvious, especially in the last half of the book that just steamrolls right through to the end, dragging you willingly through twists and turns that leave you pretty much breathless.”
–Iowa Gazette
“An engaging story of love, redemption, family, friendship and a little Florida mysticism.”
–St Petersburg Post
“A Good Man” is an entertaining and unique literary read that should not be missed.”
–Midwest Book Review
“This is a wonderful story that touches you, amuses you and gives you a glimpse into the importance of seemingly small , random gestures and how very important they can be.”
–GoodReads.com
“The journey of every man who questions past mistakes and how they harmed his loved ones.”
–St Augustine Record
“… filled with the wisdom won by suffering, characters you want to hang out with, and a story that charms and whose central figure is a lovable broken-down misfit aptly named Ducharme.”
–Peter Davis, the Academy Award-winning director describes A Good Man
“Baker is able to illustrate … universal truths.”
–Daily Iowan
“A Good Man comes across as the product of a tragic-comic imagination as religiously haunted as Flannery O’Connor’s and as this world-oriented as a Harry Chapin song.”
–Iowa City Press Citizen
Dr. Science says, “Often hilarious, always amusing …”
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Writer Patrick Irelan to read at Prairie Lights
Author Patrick Irelan knows his limitations.
The 66-year-old UI graduate grew up in small town Iowa on a “worthless 80-acre farm” in Davis County. On the farm, Irelan learned not every venture in life leads to success.
“On that little farm — which was in pretty bad shape when my parents bought it — I learned the limits of what people can do,” he said. “[The farm] was a colossal disaster for my parents. So I’ve always been ambitious, but far less than the typical American citizen would be … I’ve written a lot, and a lot of that hasn’t been successful, and I haven’t let that bother me.”
Irelan will read from his first collection of short stories, Reruns, at Prairie Lights Books, 15 S. Dubuque St., at 7 p.m. today. The book is a humorous collection of short stories that explore American culture and the Midwest way of life.
“On one level, the stories [Patrick] writes are just entertaining stories, but also there’s a kind of underlying seriousness about them, and they have sort of a satirical quality,” UI graduate and poet Dan Lechay said.
Irelan uses interesting and exaggerated ideas in Reruns with stories ranging from space-themed “Comets” and “Dark Matter” to pieces that take jabs at pop culture. The author said he often puts his characters into situations that couldn’t exist in the real world to convey his messages.
The stories featured in Reruns come from decades of writing that, Irelan said, began in his undergraduate years at the UI, where he received a B.A. in political science and later an M.A. in American studies.
“It dawned on me when I was in college that I might be able to write a book, a story, whatever,” he said.
Irelan briefly attended the Writers’ Workshop for poetry but left after a year to write prose and work in the UI’s continuing-education program. He eventually published two memoirs, Central Standard: A Time, a Place, a Family and A Firefly in the Night: A Son of the Middle West.
The writer said he is in the process of creating two new stories at his home in Coralville and hopes to get another book published in the near future.
“Depending on how long I live, there will be more,” Irelan said with a laugh.
Larry Baker creates intriguing characters shrouded in mystery
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Featured in the Gazette’s Sunday paper, A Good Man was reviewed, “Baker is a smart writer. That’s obvious, especially in the last half of the book that just steamrolls right through to the end, dragging you willingly through twists and turns that leave you pretty much breathless.” Check out the feature on Larry and his book here.
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg on “Crazy Sexy Life!”
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Writing As a Spiritual Practice
From the time I began writing like a maniac at age 14, writing has been my most constant spiritual companion, my way of praying for some clarity during the thickest tangles, and my source for finding answers, or at least, getting a better view of the questions. From the time I began writing, smack in the middle of my parents’ divorce, writing gave me a place to touch down on something more sacred — the act of creating — while being surrounded by court battles and fights over porcelain trinkets. In my memoir, The Sky Begins At Your Feet, during and after my long day’s journey into and through cancer, it was the act of writing that helped me as much as any deep-tissue massage, spinach casserole, or oncologist’s consoling words…………….go to this link to read the whole story
St. Petersburg Post says,
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A Good Man by Larry Baker, “is an engaging story of love, redemption, family, friendship and a little Florida mysticism.” Read more
Two Thumbs up at Midwest Book Review
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The Sky Begins At Your Feet News
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Wow, this book was included in Publisher’s Weekly and will be getting a starred review in September’s Library Journal. She was just featured in the Kansas City Star. Wait, there’s more, her book has been made a Midwest Connections Pick for October by the Midwest Booksellers Association. Go here to check out Caryn’s Scheduled Book Tour.
The Raves For Iowa: The Definitive Collection
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Our new imprint, Tall Corn Books, is officially off and running now with the publication of Iowa: The Definitive Collection. Check out the following write ups:
Corridor Buzz:
http://corridorbuzz.com/articles/new_volume_gives_personal_voice_to_iowa_history.htm
The Daily Iowan:
http://www.dailyiowan.com/2009/06/26/Arts/11842.html
The Iowa City Press-Citizen
http://www.press-citizen.com/article/20090626/OPINION03/906260305/1018/OPINION
Also and article by Dave Rasdal appeared in the Gazette
Midwest Connections!!
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We just found out that Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg’s book “The Sky Begins At Your Feet” will be a Midwest Connections Pick with the Midwest Booksellers Association this fall! We’ll reveal more in the coming months.
Expanding our Territory
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We’re pleased to announce that we have added Southeastern Book Travelers as our publishers representatives in the South. www.southeasternbooktravlers.com
In the Midwest we are well represented by Miller Book Trade Marketing, fmi: eric@millertrade.com
2009 Releases
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