If you want to see what 300,000 books look like, you have only to visit the Friends of the Phoenix Library warehouse. The moment you step into the building, you find a mountain of cardboard boxes filled with books. Wheeled carts are packed with books. Books are piled on every…
With so much to do in Phoenix all the time, it can be hard to pick and choose what to do and where to go. We’ll help you narrow done your options to some that are free. This week we’ve got community mixers, drinks and debates, and a series of…
It’s almost fall somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere. Fall, as in cool temperatures and the beginning of a new school year. As this is being written, it’s monsoon season in the Valley and school has been in session for weeks. When we were kids somewhere else, Labor Day felt like…
That Anne Bowles Levy became a young-adult author should come as no surprise. When the New York-born writer was just 3 or 4 years old, she’d sit curled up on her mother’s lap reading the first book she remembers: Robert McCloskey’s Make Way for Ducklings. “I loved that time,” she says…
Language is a fascinating, sometimes beautiful thing. As a primary mode of expression, it’s constantly changing and evolving, with styles of speaking (ahem, vocal fry) rising to prominence and new terms being deemed worthy of dictionary space. But these 10 slang terms? We are, like, so over them. They’ve been overused,…
Recovery from a three-day weekend can be brutal on both your energy and your budget. That’s why we found some things to do that will help make the transition back to normalcy as easy as possible. This week there’s flash fiction, a Latin street festival, futuristic art, the scariest exhibit…
Jimmy Santiago Baca, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Sandra Cisneros, and Pablo Neruda are among some of the most prominent Hispanic, Chicano, and Latino authors you can pick up at any bookstore in the Valley. But what if you wanted to purchase a copy of Love in the Time of Cholera in its…
“Border of Dreams” The image evokes triumph, frustration, and heartache with a black-and-white capture of a man, arms outstretched in a Christ-like way toward a barren background. Towering near him made of slanting barbed wire, the U.S.-Mexico border fence. The photographer behind the shot? Award-winning photojournalist Nick Oza. “Border of…
Emerging Arts Leaders Phoenix Happy Hour Cheers to Phoenix’s arts scene. No, literally. During Emerging Arts Leaders Phoenix’s fourth and final summer happy hour, local makers, shakers, and observers are invited to discuss what’s wrong and what’s right with the Valley’s arts community — and, perhaps more importantly, what’s next…
Last night marked the third Bar Flies, New Times’ live reading series at Valley Bar. Pretty good, right? Now that you’ve got the drill down, we’re going to change things up. On September 30, Phoenix New Times will join with Scottsdale Public Art and Museum of Walking to present a…
Growing up in Arizona, Tom Zoellner was always surprised to find stories set in Arizona. But the journalist and novelist, now living in Los Angeles where he’s an associate professor of English at Chapman University, will champion their cause during a panel discussion at Changing Hands Bookstore in Phoenix on Tuesday, August 11. He’s heading…
What Arizona needs right about now is a good novel. Nothing else will do. Not a change in governor, a fumigation of the Legislature, a redesign of North Scottsdale, or a tripling of the education budget. While all these would be welcome, they cannot approach the curative and transforming force…
It’s difficult to to grasp the ways unleashed nuclear weapons can forever alter personal and geographic landscapes. But five people whose stories of life following the Nagasaki bombing of 1945 are featured in a new book by Tempe author Susan Southard know all too well the horrors of nuclear weapons…
“If flowers hadn’t evolved, humans might not have existed.” It’s a bold statement, but one Stephen Buchmann isn’t afraid to make. The University of Arizona professor, entomologist, and author has devoted his life studying the intimate biology of bees and flowers, but he looks at the big picture in his upcoming…
Fairy tales and worlds of make believe have been with Chris Colfer from the beginning. The first story the New York Times bestselling author and Golden Globe-winning actor wrote in second or third grade dealt with an imagined world. It was a twist on Cinderella, involving an elderly woman named…
Last night Phoenix New Times and Valley Bar brought you the second Bar Flies, another smash hit! (If we say so ourselves.) Get out your calendars, because we have some dates for you for upcoming events. The next installment in the live reading series will take place at 7 p.m…
Rosemarie Dombrowski is a writer on a mission. The poet, ASU lecturer, and co-founder of the Phoenix Poetry Series will lead a two-part creative writing workshop on the art of the flash memoir at 7 p.m. on July 22 and 29 at Changing Hands Bookstore. The writing workshop is open…
While the rest of the country is super excited to celebrate freedom this weekend with barbecues, spending time with friends and family, and fireworks, we’re excited for a different type of freedom — the freedom from having to open our wallets in order to be entertained. So close those billfolds…
Shona Patel Book-Signing Shona Patel’s newest book would make a perfect summer read. Flame Tree Road takes places in India at the turn of the 20th century, when protagonist Biren Roy sets out to change the world, but instead finds himself changed by love. Patel will be signing the book…
Juan Felipe Herrera will be the next U.S. Poet Laureate, The Library of Congress announced on Tuesday, June 10. He is the first Latino poet appointed to the position. “This is a mega-honor for me, for my family and my parents who came up north before and after the Mexican…
Amy K. Nichols grew up here. Yet Phoenix, she admits, sometimes eludes her. “I can never really explain this place to people,” says the author of Now That You’re Here. “Other cities have a brand or a culture they’re known for. It’s hard to pin down Phoenix in…
Unmotherly Insights (Into Modern Mothering) Debra Rich Gettleman is a writer, an artist, an actress and, as so many of us must be these days, many other things. But what she is every minute of every day is a mom, and she shares the highs and lows of that honorable…
