Books

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From Rosemarie Dombrowski, Patricia C. Murphy, and more.

She’s the newest addition to the Valley’s YA set.

Whether you just wanna stay occupied or you need a laugh.

She’s coming to Changing Hands this month.

Get ready for Día de los Muertos, a theatrical Trump takedown, and some quality time with Nick Offerman.

“This is the best-kept secret,” Bill Konigsberg says. The award-winning young-adult author, who recently received both a Stonewall Book Award and a PEN Center USA Award for his YA novel, The Porcupine of Truth, is referring to Your Novel Year, the only online certificate program in the country for those looking to…

Valley verse-makers can now apply to be Phoenix’s first poet laureate. The new position provides an annual stipend of $2,500, but is otherwise a volunteer gig with the goals of capturing Phoenix culture and creating a wider appreciation for poetry throughout metro Phoenix. “Poetry, like all of the arts, has…

In the fall of 1927, a 20-something pilot named Ruth Elder and Captain George Haldeman, her former flying instructor, took to the skies in American Girl, a small monoplane they were to navigate across the Atlantic Ocean, mimicking Charles Lindbergh’s famed flight from New York to Paris. “Anniston Beauty Promises…

Palabras Librería/Bookstore in the Grand Avenue arts district will hold its official grand opening on Saturday, November 12, during the Grand Avenue Festival. Owner Rosaura “Rosie” Magaña actually opened Palabras, located at 1023 Grand Avenue, last November as an event space. She’s been working ever since to procure Spanish-language books…

Gloria Steinem is having a full-circle moment. In 1963, she shared her penchant for travel in The Beach Book, complete with an iridescent inside flap that reflected the sun’s rays. More than five decades later, she’s traveling the country to promote her latest book, titled Gloria Steinem: My Life on…

Wasted Ink Zine Distro, a small library and store that serves the Valley’s zine community, is being forced to relocate less than a year after setting up shop in a west Tempe strip mall. Owners Charissa Lucille and Marna Kay received an eviction notice last month with instructions to vacate the…

The story of Linda and Sixto Valdez is like something out of a movie. In short, Sixto crossed into Arizona from Mexico through a hole in the fence to be with Linda in Tucson. They were married two weeks later – and remain together today. Linda looks back on this…

No matter the medium, your social media feeds are more than likely choked with political rants, someone else’s dinner, a wine glass on the edge of a bathtub, and about a thousand photos of a cat, dog, or baby of unknown provenance. But are we oversharing our personal lives, just…

Laurie Notaro accidentally set her dog on fire. It was Fourth of July weekend, she explains, and everyone was outside lighting sparklers in the backyard of her Eugene, Oregon, home. Maeby, the family dog who has no fear of firecrackers, was sniffing around when she was suddenly aglow. “We put…

New Times picks the best events in metro Phoenix from Monday, July 11, through Thursday, July 14. For more things to do, see our curated online calendar. Judy Garland: A Musical Legend There’s a lot more to Judy Garland than The Wizard of Oz. Star of movies and TV, she incorporated…

So hot you want to shave your head, Phoenix? Instead, grab tickets to the next edition of Bar Flies and head downstairs to Valley Bar on Thursday, July 14.  The theme is Hair. Amy Silverman’s curating, and she’ll be reading along with Kathy Cano-Murillo, Laurie Notaro, Robrt Pela and Brian…

There’s a special birthday coming up! Don’t miss the twelfth installment of the monthly live reading series, brought to you by Phoenix New Times and Valley Bar.  The next Bar Flies’ theme is Accidents, and it will take place at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 23, at Valley Bar. Johnson’s…

There’s no doubt that it’s become more convenient to talk at people via social media platforms than to share a face-to-face dialogue, so it’s refreshing that someone like ASU lecturer of English Rosemarie Dombrowski is keeping the art of critical discourse alive. In addition to taking part in other events…

New Times and The Senators are collaborating on a special edition of Bar Flies that takes place Friday, May 27, at the Musical Instrument Museum. Part concert and part reading, the event’s theme is “The Desert is a Mix Tape.” The evening will feature live music by The Senators presented…

When the founding CEO of the Arizona Science Center Sheila Grinell found fiction, there was no turning back.  Grinell, who retired from the Center in 2004, has turned her crosshairs on fiction writing with the debut of her first novel, Appetite – out via She Writes Press on May 17. She…