Events
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Start: 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo: American Sign Language teacher and author Susan Schaller will discuss and sign the new edition of her book A Man Without Words (U. California Press). For more than a quarter of a century, Ildefonso, a Mexican Indian, lived in total isolation, set apart from the rest of the world. He was born deaf and had never been taught even the most basic language. Susan Schaller encountered him in a class for the deaf where she had been sent as an interpreter. She found him obviously intelligent and sharply observant but unable to communicate, and she felt compelled to bring him to a comprehension of words. Schaller’s book vividly conveys the challenge, the frustrations, and the exhilaration of opening the mind of a congenitally deaf person to the concept of language. At this event, Schaller will show a short preview of the new documentary based on her book. Can’t make it to the signing? Request an autographed copy here: books@tatteredcover.com
Start: 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue: Colorado writer Steven Schwartz is the author of two story collections, To Leningrad in Winter and Lives of the Fathers, and two novels, Therapy and A Good Doctor’s Son. His writing has received the Nelson Algren Award, the Cohen Award, the Colorado Book Award for the Novel, two O. Henry Prize Story Awards, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and the Cleanth Brooks Prize in Nonfiction from The Southern Review. Schwartz will read from and sign his new book Little Raw Souls: Stories (Autumn House Press).Can’t make it to the signing? Request an autographed copy here: books@tatteredcover.com
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