Events
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Start: 12:00 pm
Historic LoDo: Who do you think an artist is? Find out when Herbert Siguenza—artist, playwright, actor, and founding member of LA’s Culture Clash—joins Eden Lane (of In Focus with Eden Lane on Colorado Public Television 12) for a revealing discussion about becoming Pablo Picasso in A Weekend With Picasso, the upcoming performance at The Rickeston Theatre from March 22 through April 28. Please join us and enter to win FREE tickets. Denver Center Theatre Company’s website
Start: 7:30 pm
Colfax Avenue: Acclaimed memoirist Beverly Donofrio had already lived two lives, first as a scrappy young
mother on the streets of the East Village and later as the bestselling
author of Riding in Cars with Boys. By the time she reached her fifties, she thought she had seen it all. Even though she was living in a vibrant, picturesque Mexican town,
where she practiced yoga, drank margaritas in her backyard, and took
salsa lessons, she felt lost and was searching for monasteries to visit.
The religious practice that had nourished her for several years had
faded. Then one night she woke to find a rapist holding a
knife to her throat. So begins the memoir that charts Donofrio’s
journey—a long and twisting road through denial, mourning, anger,
vulnerability, and retreat. In her brutally honest, often ribald, emotionally unsparing
voice, Donofrio will read from and sign her new book Astonished: A Story of Evil, Blessings, Grace, and Solace (Viking), the story of that one terrible, life-changing event in her life, and her long and twisting road to recovery. “An insightful, candidly unfolding, soul-bearing journey to grace.” —Publishers Weekly Can’t make it to the signing? Request an autographed copy here: books@tatteredcover.com
Start: 7:30 pm
Historic LoDo: Acclaimed writer Gish Jen, who has been nominated for a National Book Critics’ Circle Award and featured in a
PBS American Masters program on the American Novel, is the author of the three novels Typical American, Mona in the Promised Land, and World and Town. She will join us to read from and sign her new book Tiger Writing: Art, Culture and the Interdependent Self (Harvard University Press). Drawing on a rich array of sources, from paintings to behavioral studies
to her father s striking account of his childhood in China, this
accessible book not only illuminates Jen s own development and
celebrated work but also explores the aesthetic and psychic roots of the
independent and interdependent self each mode of selfhood yielding a
distinct way of observing, remembering, and narrating the world. The
novel, Jen writes, is fundamentally a Western form that values
originality, authenticity, and the truth of individual experience. By
contrast, Eastern narrative emphasizes morality, cultural continuity,
the everyday, the recurrent. In its progress from a moving evocation of
one writer s life to a convincing delineation of the forces that have
shaped our experience for millennia, Tiger Writing radically shifts
the way we understand ourselves and our art-making. “Blending family memoir, cultural criticism, and reflections on her own life as a writer, Gish Jen makes a compelling case for the novel as a meeting-ground of typically American themes of independence with classically Asian ideals of interdependence. Tiger Writing is a rare case of a book on writing that itself is a joy to read.” —David Damrosch, author of What Is World Literature?
Can’t make it to the signing? Request an autographed copy here: books@tatteredcover.com Gish Jen’s website
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