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May 30th, 5pm: Jack Erickson will be in Old Capitol Books to sign copies of his new novel, Thirteen Days in Milan, a book about a cell of terrorists with connections to the Red Brigades who take an American woman hostage during a political assassination at Milan’s Stazione Centrale.
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June 18th, 7pm: Join with radicals, thinkers, activists, poets, and intellectuals on the Monterey Peninsula to read and discuss some of the greatest philosophers of our time. We are particularly interested in 20th and 21st century philosophy, and our second readings will come from Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality.Continue reading “Theory and Philosophy Reading Group II”
Second Sunday of each month, come to Old Capitol Books to see the featured poets of the Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium. Continue reading “Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium”
First Tuesday of each month, Old Capitol Books will be hosting BACK ALLEY POETRY.Continue reading “Back Alley Poetry – A monthly poetry night”
24 May, 2014 1pm-3pm: come to Old Capitol Books to meet local author, L.C. Wright talk about his book, Castle Grey.
Continue reading “Book Signing: L.C. Wright returns to Old Capitol Books”
9 June, 2014: 5pm – An Evening of Visions and Dreams with Moira Crone and Rodger Kamenetz.
Two award winning writers who use dreams in their poetry and prose, will talk about fundamentals of our dreams and their relationship to creativity and well being.
Continue reading “An Evening of Visions and Dreams: Moira Crone and Rodger Kamenetz”
29 June, 2014 – 3pm: Come by the bookshop at 3pm to meet Bunny Stevens and buy copies of her new book, Unholy Union, a memoir of clergy sexual abuse in the Salvation Army. Continue reading “Book Signing: Bunny Stevens – “Unholy Union””
Have you noticed that our little bookshop has been getting the attention of a few folk over at the MC Weekly?Continue reading “Old Capitol Books in the MC Weekly!”
14 May, 6:30pm: Join with radicals, thinkers, activists, poets, and intellectuals on the Monterey Peninsula to read and discuss some of the greatest philosophers of our time. We are particularly interested in 20th and 21st century philosophy, and our first readings will come from the work of Italian theorist Silvia Federici.
Continue reading “Theory and Philosophy Reading Group”
On May 18th at 3pm, head over to Old Capitol Books to meet Arizona author H. Alan Day talk about this most recent book, The Horse Lover.
Back in 2002, H. Alan Day and his sister, Sandra Day O’Connor, co-authored the NY Times bestselling memoir Lazy B: Growing Up On a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest (Random House). Now Alan has written a new memoir with a foreword by Sandra titled The Horse Lover: A Cowboy’s Quest to Save the Wild Mustangs – University of Nebraska Press (March, 2014).Continue reading “Book Signing: H. Alan Day, Author of The Horse Lover”
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