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Norman Crowe will be at the UNM Bookstore at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12 to speak about and sign copies of “John McHugh Travel Sketches” (Sunstone Press). The sketches in this volume are travel sketches by the Santa Fe architect John McHugh, designer of the first Santa Fe Opera Pavilion and designer and restoration architect for a host of churches, fine houses and commercial and institutional buildings in New Mexico. He died in 1995. The bookstore is at 2301 E. Central at the intersection of Cornell and Central.
AT PAGE ONE: Mary McKnight, who worked as a refined waitress during World War II and traveled with servicemen from coast to coast, will be at the bookstore at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16 to talk about her memoir, “Windswept Life.”
Page One’s next Poetry Open Mike Night will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12. The featured poet for February is Sari Krosinsky.
Open Mike Nights are hosted by Kenneth P. Gurney and the diverse local poets of New Mexico. Thirty minutes of open mike will be followed by a poetry reading by the featured poet. Sign up for the open mike session starts at 6:45 p.m.
PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK: Craig Varjabedian’s “Landscape Dreams, A New Mexico Portrait” (University of New Mexico Press) has been selected as a Panelist Pick for the Southwest Books of the Year. The book presents a selection of Varjabedian’s photographs made over the nearly three decades he has lived and worked in New Mexico.
“Southwest Books of the Year: Best Reading 2012″ is published by the Pima County, Ariz. Public Library in partnership with the Friends of the Pima County Public Library and the Arizona Historical Society.
NEW BOOK: Christie Gross is the author of “Passages: Through the Eye of the Needle,” published by Wasteland Press. Marla is from a world in time that has been all but destroyed. But she is swept by time into a parallel universe in which she observes her 5-year-old self encountering the same evils she bore witness to as a child in her own world. With help from “bed bugs” dreamed into existence by her younger self, Marla works to comprehend the nature of physical being, and the point and purpose of humanity’s existence.
The book can be found in Albuquerque at Barns & Noble bookstores and online at www.christiegrossdesigns.com.
AT BOOKWORKS: Authors Bart Kaltenbach and Barbara Anschel explore 1,000 years of earth building in the desert Southwest with their book “Sun, Sticks and Mud” at 3 p.m. today.
At 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16 Jim Hammond, author of “Wines of Enchantment,” will be at the bookstore, 4022 Rio Grande NW, with a wine aroma kit to teach the audience how to detect a wine’s bouquet.
Please send information on book signings and author events to Rene Kimball at rkimball@abqjournal.com
