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High-Lonesome Books has released a new book by Silver City writer M.H. Dutch Salmon entitled “Tales of the Chase: Hound-dogs, Catfish and Other Pursuits Afield.”
It is a collection of 20 essays and five pieces of short fiction in which Salmon recalls a life of sport in which he seldom casts a fly and rarely swings on a bird. Instead he roams the Southwest, Midwest and the north woods in the pursuit of game with hounds.
MEDBERRY AT COLLECTED WORKS: The bookstore and coffeehouse presents a reading and book signing with author Mike Medberry and his new book “On the Dark Side of the Moon” at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 7.
Medberry has served as a senior environmentalist for several local and national conservation organizations. Over the past 20 years he has written nonfiction for Northern Lights Journal, High Country News, Black Canyon Quarterly and other publications, as well as short fiction.
The event is free. For more information call Padraic C. O’Neill at 505-988-4226 or go to events@cwbookstore.com.
FOUR AUTHORS TALK: Albuquerque authors Katie Lane, Celeste Bradley and Gabi Stevens and Portales author Darynda Jones join forces at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, March 9 to discuss “Spring Fling Into Romance” and sign their latest romantic releases at Page One Bookstore, 11018 Montgomery NE.
Lane’s latest novel is “Trouble in Texas,” part of her “Deep in the Heart of Texas” series. Jones will sign “Death, Doom and Detention,” and Bradley will sign “When She Said I Do.”
Stevens’ “Wishful Thinking” is the third in her “Time of Transition” series.
AT BOOKWORKS: At 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 5 Wally Gordon talks about his memoir on his long career in journalism as documented in “A Reporter’s World.” Bookworks is at 4022 Rio Grande NW.
BOOK AWARD: “No Crystal Stair,” written by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and illustrated by R. Gregory Christie, has been named the winner of the 2012 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award in the fiction category. The awards are among the most prestigious honors in the field of children’s and young adult literature. The documentary novel is on the life and work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem bookseller.
Nelson is a youth services librarian at the Rio Rancho Public Library, and has lived in New Mexico for 19 years after moving here from Pennsylvania.
BOOK READING: Sylvie Larimore de Lara will read from and discuss her novel “Guanacolía” from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 7 at Los Griegos Library, 1000 Griegos NE.
The book examines the melancholia that engulfed the Salvadorians — los Guanacos — during their civil war (1980-92). The story unfolds in Paris and follows an eclectic group of exiled Salvadorians from the 1980 assassination of Monsignor Romero to the 1989 assassination of six Jesuit priests and culminates with the 1992 Peace Accords.
SANTA FE PEOPLE: Legendary Locals, an imprint of Arcadia Publishing, has published “Legendary Locals of Santa Fe” by Ana Pacheco, a weekly columnist for the Santa Fe New Mexican. The book pays tribute to a diverse group of individuals through different eras, including Native American Po’pay, leader of the Pueblo Revolt, world-renowned sculptor Allan Houser, performing artist Maria Benitez, Santa Fe Opera founder John Crosby and Stewart L. Udall, former Secretary of the Interior under the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
