Author Don Zancanella to read at Bookworks on Oct. 28

AT BOOKWORKS

Don Zancanella will read from his new novel “Animals of the Alpine Front” at 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28, at Bookworks.

The novel is based on true events in the Italian Alps during World War I. The book tells the intimate story of Teresa, an Italian girl, and Carlo, an American boy who is pressed into service in the Austrian army. Teresa is trapped in the Italian fortress city of Trento. Their paths cross and recross. The story is inspired by true events in the Italian Alps during the First World War.

Zancanella had a story selected for the 2019 Best American Short Stories, and he received the John S. Simmons/Iowa Short Fiction Award for his book “Western Electric.” He authored the novel “Concord,” which is about a year in the lives of essayist Henry David Thoreau, journalist/editor/critic Margaret Fuller and author Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Zancanella taught at the University of New Mexico. He divides his time between Albuquerque and Boise, Idaho.

Bookworks is located at 4022 Rio Grande Blvd. NW.

Author Don Zancanella to read at Bookworks on Oct. 28

AT GARCIA STREET BOOKS

Poets Robyn Hunt (“The Fiction of Stillness”) and Sarah Wolbach (“Eclipse”) read poems from their recently published collections at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27. Those interested in attending the event, RSVP at garciastreetbooks.com, go to “events” and click on RSVP.

Garcia Street Books is located at 376 Garcia St., Santa Fe.

AT TREASURE HOUSE BOOKS & GIFTS

Cody Polston will sign his collection “Ghost Stories of Central New Mexico” from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct., 27, at Treasure House Books & Gifts. There are stories about Luna Mansion, the cursed rooms of the Shaffer Hotel in Mountainair, a haunted Civil War battlefield at Valverde, and tales of unsettled spirits in Socorro.

Polston is an amateur historian, a paranormal investigator and a local hunter and collector of macabre tales.

Treasure House is located at 2012 South Plaza St. NW, Old Town.

AT COLLECTED WORKS

Collected Works hosts two author events this week.

The first features author David McCloskey discussing his new novel “The Seventh Floor” at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29. It’s about six Central Intelligence Agency officers who are good friends and cherished enemies who have stolen other people’s secrets. Now they must steal each other’s. McCloskey will be in conversation with Jim Falk, program chair of Global Santa Fe.

Then at 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1, Steven Robinson talks about his new book “Turf War: How a Band of Activists Saved New York from Donald Trump’s ‘Masterpiece.’” The “masterpiece” is described as a half-mile of gargantuan buildings overlooking the Hudson River on Manhattan’s West Side.

Collected Works is located at 202 Galisteo St., Santa Fe.

IN TAOS

SOMOS Taos presents two events this week at SOMOS Salon.

The first is at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30, when poets Bill Nevins and Jeannie Allen read from “Samhain Shadow-Dread: Irish Poems of Magic, Mystery, Mischief and the ‘Other World.’”

The other event features Rebecca Reynolds and Sallie Bingham at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1.

Reynolds is the author of “Thresholds of Change: The Way Through Transformative Times.” Sharing the stage with Reynolds is Bingham, prodigious author of biographies, novels, short stories and a play.

SOMOS Salon is located at 108 Civic Plaza Drive, Taos.