Jada Yuan will discuss her new book 'Unleashing Oppenheimer' at Collected Works on Dec.5

THREE EVENTS AT COLLECTED WORKS IN SANTA FE

Jada Yuan will discuss her new book “Unleashing Oppenheimer,” which takes the reader inside the making of Christopher Nolan’s Atomic Age film “Oppenheimer.” The event is at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 5, at Collected Works Bookstore. The blockbuster film is about the physicist who headed the Manhattan Project in the development of the atomic bomb at Los Alamos.

The book’s publisher, Insight Editions, stated in a press release that Yuan’s book tracks the creation of the film from script to screen through exclusive interviews with the director, and members of true cast and crew plus visuals from the film.

At the event, Yuan will be in conversation with Jacques Paisner, artistic director of the Santa Fe International Film Festival. Yuan, who was born in Los Alamos, is a staff writer for The Washington Post.

At 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 6, Collected Works will host a birthday celebration/literary retrospective for Albuquerque’s Margaret Randall — a poet, feminist, photographer, oral historian and social activist. At the event, eight of Randall’s friends will read from her work. The readers are V.B. Price, Greg Smith, Lauren Camp, Billie Parker, Zach Hively, Sylvia Dorado, Michelle Otero and Yesi Llerenas Daniel.

Lisa Lucas and Debrianna Mansini will chat about their new book “That Time We Ate Our Feelings: 150 Recipes for Comfort Food from the Heart” at 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 8.

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

IN OLD TOWN

Treasure House Books & Gifts will host two author events this week.

Patricia Smith Wood of Albuquerque signs “Raising Ruby,” a charming biography of her mother, and books in her Harrie McKinsey mysteries series from 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 3.

Ronn Perea will autograph copies of “Elsie & Elsa,” a work of historical fiction set in Albuquerque in the mid-20th century, and “How I Got My Kicks on Route 66,” a fictional memoir of life on the Route 66 comedy club circuit. Perea will sign from 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 9.

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

IN TAOS

Poets Leslie Ullman and James Nave will read from their work at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 3, at SOMOS Bookshop, 108 Civic Plaza Drive, Taos.

— Compiled by David Steinburg/For the Journal