Lauren Sánchez to read from 'The Fly Who Flew to Space' at Barnes & Noble

AT WESTSIDE BARNES AND NOBLE

Lauren Sánchez said she didn’t think she wrote her debut picture book.

She imagined it.

The book was just released in separate English and Spanish editions. The English edition is titled “The Fly Who Flew to Space.” The Spanish edition is “La Mosca Que Voló al Espacio.”

Sánchez will read the book at a story time with guided art event at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 17, at Barnes & Noble, 3701-A Ellison Drive NW.

The book begins as a tale of a fly named Flynn who dreams of becoming an astronaut. Flynn accidentally finds his way into the cockpit of a rocket’s capsule that heads into space. The book can also be understood as a story about seeing the world from a completely different perspective and about the need to protect Earth, Sánchez said.

Born and raised in Albuquerque, Sánchez graduated from Del Norte High School. She was a local news anchor in Los Angeles. Fourteen years ago, Sánchez got a pilot’s license and is now focused on flying helicopters.

The book’s illustrator is Raleigh Stewart.

Lauren Sánchez to read from 'The Fly Who Flew to Space' at Barnes & Noble

AT BOOKWORKS

Author-illustrator Zahra Marwan will read and sign her new children’s book “The Sunflowers: Vincent van Gogh’s Search for Beauty” at 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, at Bookworks.

The book is described as a story of friendship and persistence.

Bookworks is located at 4022 Rio Grande Blvd. NW.

AT TREASURE HOUSE BOOKS & GIFTS

Treasure House Books & Gifts hosts two author events this week.

From 1:30-3:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 15, Rachel Bate will sign copies of her book “Hatch Chile Willie.”

And from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, Corrales author Benjamin Radford will talk about and sign his book “America the Fearful: Media and the Marketing of National Panics.” Radford explores such panics as crime, immigration, police and society’s degradation that have become pervasive in this century. The book records the repercussions of what he calls a toxic phenomenon and offers evidence-based solutions.

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

IN SANTA FE

Collected Works will host two literary events this week.

At 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 15, poet James Thomas Stevens and two rising student-poets, Carmen Wiley and Emerald GoingSnake, will read from their work. The event is titled “Generational IAIA.”

At 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 17, Mirabai Starr, author of “Ordinary Mysticism: Your Life as Sacred Ground,” will be in conversation about her book with author-screenwriter William Broyles.

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

IN TAOS AND ALBUQUERQUE

Novelist Laura Pritchett will discuss her new books “Playing with (Wild)fire” and “Three Keys” at 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20, at SOMOS Salon, 108 Civic Plaza Drive, Taos. She will share the stage with inaugural New Mexico poet laureate Levi Romero.

Then at 6 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 22, at Bookworks, the Leopold Writing Program will present “Writing the Wild: Laura Pritchett” and her new novels. The bookstore is at 4022 Rio Grande Blvd. NW.

AT SOMOS SALON

Zach Hively of Abiquiú will talk about his new book, “Call Me Zach Hively Because That Is My Name” at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 17, at SOMOS Salon, 108 Civic Plaza Drive. The book is a collection of his “Fool’s Gold” columns.

AUTHOR EVENT

Tim Amsden will read from and sign his new book “Love Letter to Ramah: Living Beside New Mexico’s Trail of the Ancients” at 1 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 15, at Old School Gallery. The book recounts Tim and Lucia Amsden’s two decades in the Ramah Valley in western New Mexico and tells of the rich human and natural history of the area.

The gallery is located two miles east of El Morro National Monument on New Mexico Highway 53, Mile Marker 46.

— David Steinberg / For the Journal