Raja Gopal Bhattar to discuss interactive memoir 'Queering Constellations' at Bookworks

AT BOOKWORKS

Raja Gopal Bhattar will discuss and sign their book “Queering Constellations: Mapping This Journey Called Life” at 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 10. It is billed as an interactive memoir of a queer Hindu Buddhist immigrant told through letters, poetry, art and stories. It touches on universal themes of love, loss, self-acceptance and pleasure.

Bhattar is a New Mexico resident.

Bookworks is located at 4022 Rio Grande Blvd. NW.

AT BOOKS ON THE BOSQUE

Joanne Fay Brown will read from her debut poetry collection “Independence Day” at 3 p.m. Saturday, June 14. She will also be in conversation with Santa Fe author James McGrath Morris.

Brown, a Santa Fe resident, was born into a Baltimore family of leftists during the McCarthy Era. Her father was blacklisted the year she was born. She came of age amid the Civil Rights and counterculture movements, political assassinations and anti-Vietnam War protests.

Many of the poems in the collection reflect Brown’s experiences during the turbulent times and show a through line to today’s political climate.

Brown also offers a workshop on “Write to Heal” for northern New Mexico cancer patients and survivors.

Books on the Bosque is located at 6261 Riverside Plaza Lane NW.

AT COLLECTED WORKS

Caroline Fraser will discuss and sign her book “Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers” at 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 10. The book is described as a true-crime history in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Fraser investigates how a new strain of psychopaths that emerged out of the toxic landscape of deadly industrial violence.

Fraser, a Santa Fe resident, grew up in the shadow of Ted Bundy, the most notorious serial murderer of women in American history. In the 1970s, Bundy was one perpetrator amid an explosion of serial rapists and murderers across the region.

She will be in conversation with Alex Heard, executive director of Searchlight New Mexico.

Fraser also wrote “Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder,” which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018.

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

AT SOMOS SALON

SOMOS will host three literary events this week.

At 4 p.m. Sunday, June 8, there will be an LGBTQ+ reading with Victoriano Cárdenas, Amy Boaz and Dani Loumena.

At 6 p.m. Thursday, June 12, Katy Grabel will read from her memoir “The Magician’s Daughter.”

And at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, June 14, poets Elizabeth Burk, Jami Donley and Rae Marie Taylor will read from their work.

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

Raja Gopal Bhattar to discuss interactive memoir 'Queering Constellations' at Bookworks