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Larry Baker visits to read from A Good Man. Harry Ducharme is at the end of his rope. Booze and bad decisions have taken him from the A-list of talk radio fame down to a tiny cinder-block station, WWHD, in St. Augustine, Florida. He talks, mostly to himself, from 10pm to 2am. Not sure anybody is listening, reading books and poetry that he likes, not caring if anyone agrees with him, playing golden-oldies from the sixties, and wondering how he got there. Above all, he is convinced he is not a good man. Then, as a hurricane pounds north Florida, Harry gets a visitor. An old black man who calls himself Peter Prophet, announcing the imminent arrival of a New Child of God. Harry is a bit skeptical, and his role in the New Child’s arrival eventually becomes intertwined with politics, Iraq, 9/11, old-time religion, and classic American literature from writers like Flannery O'Connor and Emily Dickinson, as well as the music of Harry Chapin. A good man is always hard to find, but Harry Ducharme finally succeeds as he meets the New Child of God in a final and unforgettable scene of death and redemption. Larry Baker is the author of The Flamingo Rising which was adapted by Hallmark for a television movie. He currently resides in Iowa City, Iowa.
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Join us at McIntyre’s for the second meeting of the new McIntyre’s-sponsored book club, Bookends. Our book club continues with a discussion of John Updike's A Month of Sundays as we further explore the themes of sin and society. Until this meeting, McIntyre’s will offer a 20% discount on this title. We will be tying this discussion together with Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.
About Bookends Book Club
Bookends' moderator Wayne Pond is the former director of UNC's Department of Humanities and Human Values. Bookends is a departure from the usual one-book-at-a-time format and instead, it offers a taste of great vintages (metaphorically, so as to keep our wits about us) in original as well as newly-fashioned vessels. That is, Bookends will present lively and engaging discussions focusing on pairs of novels (or short stories or poems) that explore noteworthy literary themes from both classic and contemporary perspectives. For more information about Bookends, call (919) 542-3030.
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Mark Hosler joins us to discuss Shackles of Faith. Hosler followed Elroy Godfrey, a man thought to be anointed by the Holy Spirit. Surrounded by supposed Christians and reeling from a budding romance, Mark felt certain he had found his Garden of Eden at last. Pastor Elroy Godfrey, the charismatic leader of a religious cult, captivated Mark, and he readily accepted his new spirituality. But after thirteen years of living sequestered from the real world, Mark could not ignore the 'red flags' warning him that evil was lurking in his pastor's heart. Shackles of Faith is the self-written, true-life account of Mark Hosler, a middle-aged man excommunicated from a religious cult for questioning his pastor's ways. Mark's story exposes the tragedy of an innocent man who lost his wife and son, his home, job, and all the dreams he had for his future. Shackles of Faith is a story offering hope to those who may have been, or may currently be, a victim of a cult. Mark Hosler lives in Pittsboro, NC.
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McIntyre’s welcomes author Howard Frank Mosher to read from Walking to Gatlinburg, a stunning and lyrical Civil War thriller the tells the spellbinding story of survival, wilderness adventure, mystery, and love in the time of war.
Howard Frank Mosher is the author of ten books. His novel A Stranger in the Kingdom won the New England Book Award for Fiction and was made into a movie, as were his novels Disappearance and Where the Rivers Flow North. A recipient of the Literature Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Mosher lives in Vermont.
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McIntyre’s hosts author Ansie Baird to read from In Advance of All Parting.
“In Ansie Baird's debut collection In In Advance of All Parting, the winner of the fourteenth annual White Pine Press Poetry Prize, formal feeling and Baird's own grief-tempered voice lead us from the fissures of legacy and marriage, through the epiphanies of art and the sorrows of loss, to the "wild interiority" of her own spirit. Although Baird has been one of the Buffalo area's most highly regarded and widely published poets over the past three and a half decades, In Advance of All Parting is her first full-length collection. Half a lifetime in the making, this book is well worth the wait.” - RD Phol, The Buffalo News.
Ansie Baird holds degrees from Vassar College and SUNY Amherst where she received her MA in English and won first prize in the University’s Academy of American Poets contest. She is Poet in Residence and a part-time English teacher at The Buffalo Seminary, a non-sectarian secondary school in Buffalo, where she has taught for the past twenty five years. She has also taught for Just Buffalo Literary Center in their Writers In Education program for the past twenty two years, conducting workshops in elementary, middle and high schools in the Buffalo area. Her work has been published in The Paris Review, Western Humanities Review, The Southern Review, The Denver Quarterly, Poetry Northwest, The South Dakota Review, The Quarterly, The Recorder and a number of other journals.
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The fourth Sunday afternoon of each month McIntyre’s features a published member of the NC Poetry Society reading and discussing their work. This month’s event features Marty Silverthorne and Nancy King.
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Join Girls Rock NC in The Barn at Fearrington for their third annual silent auction to reaise funds for scholorships and afterschool programs. The event will feature music from Rebecca and The Hi-Tones, a reading by author Marianne Gingher, hors d'oeuvres and cash bar, and a great selection up for bid. Auction items come from local and national artists, restaurants, hotels, teachers, and wellness providers. Tickets are $10 and are available in advance. For more information visit www.girlsrocknc.org. | |  |
Join us at The Old Granary Restaurant for our popular Evening Out Dinner Series! These special dinners, occurring the last Wednesday of each month, feature delightful three-course menus for just $30 per guest, or $45 with wine pairings selected by Wine Director Maximilian Kast. Created by Fearrington Executive Chef Colin Bedford, the menus for these dinners highlight fresh local produce and seasonal flavors. For reservations, call (919) 542-2121.
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