Stanley Reads continues this fall with Luis Alberto Urrea’s National Best Seller The House of Broken Angels (2018).

The novel follows the De La Cruz family across two days and through life and death: the matriarch’s funeral and the patriarch’s birthday celebration. Urrea weaves a tale of family mythology, promises, and betrayals that took the De La Cruzes from La Paz, Mexico to San Diego, California. Derek Nnuro, associate curator of special projects, and Amanda Lensing, Senior Living...

Please join us for a reading from Lisa Wells and Rachel Greenwald Smith to celebrate the releases of their books Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World and On Compromise: Art, Politics, and the Fate of an American Ideal. 

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Lydia Millet of the Los Angeles Times says of Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World, “Believers . . . grapples with the question of how to go forward in the shadow of endings — not only our own, but the endings...

Join us at High Ground Cafe to celebrate the release of the Home is Where You Queer Your Heart anthology at the Iowa City Queer Home CookOUT Tour! 

Foglifter, the San Francisco Bay Area’s premier non-profit LGBTQ+ literary arts press, announces the Queer Home CookOUT Tour. Foglifter road trips across the country to collaborate with local bookstores and the contributing writers of the Home is Where You Queer Your Heart anthology in their own hometowns. These contributors have invited a roster of...

Please join us for a reading from Nickolas Butler and Benjamin Percy to celebrate the releases of their books Godspeed and The Ninth Metal.

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Steph Cha, author of Your House Will Pay, calls Godspeed  “A glorious novel, as lyrical as it is suspenseful--breathless, tense, and shimmering with the sweat of desperate men. Butler delivers mystery and tragedy against a beautiful, inhospitable backdrop, anchored in the struggles of a thrummingly vivid cast of...