June, 2000 Schedule of Events

• CHILDREN’S SUMMER READING PROGRAM
• RAM DASS AT THE CHAUTAUQUA AUDITORIUM June 16, 2000, 8:00 p.m.

MARTHA SHERRILL
Tuesday, June 6, 7:30 p.m.

Catharine Burroughs was a psychic and spiritual advisor in suburban Maryland when a visiting Tibetan religious leader “recognized her as the reincarnation of a sixteenth-century Tibetan saint.” The Buddha from Brooklyn (Random House, $25.95) by MARTHA SHERRILL tells the story of Catharine, now renamed Jetsunma, from her working class childhood to her founding of America’s largest Tibetan Buddhist monastery.

The Buddha from Brooklyn

JOHN GIERACH
Wednesday, June 7, 7:30 p.m.

Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders (Simon & Schuster, $25.00) collects forty of JOHN GIERACH’s finest essays on fishing from six of his books. These essays are seasoned by a keen sense of observation and a deep knowledge and love of fishing lore, leavened by a wonderfully wry sense of humor. Gierach often begins with an observation that soon leads to something below the surface, which he finds and successfully lands. As he says, writing is a lot like fishing.

Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders

ANNE WALDMAN
Thursday, June 8, 7:30 p.m.

Naropa Distinguished Professor and internationally renowned poet ANNE WALDMAN’s new collection is a set of high-spirited meditations on the delights and pitfalls of traditional and nontraditional marriages. Marriage: A Sentence (Penguin, $15.95) weaves together folklore, autobiographical detail, memory, dream, politics, and the play between opposites and dualities.

Marriage: A Sentence

"WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT?" MAGAZINE SPECIAL PRESENTATION
Tuesday, June 13, 7:30 p.m.

Join the editors of "WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT?" magazine in a lively discussion of their latest issue: What is ego? Exploring the nature of this illusive phantom of the psyche, they speak with Indian saint Ammachi, Zen master Sheng-yen, Yogi Amrit Desai, and others. The presentation will feature audio clips from some of this issue’s dynamic interviews and stories of other fascinating interviews form past issues.

JASMIN LEE CORI
Wednesday, June 14, 7:30 p.m.

In The Tao of Contemplation (Samuel Weiser, $12.95), local resident JASMIN LEE CORI takes the essence of contemplative life, and combines it with the naturalness, spontaneity, and joy of a Taoist approach. With careful, clear-sighted explanations and practical exercises, she draws us gently inward to the kingdom within. Without the interference of mind and emotion, awareness becomes clear. In this awareness we can come to know “things as they are.”

The Tao of Contemplation

LARRY WATSON
Thursday, June 15, 7:30 p.m.

In his newest novel Laura (Pocket Books, $24.95), LARRY WATSON explores the effect one enigmatic woman has over Paul Finley, who first lays eyes on her when he is eleven years old and awakes from a dream to find her standing at the foot of his bed. Although Laura is an intense twenty-two year old on the brink of seducing his father, Paul is smitten…and so begins nearly a lifetime of one man’s longing for an elusive love.

Laura

RAM DASS
Friday, June 16, 8:00 p.m. at Chautauqua Auditorium
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Nearly 30 years ago, an entire generation sought a new way of life, looking for meaning and peace in a way that no one had thought to look for these things before. This was the Woodstock generation and they were led on their quest by one man. RAM DASS changed the way we thought about life. He showed us all in one of the greatest spiritual classics of this century how to begin to find peace within ourselves in his bestseller Be Here Now.

In Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying (Riverhead Books, $22.22), Ram Dass again blazes a new trail, inviting us to join him on the next stage of the journey. This part has been particularly difficult for him: as he was finishing a draft of the manuscript, he was stopped in his tracks by a massive cerebral hemorrhage that he was not expected to survive. But survive it he did with his humor intact and a bigger heart than ever. In Still Here, he helps us explore the joy, pain, and opportunities of the ripening seasons of our lives.

This event is being presented in collaboration with the Colorado Chautauqua Association. Tickets are $15, and are available at the Boulder Book Store, Chautauqua Box Office, Boulder Theater Box Office, Colorado Music Festival Box Office, Tickets.com, and TicketMaster. Seating is general admission, and the doors will open at 7:30 p.m. Part of the proceeds from each ticket will benefit the Community Learning Center and the Naropa University’s Gerentology and Long Term Care Management Master’s Program.

Special Book Discount with Ticket: Present your ticket at the book store or at the auditorium the night of the event to receive $5 off the cover price of Still Here. The book discount is available through June 16.

Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying

TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS
Monday, June 19, 7:30 p.m.

TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS is as passionate about art as she is about the environment. During a trip to Spain she became an ardent fan of Hieronymus Bosch’s enigmatic fifteenth-century Flemish masterpiece “The Garden of Earthly Delights.” In her remarkable new book Leap (Pantheon, $25.00) she guides the reader through the medieval triptych of the painting, simultaneously uncovering in each the connections between the painting and her own life.

Leap

BILL BRYSON
Tuesday, June 20, 7:30 p.m.

Taking readers on a rollicking ride far beyond packaged-tour routes, In a Sunburned Country (Broadway, $25.00) introduces a place where interesting things happen all the time. Leaving no Vegemite unsavored, readers will accompany BILL BRYSON as he dodges jellyfish while learning to surf at Bondi Beach, discovers that fish can climb trees, dehydrates in deserts, and tells the true story of the rejected Danish architect who designed the Sydney Opera House.

In a Sunburned Country

JOYCE JOHNSON
Wednesday, June 21, 7:30 p.m.

Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters 1957-1958 (Viking, $24.95) is a vivid and moving collection of letters documenting the on-again, off-again relationship between two major figures of the Beat Generation: Jack Kerouac and Joyce Johnson. The letters reveal not only the details of their twenty-two month relationship, but also an intimate portrait of the exciting artistic and cultural milieu of the late 1950’s in New York.

Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters 1957-1958

ANDREW COHEN
Thursday, June 22, 7:30 p.m.

Embracing Heaven & Earth (Moksha Press, $14.95) is an original contemporary expression of the timeless wisdom of Enlightenment. The fruition of ANDREW COHEN’s fifteen years as a spiritual teacher, this book presents a radical psychology of liberation. It takes the reader on a journey of self-discovery that reveals not only the liberating fact of our true nature, but the way to live that truth in this world.

SHERMAN ALEXIE
Wednesday, June 28, 7:30 p.m.

SHERMAN ALEXIE, author of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, will present his latest work, a collection of stories entitled The Toughest Indian in the World (Atlantic Monthly Press, $24.00). In these stories, we meet the kind of American Indians we rarely see in literature, the kind who pay their bills, hold down jobs, and fall in and out of love. The stories speak of a life we laugh at and cry for.

The Toughest Indian in the World

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven ($ 13.00)

CHUCK COLLINS
Thursday, June 29, 7:30 p.m.

Robin Hood Was Right: A Guide to Giving Your Money for Social Change (W.W. Norton, $28.95) is about how to give money to create a better world by giving in creative ways, targeting the root causes of problems. Co-author CHUCK COLLINS shows us how to give in ways that build bridges, and transform us as givers as well as improve the quality of our communities, deepening our connection to one another.

Robin Hood Was Right: A Guide to Giving Your Money for Social Change

Books not purchased at Boulder Book Store will be signed only if time permits. If you cannot attend an event but would like an autographed copy, please call or email us to order one.

Thank you for supporting the 2000 Boulder Book Store Reading Series!

If you cannot attend an event, but would like an autographed copy, please call us to order one (personalized copies must be prepaid).

Author events are also supported by your purchase of the author's books. These purchases are tracked and used by the publishers in decisions about other authors who might visit.

IAll events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Events are subject to change or cancellation. Please call us to confirm on the day of the event. For more information, call 447-2074. If you are unable to use the stairs to the second floor where our events are held, please call and ask about our closed circuit television service on the main floor.

CHILDREN’S SUMMER READING PROGRAM

Boulder Book Store has teamed up with Ben & Jerry’s in Boulder to bring elementary school aged children (grades 1-5) our SUMMER READING PROGRAM!

Here’s how it works:

1. Register with the children’s room bookseller and get a membership card.
2. Read an age-appropriate chapter book (no picture books, please)
3. Write a short (50-100 word) book report and turn it in to get a stamp on your membership card, and a certificate for a free Ben & Jerry’s ice cream cone!

We will post the best reports in the store, and use them as recommendations for other children of the same age. Books need not be purchased at Boulder Book Store. The program will run from June 1 through August 30, 2000.

*NOTE: If you puchase this title through our website, due to a database problem the ISBN for the book will show on your order without title or price information. The price will also not be added to the total purchase. We will fill your order as usual, and we are sorry for any confusion. (Click the back button on your browser to return to where you were.)

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