TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12

Signing 5 p.m. at Off Square Books
Reading 7 p.m. at the Oxford Depot

Grisham Visiting Writer
Nick Flynn

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (Norton, pb. 13.95)
Some Ether (Graywolf, pb. 14.00)
Blind Huber (Graywolf, pb. 14.00)

The Judges' statement for the 1999 PEN/ Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry declared, "Nick Flynn's subject-a mother's suicide, a son's peripatetic childhood-could not be more difficult to approach. If [his] poems stand 'close to tragedy,' as Flynn puts it, they also embody the act of survival: syntax and line conspire to pull us past the event, beyond the struggle..."

Buy some of Nick Flynn's books here!

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, Signing/Reception 5 p.m.

Dedra Johnson

SANDRINE'S LETTER TO TOMORROW

(IG Publishing, pb. 14.95)

Straight-A student and voracious reader, nine-year old Sandrine Miller must confront the harshness of life at her home and in mid-1970s New Orleans. This debut novel has been likened to I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and The Bluest Eye for its rich rendering of family life and for capturing the soul and voice of a fascinating fictional character. BUY NOW!


THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 5:30 p.m.

THACKER MOUNTAIN RADIO

Two authors will be reading at this week's Thacker Mountain:

Kim Sunee
TRAIL OF CRUMBS: Hunger, Love and the Search for Home
(Grand Central, hd. 24.99)

Kim Sunee cuts close to the bone with her honest recounting of her abandonment at three years old in Korea, her adoption and childhood in New Orleans, her alienation and identity struggle being the only Asian face in her school, and eventually her relationship with the right man at the wrong time. A writer who conveys the sweet and salty flavors of life. CFR. BUY NOW!

AND

Sara Roahen
GUMBO TALES
(Norton, hd. 24.95)

A celebration of New Orleans' food culture, one specialty at a time. By eating and cooking her way through her unique adopted city, Roahen finds a home. And then Katrina. With humor, poignancy and hope, she conjures up a city that reveled in its food traditions before the storm-and in many ways has been saved by them since. BUY NOW!

With musical guests Giant Bear and Jake Leg Stompers and The Yalobushwhackers.

The TMR website is www.thackermountain.com.

A must-have for all your honeys-a Golden Book trip down memory ***. Take a moment to sharpen your memories with the sweet smells of Valentine's Day. Scratch and sniff the cinnamon, chocolate, perfume, roses and a special surprise at the end. A Scent-Sational Valentine is a fat-free, calorie-free treat for your boys, girls, girlfriends, mommas and grandmothers. Sweet, sweet, sweet! Ages 5 and up. JM. BUY NOW!