2012 Women Writers Series event list

Women’s Writers Series-

Winter, 2012

Location: Avli Restaurant

 Avli Restaurant

Avli Restaurant 566 Chestnut Street, Winnetka

For Reservations, please call The Book Stall at 847-446-8880
or email events@thebookstall.com.

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January 24th 10-11:30 a.m.

SALLY BEDELL SMITH

Coffee and Sweets at The Book Stall for Sally Bedell Smith and her new book, Elizabeth The Queen. $32.00  includes 10% discount on book. *NOTE: Sally Bedell Smith will be at The BOOK STALL.

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Friday, February 11:45 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
ALI WENTWORTH

 Ali Wentworth and her new book, Ali In Wonderland.- $46.00

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Tuesday, February 28 11:45 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

MARGOT LIVESEY

Margot Livesey and her new book, Flight of Gemma Hardy. $46.00 

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Tuesday, March 20 11:45 a.m.- 1:30 p.m.

SIOBAN FALLON

Sioban Fallon returning to discuss her novel You Know When The Men Are Gone in paperback. $35.00 Avli Restaurant 566 Chestnut Street, Winnetka

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Monday, April 2  11:45 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
JACQUELINE WINSPEAR

Jacqueline Winspear on her fourth visit to Winnetka with her new novel, Elegy For Eddie: A Maisie Dobbs Novel.  -$45.00

Lunch Reservation includes lunch and book with 10% discount.

For Reservations, please call The Book Stall-

847-446-8880 or EMAIL events@thebookstall.com.

*NOTE: Sally Bedell Smith will be at The BOOK STALL.

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All luncheons costs are shown above. 

Please call us to make your reservation, 847-446-8880.

Happy Birthday, Wallace Stevens!

The great modern poet Wallace Stevens was born on this day 130 years ago. In time for his birthday, Knopf has published a superbly edited volume of Stevens' Selected Poems. Here's an old favorite:

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

I
Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.

II
I was of three minds,
Like a tree
In which there are three blackbirds.

III
The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds.
It was a small part of the pantomime.

IV
A man and a woman
Are one.
A man and a woman and a blackbird
Are one.

V
I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.

VI
Icicles filled the long window
With barbaric glass.
The shadow of the blackbird
Crossed it, to and fro.
The mood
Traced in the shadow
An indecipherable cause.

VII
O thin men of Haddam,
Why do you imagine golden birds?
Do you not see how the blackbird
Walks around the feet
Of the women about you?

VIII
I know noble accents
And lucid, inescapable rhythms;
But I know, too,
That the blackbird is involved
In what I know.

IX
When the blackbird flew out of sight,
It marked the edge
Of one of many circles.

X
At the sight of blackbirds
Flying in a green light,
Even the bawds of euphony
Would cry out sharply.

XI
He rode over Connecticut
In a glass coach.
Once, a fear pierced him,
In that he mistook
The shadow of his equipage
For blackbirds.

XII
The river is moving.
The blackbird must be flying.

XIII
It was evening all afternoon.
It was snowing
And it was going to snow.
The blackbird sat
In the cedar-limbs.

Wine Tasting and Book Signing

Concurrent with Fabio Viviani's signing, Anthony Terlato, chairman of Terlato Wines International of Lake Bluff, will serve Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio, a wine that has been on the wine list at Café Firenze for many years. The chairman of the prestigious Terlato Wine Group will also be signing Taste: A Life in Wine, his book recounting his 50-year love affair with wine and the pursuit of perfection in a glass.

There's still time to sign up for tomorrow 7/15 @ 7 p.m.

Call the store to sign-up for this free workshop if you're getting ready to publish a book, or want powerful marketing strategies to keep your book selling well.