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  • ARTSPEAKS Courageous Young Voices

    The Historic Thomas Center 302 N.E. 6th Avenue, Gainesville, Florida, United States

      WAG will provide refreshments for this event.

  • Author Richard Gartee to Speak at Millhopper Library

    Millhopper Library, Meeting Room A 3145 NW 43rd St,, Gainesville, FL, United States

    Richard Gartee will present his award-winning novel, Ragtime Dudes in a Thin Place, on Sunday, May 19, in Meeting Room A of the Millhopper Library from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. The reading is free and open to the public. Prepublication, the book won the Royal Palm Literary Award First … Read More

  • Local Author Series – Gail Rose Thompson

    Alachua County Library Headquarters, Meeting Room A Rm. B, 401 E Univ. Ave., Gainesville, FL, United States

    Note: Held in Meeting Room B of the Alachua Library Headquarters Branch Gail Rose Thompson will present her nonfiction Iran from Crown to Turban, relating tales of life in Iran during the time of the Pahlavi Crown, the revolution and post-revolutionary times. Her images of the country are far different … Read More

  • Lola Haskins to Read from New Book

    Alachua County Library Headquarters Downtown 401 E. University Ave., 4th Floor, Gainesville, FL, United States

    On Wednesday evening, October 2, Author Lola Haskins will read from her new book, Asylum: Improvisations on John Clare, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press (2019). Come enjoy the program, which is free. A book signing will follow. Haskins’ other works include How Small, Confronting Morning (Jacar, 2016), The … Read More

  • Bacopa Readings

    Millhopper Library, Meeting Room A 3145 NW 43rd St,, Gainesville, FL, United States

    Come hear readings from Bacopa Literary Review 2019, the print journal published by the Writers Alliance of Gainesville. Local authors who contributed to Bacopa Literary Review will be present to read from their 2019 contributions, including Robbie Curry, James Thompson, Jennifer Grant, Dror Abend-David, Zachary West, Grayson May, Marie Q … Read More

  • Local Author Series – James Williams

    Alachua County Library Headquarters, Meeting Room A 4th Floor, Rm. A, 401 E Univ. Ave., Gainesville, FL

    Author James F. Williams will discuss and read from his first novel, The Pedestrians, a wry, social science-fiction thriller. Set in 2097's Manhattan Island City, a gated community, data hunter Dale Evans tracks evidence to solve a brutal murder on Wall Street, the city’s red-light district. A terrifying plunge from … Read More

  • Local Author Series – Cindy Bertelsen

    Alachua County Library Headquarters, Meeting Room A 4th Floor, Rm. A, 401 E Univ. Ave., Gainesville, FL

    Just in time for Thanksgiving, Cynthia Bertelsen will discuss the challenges of cooking with historic cookbooks, using hands-on instructions from her book A Hastiness of Cooks and examples from the first American cookbook, from 1796, Amelia Simmon’s American Cookery. A skilled cook and culinary historian, Bertelsen is also the author … Read More