Norwich Bookstore: Chess Story, poetry, Boreal Wilderland

Subject: Author Events at the Norwich Bookstore this week!

We're thrilled to present this week's author events at the Norwich Bookstore! As always, these events are free and open to the public, and we hope you'll join us! Tuesday, August 18 at 6pm The Deep Cuts Book Club Chess Story by Stefan Zweig In-Store Event! A book club celebrating overlooked classics hosted by Emma Kaas. Meets every third Tuesday of the month. Our August pick is Chess Story by Stefan Zweig! Get 20% off this month’s book July 21 - Aug 18! Travelers by ship from New York to Buenos Aires find that on board with them is the world champion of chess, an arrogant and unfriendly man. They come together to try their skills against him and are soundly defeated. Then a mysterious passenger steps forward to advise them and their fortunes change. How he came to possess his extraordinary grasp of the game of chess and at what cost lie at the heart of Zweig's story. Wednesday, August 19 at 7pm Polly Giantonio with Ina Anderson Remember the Sweetness & Sky Furniture In-Store Event! Join poet Polly Giantonio for a celebration of her debut collection Remember the Sweetness! Polly will be joined by Ina Anderson who will be reading from her collection Sky Furniture. Remember the Sweetness is a retrospective poetry debut about the beauty of the invisible and the language of the heart. “A deeply personal exploration of memory, family, and the fleeting moments that shape our lives.” —Jim Bennett, managing editor of PoetryKit.org “What sort of thing is a life? This thing sourced at the whim of two other lives soon gone…” What is a life and who does it answer to? Ina Anderson’s poems embrace connection with myriad other lives: a homeless veteran, a migrant, a weaver in a carpet factory in India. She conjures an imagined, yet-unborn great-granddaughter in an unimaginable future world. All are part of one human family, bound in mutual responsibility to “this thing,” this life. Sky Furniture carries us through a life resonant with care, close awareness, and ample joy. Deftly rendered scenes frame deep human concern, and profound love for what is. This book is a testament of hope. – Cynthia Huntington, Finalist, National Book Award in Poetry, Professor Emeritus at Dartmouth College. Polly Giantonio’s poems have appeared in various journals including the Comstock Review, Café Review, and Poets & Writers. She lives in rural Vermont and has led writing workshops for the Vermont Arts Council, the Central Vermont Council on Aging, and the Vermont Community Foundation. Ina Anderson was born and raised in Cumbria in the northwest of England. She has now lived in Vermont for many years. Her first work was in editing scientific journals, including the Journal of Neurosurgery, and Icarus: International Journal of Solar System Science, with editor Carl Sagan. She later took to teaching, spending over twenty years at the Community College of Vermont as a faculty member and student advisor. Ina’s poems have appeared in many publications, including Birchsong, This Place I Know, When All This Is Over, The Mountain Troubadour, Poem Town Randolph, and Literary North. Several of her poems appeared in the Pie Poets anthologies, Perhaps It Was the Pie, 2014, and The Party Cabinet, 2023. Her first collection, Journey Into Space, published in 2017 by Antrim House, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Saturday, August 22 at 2pm Rob Mullen Boreal Wilderland: Art, Science, and Adventure in Earth's Greatest Wilderness In-Store Event! Join author and artist Rob Mullen in celebrating his new book Boreal Wilderland! From the Wilderness River Expedition Art Fellowship (WREAF) comes this visually spectacular celebration of the world’s largest - and most overlooked - terrestrial ecosystem with a foreword by Robert Bateman. The boreal forest, a vast northern wilderness that encircles the globe, is three times the size of the Amazon, has the photosynthetic output of over a trillion trees, and is within a day’s drive of major urban centers such as New York City, Chicago,