This month we're discussing the story collection Brownsville by Oscar Casares\, who made an appearance at Brazos in August. If you missed his signing\, don't fret -- he'll be here again in May for Inprint's Brown Reading Series\, this time with Houston fictionist extraordinaire Gwendolyn Zepeda.
The book club is always free and open to the public.
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If you missed him here at Brazos\, now you can have the pleasure of seeing Oscar Casares in the comfort of Sylvia's Enchilada Kitchen\, his sister's famous restaurant. Join the Casares family at the new location\, 6401 Woodway (one block east of Voss).
Oscar Casares will read from his new novel\, Amigoland\, a story of two brothers approaching old age and the road trip they take to settle a long-time feud.
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In Traffic\: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us)\, a brilliant\, lively\, and eye-opening investigation\, Tom Vanderbilt examines the perceptual limits and cognitive underpinnings that make us worse drivers than we think we are. He demonstrates why
plans to protect pedestrians from cars often lead to more accidents. He
uncovers who is more likely to honk at whom\, and why. He explains why
traffic jams form\, outlines the unintended consequences of our quest
for safety\, and even identifies the most common mistake drivers make in
parking lots. Traffic\, a New York Times Notable Book and one of the Best Books of the Year according to The Washington Post\, The Cleveland Plain-Dealer\, and Rocky Mountain News\,
is about more than driving\: it's about human nature. It will change the
way we see ourselves and the world around us\, and it may even make us
better drivers.
Tom Vanderbilt writes about design\, technology\, science and culture for Wired\, Slate\, The New York Times and other publications. He lives in Brooklyn and drives a 2001 Volvo V40. Check out his "\;companion blog"\; to the book\: How We Drive.
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Please join us to celebrate the release of a new anthology of war poetry\, Against Agamemnon\, edited by James Adams. The book contains the work of Fady Joudah (The Earth in the Attic)\, Hayan Charara (The Sadness of Others)\, Andrew Kozma (City of Regret)\, and Sasha West\, among others. We are thrilled to host these four poets for a joint reading and signing. Pick up your copy of Against Agamemnon at Brazos today.
"\;The French Resistance poet Robert Desnos once wrote 'for
the earth is a camp lit by thousands of spiritual fires\,' and
he saw that in times such as his and our own 'one bivouacs all
over the world.' These poems are written by the light of those
fires. We owe a debt of gratitude to James Adams for retrieving
them from our present darkness."\; -- Carolyn Forché
"\;In this dynamic collection\, veterans\, peace activists\, relatives of
service members\, U.S. citizens and people from around the world all
share space as they write the war from multiple perspectives and poetic
approaches\, lyrical\, angry\, hopeful\, and
heartbreaking."\; -- Kazim Ali
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Join Brazos Bookstore for a reading and signing by William Linden of his new book\, The Historical Jesus for Beginners.
The last few decades have seen a resurgence of the scholarly quest for
the historical Jesus -- for the words and deeds that probably can be
attributed to the human Jesus who walked the hills of Galilee some two
thousand years ago. You might not be aware of the recent scholarship\,
and the reason is simple. For the most part\, many scholars write for
and talk to other scholars\, using their own technical language. This
leaves huge numbers of Christians unaware of their discoveries. So even
though you may have studied the Bible for years\, you still may be a
historical Jesus beginner.
After the life of Jesus\, his followers began to develop their memory of
his sayings and actions. Then\, year after year\, and century after
century\, the tradition grew until it became Christianity as it is known
in the twenty-first century. What if we could go back in time and delve
beneath all the layers to find what Christianity would be if it were
based upon the historical Jesus? If you are a person who would like to
begin to be informed\, this book is for you.
"\;This comprehensive and compelling book is a masterful primer of the
historical Jesus for beginners. But is also a valuable resource for
those who have been on the journey for some years."\; -- G. Richard
Wheatcroft
William M. Linden holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Theology from
Oxford University in England and is the Chair of the Board of Directors
of the Foundation for Contemporary Theology in Houston. Mr. Linden has
concentrated his efforts in theology in the scholarly quest for the
historical Jesus -- the human being who walked about Galilee in the
first century\, a person who showed us what God is like and what a human
life full of God is like. For the past three years\, Mr. Linden has been
teaching a course on the historical Jesus in the Rice University School
of Continuing Studies and in various Christian churches in the Houston
area. He is an Associate Member of the Westar Institute in California\,
which sponsors the Jesus Seminar\, the leaders in academic historical
Jesus research. Prior to concentrating his work on the historical
Jesus\, Mr. Linden was a Houston lawyer. He is a retired partner of
Vinson &\; Elkins law firm\, where he specialized in federal income
tax law.