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| BOOKENDS Whether you welcome the Calgary Stampede or dread it, the event provides plenty of opportunity to eat (free food). Whet your appetite Thursday, July 2 at Chapters Westhills with the authors of Cowboy Country Cookbook - David and Barb Poulsen, and Lauren Hitchner - and find out if real ranchers eat candy floss, corn dogs and mini-dougnuts. The Authors Out Loud series at Pages on Kensington (1135 Kensington Road NW) continues this week with readings by three Canadian authors. Bea Gonzalez of Toronto will read from her new novel, The Bitter Taste of Time, on Tuesday, July 7 at 7:30 p.m. The novel is set in Northern Spain - the country Gonzalez previously called home - from 1920 to the present and tells the story of a family of remarkable women who are forced to turn their house into a pensión, bringing Spanish Civil War strangers, demons and trouble (that usually comes in the form of a man and almost always on a Friday). On Thursday, July 9 at 7: 30 p.m., Victoria's Mark Jarman reads from his new book of short stories, New Orleans is Sinking, which critics have called "dizzyingly energetic" and "wonderfully fierce and funny." Riding shotgun for the event, Calgary's own Rajinderpal S. Pal will also read from his upcoming book of poetry, Pappaji Wrote Poetry in a Language I Can Not Read. (If you have information for Bookends, please fax Fast Forward at: 244-1431.) |