MEET THE WRITERS.Byline: Karen McCowan The Register-Guard The Seattle area author of two decades of critically acclaimed fiction will headline this year's Authors and Artists Fair at the Eugene Public Library. Laura Kalpakian of Bellingham will read and sign copies of her latest best-seller, "American Cookery" (St. Martin's St. Martin's or St. Martins may refer to:
The free event is Saturday from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the library, 100 W. 10th Ave. In addition to some three dozen authors, the fair also features 31 artists, as well as live music, wine, desserts, a raffle, and a silent auction of decorated bookends. A portion of sales benefits the library's foundation. With this her 10th novel, Kalpakian ventures into the hybrid genre known as ``cook lit.'' Readers of last winter's Readin' in the Rain selection, Diana Abu-Jaber's ``Crescent,'' will be familiar with the form, popularized in 1994's ``Like Water for Chocolate.'' Such novels meet two requirements: They feature at least one character who cooks, and they include recipes. "American Cookery," however, is no formula novel. In it, Kalpakian revisits richly layered characters she introduced 20 years ago in ``These Latter Days.'' Yes, each chapter is followed by a recipe - 27 in all - from the family of the novel's central character. But Kalpakian's vivid, sensory images are not limited to the taste and texture of food. Try not smelling her fictional, small-town Idaho newspaper office, which "reeked of the pleasures of print, of ink, oil, molten metal, wooden floors, cheap paper and cigarette smoke, of typewriter ribbons and wool worn too long.'' Try not feeling the summer sweatiness of a young girl squeezed between adults in a California church pew, feeling the "damp crush of their bodies" when it was so hot, "the hymn book a book containing a collection of hymns, as for use in churches; a hymnal. See also: Hymn bled blue on her fingers." The New Yorker calls Kalpakian ``generous, gritty, sexy, full of lyrical musings, and funny as all get-out all get-out also all get out n. Informal The utmost degree that is possible or even imaginable: "It's snowing like all get-out up here" Hans Thorner. .' The recipes in ``American Cookery'' - Ruth Mason Douglass' California Stuffing, Sister Thorsen's Sourdough Gingerbread gingerbread In architecture and design, elaborately detailed embellishment, either lavish or superfluous. Though the term is occasionally applied to such highly detailed and decorative styles as the Rococo, it usually refers to the hand-carved and -sawn wood ornamentation of , Liza Ruth March's Figs Napoleon - are just frosting frosting the slight graying of the haircoat around the face, particularly muzzle, in dogs with aging and as a regular feature of some breeds such as the Belgian shepherd dog. on an already yummy cake. The author fair Besides Kalpakian, two dozen local authors will sign new books at this year's fair. Among them: Eugene writer Kate Wilhelm Kate Wilhelm (born June 8, 1928) (nee Katie Gertrude Meredith) is a writer whose work has included science fiction, mysteries, and fantasy. She was born in Toledo, Ohio. Her work has been published in Quark (the anthology series), Orbit (anthology series), , with a new courtroom thriller, "Slight of Hand." Best-selling Eastern Oregon Eastern Oregon is a geographical term that is generally taken to mean the area of the state of Oregon east of the Cascade Range, save the region around The Dalles and sometimes Klamath County. The area around Bend is considered to be Central Oregon rather than Eastern Oregon. author Jane Kirkpatrick with her new Oregon Trail Oregon Trail, overland emigrant route in the United States from the Missouri River to the Columbia River country (all of which was then called Oregon). The pioneers by wagon train did not, however, follow any single narrow route. novel, "A Clearing in the Wild." Cottage Grove Cottage Grove, village (1990 pop. 22,935), Washington co., SE Minn., near the St. Croix River; inc. 1965. There is farming (cattle, sheep, corn, and soybeans) and manufacturing (chemicals and machinery). writer Kurt Cyrus with two new children's books, "The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen" and "Mammoths on the Move." Eugene science fiction author Nina Kiriki Hoffman Nina Kiriki Hoffman (born 1955) is an American fantasy writer. She started publishing short stories in 1983, and has since published over 200. Her novels include The Thread that Binds the Bones, The Silent Strength of Stones, A Fistful of Sky, and , with a new young adult novel, ``Spirits That Walk In Shadow,'' and ``Catalyst: A Novel of Alien Contact,'' a paperback for adults. Ted and Marie Baker of Eugene with The Register-Guard's new photography book ``Looking Back: Lane County, Volume 2.'' Brit-born Eugene mystery writer Carola Dunn Carola Dunn (born 14th November 1946 in England) is a English-American writer. She began by writing historical romances but later switched to crime stories. Today she lives and works in Eugene, Oregon. with her latest Daisy Dalrymple murder mystery, ``Gunpowder Plot Gunpowder Plot, conspiracy to blow up the English Parliament and King James I on Nov. 5, 1605, the day set for the king to open Parliament. It was intended to be the beginning of a great uprising of English Catholics, who were distressed by the increased severity of .'' Register-Guard columnist Bob Welch There are a number of famous people of this name including:
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Joe Blakely (``The Tall Firs,'' ``The Bellfountain Giant Killers'') with his new book about construction of the Highway 101, ``Lifting Oregon Out of the Mud.'' Jane Capron with her new murder mystery "Hanky Panky," the fourth in a series set in a Eugene mobile home park. Leigh Anne Jasheway-Bryant with a new humor book, "Yoga for Your Funny Bone: Exercises to Strengthen Your Comedy Writing." Other authors at the event are Judith K. Berg (``The Otter Spirit: A Natural History Story''); Ellen Morris Bishop (`In Search of Ancient Oregon'); Paul Chasman (`The Book of Bob'); 2007 Readin' in the Rain author Chris Chester (``Providence of a Sparrow''); Alan Contreras (``Birds of Lane County''); Linda Crew (``A Heart for Any Fate''); John Daniel (``Rogue River Journal: A Winter Alone''); Jan Eliot (``Not So Picture Perfect: Book Five of the Syndicated Cartoon Stone Soup''); Dan and Barbara Gleason (``Birds - Life on the Wing''); Kenneth Helphand (``Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime.'') Cartographer David Imus (a new map of California's Sierra Nevadas); Edward Jensen (``Trees to Know in Oregon''); Poet Sandra Jensen (``I Saw Us in a Painting,'' ``Artists of the Painted Cave''); Lauren Kessler (``Stubborn Twig,'' ``Clever Girl''); Joseph Lieberman (``The Shooting Game''); Jason Michael Nelson (``A Voice No Longer Silent''); Rosemarie Ostler (``Dewdroppers, Waldos, and Slackers: A Decade-by-Decade Guide to the Vanishing Vocabulary of the Twentieth Century''); Margriet Ruurs (``Me & Martha Black,'' ``Wake Up, Henry Rooster rooster its crowing at dawn heralds each new day. [Western Folklore: Leach, 329] See : Dawn rooster symbol of maleness. [Folklore: Binder, 85] See : Virility !'') Dorcas Smucker (``Ordinary Days: Family Life in a Farmhouse''); Bobbie Snead (``John B. Waldo Judge John Breckenridge Waldo (October 6 1844-September 2 1907) was the 13th Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court from 1884-1886.[1] Waldo also served in the state legislature and later was an important figure in Oregon's conservation movement. : Oregon's John Muir''); Michael Strelow (``The Greening of Ben Brown''); William Sullivan (``100 Hikes in Northwest Oregon and Southwest Washington''); Shirley Tallman (``The Russian Hill Murders''); and Maryana Vollstedt (``Meatloaf.'') Artists Among artists at the fair: Sylvia Beltran (cards and boxes), Sue Bradley (glass), Shirley Collins (photograpy, cards), Bob Devine (painting), Talmadge Doyle (prints), Rhonda Farfen (glass yard art), Kathleen Frazer (jewelry), Michael Fromme (ceramics), Dana Furgerson (woodcarvings), Sharon Gilbert (glass), Barbara Gleason (photos, cards, prints), Megan Haight (handbags), Shannon Hardin (jewerly), Jennifer Holland (jewelry, sketch books), Madeleine Liepe (painting), Susan Linquist (jewelry), Susan Loudermilk (prints), Ellen Morrow (paintings, cards, prints), Judy Ness (fiber art), Chris Paulson (glass), Lynn Peterson (ceramics), Kit Porter (glass), Elaine Pruett (ceramics), Sheri Pyron (jewelry), Pam Schmieding (jewelry, sketch books), Bev Soasey (collage), Christine Sundt (jewelry), Robert Tarr (painting), Sandy Tilcock (letterpress), Valley Calligraphy calligraphy (kəlĭg`rəfē) [Gr.,=beautiful writing], skilled penmanship practiced as a fine art. See also inscription; paleography. European Calligraphy In Europe two sorts of handwriting came into being very early. Guild, Mike Van (painting) and Mel Vincent (cards). Even the recipes stay in character in Laura Kalpakian's new novel, "American Cookery." Notice the narrative form - and literary flourishes - of matriarch Ruth Douglass' 1920s directions for Figs Napoleon With Leaves of Thyme: Use small fresh figs, black. A pint box of them. Wash but do not peel them. Cut them perhaps 2/3 of the way down. In a shallow pan, melt four tablespoons of unsalted butter. Add to this 1/3 to 1/2 cup of honey. Bring to a boil, stirring. Lower heat, add perhaps 12 figs, turning constantly, coating them, till they relax, and release, open and go glossy. Have at hand maybe 2 tablespoons good brandy, Amaretto am·a·ret·to n. pl. am·a·ret·tos An Italian liqueur flavored with almond. [Italian, diminutive of amaro, bitter, from Latin am or Cointreau. Stir in till warmed through. Remove from heat, and just barely cool. Best if served immediately. In a good sized plate, put a scoop of homemade (or premium) vanilla ice cream, ladle figs and honey around it in a kind of moat. Sprinkle around the outside the tiny torn-off leaves of thyme. Excellent. Simple. Lovely. So lovely, you might almost believe these to be leaves of time itself. - From ``American Cookery'' by Laura Kalpakian Excerpted recipe AUTHOR FAIR When: 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday Where: Eugene Public Library, 100 W. 10th Ave |
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