{"id":70175,"date":"2021-04-21T01:33:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T05:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=70175"},"modified":"2021-04-21T11:53:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T15:53:05","slug":"independent-bookstore-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2021\/04\/21\/independent-bookstore-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent Bookstore Day: Saturday April 24"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Independent Bookstore Day!<\/span><\/h2>\n

Saturday April 24<\/strong> is Independent Bookstore Day<\/strong>— to celebrate we are planning an outdoor All DAY SEED & PLANT SWAP. Come pick out your own wildflower SEED BOMB <\/strong>and spread the beauty. Bring a small plant, plant clippings or seeds and trade for another. Our Plant Swap table will be set up from 11 AM – 5 PM. Please bring only healthy cuttings in a glass jar or paper cup with water. Bring seeds harvested in the past two years in a small plastic or paper envelope and label them.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>From 1:30 PM-3:30 PM<\/strong>, special guest authors Peter Werbe<\/strong> and Jimmy Doom<\/strong> will be signing (and possibly reading, weather permitting) outdoors.<\/p>\n

Peter Werbe<\/strong><\/a> is the author of Summer on Fire<\/em><\/a> a novel of 1967 Detroit, which is now sold out, but we have reserved a couple dozen copies for indie bookstore day.<\/p>\n

The legendary actor and punk rock singer  Jimmy Doom<\/strong><\/a> is the author of Humans, Being<\/em> <\/a>365 one-hundred word dark, weird, quirky, and sometimes disturbing short stories which read like Charles Bukowski had he grown up in Detroit.<\/p>\n

Laura Grimshaw<\/strong><\/a> will be here from 1-5 PM<\/strong> exhibiting Gary Grimshaw poster art and artifacts.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Stephen Mack Jones & Dead of Winter<\/span><\/h2>\n

“Echoes of Raymond Chandler’s banter, and bursts of Dashiell Hammett’s Violence,
\nwith a tip of the porkpie hat to Walter Mosley.”<\/strong> —The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/p>\n

A Special IBD one day release! And We’re Freakin’ Psyched!!<\/span><\/h3>\n

Yes! from 2-4 PM<\/strong> on Saturday, April 24,<\/strong> Stephen Mack Jones will be at Book Beat to sign his latest release Dead of Winter<\/em>. [Oh, Man is this one good!] Act Fast! The book will taken off sale the following day by special agreement with the publisher. We are accepting Pre-Orders for signed copies online now at the Book Beat gallery<\/a>. Copies can be picked up curbside on IBD day after 4 PM, or will be mailed out a day before the official release on May 4th. This is our first public signing in over a year!  Thank you for your support. August Snow is Back!! <\/strong><\/p>\n

PLEASE NOTE:<\/strong> Indoor browsing will be at a slower pace with limits on instore attendance. Please wear a mask, practice social distancing, and bring seeds, plants or plant cuttings for sharing!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Celebrate National Poetry Month on Bookstore Day Evening<\/span><\/h3>\n

On Saturday the 24th at 7:00 PM,<\/strong> Book Beat will be hosting an online poetry webinar with Special Guests; Edward Hirsch, Maria Mazziotti Gillian, Dunya Mikhail, Diane DeCillis, M. L. Liebler, and Zilka Joseph.<\/strong>This is a FREE virtual Zoom webinar with advance registration online now at Eventbrite<\/strong><\/a>. Signed books by the poets will be available in store.<\/p>\n

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It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.<\/span>
\n–Rainer Maria Rilke<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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