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	Ticket to Exile Adam David Miller   - Monday, Oct 1   - 7:30 PM A Heyday Press Event This is a memoir by poet Adam David Miller about his experience growing up in the Jim Crow South. The story opens with Millers arrest for attempted rape for pasing a white girl a note that reads “I would like to get to know you better.” Adam David Miller has worked in the arts for four decades as a teacher, writer, poet, editor, publisher, and radio and television producer. Heyday is October’s Indie Press of the Month at Modern Times Bookstore. Since its founding in 1974, Heyday Institute has occupied a unique niche in the publishing world, specializing in books and other educational projects that foster an understanding of the history, literature, art, environment, social issues, and culture of California and the West. In celebration of this press, MT is hosting a number of Heyday events in October and selling ALL Heyday books at 15% off for the entire month. top of page
	Our People, Our Land, Our Images: International Indigenous Photography Various Contributors   - Monday, October 8   - 7:30 PM A Heyday Press Event Twenty-six indigenous photographers present images that are fresh, provocative, iconoclastic, surprising, and—in the broadest and deepest meaning of the word—authentic. Their works range from the artful studio portraits of Benjamin A. Haldane (Tsimshian), who photographed Native communities throughout southeast Alaska and British Columbia in the late 1800s and early 1900s, to the cutting-edge digital photographs of contemporary Native artists. Heyday is October’s Indie Press of the Month at Modern Times Bookstore. Since its founding in 1974, Heyday Institute has occupied a unique niche in the publishing world, specializing in books and other educational projects that foster an understanding of the history, literature, art, environment, social issues, and culture of California and the West. In celebration of this press, MT is hosting a number of Heyday events in October and selling ALL Heyday books at 15% off for the entire month. top of page
	Viz. Inter-Arts: A Trans-Genre Anthology Dodie Bellamy, Taylor Brady, Amanda Davidson, Rob Halpern, and Kevin Killian   - Tuesday, October 9   - 7:00 PM Book Launch Party! Viz is a one-of-a-kind anthology that features cross-genre work from the 60s to the present by over 100 artists and writers who transgress genre boundaries and forge new forms. Our all-star line up of literary heavy hitters includes Poet's Theater performances and other inter-arts contributor collaborations. top of page
	F_STOP: A Seal Press reading *Litquake Lit Crawl Event*   - Saturday, October 13   - 7:00 PM As part of the Litquake Lit Crawl, join the authors of Seal Press for a lively discussion of such provocative and wide-ranging topics as fashion, fucking, feminism, felines, freestyling and felonies. Seal Press publishes women writers and provides a forum for feminist issues. top of page
	I Have Designed This for You James Meetze   - Thursday, October 18   - 7:30 PM Ecstatic Monkey Reading Series James Meetze is the author of I Have Designed This for You as well as three chapbooks. His poems have been included in the anthologies Involuntary Vision and Bay Poetics. Of I Have Designed This For You, Peter Gizzi says Meetze's poems "can radiate the warmth and transport of an endless California sky" and Eileen Myles, "It seems the state as big as France and so very different has produced a poet 'sparkling new like light on the ocean.'" top of page
	Peace Parks: Conservation and Conflict Resolution Belinda Sifford   - Friday, October 19   - 7:00 PM NCOC Law School Program Event Will greater global concern for the environment promote peace across borders, or, alternatively, have trans-border conservation efforts built diplomacy in the international arena? Join Belinda Sifford, a contributing Peace Parks author and adjunct professor of law at New College of California, for a spirited conversation on the global implication of this study. She will be joined by several New College law students. Light refreshments, too! top of page
	Childcare Collective All-Member Meeting   - Monday, October 22   - 7:00 PM The Bay Area Childcare Collective provides trained, competent, and politicized childcare providers to grassroots organizations and movements composed of and led by immigrant women, low-income women, and women of color. General meetings are held quarterly at Modern Times on the 4th Monday of the month. top of page
	Spanish Book Group / Círculo de Lectores de Literatura en Español   - Tuesday, October 23   - 7:00 PM Join us for our Spanish language book group on the fourth Tuesday of each month. A mix of native speakers and advanced level hablantes, the group has been meeting in the Mission District on a monthly basis for eight years. Books are available for 10% off at the store. The discussions are lively and fully in Spanish. October's selection was Pudor by Santiago Roncagliolo. However, delivery of the book has been delayed. So instead will be discussing four reviews of the book Santa Evita by Tomas Eloy Martinez, including comments by Martinez himself. You do not need to have read the book to be able to discuss the reviews. Here are the links to the articles we will be discussing: http://www.literatura.org/TEMartinez/Santa_Evita.html http://www.literatura.org/TEMartinez/temnyt.html http://www.literatura.org/TEMartinez/crivll.html http://www.literatura.org/TEMartinez/cricf.html We will read Pudor at another time to be announced. top of page
	What is the What (The paperback release!) Dave Eggers   - Wednesday, October 24   - 7:30 PM Join acclaimed local author (and Modern Times neighbor) Dave Eggers for this reading and party in celebration of the paperback release of his most recent bestseller! Based closely on true experiences of the Lost Boys of Sudan, who fled their war-ravaged country to come to the United States in the mid-1980s, this novel is heartbreaking and arresting, filled with adventure, suspense, tragedy, and, finally, triumph. "Dave Eggers has made the outlines of the tragedy in East Africa . . . not only sharp and clear but indelible. An eloquent testimony to the power of storytelling, What Is the What is an extraordinary work of witness, and of art.” — The New York Times Book Review top of page
	1 translator, 1 editor, 1 cultural activist, 3 poets, and 4 books Jen Hofer, Patrick F. Durgin, Dolores Dorantes   - Friday, October 26   - 7:30 PM Touching on issues of linguistic, cultural, aesthetic, and political translation and transposition, these three authors will read from their recent books: Hannah Weiner's Open House edited by Durgin; sexoPUROsexoVELOZ and Septiembre by Dorantes; and The Route by Durgin and Hofer. top of page
	Under the Dragon: California's New Culture Lonny Shavelson   - Monday, October 29   - 7:30 PM A Heyday Press Event The old paradigm of the melting pot and phrases like "ethnic diversity" can no longer describe the freedom with which more and more Americans are modifying and assimilating cultural elements across ethnic lines. Under the Dragon is a fascinating look at the way individuals are building their own identities from an increasingly diverse pool. Heyday is October’s Indie Press of the Month at Modern Times Bookstore. Since its founding in 1974, Heyday Institute has occupied a unique niche in the publishing world, specializing in books and other educational projects that foster an understanding of the history, literature, art, environment, social issues, and culture of California and the West. In celebration of this press, MT is hosting a number of Heyday events in October and selling ALL Heyday books at 15% off for the entire month. top of page Go to the November Calendar