DISCOUNT CLUB SALE
Saturday October 14 and Sunday October 15
All books in the store will be 20% off for discount club members. Shop early and often!
JULIE J. THOMSON
Tuesday, October 17 at 7PM
During its relatively brief existence (1933-1957), Black Mountain College was an experimental liberal arts college that placed the arts at the center of its curriculum with faculty from the American avant-garde such as Josef and Anni Albers, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Buckminster Fuller, Charles Olson, and Robert Creeley. While Black Mountain College is best known for its contributions to the visual arts, literature, music, and dance, Begin to See: The Photographers of Black Mountain College shows how photography was also an important part of the curriculum. Josef Albers and Hazel Larsen Archer played important roles in this, including inviting many notable photographers to teach during the college's summer sessions.
Julie J. Thomson is an independent scholar and curator who lives in Durham. She has been researching and writing about photographers at Black Mountain College since 2015.
PRESCHOOL STORY TIME
Wednesday, October 18, 10:15AM
Join us for Preschool Storytime at The Regulator with Amy Godfrey. Free!
NONFICTION AUTHORS ASSOCIATION (NFAA)
Wednesday, October 18, 6:15PM -- 7:45PM
Info: http://www.meetup.com/Durham-Chapel-Hill-Chapter-Nonfiction-Authors-Association
CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE
Thursday, October 19, 7:00 PM
OFFSITE: 21c Museum Hotel, 111 North Corcoran Street
This is a ticketed event; Tickets prices vary. (See details below.)
7:00 pm event tickets are $30
5:30 pm VIP tickets are $100 and include a signed, personalized copy of Orphan Train and an intimate reception before the event. All proceeds
Join the Literacy Center for an intimate event with bestselling author Christina Baker Kline at on October 19 at the 21c Museum Hotel. Kline will talk about the true story behind her #1 New York Times bestseller Orphan Train (about the 250,000 orphaned and abandoned children sent on trains from the East Coast to the Midwest as indentured servants). Copies of Orphan Train and her new novel, A Piece of the World will be available for purchase at the event, courtesy of The Regulator.
DAVID GOODWIN
Thursday, October 19, 7:00PM
The Regulator welcomes David Goodwin, author of Left Bank of the Hudson: Jersey City and the Artists of 111 1st Street, for a reading and book signing. Left Bank of the Hudson is a smart history of Jersey City through the microcosm of a small artist community repurposing a building and forming a collaborative network. Goodwin offers a window into the demographic, political, and socio-economic changes experienced by Jersey City during the last thirty and addresses the question of the role of artists in economically improving cities. Left Bank of the Hudson provides an illustrative lesson to government officials, scholars, students, activists, and everyday citizens attempting to navigate the "rediscovery" of American cities.
David J. Goodwin works by day as a librarian at Fordham University School of Law. An alum of Drexel, St. Bonaventure, and Fordham University, Goodwin is a past commissioner and chairman of the Jersey City Historic Preservation Commission. Currently, he serves as a board member of the Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy.
WILEY CASH in conversation with LEE SMITH
Friday, October 20, 7:00PM
The Regulator welcomes Wiley Cash in conversation with Lee Smith for a reading and signing of Wiley's wonderful new book, The Last Ballad. 
The New York Times bestselling author of the celebrated A Land More Kind Than Home and This Dark Road to Mercy returns with this eagerly awaited new novel, set in the Appalachian foothills of North Carolina in 1929 and inspired by actual events. The chronicle of an ordinary woman's struggle for dignity and her rights in a textile mill, The Last Ballad is a moving tale of courage in the face of oppression and injustice. Lyrical, heartbreaking, and haunting, this eloquent novel confirms Wiley Cash's place among our nation's finest writers.
A native of North Carolina, Wiley Cash has held residency positions at Yaddo and The MacDowell Colony and teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Southern New Hampshire University. He and his wife live in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Lee Smith began writing stories at the age of nine and selling them for a nickel apiece. Since then, she has written seventeen works of fiction and most recently, the memoir, Dimestore: A Writer's Life.Smith lives in Hillsborough with her husband, the writer Hal Crowther.
JAMIE DEMENT
Saturday, October 21, 3:00 PM (note the time)
Piedmont restaurant co-owner Jamie DeMent will discuss her new book, The Farmhouse Chef: Recipes and Stories from My Carolina Farm, which offers 150 recipes for every occasion--from down home to downright elegant--inspired by Coon Rock Farm's yield through the four seasons. DeMent's deliciously observant stories illuminate what life is really like on a working farm. The Farmhouse Chef will inspire those who may not have a lot of time to cook, let alone farm, but who care about eating and preparing seasonal, healthfully grown food.
Jamie DeMent farms and cooks on Coon Rock Farm in Hillsborough. A well-known cooking teacher, she also owns, with her partner, Richard Holcomb, Piedmont Restaurant in Durham and Bella Bean Organics.
KIA CALDWELL
Monday, October 23, 7:00PM
Kia Lilly Caldwell is an associate professor of African, African American, and Diaspora studies at the The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of "Negras in Brazil: Re-envisioning Black Women, Citizenship, and the Politics of Identity."
Michele Tracy Berger is associate professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is also the Director of the Faculty Fellows Program at the UNC Institute for the Arts and Humanities.
JEFFREY MEYER
Tuesday, October 24, 7:00PM
The Regulator welcomes Jeffrey Meyer, author of the book, A Call to China, for a reading and book signing. A child of American missionaries disappears at a Beijing festival in 1940 and is never seen again. Set against the background of revolutionary change in 20th century China and America, China-born and American-raised Olivia hears her "call to China" and embarks on her own mission through the exotic country to find the sister she never knew.
Jeff Meyer (Ph.D., University of Chicago) taught at UNC Charlotte from 1971 until 2008. He is a specialist in the religions of China and East Asia.
PRESCHOOL STORY TIME
Wednesday, October 25, 10:15AM
Join us for Preschool Storytime at The Regulator with Amy Godfrey. Free!
CHARLES CLOTFELTER
Wednesday, October 25, 7:00 PM
Duke Professor Charles Clotfelter will discuss his new book, Unequal Colleges in the Age of Disparity. For decades, leaders in higher education have voiced their intention to expand college education to include disadvantaged groups. In Unequal Colleges in the Age of Disparity, Clotfelter presents quantitative comparisons across selective and less selective colleges from the 1970s to the present, in exploration of three themes: diversity, competition, and inequality. Clotfelter shows that exclusive colleges have benefited disproportionately from America's growing income inequality. Despite a revolution in civil rights, billions spent on financial aid, and the commitment of colleges to greater equality, stratification has grown starker. Top colleges cater largely to children of elites.
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A deeply researched, stimulating, and thoughtful analysis of the role of undergraduate education in America in sustaining the growing inequalities of our nation. A treasure trove of relevant data and careful analysis."-Harold T. Shapiro, Princeton University
Charles T. Clotfelter is Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy Studies at Duke.
LANE WINDHAM
Thursday, October 26, at 7:00PM
The Regulator welcomes Lane Windham, author of Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide, for a reading and book signing. Through close-up studies of workers' campaigns in shipbuilding, textiles, retail, and service, Windham overturns myths about labor's decline, showing instead how employers united to manipulate weak labor law and quash a new wave of worker organizing. Recounting how employees attempted to unionize against overwhelming odds, Knocking on Labor's Door refashions the narrative of working-class struggle during a crucial decade and shakes up current debates about labor's future. Windham's story is a must-read in labor, civil rights, and women's history.
Lane Windham is a fellow with Georgetown University's Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.
