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The Autry Book Club
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If you’re interested in discovering new works of fiction and would like the opportunity to meet and hear from contemporary Western authors, the Autry Book Club is for you! Book Club members enjoy a series of Book Talks with the authors; receive admission for two adults to each Book Talk; get priority notice of upcoming Autry book events and other local events; and are entitled to discounts on Book Club selections at the Autry Store and Skylight Books in Los Feliz. Membership is just $30 per year.
Book Talk events take place at the Autry from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. and include a presentation by the book’s author, a Q&A, and a book-signing reception.
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Go West Book Fest
Sunday, April 29, 2012, 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Stories are the way we connect with one another; through stories we come to explore the past, the future, our imaginations, our histories, ourselves. Join us as the Autry celebrates stories, books, and the joy they bring to our lives with a day filled with storytellers, author readings, a book sale, craft activities for families, and a panel discussion—all about books!
The Autry Book Club is proud to announce its 2012 Book Talk schedule:
Gabrielle Burton
Searching for Tamsen Donner
April 29, 2012:
Book Talk with Gabrielle Burton
Searching for Tamsen Donner follows Burton’s own 1977 journey in which she retraced the Donner Trail of 1846 with her family. It also includes all of Tamsen Donner’s letters, published for the first time. Burton has won the American Film Institute’s Mary Pickford Prize and was named a Nicholl Screenwriting Fellow by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She has written for the Washington Post, the New York Times,and the Huffington Post.
Craig Johnson
As the Crow Flies
May 20, 2012 – Special time: 6:00 p.m.
Book Talk with Craig Johnson
In As the Crow Flies. the eighth book of Craig Johnson’s Sheriff Walt Longmire series, Walt is forced—on the eve of his daughter’s wedding—to lead a darkly complex investigation into the death of Audrey Last Bull, an Iraqi war veteran, on the Cheyenne Reservation. Johnson’s Walt Longmire mystery series has been adapted for television in a joint venture between A&E and Warner Horizon and will begin airing in the summer of 2012.
Denise Hamilton
Damage Control
October 20, 2012:
Book Talk with Denise Hamilton
Critically acclaimed author Denise Hamilton weaves an engrossing story of teenage friendship and adult betrayal, featuring a high-powered crisis consultant who gets swept up in murder and scandal involving a wealthy political family. Hamilton also writes the nationally bestselling Eve Diamond crime novels featuring a reporter who solves murders in Los Angeles. An award-winning journalist and Fulbright Scholar, she has written for the Los Angeles Times, Wired, Cosmopolitan, Der Spiegel, and New Times.
Nicole Mones
The Last Chinese Chef
February 12:
Nicole Mones ran a textile business in China for eighteen years before she turned to writing about Chinese food. The Last Chinese Chef, which was a Kiriyama Prize finalist, also won a World Gourmand Award as a Chinese cookbook—a first for a novel with no recipes. Her other bestselling novels are published in twenty languages, and she has also written for Gourmet Magazine, the New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post.
February 26:
After reading The Last Chinese Chef and hearing from Nicole Mones on February 12, you will understand why the single most common question she is asked is, “Do you know where I can experience the kind of Chinese cuisine described in your book?” Luckily, Los Angeles is one of two American cities in which the answer is “Yes”: at Chang’s Garden, led by esteemed master chef Henry Chang. On Sunday, February 26, we invite you to join Nicole Mones at Chang’s Garden for a fourteen-course meal with a menu inspired from The Last Chinese Chef.
