Events

Thursday, July 29th at 7 pm Ron Currie Jr. author of Everything Matters! We're very happy to say that one of our favorite local authors, Ron Currie, Jr., will be at the store to celebrate the paperback release of his novel, Everything Matters. We were first wowed by Currie, a Waterville native, after the release of his debut story collection, God is Dead. That volume won awards, garnered praise, and set a very high bar for his future work. Our anticipation was rewarded with Everything Matters!. This wild ride of a novel stars Junior Thibodeaux, a young man cursed with the knowledge that a life-destroying comet is only 36 years away. But Currie's novel eschews grandiose despair in favor of complex characters, a whimsical narrative, and emotionally moving scenes. We don't know what else Mr. Currie has up his sleeves, but we can't wait to find out. "Mr. Currie is a startlingly talented writer whose book will pay no heed to ordinary narrative conventions.... He survives the inevitable, apt comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut and writes in a tenderly mordant voice of his own.... Throughout the story there is the sheer delight of Mr. Currie's fresh, joltingly funny imagery.... Above all Everything Matters! radiates writerly confidence. The excitement that drives the reader from page to page is not about the characters. It's about seeing what Mr. Currie will try next." - Janet Maslin, New York Times