UNM art museum setting for murder mystery
AT BOOKWORKS: Christina Squire will talk about “Murder at the Art Museum” at 3 p.m. today. Caroline Steele decides to leave her calm, respectable life as a wife and mother to get another job at the University of New Mexico. She is hired as the museum shop manager at the university art museum. When the body of a former art department professor is found in the lower gallery handicapped lift, she is thrown once again in contact with the charismatic inspector James Hutchinson. Sparks fly between them as they work together to solve this mystery. She encounters the greed of the art world and the tangled web of artistic relationships. She discovers that valuable works of art are not what they appear to be.
Manya Whitaker will sign “Learning From the Inside Out” at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan.17.
This book goes beyond the now banal conversation of differentiating students based on gender, race and class. Jason DeBoer will sign “Annihilation Songs” at 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19.
With “Anniliation Songs: Three Shakespeare Reintegrations,” writer and award-winning filmmaker Jason DeBoer presents radical takes on “The Tempest,” “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” and “Hamlet.” Using only the words contained in each original drama, DeBoer’s experimental fictions were created by disintegrating and then reintegrating Shakespeare’s language into new narratives of warfare and desire. The result is an ultravivid hypertext, a warped yet faithful concordance of astounding poetic power, with theoretical roots in the earth of Bataille, Nietzsche, and Sade.
Nandita Dinesh will discuss “Theatre and War: Notes From the Field” at 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 21.
Bookworks is at 4022 Rio Grande NW. Call 344-8139.
Michael Gamble will sign his book, “Murder By Tango,” at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 21.
The mystery novel follows tango star Miguel Zanotto, who abandons Buenos Aires for Manhattan to track down his sister’s killer. Another mystery about the Aleppo Codex, the most authoritative Hebrew Bible ever created is uncovered as the story moves along.
Barnes & Noble is located at the Coronado Mall, 6600 Menaul NE.