BOOK NOTES
AT BOOKS ON THE BOSQUE
Two Albuquerque residents — fiction writer Dan Mueller and poet Kristian Macaron — will read and discuss their recent work at 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 24, at Books on the Bosque.
Mueller’s new book is titled “Anything You Recognize,” his third short story collection. Mueller is a professor of creative writing at the University of New Mexico. His work has appeared in many literary reviews, and he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Macaron’s new poetry collection is “Recipe for Time Travel In Case We Lose Each Other.” It has been described as “a study of emergence through reflections” of such disparate subjects as hearts, volcanos and time travel.
Books on the Bosque is located at 6261 Riverside Plaza Lane NW.
AT TREASURE HOUSE BOOKS & GIFTS
Harry is a 52-year-old cynic and helicopter pilot who lives alone. Harry is the protagonist of Manfred Leuthard’s debut thriller “Broken Arrow: A Nuke Goes Missing.”
A hunch suggests that an act of nuclear terrorism is in the offing. Indeed, someone steals a component of a nuclear weapon from Los Alamos National Laboratory and the government seeks help from Harry to find the criminals. The author, who lives in Santa Fe, worked as a technician at a nuclear research facility in his native Switzerland.
Leuthard will sign copies of the book from 1:303:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 25, at Treasure House Books & Gifts, 2012 South Plaza St. NW, in Old Town.
EVENT IN ALBUQUERQUE SOUTH VALLEY
David Ryan will give a talk at 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 24, about his new book, “Wandering in the Clear Light of New Mexico.”
The book contains special places around the state that remain attractions for residents and visitors alike. Among them are three UNESCO World Heritage Sites — Taos Pueblo, Chaco Canyon National Historical Park and Carlsbad Caverns National Park. Ryan is also the co-author of the third edition of “60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Albuquerque.” Ryan’s talk will be at the Gutiérrez Hubbell House, 6029 Isleta Blvd. SW.
AT COLLECTED WORKS IN SANTA FE
John Brandi will talk about his new book “A Luminous Uplift: Landscape & Memory” at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 22, at Collected Works.
The recently published book is a compendium of Brandi’s new and selected prose that spans four decades of travel. Brandi has traveled throughout the American Southwest, has been to India and the Himalayas, and has worked with Indigenous farmers in the Andes when he was in the Peace Corps in the 1960s. The author is also known for his poetry, including haiku. The in-store event can also be accessed via Zoom. Go to the event listing on the Collected Works website, collectedworksbookstore.com, to register for Zoom.
Brandi lives in the Rio Chama watershed with his wife, the poet Renée Gregorio. He is a former resident of Corrales.
Collected Works is located at 202 Galisteo St., in Santa Fe.
AUTHOR EVENT IN TAOS
David Carlson reads from and signs his novel “In the Clutches of the Wicked: A Christopher Worthy/Father Fortis Mystery” at noon Wednesday, Feb. 21, at Martyrs Steakhouse.
The novel is the fourth in the series but the second one set in northern New Mexico. Carlson will be the featured speaker at a meeting of the Taos Mystery Book Club at the restaurant, which is located at 146 Paseo del Pueblo Norte. The event is open to the public, but if prospective attendees want to eat lunch at the event, they should call op.cit books at 575-751-1999.
Carlson lives in Indiana but is an occasional visitor to New Mexico.