Helen Pike Events

2011-07-22 4:00 pm

Lost at Sea! Book Signing for Sand Blast Cocktail Party

"Where Music Lives"

4-7pm at Asbury Galleria in the Convention Hall Grande Arcade

2011-07-26 7:00 pm

Music Memoirs: A Writing Workshop with anthology editor of "Where Music Lives"

7-9pm at Crane House Museum Fee $15

Richard Kopley

March 20, 2009, 6 p.m. NYU School of Law, Furman Hall, Room 216, 245 Sullivan Street, New York, NY

Don’t miss this special lecture and book signing by Richard Kopley, Poe scholar and author of Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin Mysteries. Special 200th Birthday Celebration for Poe to follow the lecture in the Poe Room at the Law School. To RSVP please call: 212.998.6943 or email community.affairs@nyu.edu

Sponsored by New York University

Lecture and Book Signing Tonight

Jonathan Lethem:

Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s

Lecture and book signing
Thursday, September 27, 6:30 pm

The Great Hall

7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue

Free

for more information: http://www.cooper.edu/

Lidia Bastianich

LIDIA BASTIANICH

Williams-Sonoma Mall at Short Hill
1200 Morris Turnpike

Short Hills, NJ 07078

(973) 467-3641
Wednesday, May 9, 2007 12:00pm

Lidia will only be signing copies of Lidia's Italy purchased at Williams-Sonoma. Proof of purchase required.

Word Fest

WORD FEST COMETH!
7 PM, SAT. MAY 5

THE FORUM THEATRE
http://members.aol.com/raconteurbooks/Festival.doc

Books on sale at the event.

Authors will sign in the upstairs foyer during the two ten minute intermissions.
$20 General Public; $15 Student/Senior (with ID)
To purchase tickets in advance please visit
The Raconteur at 431 Main Street, Metuchen.
Tickets available at The Forum night of event only.

Please direct all queries to
The Raconteur at 732-906-0009
or raconteurbooks@aol.com

Are There Not Still Fireflies

Lawrence Ferlinghetti performed last night at the 92 Street Y in NYC. I was in total awe of the man! He looked great for his age (88) and was really physically fit. I think I expected a frail old man with hippie hair and grimy clothes. I remember being in college and hearing about the "beats" and how they dressed and he did not fit the image. I was in the eighth row, so I got a real good look at him and he was neat and clean.

He read from one of his first poetry books

A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems and one of his last Americus, Book I. I loved that he shared some of his upcoming prose (that will be released in the next few months), as well as a reading of a few poems accompanied by background music. I would have stayed around for the book signing, but the line was crazy long and I had a good drive home. Overall, it was an amazing night!

One of the new poems he read:

ARE THERE NOT STILL FIREFLIES

Are there not still fireflies

Are there not still four-leaf clovers

Is not our land still beautiful

Our fields not full of armed enemies

Our cities never bombed to oblivion

in their huddled masses

(What is that sound that fills the ear

drumming drumming?)

Is not Rome still Rome

Is not Los Angeles still Los Angeles

Are these really the last days of the Roman Empire

Is not beauty still beauty

And truth still truth

Are there not still poets

Are there not still lovers

Are there not still mothers

sisters and brothers

Is there not still a full moon

once a month

Are there not still fireflies

Are there not still stars at night

Can we not still see them

in bowl of night

signalling to us

our so-called manifest destinies?

Giada De Laurentiis

A Book Signing with

GIADA DE LAURENTIIS

where:

Williams-Sonoma

Mall at Short Hills

1200 Morris Turnpike

Short Hills, NJ 07078

973-467-3641

when:

Thursday

April 5, 2007

12:00pm

Chef Book Signing

CURTIS STONE a master chef, author and host of TLC’s new series Take Home Chef is doing a book signing!

Williams-Sonoma
Mall at Short Hills
1200 Morris Turnpike
Short Hills, NJ 07078
973-467-3641
Sunday, March 25, 2007 1:00 - 3:00pm

Here is a great recipe from the TLC website: (http://tlc.discovery.com/)
Marinated Artichokes with Homemade Arugula Pesto Serves 4
Ingredients:
1 lightly packed cup/30 g fresh baby arugula leaves, stems removed
½ cup/65 g freshly grated Parmesan cheese
1/3 cup/50 g pine nuts, toasted
2 garlic cloves
½ cup/100 ml extra virgin olive oil
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
16 quartered marinated artichoke hearts, drained
Additional fresh baby arugula leaves, for garnish Cherry tomatoes, halved, for garnish
Method:
To make the pesto:Place 1 lightly packed cup/30 g of arugula, and the Parmesan, pine nuts and garlic in a blender. With the machine running, slowly add the olive oil and blend until smooth. Season the pesto to taste with salt and pepper.
To serve:
Arrange the artichokes on a platter and drizzle some of the pesto over the artichokes. Garnish with the additional arugula leaves and tomatoes. Serve and smile. Cover and reserve any remaining pesto in the refrigerator for another use.