Book It: The Five Best Literary Events This Week

Teague Bohlen May 14, 2019 5:55AM

Birding magazine editor Ted Floyd flies into the Boulder Book Store on May 14. Facebook

This week’s literary landscape is for the birds...and also Egyptian history, suspenseful sisterhood, a poetic panoply, and an awards ceremony for the best Colorado books of 2018. Here are the five best bets for the third week in May.

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Penguin/Random House

Ted Floyd, How to Know the Birds
Tuesday, May 14, 7:30 p.m.
Boulder Book Store
1107 Pearl Street, Boulder
$5
Colorado birdman Ted Floyd’s How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Bird Watching introduces a new, holistic approach to bird-watching by noting how behaviors, settings and seasonal cycles connect with shape, song, color, gender, age and other features used to traditionally identify species. It’s a celebration of the art, science and delights of bird-watching. Tickets to the event are $5, and are good for $5 off the purchase of this or any other book on the day of the event.

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Penguin Press

Peter Hessler, The Buried
Wednesday, May 15, 7 p.m.
Tattered Cover
2526 East Colfax Avenue
Free
Colorado author Peter Hessler (contributing writer for National Geographic and correspondent for the New Yorker) brings his new book, The Buried: The Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution, to the Tattered Cover for a discussion and signing. The book is an intimate excavation of one of the world’s oldest civilizations at a time of convulsive cultural change, told through the lens of ordinary people in extraordinary times.

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Teague Bohlen is a writer, novelist and professor at the University of Colorado Denver. His first novel, The Pull of the Earth, won the Colorado Book Award for Literary Fiction in 2007; his textbook The Snarktastic Guide to College Success came out in 2014. His new collection of flash fiction, Flatland, is available now.

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