Outwrite Bookstore & Coffeehouse

RuPaul

Signing: Workin' It

at Outwrite Bookstore & Coffeehouse

*This Is a Line Ticketed Event. Tickets are free with purchase of the book and are numbered in order of purchase. Buy your book early & get a great place in line!

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The
world’s most famous drag queen and former Atlantan, RuPaul visits
Outwrite Bookstore & Coffeehouse on TUESDAY,
FEBRUARY 16, at 7:30 p.m., to sign copies of the new book WORKIN’
IT! RuPaul’s Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style (It
Books).

RuPaul embodies style, sass,
self-expression — and success. Now in time for the second-season premiere of
the  hugely successful LOGO series, “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” Ru brings us the
secrets of a fabulous life through outer style and inner beauty in WORKIN’ IT!

“To
truly create the best life ever,” says RuPaul,
“you must begin the work from the inside out. You must liberate yourself and clear
away the old mental habits that block you from moving forward. Style is a
celebratory expression of your life force. You must approach it with a sense of
joie de vivre. Open yourself to all the possibilities!”

For
RuPaul, those possibilities are endless
— if you live your life with no restrictions. But you must first learn the
rules — then by all mean throw them out! Filled with fashion, make-up, diet,
health tips, as well as advice on honing your craft (whatever it may be) and
learning to know yourself, WORKIN’ IT! draws
it’s life lessons from RuPaul’s own
extraordinary success breaking down barriers and reinventing the world’s
perceptions.

A
sassy sampling of the singular diva’s sage advice:

    · Don’t take life too seriously.

    · Do whatever you want, just as long as you
don’t hurt anyone in the process.

    · You cannot thrive in toxic relationships.

    · You need to be present.

    · Kindness is the new cool.

    · Proportion is everything.

    · Reinvention is the key.

RuPaul skyrocketed to international
fame with the CD release of, Supermodel of the World, which was followed by
roles in several feature films, The RuPaul Show on VH1, many high profile
endorsement deals (including a beauty contract with M.A.C Cosmetics), a wax
portrait at Madame Tussauds Museum in Times Square, a best-selling
autobiography and fund raising worldwide for people living with HIV/AIDS.
RuPaul's latest book is entitled "Workin' It: RuPaul's Guide to Life,
Liberty & the Pursuit of Style," while the second season of the global
phenomenon “RuPaul’s Drag Race” premiered on LOGO February 1, 2010.

Clarence Nero reads Temptations of Desire

at Outwrite Bookstore & Coffeehouse

Thursday Feb. 25, 2010

Synopsis:

Nero's compelling and heart-wrenching story revolves around the lives of five indomitable women faced with the reality that they only have each other to lean on as they struggle to sruvive the temptations of Desire, a housing project in New Orleans' infamous Ninth Ward that is on the verge of collapse.

   Kathleen Norris reading Acedia & Me at Outwrite Bookstore & CoffeehouseFriday, March 12, 20107:30 PM  

About the Author:

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Kathleen Norris is the author of eleven books, including The Cloister Walk and The Virgin of Bennington, and has
received awards from the Guggenheim and Bush foundations. Norris published seven books of poetry.  Her first book of poems was entitled Falling Off and was the 1971 winner of the Big Table Younger Poets Award. Soon after, she settled down in her grandparents' home in Lemmon, South Dakota, where she lived with her husband, the poet David Dwyer, for over twenty-five years. She now divides her time between Hawaii and South Dakota

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In ACEDIA & ME, the acclaimed author KATHLEEN NORRIS explicates and demystifies the
forgotten but utterly relevant concept of acedia, a term that has often been
understood as spiritual sloth, but really signifies the serious malady of being
unable to care. With great insight and candor, Norris explores acedia through
the geography of her life as a writer; her marriage and the challenges of
commitment in the midst of grave illness; and her keen interest in the monastic
tradition.

She
writes of her and her husband David’s battles with acedia and its clinical
cousin, depression, and traces acedia’s path through literary and religious
history, exposing the damage it does not only to individual lives but also to
our culture as a whole, as we are desensitized by ever more intrusive
distractions and lose the ability to care about what is truly important. Thus,
she finds that we struggle with “restless boredom, frantic escapism, commitment
phobia, and enervating despair.”