Goldberg, author of fourteen books, including Writing Down the Bones, which several years ago celebrated its 30th year anniversary will read from her new memoir, Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home (Shambala, June, 2018) – an honest, philosophical, and literary account of her two year battle with cancer. Within months of Goldberg’s diagnosis her partner discovered a lump in her breast, a malignancy that required immediate surgery. Through a direct and grounded narrative Goldberg illuminates a path through illness; that we need to be in love with the lives we have, to embrace the dark and the light in our lives. For Natalie, writing and painting represent the light, and her cancer takes her deeper into her art practices. Balanced with Zen practice that helps her to face death, this book is a moving meditation on living life in full bloom. John Nichols, iconic author of twenty-two books, screenwriter, raconteur, and defender of the natural environment is working on a memoir – tentatively titled, “I Got Mine.” In a phone conversation he describes the writing as zipping from one memory to the next from locations as diverse as Berkeley, CA; NYC, Vermont, Connecticut, Nicaragua, Guatemala, finally landing in Northern New Mexico in 1969. From youth to adulthood, writing careers, marriages, divorces, Nichols weaves this collage of memories in a non-linear stream of consciousness style that has a surreal effect. “It makes me think of the writing of Eduardo Galeano, the Uruguayan writer and journalist in, Days and Nights of Love and War and Kurt Vonnegut, and the style he used in Slaughter House Five.” In Nichols humorous, irreverent, and polemic style it will be a wild ride