This missive from Catherine at Community Books arrived in the old in-box this morning.

Hi Everyone — One of our favorite local authors (and yours, surely?) has a new book out: The River Queen, of which Patricia Hampl writes: “The emotion in this book is wonderfully sly — it creeps up on you. Like the Mississippi itself, it winds in a seeming meander, just following the buoys, day following day, but in fact there is a tremendous build of feeling in the inquiry of the heart. It’s a wonderful adventure, going on this trip downriver.” ALSO, we’re going to have wine and beer and cheese and olives and all good things, and you should come to hang out for the party and post-reading socializing, too — the garden is starting to look gorgeous, and we’re eager to inaugurate it with a pro-Mary (pip!pip!) Bash.

Wednesday May 30th at 7:30 at the Community Bookstore on Seventh Avenue between Garfield and Carroll.