Puerto Vallarta Information & Events
The Crown Paradise Club
Puerto Vallarta, January 9-13, 2008
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By Ellen Warren / Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO-Getting high on great literature is taking on a whole new meaning.
It turns out that, if you spend enough time around old books and decaying manuscripts in dank archives, you can start to hallucinate. Really. We’re not talking psychedelia, “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” stuff, here. But maybe only a step or two away from that.
by Dan Grippo
This week’s Vallarta Writers’ Group will meet at the International Friendship Club (IFC), from 10:30 a.m. to 12 noon Saturday morning. The IFC is located above the HSBC bank building on Insurgentes Avenue, just north of the bridge over Rio Cuale Island in El Centro.
Everyone is welcome.
This Week’s agenda:
A BOOK SIGNING BY JENNY McGILL
At Galeria Vallarta (Juarez 263, Colonia Centro, Puerto Vallarta) on Wednesday, December 19th you can find your copy of Drama and Diplomacy in a Sultry Mexican Beach Town and have it signed personally by Jenny McGill, Puerto Vallarta’s former US consular agent.
The book is great fun to read and includes anecdotes about many local people you may know. It reads like she is sitting on the terrace with you sipping margaritas.
And our cocktail party (with wine and canapes) will be from 7 to 9 p.m.
Jenny will be here selling and signing books. If you haven’t met her, this is the time. If you have met her, it’s the time again to come by and reminisce about the good ol’ times in Vallarta. (Shhh…)
MORE INFORMATION:
WEBSITE: Jenny McGill
GALLERY: GALERIA VALLARTA
Bring Your Own Flak Jacket is the title of a new book written by Jane Stillwater. It’s subtitled “Helpful Tips for Touring Today’s Middle East” and is written by an independent writer embedded with the US military in Iraq in the spring of this year, 2007. This book is written with humor and insight and, most importantly, considering today’s atmosphere of general journalistic incompetence, real first-hand experience.
The talk is on Tuesday, December 18 at Que?Pasa, Aquiles Serdan 625 in Old Town Vallarta at 4pm. (MAP) Admission is by donation. She won’t have any books to sell because she blew into town with just a duffel bag a couple of days ago (from reading her book, this is her style of travel) but you can order her books at Amazon.com or at Barnes and Noble.
Jane is here in Puerto Vallarta for a few weeks and will be giving a talk about her experiences writing this book. As soon as you meet her, you want to start asking questions, not only about the book, but about her and her life, which, without being too presumptuous, I would hint is just as fascinating, if not more, than the subjects of her new book.
If you’re interested in Iraq from the viewpoint of an “average” citizen, you will love this book. Calling Jane “average” is probably a misnomer and a great understatement, but she is, in many ways, although her life is far from average. I would go to her talk to learn about her, not about traveling to Iraq or Egypt or Turkey or Palestine, but that’s just me.
LINKS:
Jane Stillwater’s Blog
A cocktail reception to introduce Geoff Watkinson’s audio book will be held this Friday night, December 14, from 6-8 pm at Galeria Uno, Morelos #561, El Centro Puerto Vallarta,
The Tinners is three-CD audio book, written and produced by Watkinson. The Tinners focuses on the plight of the tin miners in Cornwall in the mid-1800s.
