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Join Tim Staffford to celebrate the release of his new chapbook The Patron Saint of Making Curfew! Tim will be joined on the mic by special guests Natasha Carrizosa, Omar Holmon and Dan “Sully” Sullivan, for an evening hosted by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz. Get the book: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1890-the-patron-saint-of-making-curfew Poets: Tim Stafford is a poet and public educator from Lyons, IL. He is the editor of the Learn Then Burn all-ages anthology series on Write Bloody Publishing. He is a former Chicago Poetry Slam champion and he performs regularly across the U.S. and Europe including the 2015 Woerdz Festival in Luzern, Switzerland and the ABC Brecht Festival in Augsburg, Germany. Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz is a New York Times bestselling nonfiction writer and poet. Author of seven books of poetry, her latest How to Love the Empty Air was published in 2018. Her nonfiction book Dr. Mutter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine, debuted at #7 on the New York Times Bestseller List for Books about Health and would stay on it for three months. Cristin is married to fellow bestselling author and screenwriter Ernest Cline. She lives in Austin, Texas with her family and their two eccentric rescue dachshunds. Natasha Carrizosa won the National Poetry Award for multicultural poet of the year in 2013. She is a poet, writer, and spoken word artist. She is a published author of several projects – including heavy light, mejiafricana, and Of Fire and Rain (co-authored with Joaquin Zihuatanejo.) She has performed her work and conducted workshops for audiences in Madrid, Paris, St. Lucia, New York, Chicago, Houston and countless other cities. Omar Holmon is an Alumni poet of Rutgers University and has competed in slam poetry for numerous years with two final stage appearances at the National Poetry Slam. He has been featured on Button Poetry, Tedx, and a commercial for Laphroaig whiskey (we outchea). In 2014 Omar Holmon Co-founded the Black Nerd Problems website with William Evans, where he spends his days writing essays on pop culture, blackness, and making top quality gifs. Dan “Sully” Sullivan poems and performances have been featured on HBO Def Poetry Jam, WGN Morning News, and National Public Radio. Sully is a three-time Chicago Poetry Slam Champion, a recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Poetry Award, the Earl S Ho Award for Excellence in Teaching Creative Writing, and an Indiana University Writer in South Asia Recipient. His first full-length book of poems, The Blue Line Home, is available from EM-Press. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/istJRk0L3UE Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Caleb was in Ohio this weekend which means Steve and Caleb were able to do the podcast in person. This was their first podcast together in Steve's new podcast studio (a.k.a. Steve's home office). They begin by discussing the collection of books on Steve's bookcase. The guys then discuss briefly the terrifying history of medicine in America. Eventually, they get to video games and nerd out a little bit on Starcraft II. At some point, Steve and Caleb get on science. Steve begins to recount his Bio graduate seminar and the research he has been reading about. He talks about a process in cells called Autophagy. Click the link to check out autophagy. Each labeled oval in the picture on the page is a different protein that helps in the process of autophagy in some capacity. Caleb talks about Carbon isotopes. Isotopes are atoms of the same element with a different atomic mass. They react chemically similar but have slightly different physical properties. This episode is filled with a lot of discussion on many more interesting topics. Take a listen to hear them all. Here are some of the books the guys talked about: -Dr. Mutter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine- -A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design- -The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution- -Einstein: His Life and Universe- -The Royal Road to Card Magic Episode Music: -Kamasi Washington - The Epic As always check out the website, Facebook and Instagram.

  Another edition of Writers’ Block Live! Back in March, Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz and Derrick C. Brown came by to read from their newest books (How to Love the Empty Air and Hello. It Doesn’t Matter. respectively). They also share about their writing processes, how a poem becomes a poem, about what it’s like being friends for twenty years! Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz is the author of seven books of poetry. Most recently, she released her nonfiction book, Dr. Mütter’s Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine, which spent three months on the New York Times Best Seller list. Cristin has toured widely with her poetry, at venues as diverse as NYC’s Joe’s Pub, LA’s Largo Theatre and Australia’s Sydney Opera House. Derrick C. Brown is a comedian, poet and storyteller. He is the winner of the 2013 Texas Book of The Year award for Poetry. The New York Times calls his work, “…a rekindling of faith in the weird, hilarious, shocking, beautiful power of words.” Brown has toured with comedians and musicians such as Eugene Mirman, David Cross, Rival Sons, and Cold War Kids. He has performed on Jay Leno, and has been featured on podcasts such as This American Life with Ira Glass and The K Ohle with Kurt Braunohler. He has performed all over the United States and Europe for over 20 years. Writers’ Block Live! is recorded at the 1888 Center in Orange, California.     Writers’ Block is a bi-weekly podcast that highlights the work of writers, poets, scientists, musicians, and more to find the story behind the pieces. Host Mike Gravagno digs into his guests work the same way he digs into pie, voraciously and without pretension, because you don’t have to be high-falutin to enjoy talking about art. Writers’ Block is a joint venture from YourPopFilter.com and Anastamos, Chapman University’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Journal, and is available wherever you get your podcasts.     1888 Center programs are recorded and archived as a free educational resource on our website or with your favorite podcast app including Apple and Spotify. Each interdisciplinary episode is designed to provide a unique platform for industry innovators to share stories about art, literature, music, history, science, or technology. Produced in partnership with Brew Sessions. Producer and Host: Mike Gravagno Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Guests: Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz and Derrick C. Brown Audio: Brew Sessions Live

For episode nine of Come Read With Me, my friend Jess joined me to discuss Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz’ Dr. Mütter’s Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine. As usual, there were plenty of tangents including a five-minute tangent (you’re welcome, I edited it from 20) about Jane Austen fan… Continue reading CRWM #09: Dr Mütter’s Marvels

We met at the Bryant Corner Café for cookies, coffee and a survey of what’s on everyone’s stack of books.  Nancy also had some news about the finalists for National Book Award Short List for Young Adult Novels Laura Rubey “Bone Gap”Neal Shusterman, ”Challenger Deep”Noelle Stevenson, “Nimona”  She also had news about the finalistsfor the Carnegie Award given by the America Library Association(Fiction) Viet Thanh Nguyen, “The Sympathizer”Hanya Yanagihara, “A Little Life”Jim Shephard, “The Book of Aron” (Non Fiction)Sally Mann, “Hold Still” A Memoir in Photographs”Helen Macdonald “H is for Hawk”Andrea Wulf. The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt’s New WorldOthers Readings from our stacks.John Irving, “Avenue of Mysteries” and maybe reread “The World According to Garp.’Peter Guralnick, “Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n Roll Sophie Blackall and Emily Jenkins, “A Fine Dessert” Jon Meachum, “ “Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey George Herbert Walker Bush.”Robert Jackson Bennett, “City of Stairs: The Divine Cities.” – Nancy just finished this science fiction book– she calls it entirely original world building.  First of a trilogy, “The Divine Cities.” The 2nd installment, “City of Blades is coming out January 26th, 2016. Ona Russell, “O’Brien’s Desk”  Louis de Bernieres, “Birds Without Wings”Orhan Parmuk, “My Name is Red” ,“A Strangeness In My Mind” Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, Doctor Mutter’s Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine.”Jamie Holmes, “Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing.”Isabelle Allende, The Stories of Eva Luna” Stacy Schiff, “The Witches”Doris Kearns Goodwin, “The Bully Pulpit”Lincoln Steffens, “The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens.”Kent Haruf, “Our Souls At Night.” 

October 29, 2015 - In this special, Halloween episode, we're traveling back to the days before the American Civil War, when doctors would take their scalpels to fully awake patients -- the pre-microbial era when the causes of common diseases remained a mystery, and when oil lamps and flammable clothing combined to engulf a staggering number of people in flames. This, was the age of monsters. Yes, monsters. Not costumed Groovie Goolies, but human beings so scarred and broken, that they often longed for death. And so they were called... monsters. Enter the brilliant surgeon who gave these monsters hope, and made it his life's work to piece their lives back together. His name, was Dr. Thomas Dent Mütter. Poet and author Cristin O'Keefe Aptowitcz tells the story of his amazing medical breakthroughs in Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine. Cristin is an award-winning writer and the author of seven books. You can visit her website, Aptowicz.com and follow her on Twitter @COAptowicz. We're also giving away two tickets to the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia on our Facebook page, courtesy of the author. To enter, just listen to the show, visit the page and leave a comment. Because the only thing better than a trip into the past, is a free trip into the past for you and a friend.     Additional books discussed on this episode:

Host: John J. Russell, MD Dr. Thomas Dent Mütter was an audacious medical innovator who pioneered the use of ether as anesthesia, the sterilization of surgical tools, and a compassion-based vision for helping the severely deformed, which clashed spectacularly with the sentiments of his time in the mid 19th century. Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, author of Dr. Mütter’s Marvels, interweaves an eye-opening portrait of nineteenth-century medicine with the riveting biography of a man once described as the "P. T. Barnum of the surgery room."

Host: John J. Russell, MD Dr. Thomas Dent Mütter was an audacious medical innovator who pioneered the use of ether as anesthesia, the sterilization of surgical tools, and a compassion-based vision for helping the severely deformed, which clashed spectacularly with the sentiments of his time in the mid 19th century. Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, author of Dr. Mütter’s Marvels, interweaves an eye-opening portrait of nineteenth-century medicine with the riveting biography of a man once described as the "P. T. Barnum of the surgery room."