Book ‘em
As Time Goes By, the new novel from SBCC English professor emeritus W. Royce Adams, follows his protagonist called Old, who is now near death and reflecting on key life moments dealing with love, lust, friendships, betrayal, and illness. Working on his memoir, Old asks himself “playful existential questions with no pertinent answers,” examining whether he has wasted time, merely taken up space and/or hurt others, or lived a life of measurable worth. “Don’t expect any fancy writing,” Old says. “No playing with altered punctuation, or trying to be aesthetically clever, or poetic, or intellectual. Just me, squinting into some memorable windows in my life before they all fog.” Get a glimpse behind the character and its author when Adams talks about and signs copies of As Time Goes By, at Chaucer’s Books on October 25…
The following evening, Chaucer’s hosts local author Loretta Redd to talk about her just-published new title Front Row Rebel, employing her own Southern-raised background and experience as an executive coach, political writer, and owner of a doctorate in psychology in tracing the travels and travails of Walter Wilby. With colorful characters and plenty of real-life figures, the book offers a front-row view of how cinema and society shaped each other and grew into the billion-dollar industry we know today.
