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When the Going Was Good: An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden Age of...
When the Going Was Good: An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden Age of...by Graydon CarterJournalist and former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter dishes on his 25 years working for the iconic periodical in this gossipy and self-deprecating "paean to the big, glossy, influential magazines of yore" (Booklist). For fans of: Dilettante: True Tales of Excess, Triumph, and Disaster by former Vanity Fair deputy editor Dana Brown.
  • When the Going Was Good: An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden Age of...
  • The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward
  • Matriarch
  • Yoko
  • Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve
  • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
  • Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit in
  • You're that bitch : & other cute lessons about being unapologetically yourself : a gay Cinderella story
  • Dark Rising
  • The pharisee's wife
  • The peacemaker
  • The Filling Station
  • An Overdue Match
  • The Long March Home
  • The mercy tree
  • Just once : a novel
  • The Italian Ballerina
  • Embers in the London Sky
  • The winter rose : a novel
  • Until leaves fall in Paris : a novel
  • Long way home
  • The lines between us
  • Where Treetops Glisten : Three Stories of Heartwarming Courage and Christmas Romance During World War II
  • The Way Up Is Death
  • Four Ruined Realms
  • Splinter Effect
  • Gifted & talented
  • The garden : a novel
  • The Third Rule of Time Travel
  • Vanishing world : a novel
  • Picks and Shovels
  • A Dragon of Black Glass
  • The Rainfall Market
  • The Women on Platform Two
  • I Leave It Up to You
  • Hot Air
  • Audition
  • The Dream Hotel
  • Tongues, Volume 1
  • Tilt
  • The Blanket Cats
  • 33 Place Brugmann
  • Broken Country
  • The Pretender
  • The Boxcar Librarian
  • A Map to Paradise
  • The Lost Passenger
  • The Antidote
  • Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust
  • There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
  • Voice for the voiceless : over seven decades of struggle with China for my land and my people
  • The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America
  • Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children
  • Asian American Histories of the United States
  • The Making of Asian America: A History
  • The Eagles of Heart Mountain: A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in...
  • Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now
  • Old Soul
  • Victorian Psycho
  • The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
  • Ghost camera
  • Immortal pleasures
  • My darling dreadful thing : a novel
  • The devil by name : a novel
  • Listen to Your Sister
  • The Missing Half
  • The Devils
  • One Golden Summer
  • Silver Elite
  • The Names
  • A Fate Forged in Fire
  • Maine Characters
  • Can't Get Enough
  • The Busybody Book Club
  • Brighter Than Scale, Swifter Than Flame
  • Galway's Edge
  • A Fashionably French Murder
  • The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne
  • The Case of the Elusive Bombay Duck
  • The Antique Hunter's Death on the Red Sea
  • The Railway Conspiracy
  • The Library Game
  • Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man)
  • Murder by Memory
  • The Girl from Greenwich Street
  • When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance
  • Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
  • Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation
  • Out of Your Mind: The Biggest Mysteries of the Human Brain
  • Raising Hare
  • The Trouble with Ancient DNA: Telling Stories of the Past with Genomic Science
  • Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation
  • How To Feed the World: The History and Future of Food
  • Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe
  • 1. A Curse Carved in Bone
  • 2. The Emperor of Gladness
  • 3. Great Big Beautiful Life
  • 4. Shield of Sparrows
  • 5. The Devils
  • 6. My Friends
  • 7. I Hope You Remember: Poems on Loving, Longing, and Living
  • 8. Fever Beach
  • 9. Onyx Storm
  • 10. The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
  • 11. James
  • 12. Silver Elite
  • 13. The Missing Half
  • 14. The Perfect Divorce
  • 15. 25 Alive
  • 1. Mark Twain
  • 2. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
  • 3. Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind
  • 4. Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes
  • 5. Matriarch
  • 6. Abundance
  • 7. My Next Breath
  • 8. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
  • 9. Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass: How I Went 77 Years Without Growing Up
  • 10. The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
  • 11. When the Stones Speak: The Remarkable Discovery of the City of David and What Israel's Enemies Don't Want You to Know
  • 12. Diet, Drugs, and Dopamine: The New Science of Achieving a Healthy Weight
  • 13. Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity
  • 14. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
  • 15. Hope
  • The Littlest Drop
  • Night Light
  • A Book of Maps for You
  • City Summer, Country Summer
  • Don't Trust Fish
  • A new kind of wild
  • The truth about dragons / : Caldecott Honor Book
  • No horses in the house! : the audacious life of artist Rosa Bonheur
  • Time to Make Art
  • The Artist
  • Liquid : a love story
  • Flirting Lessons
  • The Geographer's Map to Romance
  • The devil's charm
  • Insignificant Others
  • Dark hope
  • The Love We Found
  • The favorites : a novel
  • Swordheart
  • Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln's Union
  • Of Corn and Catholicism : A History of Religion and Power in Pueblo Indian Patron Saint Feast Days
  • The Darkness Has Not Overcome : Lessons on Faith and Politics from Inside the Halls of Power
  • The Grand Collaboration : Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the Invention of American Religious Freedom
  • Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus
  • Patton's prayer : a true story of courage, faith, and victory in World War II
  • Light of the Mind, Light of the World : Illuminating Science Through Faith
  • People Pleaser: Breaking Free from the Burden of Imaginary Expectations
  • True Life in Uncanny Valley
  • Hangry Hearts
  • When We Ride
  • Run Away With Me
  • Artifice
  • Wings in the Wild
  • The Colliding Worlds of Mina Lee
  • A Forgery of Roses
  • Bunt! Striking Out on Financial Aid
  • When the Going Was Good: An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden Age of...
  • The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward
  • Matriarch
  • Yoko
  • Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve
  • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
  • Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit in

 

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Upcoming Events

Title: The Time is WRITE Now!
From: 1:00pm Sunday, June 1, 2025
To: 2:30pm Sunday, June 1, 2025
Location: Children's Room
Location: Cherry Hills Library
Categories: Writing
Description:

Looking for a quiet space to focus on your writing projects? Join us on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of every month for an hour of individual writing time. Bring your own work or try a prompt in poetry, fiction, or nonfiction (provided at every session). Email any questions to Jessica Hudson at jessicahudson@cabq.gov. We look forward to writing with you!
Title: Cherry Hills Writes: Craft
From: 6:00pm Monday, June 9, 2025
To: 7:30pm Monday, June 9, 2025
Location: Children's Room
Location: Cherry Hills Library
Categories: Writing
Description:

Exercise your creativity with our monthly writing group. Have fun with writing with a variety of prompts, discuss writing tips and strategies, connect with other writers, and free write! All genre writers and skill levels welcome. Ages 16 and up. ​
Title: The Time is WRITE Now!
From: 1:00pm Sunday, June 15, 2025
To: 2:00pm Sunday, June 15, 2025
Location: Cherry Hills Library
Categories: Writing
Description:

Looking for a quiet space to focus on your writing projects? Join us on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of every month for an hour of individual writing time. Bring your own work or try a prompt in poetry, fiction, or nonfiction (provided at every session). Email any questions to Jessica Hudson at jessicahudson@cabq.gov. We look forward to writing with you!
Title: Cherry Hills Writes: Critique
From: 6:00pm Monday, June 23, 2025
To: 7:30pm Monday, June 23, 2025
Location: Children's Room
Location: Cherry Hills Library
Categories: Adults, Writing
Description:

Working on a writing project and want feedback? Or are you interested in reviewing what other local writers are submitting? This group is for you! Each month, you can submit a collection of poems, a short story, or a chapter of your book (up to 5 pages) to be critiqued by others. To be a part of the email list, please contact mberch@cabq.gov. All genres welcome. Ages 18 and up. ​
Title: The Time is WRITE Now!
From: 1:00pm Sunday, July 6, 2025
To: 2:30pm Sunday, July 6, 2025
Location: Children's Room
Location: Cherry Hills Library
Categories: Writing
Description:

Looking for a quiet space to focus on your writing projects? Join us on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of every month for an hour of individual writing time. Bring your own work or try a prompt in poetry, fiction, or nonfiction (provided at every session). Email any questions to Jessica Hudson at jessicahudson@cabq.gov. We look forward to writing with you!
Title: The Color of Poetry
From: 10:30am Saturday, July 12, 2025
To: 12:00pm Saturday, July 12, 2025
Location: Center for the Book
Location: Special Collections
Categories: Adults, Poetry, Writing
Registration: Registration is required for this event.
Description:

Number four: Girl writes poem No yon (title on object) Seeing flowers (series title) Hanami (series title on object). Photograph. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, Jan 19 2021. quest.eb.com/images/320_3861770. Accessed 15 Apr 2025.We will be experimenting with a poetic exercise, based on one created for the Poetry Foundation by Maggie Queeney, evoking descriptive language around color. Bring something with you in a color you want to spend some time with - our goal is to write a poem exploring your feelings and associations with color. We will also read a few colorful poems to get the creative juices flowing. For ages 18+. Registration is required. Limited to 10 participants. 

Poem of the Day

Poem of the Day

From the Poetry Foundation, a great resource for finding poems, poets, and information about poetry. 

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