by Kevin Lincoln on September 16, 2009
In addition to reading from Our Noise last night, Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan made some music. The two played “Throwing Things” from No Pocky for Kitty, and McCaughan played two solo covers: the first from Butterglory’s Matt Sugg’s debut album, “Where’s Your Patience Dear?” The second was from Lambchop’s How I Quit Smoking, “Theone,” [...]
by Kevin Lincoln on September 16, 2009
In celebration of yesterday’s release of Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, Merge’s/Superchunk’s Laura Ballance stopped by the Regulator Bookshop to read from the book and play a few songs (those videos are forthcoming). McCaughan read from the Lambchop chapter and Ballance from Spoon’s. Check out the video below. The label owners will be [...]
by Andrew Hibbard on April 30, 2009
The Regulator Bookshop is hosting a slew of exciting readings in the coming weeks. Tonight, Wells Tower will read from his Michiko Kakutani-approved debut collection of short stories Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned. On Friday, May 1, Duke royalty Reynolds Price will do a reading from his new memoir Ardent Spirits. Michael Malone, based in Hillsborough, N.C. [...]
by Andrew Hibbard on April 9, 2009
Bestselling author Augusten Burroughs will be at the Carolina Theatre tonight in support of his latest book A Wolf at the Table, a memoir about his father. He will appear alongside friend and Durham author Haven Kimmel, most recently the author of Iodine: A Novel. Co-sponsored by the Durham County Public Library and Regulator Bookshop, the [...]