—————————– January, 2012
13th, Friday, 8:00 pm
Music: Cass McCombs Band.
20th, Friday, 6:00 pm
Talk: Scott Hawkins presents a talk on Socially Useful Production and the Lucas Workers’ Plan
21st, Saturday, 6:00 pm
Talk: Heather Rogers reads from her most recent book, “Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Undermines the Environmental Revolution.”
21st, Saturday, 9:00 pm
Music: Candles and Purple Mountain Majesty
—————————– February, 2012
4th, Saturday, 6:00 pm
Talk: Historian and curator Judith Stein presents a talk on Richard Bellamy, founding director of the Green Gallery. Ms. Stein is currently working on a biography of Bellamy, who was one of the first people to represent a large number of excellent artists including Yayoi Kusama, Lee Lozano, Claes Oldenburg, Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, and Mark DiSuvero.
11th, Saturday, 8:00 pm
Music: Laura Gibson and Breathe Owl Breathe.
17th, Friday, 6:00 pm
Talk and Book Signing: We’re celebrating the release of “Texas My Texas: Musings of the Rambling Boy” by historian Lonn Taylor of Fort Davis.
18th, Saturday, 6:00 pm
Reading: Dot Devota, Zachary Schomburg, and Brandon Shimoda.
PREVIOUS YEAR (Incomplete List!)
—————————– January, 2011
15th, Saturday, 6:00 pm.
Talk : Two extraordinary documentarians, Dahr Jamail, author of “Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq” (Haymarket) and “The Will To Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan” (Haymarket) and Erika Blumenfeld (“Polar Project”, etc.) will talk about their experiences on the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of the BP Oil Spill catastrophe.
22nd, Saturday, 6:00 pm.
Lannan Reading : Robin Romm, author of “The Mother Garden” and “The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks” will be reading from her work.
29th, Saturday, 6:00 pm
Lannan Reading : Deborah Eisenberg, whose “Collected Stories” was published last year will be reading from her work.
29th, Saturday, 9:00 pm
Film : “Look At What The Light Did Now”, a documentary by Anthony Seck, about the musician Feist and her many collaborators. With special guests, including Simone Rubi of Rubies.
31st, Monday, 9:00 pm
Music : Don’t miss Ben Butler & Mousepad, totally far out, dance-electronic at the Marfa Book Company. (Sadly, this one didn’t happen.)
—————————– February, 2011
8th, Tuesday, 9:00 pm
Music : The incomparable Jonathan Richman will perform with Tommy Larkins on the drums. Tickets are $10.
9th, Wednesday, 6:00 pm
Reading : Darrell Bourque, former Louisiana poet Laureate, will be reading from his work.
18th, Friday, 8:00
Music : We’re not really “presenting” this one, but David Longoria and The Black will be playing Padres with Candles opening.
—————————– March, 2011
1st, Tuesday, 9:00 pm
Music : Mark Growden will be playing in support of his new record.
4th, Friday, 8:30 pm
Music : Balmorhea play a special fund-raising show at Building 98. Check out their latest full lengths: “Constellations” and “All is Wild, All is Silent”. And beyond that, they’re partially based in Alpine, TX.
5th, Saturday, 8:00 pm
Music : Follow that Bird play a benefit for Marfa Public Radio at the Marfa Book Company. (Excellent show.)
14th, Monday, Noon – 5:00 pm
Music : DUBLAB meets the Marfa Book Company with a special Monday Music Meeting and special guests including Matthewdavid, DJ Frosty, Little Danny of Office Naps and the Exotica Project, David Hollander, Dan Chamberlain, and Nicolas Miller.
20th, Sunday, 8 PM
Music : Sun Araw & Prince Rama. Tape Labels, Loop Pedals. There’s a whole world going on underground. $8.
21st, Monday, 8 PM
Music: Brainstorm & Thee Oh Sees. (Marfa Book Company Presents). This one will take place at Padres. Two of Portland and San Francisco’s finest. $5.
25th, Friday, 8 PM
Film: We’re presenting the new documentary film about Texas song-writing legend, Blaze Foley. The film, “Blaze Foley: Duct Tape Messiah” will feature special guest, Gurf Morlix, performing a set of Blaze’s songs. $5.
—————————– April, 2011
1st, Friday, 6:00 pm
Reading : Joshua Edwards, poet and editor of Canarium Books, reads from “Campeche”, his latest.
8th, Friday, 8:00 pm
Music : Odessa-based, post-hardcore, To Montauk (very heavy) return to Marfa. Jessie Tejada, Dione Acosta and Jonathan Lujan present their new project, as yet untitled. (Possibly Solid Waste?)
9th, Saturday, 6:00 pm
Lannan Reading : Gary Kamiya, founder of Salon.com, and author of “Shadow Knights” will be speaking about his work.
11th, Monday, 8:00 pm
Music : MBCo. Present British Sea Power at Padres. The show costs $10. It’s a chance to see this great band in a small venue. A Classic Education opens.
15th, Friday, 6:00 pm
Reading and Book Launch : Jeffrey Yang, author of “Aquarium” will be here to launch “Birds, Beasts and Seas: Nature Poems from New Directions.”
17th, Sunday, 8:00 pm
Music: YACHT with Jeffrey Jerusalem and Bobby Birdman. Come celebrate the release of their new record, “Shangri-la”. $5.
—————————– May 2011
21st, Saturday, 6:00 pm
Reading: Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, author of the Caine Prize winning “Weight of Whispers” will be reading from her work. In addition to publishing widely, Owuor is also the former director of the Zanzibar International Film Festival
28th, Saturday, 6:00 pm
Reading: Kevin Young, author of “Ardency”, “Jelly Roll”, “For the Confederate Dead”, To Repel Ghosts” and many other great collections of poems will be reading from his work.
—————————– June, 2011
4th, Saturday, 6:00 pm
Reading: Adrian Matejka, author of “Mixology” and “The Devil’s Garden” will be reading from his work.
10th, Friday, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Opening: “Edge of Heaven”, new painting and sculpture by Tyler Spurgin opens in the gallery.
11th, Saturday, 9:00 pm
Performance: Jesse Malmed performs “Conversational Karaoke”, “Ruinas” and other works from “The Body Electronic”.
18th, Saturday, 6:00 pm
Reading: Ben Lerner, author of “Mean Free Path”, “Angle of Yaw” and “The Lichtenberg Figures”, former editor of NO: A Journal of the Arts, will read from his work.
24th, Friday, 6:00 pm
Reading: Join us as we celebrate the release of “Marfa Rocks”, the second book in the Chef Brett Marfa Mystery series, with a reading and signing by author John Demers. (Also, please check out John’s many excellent books.)
25th, Saturday, 6:00 pm
Reading: Allison Hedge Coke, author of “Blood Run”, “Off Season City Pipe”, editor of several volumes of poems, including “Effigies: An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing” and the forthcoming “Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas”, will read from her work.
PREVIOUS YEAR
—————————– January, 2010
9th, Saturday, 6:00 pm.
Reading : Hoa Nguyen and Dale Smith, poets, educators, and editors of Skanky Possum, read from their work. See also, Dale’s blog, Sycamore and Flowers.
16th, Saturday, 6:00 pm.
Reading : Matthew Dickman, author of “All American Poem”, winner of the American Poetry Review’s Honickman First Book Prize.
23rd, Saturday, 6:00 pm
Reading : Erin Hogan, author of “Spiral Jetta” reads from new work.
—————————— February, 2010
24th, Wednesday, 7:30 pm.
Artist’s Talk : Chinati Foundation Artist-in-Residence, Steve Roden, will be speaking about his work. See also, Steve’s blog, Airform Archives.
26th, Friday, 6:oo pm.
Talk : Jonathan Skinner, editor of ecopoetics, will speak about his work with the journal and share some of his own work as a poet.
27th, Saturday, 6:00 pm.
Talk : Andrew Bacevich, Lannan Writer-in-Residence, will speak about his upcoming book, “Washington Rules : America’s Path to Permanent War.”
—————————— March, 2010
2nd, Tuesday, 8:00 pm
Music : The Clientele. Tickets are $8 at the door. All ages.
12th, Friday, 10:00 pm
Music : Brittain Ashford with special guest, Adventures Of. All ages.
13th, Saturday, 6:00 pm
Reading : Ben Marcus, author of “The Age of Wire and String” and “Notable American Women”, both excellent. Ben will be reading from his novel in progress, “The Flame Alphabet.”
17th, Wednesday, 8:00 pm
Film : Richard Linklater, whose diverse work as film-maker includes “Slacker”, “School of Rock” and “Before Sunrise” will host a special, freescreening of his latest film, “Me and Orson Welles” at the Marfa Book Company. The event is co-sponsored by The Chinati Foundation.
21st, Sunday, 9 PM
Music : Slow Trucks, Monarchs, and Evacuee play the first annual “InFest” at the Marfa Book Company. Free.
23rd, Tuesday, 6 PM
Closing the Book : We close the first Impossible Objects Show (Various Small Fires) in style. Bobby Birdman, Jeffrey Jerusalem, Ross Cashiola, and Candles perform acoustic sets.
31st, Wednesday, 10:30 AM
Interview : In lieu of a reading, Copper Canyon Press Executive Editor Michael Wiegers will talk with Tim Johnson on Marfa Public Radio about the work of the press, past, present and future.
—————————— April 2010
2nd, Friday, 6 PM
Opening : “Ballad of Chalino Sanchez,” by Camp Bosworth, opens in the gallery.
3rd, Saturday, 3 PM
Visitors : Karl Rove walks into the store and asks if we have any copies of his book. Sadly, we have one. Later, Tom Goodkind, formerly of The Washington Squares, and the subject of Yo La Tengo’s “Pass the Hatchet, I Think I’m Goodkind,” stops by and talks about The Cramps.
3rd, Saturday, 6 PM
Reading : Fae Ng, Author of “Bone : A Novel” and “Steer Toward Rock” will read from her work.
14th, Wednesday, 6 PM
Reading : Arun Gupta, editor at The Indypendent, will give a talk, entitled, “The Ghost of Reagan in the Age of Obama.”
16th, Friday, 8 PM
Music : No Idea : Seeds + Systems, featuring Bonnie Jones, Bhob Rainey and Chris Cogburn, three fantastic performers from the realm of experimental / free-improvisatory music play the Crowley Theater, presented by the Marfa Book Company.
—————————– May 2010
6th, Thursday, 9 PM
Music : Brooklyn NY Noise / Punk / Rock / Artist / Entertainers Japanther with special guests Guards, Erekeecludi, Kitten Glitter. All ages. $5.
—————————- July 2010
10th, Saturday, 6 PM
Reading : Matt Donovan, author of “Vellum” will read from his work.
17th, Saturday, 6 PM
Reading : Don Lee, author of “Yellow : Stories” and “Wrack and Ruin” will be reading from his work.
30th, Friday, 6 PM
Artist’s Talk : Julie Ault, artist, curator, author, will be speaking about her work. Stephen Pascher will lead a question and answer session after the talk.
31st, Saturday
Book Fest : The Marfa Book Company presents Rosa Alcala, Benjamin Alire Saenz, and Scott Wiggerman at the Way Out West Texas Book Festival in Alpine, Texas.
—————————— August 2010
4th, Wednesday, 8 PM
Film : “Citizen Architect : Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of Rural Studio” will be screened at the Crowley Theater, presented by the Marfa Book Company with an introduction by director Sam Douglas and film producer Jack Sanders.
5th, Thursday, 8 PM
Music : Dark Dark Dark, whose upcoming “Wild Go” will be released in October. $5 at the door. (Great show.)
7th, Saturday, 6 PM
Reading : Michael Dickman, author of “The End of the West” will read from his work.
14th, Saturday, 6 PM
Reading : Jill Schoolman, editor of Archipelago Books, will read from her translation of The Circus by C. F. Ramuz.
——————————– September 2010
17th – 19th, Friday – Sunday
Symposium : Dialagos en Marfa / Marfa Dialogues : A symposium about the politics, art and culture of the U. S. / Mexico border featuring talks by Cecilia Balli, Charles Bowden, Mark Danner, Benjamin Alire Saenz, and several others.
20th, Monday, 8:30 PM
Music : DUNGEN, and NO JOY, co-presentation with Padre’s Marfa (209 W. El Paso). $8 at the door.
—————————— October 2010
6th, Wednesday, 6:00 PM
Opening : “Ian Hamilton Finlay : A Selection of Printed Works” opens in the gallery. Curated by Tim Johnson and Caitlin Murray, this exhibit features books, cards, standing poems, and prints.
—————————— November 2010
13th, Saturday, 6:00 PM
Reading : Melena Morling, poet and translator will be reading from her work. Melena’s most recent book is the excellent “Astoria” from Pitt Press. She is a translator and has several volumes in the works, including “The Star by My Head: Twelve Swedish Poets” and “Swedish Writers on Writing”.
—————————— December 2010
2nd, Thursday, 9:00 PM
Music : Will Johnson (Centro-matic) and Candles give a special acoustic performance, some of which will take place in the gallery. $5 at the door.
4th, Saturday, 6:00 PM
Reading : John D’Agata, author of “Halls of Fame” and “About a Mountain”, will be reading from his work. In the words of Guy Davenport, “John D’Agata is an alchemist who changes trash into purest gold.” He is also one of the few people to whom Anne Carson has given an interview.
6th, Sunday, 4:00 PM
Gallery Talk : Stephen Scobie, poet, scholar, biographer and the principle lender to our current exhibit, “Ian Hamilton Finlay: A Selection of Printed Works”, will be speaking about his relationship with Finlay and works in the show.
