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Celebrating Taos Women: Author Event

“For over a thousand years Taos has been a place of strong women”. Tell me about it!

Free Travel Memoir Readings by Taos Writers: August 17

Getting to Taos? How did you land here? Find out how these three writers arrived in Taos (and other far-flung destinations) at a free reading tonight.

Metta Theatre $5 or Pay What You Can

Metta Theatre $5 or pay what you can events this weekend: Jazz For a Sunday Afternoon on Mother’s Day and a poetry reading tonight, Saturday May 8.

Free Books & Taos Big Read ‘Bless Me, Ultima’ Events

The month-long Taos Big Read book party kicks off this weekend in celebration of New Mexico author Rudolfo Anaya’s jewel of a novel: Bless Me, Ultima. At the launch on Saturday Nov 7 at Taos Public Library, you can pick up a free copy of Bless Me, Ultima in either English and Spanish, and enjoy […]

Free Author & Artist events including John Nichols

Authors and artists reflect on the ’60s in two free Summer of Love August events at Taos Public Library. Lisa Law on Aug 8 is an amazing photographer with plenty of good stories to tell, and the inimitable John Nichols, author of books including The Milagro Beanfield War, is not to be missed on Aug 22. John leaves […]

Free Meet Author/Activist at Brodsky Books

Meet author and activist Mark Rudd, who’ll discuss and sign copies of his new memoir Underground: My Life With SDS and the Weathermen on Saturday May 2, from 4:00-6:00 pm, at the Brodsky Bookshop. (Straight afterwards, Rudd speaks at a World Peace Week gathering at the Taos Artist Co-op next door to Brodsky Bookshop.) A […]