Chaucer’s Book Signing W/ SBCC Professor Emeritus
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Chaucer's Books
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Phone: 805-682-6787
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Date & Time
Tue, Oct 25 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Address (map)
3321 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105
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Chaucer's Books
Chaucer’s Books ( 3321 State Street, 805-682-6787) will host SBCC English professor emeritus W. Royce Adams for a book talk and signing of his novel AS TIME GOES BY on Tuesday, October 25 at 6 p.m.
Book Description
AS TIME GOES BY Nearing the end, Old asks himself, “Does my life ultimately have any importance in any universal scheme? Am I just taking up space? Have I wasted the time given me? What effect have I had on others? Have I unknowingly, worse, knowingly, hurt others in some fashion? What’s my worth? These are playful existential questions with no pertinent answers for me. So I’m putting down my cane and picking up my pen. I’m going to sift through the sands of my time to see what I can discover through remembrance. Don’t expect any fancy writing. No playing with altered punctuation, or trying to be aesthetically clever, or poetic, or intellectual. Not here a Sedaris, or Saunders, or Atwood, or Yuknavich. Just me, squinting into some memorable windows in my life before they all fog.”
About the Author
- Royce Adams, professor emeritus of English from Santa Barbara City College in California, received his BA in Liberal Arts from Washington University in St. Louis,Missouri and a Masters in English from California State University, Long Beach. He is past-president of the CollegeReading and Learning Association. During his teaching career, he wrote over twenty textbooks dealing with reading, composition, and study skills. After retirement, he began writing middle-grade and juvenile novels for young readers who find reading difficult. As of late, he had turned his attention to publishing short stories for adults. His works have appeared in The Rockford Review, Black Fox Literary Magazine, Catamaran, In the Depths, Coe Review, Chaffey Review, Adelaide, and bosque.
W. Royce Adams’ fictional works include The Rairarubia Tales, The Computer’s Nerd, Me & Jay, Jay, and Against the Current, a collection of short stories. He lives in Santa Barbara, California. www.wroyceadams.com.