The literary weekend is sponsored by RJ Julia Booksellers of Madison and costs $150 to attend. at The First Congregational Church of Madison, 26 Meeting House Lane, Madison. Check availability and buy tickets at .īooks by the Sea, two days of events that include talks by best-selling novelist Alice Hoffman and debut author Laura Sims, a luncheon, discussions of new fiction and more, will take place Nov. Tickets are $50 plus tax and include a copy of the book. at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale, 155 Temple St., New Haven, They will discuss their debut collaboration, “The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience,” about women who have inspired them, such as Greta Thunberg, Dorothy Height, Diana Nyad, Rachel Carson, Harriet Tubman and many others. BirdNote’s theme was composed and played by Nancy Rumbel and John Kessler.Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter Chelsea Clinton will be in conversation with RJ Julia Booksellers founder Roxanne Coady on Oct. American Crow ML 159864361 recorded by B. Senior Producer: John Kessler Content Director: Allison Wilson Producer: Mark Bramhill Associate Producer: Ellen Blackstone Managing Producer: Conor Gearin Bird sounds provided by The Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Mark Bramhill: All these crows helped inspire her light-hearted apocalyptic novels.

I would go on these walks, and they would follow me.

Kira Jane Buxton: But after that, I had a completely different relationship with the local crows. Mark Bramhill: Kira took the young crow to a local wildlife rehab center, where, sadly, it didn't survive. And this is 60 crows, just silent watching. And so I ushered this little crow into the box, and all the crows went silent. And it looked at me and I looked at this crow, and I just had this feeling that the crow understood I was there to help and not to harm. So I thought this might be a kind of Tippi Hedren moment.īut I got a box and approached this poor little injured crow. And you know, the general consensus about crows is quite negative. And I was very nervous to approach, because I had no experience with crows. And in the trees all around were about 60 crows who were just screaming for this family member. Kira Jane Buxton: I was walking my dog and there was an injured crow. But Kira’s love for crows didn't start until a few years before writing the books. The books are love letters to the city of Seattle and the American Crow.

Kira Jane Buxton is the author of Hollow Kingdom and Feral Creatures, two novels about a foul-mouthed pet crow named S.T., navigating the extinction of humanity, learning to bridge between the worlds of domestic and wild animals. BirdNote® Spark Bird: Kira Jane Buxton’s Crow Rescue Written by Mark Bramhill

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