Second Chances in New Port Stephen by T.J. Alexander

Martin is a - contain your excitement - self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerilla war between people who want to hide money, and people who want to find it. He likes intelligent women, and they like him back often enough. He knows his way around good food and fine drink. He lives and roams California in a very comfortable, fully furnished touring bus, The Unsalted Hash, that he bought years ago from a fading rock star. Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. Tuesday, May 2 7pm (PT) / Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills CrossingĬory Doctorow's Red Team Blues (Tor) is a grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the world really works.

Lindsley will be joined in conversation by Scott Korb, winner of a 2021 Oregon Literary Fellowship and director of the MFA in Writing at Pacific University.Ĭory Doctorow in Conversation With Andy Baio For anyone who has nurtured a fantasy of dropping out in search of answers, Mediocre Monk suggests a reality that is far more complicated - and rewarding. Rather than transcending grief and becoming entirely self-reliant, he is surprised to find solace in allowing pain and reopening himself to community. Eventually, he exhausts himself into moments of genuine growth, but not in the way he expects. But Lindsley can’t transform himself into the profound guru he envisions - he’s hungry, restless, and lacking in the humility that monkhood requires. He shaves his head and eyebrows, eats one bowl of food a day, and lives in a cave, his solitude punctuated by brushes with snakes, scorpions, and drug smugglers. Lost and bereft, he believes he can find answers in the mountains of Thailand.

After the sudden death of a friend, Lindsley abandons his corporate job to train as a monk in one of the strictest Buddhist traditions on earth.

Tuesday, May 2 7pm (PT) / Powell’s City of Booksįunny, perceptive, and deeply personal, Mediocre Monk (Girl Friday Books) follows Grant Lindsley’s rocky journey toward spiritual growth - one that ultimately leads him to places he never imagined. Grant Lindsley in Conversation With Scott Korb

Second Chances in New Port Stephen by T.J. Alexander