READING IN MANHATTAN, Sunday, July 25, 7pm

Dear Friends, 

 

I would love it if you could join us at the KGB Bar on Sunday, July 25 at 7pm. You'll find us at 85 E. 4th Street, just a few steps west of Second Avenue.

 

photo by Matt Roberts

It's one of the traditional literary hotspots in Manhattan. Housed in a building that has been a center for labor unions, revolution and the arts for over 100 years, the KGB bar has been called the best literary venue by New York magazine, the Village Voice -- and many more! So let us entertain you this coming Sunday evening with some rough and ready reading -- current material from selected writers, hosted by Brent Shearer, author of the memoir, In the Front Row, On the Dole.

 

 

I'll be reading a little from Guru, and some brand new material, hot off the press.

Come, let's meet, let's have a good time!

THE NEW BOOK

The new book begins in 1981 when Baba Muktananda was still alive. Gurumayi was still called Malti. I began to study hatha yoga in Manhattan with a devotee of Baba's, a man who traveled often to South Fallsberg, had gone with his wife and infant daughter to Ganeshpuri, had even managed the Manhattan ashram for a summer. Now he ran his own yoga school. "No one else really understands Baba," he used to say to us. "Only I do." And I believed him. Memoir In Progress

MARTA READS IN MANHATTAN

Hi Friends, I'll be reading a short piece at the famed KGB Bar at 85 E. 4th Street near Second Avenue in the East Village. This Sunday, June 20 at 7pm. And it would be great to see you there! Please come say hi. With warm wishes, M

NEW MEMOIR IN PROGRESS

To all those who read The Guru Looked Good -- I am writing now the prequel to Guru, a memoir of the seven years before connecting directly to Gurumayi and Siddha Yoga. I am deeply interested in finding the roots of why a person loses themself in a group as I did in SY and, as the new memoir reveals, in a group before that, one related to Siddha Yoga, but very very very different. You may find it interesting. I am posting the new book one chapter at a time as I write it. Something new goes up about once a week, though not like clockwork the way Guru went up, because Guru was already finished when I began posting it. This is different. If you start reading you will see the book taking shape as we go. So far I have 12 chapters up. I hope you will find it a good read too. Here's the new link: MEMOIR IN PROGRESS.

Book Club

Honored to be the book club selection of the New Milford, Connecticut book club, meeting tonight!

OFF TO PARIS

I leave for two weeks in Paris on Saturday, February 13, and I'll be blogging the trip at Bonjour, Paree! Come join me!

WHERE HAVE I BEEN?

Hard at work on the next book! Not Siddha Yoga, but the cult that came before it -- the one that made Siddha Yoga feel like a country club. Will you have heard of it? No, it was small and private, like so many cults are.