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Posted by the National Museum of Women in the Arts:

Artist and best-selling author Audrey Niffenegger speaks at the National Museum of Women in the Arts about her mid-career retrospective—Awake in the Dream World: The Art of Audrey Niffenegger. Paintings, drawings, prints, and book art—239 pieces in total—reflect her captivating narrative talent and her explorations of life, mortality, and magic. This exhibition was on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts from June 21 to November 10, 2013.

This blog post, by Michael Grothaus, originally appeared on Fast Company and was reprinted with permission. Michael Grothaus can be reached via Twitter.

A startup called Zola Books has paired with a popular novelist to try to save brick-and-mortar shops.

While no one in the publishing world wants to halt the march of digital distribution, many would like to ensure the neighborhood bookstore doesn’t go the way of the record store. That’s why there are a growing number of people in the industry who are looking to disrupt the disruptors and show Apple, Amazon, and Google how to do digital publishing right–by embracing the new while keeping the best of the old. One of those people is Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler’s Wife–one of the most popular debut novels of the last decade. She’s recently become involved with, and invested in, a new digital publishing startup called Zola Books–an e-bookstore that, among other things, aims to help physical bookstores thrive in a digital age.

The New Dividing Line

The Frankfurt Book Fair, the largest trade show of its kind, ended its run this year on Sunday. Though, like always, the fair was dominated with deals being made for new novels, selling foreign rights for existing books, and a continuing discussion on e-books versus paper books, this year’s fair also saw a new level of wariness growing for the encroachment of the big three tech companies–Apple, Amazon, and Google–into a world many feel they care little about. As the fair’s director Juergen Boos told industry insiders and members of the press, “The dividing line is no longer between old and new, print and e-books, analog and digital. Instead it runs between those who have a passion for content and who want to provide access to it, and those who don’t really care what they’re selling.”

To continue reading this article, visit Fast Company. For more information on Zola Books, click here.

An update to the previous post, here is a link to the interview by Jennie and Janine over at Dear Author.

Local Chicago blogger Claire Zulkey presents a short interview, including some very unique questions, with Audrey on her website, zulkey.com which can be found here.

Audrey Niffenegger will discuss Twins, Ghosts, Romance and Time Travel on “Dear Author“, airing Monday, Oct. 14, at 3PM Eastern/2PM Central/1PM Mountain/Noon Pacific. Tune in as she answers questions about The Time Traveler’s Wife, its forthcoming sequel, her second novel Her Fearful Symmetry, Zola Books and the future of E-books.

This exclusive, first-ever digital edition includes 25 pages of a sequel to Niffenegger’s beloved novel focused on Henry and Clare’s daughter Alba, who as an adult finds herself caught between her real-time husband, Zach, and her other husband, Oliver, a fellow time-traveler and musician.

Audrey Niffenegger’s dazzling debut is the story of Clare, a beautiful, strong-minded art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: his genetic clock randomly resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity from his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous and unpredictable, and lend a spectacular urgency to Clare and Henry’s unconventional love story. That their attempt to live normal lives together is threatened by something they can neither prevent nor control makes their story intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.

Click here or on the banner above to visit Zola Books and download The Time Traveler’s Wife e-book.

This exclusive, first-ever digital edition includes 25 pages of a sequel to Niffenegger’s beloved novel focused on Henry and Clare’s daughter Alba, who as an adult finds herself caught between her real-time husband, Zach, and her other husband, Oliver, a fellow time-traveler and musician.

Audrey Niffenegger’s dazzling debut is the story of Clare, a beautiful, strong-minded art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: his genetic clock randomly resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity from his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous and unpredictable, and lend a spectacular urgency to Clare and Henry’s unconventional love story. That their attempt to live normal lives together is threatened by something they can neither prevent nor control makes their story intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.

Click here or on the banner above to visit Zola Books and download The Time Traveler’s Wife e-book.

All Hallows’ Eve Eve Variety Show

All Hallows’ Eve Eve Variety Show

California Clipper, 1002 N California Ave., Chicago, IL

October 30, 8:30pm

Kick off the Halloween long weekend at one of Chicago’s favorite bars, restored 1940s speakeasy, the California Clipper. The All Hallows’ Eve Eve Variety Show will feature shadow puppetry, literary readings, music, and other multi-media delights to benefit Chicago’s newest literary institution ChiPRC (Chicago Publisher’s Resource Center).

Performers include artist/author Audrey Niffenegger (Her Fearful Symmetry), artist/filmmaker Chris Hefner (The Pink Hotel), author Fred Sasaki (Poetry Magazine), playwright Chris Bower, accordionist Robert Cruz, writer Margaret Chapman (fiction editor at decomPmagazine), artist April Sheridan (Center for Book and Paper Arts), and performers Jennifer Friedrich and Damien Hinojosa (Incurable Theater).

Festivities will also include the chance to win a giant worried pumpkin by artist Jason Waclawik; the debut of an original stop motion animation created by illustrator Rachal Duggan; a new shadow puppet show from writer Jill Summers and designer Susie Kirkwood; and the California Clipper’s resident woman in white who is known to appear in booths one and nine, and sometimes in the ladies room.

$7 cover includes raffle ticket. All proceeds benefit the Chicago Publisher’s Resource Center.

http://www.chiprc.org/

On September 23, Zola Books is releasing the e-book version of Audrey Niffenegger’s best-selling novel The Time Traveler’s Wife! To celebrate, Zola wants to invite YOU to participate in our first ever fan conducted interview.

E-mail your question(s) about The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey’s writing process, or anything else Audrey related to [email protected] with the subject line ‘Ask Audrey’.

In the body of the e-mail include your question(s), your first name, and the state you live in.

A total of TEN fan questions will be chosen by the Zola Editorial staff and answered by Audrey.

E-mail your questions by Friday September 20th and check back here on the 23rd to see if Audrey answered one of your questions!

On September 23, Zola Books is releasing the e-book version of Audrey Niffenegger’s best-selling novel The Time Traveler’s Wife! To celebrate, Zola wants to invite YOU to participate in our first ever fan conducted interview.

E-mail your question(s) about The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey’s writing process, or anything else Audrey related to [email protected] with the subject line ‘Ask Audrey’.

In the body of the e-mail include your question(s), your first name, and the state you live in.

A total of TEN fan questions will be chosen by the Zola Editorial staff and answered by Audrey.

E-mail your questions by Friday September 20th and check back here on the 23rd to see if Audrey answered one of your questions!