Meet the authors

The Tattered Cover has more meet-n-greets w/ authors coming up. Here's just a few of note:

_ 6/8, @ Tattered Cover on Colfax :: Catherine Mabe, aka Jayne Manslaughter, one of the founders of Denver's own Rocky Mountain Rollergirls, w/ her new book, "Roller Derby: The History and All Girl Revival of the Greatest Sport on Wheels."

_6/11, 7:30 p.m., @ Tattered Cover in LoDo :: Joyce Carol Oates :: She'll read from and sign her new novel "The Gravedigger's Daughter." Free, but you need a ticket, available at 6:30 p.m.

_ 6/12, 7:30 p.m. @ LoDo :: Rick Reilly of Sports Illustrated :: Reilly will discuss and sign his new collection "Hate Mail from Cheerleaders and Other Adventures from the Life of Reilly." Free tickets available at 6:30 pm

_6/18, 7:30 p.m. @ LoDo :: Mike Jones, the guy who got Ted Haggard in trouble :: Jones discusses and signs his book "I Had to Say Something: The Art of Ted Haggard's Fall."

_ 6/19, 7:30 p.m. @ Tattered Cover on Colfax :: Michael Ondaatje ("The English Patient") reads from his new novel "Divisadero."

_ 6/20, 7:30 p.m. @ TC in Highlands Ranch :: Robert Kurson ("Shadow Divers") reads from his new book about blind athlete and CIA employee Mike May, who decided to undergo srugery to restore his vision.

_ 6/21, 7:30 p.m. @ Colfax :: Jim Sheeler :: Sheeler, who won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 2006 while working for the Rocky Mountain News, will read from and sign his new collection "Obit: Inspiring Stories of Ordinary People Who Led Extraordinary Lives." (Before winning the Pulitzer at the Rocky, Sheeler wrote amazingly crafted obits for The Denver Post, which decided not to move him from freelance to staff. Whoops!)