# Event Details - **Event Name**: NINA SCHULYER at Books Inc. Palo Alto - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 29 Sep, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Tue, 29 Sep, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-07:00) - **Event Description**: Books Inc. is thrilled to welcome local author Nina Schulyer back to the store for a celebration of her new book Open the Floodgates!About this EventNina will read and discuss her new imaginative and profound novel, in which rivers are personified, and must wrestle with what they are owed and what they owe us. This discussion will be followed by a Q&A and book signing. Join us!About the book: We are in the midst of a profound legal shift: from New Zealand to India to Ecuador, real-world laws have granted personhood to rivers. With a mix of magic and pathos, Open the Floodgates imagines this new reality with a new configuration of the human and other-than-human relationship.In an unnamed California town, the River is granted personhood and has the right--and urgent need--to argue in court for its existence. But powerful, well-funded enemies are determined to keep the River exactly as it is: gunk-filled, toxic, a convenient dumping ground for waste. The story moves like water, entering the minds of the town's people, pigeons, deer, dogs, cats, the trees, the River's home, and the River itself. When the River moves, the text winds its way along the page, mimicking water. When the River is ultimately jailed, the town faces a reckoning: what do we owe the River? And the River must answer in turn: what, if anything, does it owe humans?NINA SCHUYLER is the author of four other fiction books and teaches creative writing at Stanford Continuing Studies and the independent bookstore, Book Passage. Nina Schuyler's newest short story collection, In this Ravishing World, won the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, the W.S. Porter Prize for Short Story Collections, and the Prism Prize for Climate Literature. It was also a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. She graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in Economics and earned a law degree at UC Law San Francisco. She is also the author of How to Write Stunning Sentences and has an extensive following of her Substack newsletter of the same name. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/palo-alto/nina-schulyer-at-books-inc-palo-alto/100001991500412343 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, dog - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 1 hour - Location: Books Inc. Palo Alto - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Palo Alto - **state**: CA - **country**: United States - **location**: Books Inc. Palo Alto - **lat**: 37.4380888 - **long**: -122.15956130000001 - **full address**: Books Inc. Palo Alto, 74 Town & Country Village, Palo Alto, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: NINA SCHULYER at Books Inc. Palo Alto - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/ee5f11ade32ff61ca64a53a101f4b779ed727a22b8e4c79fe709622a35c3ac7a-rimg-w1200-h600-dcf0ede8-gmir.jpg?v=1781324196 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is NINA SCHULYER at Books Inc. Palo Alto being held? - **A:** NINA SCHULYER at Books Inc. Palo Alto takes place on Tue, 29 Sep, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Tue, 29 Sep, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Books Inc. Palo Alto, 74 Town & Country Village, Palo Alto, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing NINA SCHULYER at Books Inc. Palo Alto? - **A:** NINA SCHULYER at Books Inc. Palo Alto is organized by Books Inc.. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** NINA SCHULYER at Books Inc. Palo Alto is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Palo Alto, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If NINA SCHULYER at Books Inc. Palo Alto sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "NINA SCHULYER at Books Inc. 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