“Permanent Vacation II: Eighteen Writers on Work and Life in Our National Parks” will launch June 13 at 7pm in the Aspen Room at Lake Tahoe Community College.

The second volume of this popular collection features writers from national parks all over the country, including locales like Cape Cod and Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The event is free and open to the public. 

Authors reading at the event include Mary Emerick, Andrea Ross, Elizabeth Van Zandt and Tahoe local Joseph Flannery, reading of his encounters with bison in Yellowstone. There will be a short Q&A after the readings.

A second reading will be at Word After Word Books in Truckee on June 25 at 6pm. Authors at this event will include Flannery and John Q McDonald on the powers of Pele. This event is also free and open to the public.

“Permanent Vacation II” may be pre-ordered online. Books can be purchased locally at Gaia-Licious and Dharma Love in South Lake Tahoe and Word After Word.