January 2026
January 7th, 6pm
Indie Press Book Club
The Narrow Gauge Book Cooperative is happy to feature Melville House Books for November and December!
On January 7th at 6pm we'll discuss We Live Here Now by C.D. Rose.
From their website: “Melville House is an independent publisher founded in 2001 in order to publish Poetry After 9/11. The book, an anthology of poems written by New York poets, was inspired by poems sent to the book blog, MobyLives, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
The book was widely successful, and Melville House soon expanded its list to include books of literary fiction, political and activist nonfiction, cookbooks and books on food, and a classics line called The Art of the Novella. The company has published two Nobel Prize winners — Imre Kertész and Heinrich Böll — and numerous New York Times bestsellers. It particularly prides itself on the diversity of its list, and on the publication of debut authors.
Melville House UK was founded in 2011.”
Be sure to explore the various collections they have and browse our selection of their books over the next two months. We had a really difficult time choosing only a few!
Our book club pick: We Live Here Now by C.D. Rose.
Join us on January 7th at 6pm to discuss this novel, described as “DeLillo meets Kafka in a wickedly smart novel that explores the boundaries between art and life, vision and reality, beauty and commerce.”
Synopsis: When visitors to a famous conceptual artist's installation start mysteriously disappearing, the aftershocks radiate outwards through twelve people who were involved in the project, changing all of their lives, and launching them on a crazy-quilt trajectory that will end with them all together at one final, apocalyptic bacchanal.
Mixing illusion and reality, simulacra and replicants, sound artists and death artists, performers and filmmakers and theorists and journalists, We Live Here Now ranges across the world of weapons dealers and international shipping to the galleries and studios on the cutting edge of hyper-contemporary art. It spins a dazzling web that conveys, with eerie precision, the sheer strangeness of what it is like to be alive today.
The book is available in store now, and is 10% through January 7th!
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January 8th, 6pm - 8pm
Calendar Cutup
Collage Workshop
The Narrow Gauge Book Cooperative is pleased to host the Calendar Cut Up Collage Workshop in 2026!
Join us for a collage workshop led by Lares Feliciano of Heart & Lungs Ranch.
About the workshop:
Bring your 2025 (or any year) calendars and cut up time! Enjoy the creativity of collage art, using your calendars for inspiration.
Collage supplies (glue, scissors, other materials) provided.
Donations welcomed, but not required.
About the artist:
Lares Feliciano is an artist, cultural worker, tarot reader, and witch based in the sacred San Luis Valley, Colorado. As an artist, Feliciano uses animation, installation, and collage to create worlds where diverse stories are front and center and all of time exists at once. Find out more at her website, heartandlungsranch.com
January 10, 4pm - 6pm
Jenni Sheffield
Artist Reception
The Narrow Gauge Book Cooperative is pleased to announce our featured artist for January, 2026: Jenni Sheffield!
On January 10th from 4pm to 6pm, join Jenni and the Narrow Gauge for a come-and-go artist reception! Jenni was in-store back in 2024, and they’re thrilled to have her again!
About the Artist:
Jenni Sheffield has always been an artist. She has her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Her emphasis was Illustration.
The last semester of college, Jenni took her first plein air painting class, and she was hooked! Jenni also enjoys painting still life and animals. She has taken several painting workshops through the Scottsdale Artist’s School in AZ.
After taking 13 years off from painting to raise her five kids, Jenni began taking classes again from a local artist-Coni Grant. Jenni’s medium of choice is oil painting. She loves bright colors, thick paint and texture, and painting outdoors.
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We hope you'll join them and take the opportunity to talk with Jenni about her art and her creative process!
January 17th, 11 - 11:30 am
Story Time with Holly Y
We're happy to announce a monthly story time with Holly Y. Join Holly in store for the first story time on January 17th from 11:00am - 11:30am, and she will read a selection of books from the monthly display table.
Holly Y Felmlee is a life-long resident of Colorado and lives in the San Luis Valley with gigantic Mt. Blanca as a neighbor. She has been writing stories since she was a teen; her fiction is based on personal experiences, as well as flights of imagination. This year she released a collection of short stories and essays: A Modern Woman's Tao, but she has also written a historical fiction series for children, including The Pinched Pinkney Plan, and the Dire Delaware Deed. You can learn more about Holly at hollyy.com
We're grateful to Holly for volunteering her time for this monthly story time, taking place on the third Saturday of the month from 11:00am to 11:30am each month. We hope to see you!
January 17th, 6pm
Spadefoot Story Slam
Each month, we host the Spadefoot Story Slam community, sharing stories based on a theme, selected at the previous month’s Slam. While inspired by the Moth Story Hour, our monthly meetings are not a contest, but instead are a way to come together and practice sharing, and deep listening.
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On January 17th at 6pm, the theme is Regret. Bring your stories about misadventure, about roads you shouldn't have taken - or the roads you didn't take, and wish you had. Share stories about missed opportunities, and opportunities you wish you had missed. Or, dip into the mischievous and talk about those choices you should regret, but that were absolutely worth it anyway.
We encourage creative interpretation of the theme, so feel free to think outside the box!
Stories should be true as remembered by you, and spoken from the heart, instead of read from the page. We don’t have an official time limit, but encourage stories that take 10 minutes or less, especially if we have a large group. We look forward to seeing you on January 17th at 6pm.
January 30th, 3:30 & 6pm
Adam Gaffen in Store
We're pleased to announce a book signing and a reading with Adam Gaffen, creator of the Cassidyverse!
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Adam will be at the Narrow Gauge on January 30th for a signing from 3:30-5:30pm, followed by a reading and Q&A at 6:00pm. Come for one, or come for both! The signing will be informal with plenty of opportunity to chat with Adam, while the reading will be a little more structured.
Adam Gaffen is an award-winning author and the creator of the Cassidyverse, a vast, interconnected story world spanning science fiction, fantasy, thrillers, and romance. His work blends genres while remaining deeply hopepunk—inclusive, character-driven stories centered on found family, rebellion, love, and the cost of choosing hope in broken systems.
With more than 30 published novels, Gaffen’s work ranges from intimate origin stories like The Spark Before the Fire to sweeping, long-arc capstones such as The Eternity Protocol. His books feature fierce women, emotionally complex characters, and relationships that challenge power structures and expectations, all grounded in deeply human stakes.
A frequent convention guest and panelist, Gaffen is known for engaging readers in conversation, making genre fiction accessible, and helping new readers find the perfect entry point into a shared universe where every story matters—and every act of hope counts.
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We're excited to have Adam in store, and hope we'll see you!