Among the Bay Area’s many bookstores, Book
Passage in Corte Madera has one of the most active schedules going of author
events, readings, classes and other literary happenings. In fact, it’s not
uncommon for more than one or two author talks or other events to take place here
just about every day. And what's more, many of these events have a local
connection. Looking to the week ahead, here are three events not to miss.
Group Poetry Reading
with Conflux Press poets
-- Sunday, January 29 at 4:00 pm
-- Sunday, January 29 at 4:00 pm
Abby Wasserman |
Various Bay Area writers associated with Conflux Press will present
their work. Scheduled to read are poets Karen Benke, Karla Clark, Ed Colettie,
CB Follett, Janet Jennings, Melanie Maier, Beverly Momoi, Daniel Polikoff,
Susan Terris & Abby Wasserman.
Each is talented, and each is multi-talented. Abby Wasserman,
for instance, is a writer and artist and the former editor of the Oakland
Museum of California's quarterly magazine. Her publications include The Spirit of Oakland, a multicultural
history of the city, Portfolio,
essays on 11 Native American artists, and Praise,
Vilification & Sexual Innuendo, or How to Be a Critic: The Selected
Writings of John L. Wasserman, which she edited. (The late John L. Wasserman,
a much loved San Francisco Chronicle
critic and entertainment writer, was her brother.) Since 2003, Wasserman has
served on the Board of the O'Hanlon Center for the Arts in Mill Valley.
She facilitates two writing groups at the Center while devoting most of her
time to her poetry and her art.
Julia Flynn Siler, in
conversation with Liz Epstein, discuss Lost
Kingdom
-- Monday, January 30 at 7:00 pm
-- Monday, January 30 at 7:00 pm
Julia Flynn Siler |
Only one American state was ever a sovereign monarchy. That
state is Hawaii – the subject of a new book by
North Bay
author Julia Flynn Siler. Lost Kingdom: Hawaii’s Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America’s First Imperial Adventure (Atlantic
Monthly Press) chronicles how this Pacific nation – inhabited by a proud but vulnerable
Polynesian people, was encountered, annexed and absorbed by a relentlessly
expanding world power, the United
States.
Siler’s 2007 bestseller, Houseof Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty, travelled
similar ground. It told an epic story of a "takeover proof" family-controlled
company which was sold over the objections of several key family members. Siler
will be in conversation with Kentfield writer Liz Epstein.
One Book One Marin
2012 Celebration with Michael David Lukas
-- Thursday, February 2 at 7:00 pm
-- Thursday, February 2 at 7:00 pm
Michael David Lukas |
Book Passage, along with The Marin County Free Library, City
Public Libraries of Marin County and Dominican
University of California, is pleased to announce the OneBook One Marin selection for 2012 – The Oracle of Stamboul (Harper Perennial), by Oakland-born author Michael David
Lukas. This special event at Dominican
University in San Rafael launches a county-wide celebration
with a talk and book signing by the author.
Set in 19th-century Turkey (then the Ottoman Empire), beautifully written, passionate, and fragrant with political intrigue, historical upheaval and Eastern mysticism, The Oracle of Stamboul revolves around a girl who changes the course of an empire. The book is now out in soft cover. When first published in hardback, one reviewer called it “a bold portrait of an empire precariously poised on the chasm between an old and a new world.”
Set in 19th-century Turkey (then the Ottoman Empire), beautifully written, passionate, and fragrant with political intrigue, historical upheaval and Eastern mysticism, The Oracle of Stamboul revolves around a girl who changes the course of an empire. The book is now out in soft cover. When first published in hardback, one reviewer called it “a bold portrait of an empire precariously poised on the chasm between an old and a new world.”
Lukas – who teaches in the East
Bay – has been a Fulbright scholar in Turkey, a proofreader in Tel Aviv, and a Rotary
scholar in Tunisia.
He brings a raconteur’s sense of story telling and a traveler’s eye for detail
to this, his bestselling debut novel. For more on One Book One Marin visit www.onebookonemarin.org.
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