Events

« August 01 2010 - September 30 2010 »

08 / 1
08 / 2 T. J. Stiles - The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt Start: 7:00 pm Left Coast Writers - Michael Krasny Start: 7:00 pm
08 / 3 Stanislav Grof - Holotropic Breathwork: A New Approach to Self-Exploration and Therapy Start: 7:00 pm
08 / 4 National Book Critics Circle Reads Start: 7:00 pm
08 / 5 Evan Goldstein - Daring Pairings: A Master Sommelier Matches Distinctive Wines with Recipes from His Favorite Chefs Start: 6:00 pm John Gray - Venus on Fire, Mars on Ice Start: 7:00 pm
08 / 6 Paul Greenberg - Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food Start: 6:00 pm Gary Shteyngart - Super Sad True Love Story Start: 7:00 pm
08 / 7 Class: Janis Bell - Clean Well-lighted Sentences RESCHEDULED DATE TBA Start: 9:30 am End: 12:30 pm Class: Amy Novesky - On-the-Spot Children's Writing Workshop SOLD OUT Start: 10:00 am End: 2:00 pm Market to Table Event: Nan Chase - Eat Your Yard: Edible Trees, Shrubs, Vines, Herbs, and Flowers For Your Landscape Start: 11:00 am Class: Brenda Knight - How to Write Books for the Women’s Market Start: 1:30 pm Class: Mehri Dadgar - Watercolor Painting Start: 3:00 pm End: 6:00 pm Peter Heller - Kook: What Surfing Taught Me about Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave Start: 4:00 pm Christopher Gortner - The Confessions of Catherine de Medici Start: 7:00 pm
08 / 8 Class: Cheryl McLaughlin - Twitter Strategies for Authors Start: 10:00 am End: 4:00 pm Margaret Kathrein with Jonathan Kathrein - Far From Shore: A Mother's Memoir of a Shark Attack ADDED EVENT! Start: 2:00 pm Dora Calott Wang - The Kitchen Shrink: A Psychiatrist’s Reflections on Healing in a Changing World Start: 4:00 pm Writing Mamas Salon® - Shawna Ryan Start: 5:00 pm Doug Dorst - The Surf Guru Start: 7:00 pm
08 / 9 Left Coast Writers Presents: Christi Phillips - The Devlin Diary Start: 6:00 pm Tanya Egan Gibson - How to Buy a Love of Reading Start: 7:00 pm
08 / 10 Taylor Plimpton - Notes from the Night: A Life After Dark Start: 6:00 pm Andrew Bacevich - EVENT CANCELED Start: 7:00 pm
08 / 11 Joanne Weir - 2010 Pre-Conference Class Start: 9:00 am End: 5:00 pm Robert Holmes & Andrea Johnson - 2010 Pre-Conference Class Start: 9:00 am End: 5:00 pm Don George - 2010 Pre-Conference Class SOLD OUT Start: 9:00 am End: 5:00 pm Class: Laura Deutsch - Remembering What You Forgot Start: 10:30 am End: 1:00 pm Mehri Dadgar - The Prison Pictures Start: 7:00 pm Daniel Depp - Babylon Nights Start: 7:00 pm
08 / 12 Tim Cahill - Travel, Food & Photography Conference Start: 8:00 pm
08 / 13 Carl Hoffman - Travel, Food & Photography Conference Start: 1:00 pm Phil Cousineau - Travel, Food & Photography Conference Start: 8:30 pm
08 / 14 Market to Table Event: Andrew Swallow - Mixt Salads: A Chef’s Bold Creations Start: 11:45 am Robert Holmes & Andrea Johnson - Travel, Food & Photography Conference Start: 8:00 pm
08 / 15 Carl Hiaasen - Star Island Start: 7:00 pm
08 / 16 Class: Mehri Dadgar - What is Islam? Start: 10:00 am End: 12:00 pm Class: Genevieve Blaise-Sullivan - French Conversation Start: 11:30 am End: 2:00 pm Class: Mehri Dadgar - Drawing & Composition Start: 3:00 pm End: 6:00 pm Howard Norman - What Is Left the Daughter Start: 7:00 pm
08 / 17 Cooks with Books: Rick Bayless with Deann Bayless - Fiesta at Rick’s: Fabulous Food for Great Times with Friends Start: 4:00 pm Alexa Stevenson - Half Baked: The Story of My Nerves, My Newborn, and How We Both Learned to Breathe Start: 6:00 pm Suzanne Carriero - The Dog Who Ate the Truffle: A Memoir of Stories and Recipes from Umbria Start: 7:00 pm
08 / 18 Rosanne Cash - Composed: A Memoir Start: 7:30 pm
08 / 19 Class: Hamid Emami - Conversational German Start: 10:00 am End: 12:00 pm Angela S. Choi - Hello Kitty Must Die Start: 6:00 pm Peg Kingman - Original Sins: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom Start: 7:00 pm
08 / 20 Martin Cruz Smith - Three Stations Start: 7:00 pm
08 / 21 30%-off Members Only Sale Start: 9:00 am End: 9:00 pm Market to Table Event: Sherri Brooks Vinton - Put ‘em Up! Start: 10:00 am Class: Ransom Stephens - Give a Great Reading! Start: 1:00 pm End: 4:00 pm Destiny Kinal - Burning Silk Start: 1:00 pm Jeanne Walker Harvey - Astro the Steller Sea Lion Start: 2:00 pm Sondra Barrett - Wine’s Hidden Beauty Start: 4:00 pm Terry Sue Harms - Pearls My Mother Wore Start: 7:00 pm
08 / 22 Aubrey Wade - My Pregnancy Pocket Guide Start: 11:00 am Bernard von Bothmer - Framing the Sixties: The Use and Abuse of a Decade from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush Start: 1:00 pm Paul Blanc - How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace Start: 2:00 pm Tamam Kahn - Untold: A History of the Wives of Prophet Muhammad Start: 4:00 pm
08 / 23 Kid Lit Salon - Ying Chang Compestine CANCELED Start: 7:00 pm Robert Wittman - Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures Start: 7:00 pm
08 / 24 Class: Hamid Emami - Conversational German Start: 1:00 pm End: 3:00 pm
08 / 25 Class: Karen Leland - How To Write & Distribute A Killer Press Release Start: 6:00 pm End: 8:00 pm
08 / 26 WritersCorps - City of Stairways: A Poet’s Field Guide to San Francisco Start: 6:00 pm Loretta Stinson - Little Green Start: 7:00 pm
08 / 27 Mary Roach - Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void Start: 7:00 pm
08 / 28 Children’s Italian Book Fair - La Festa del Libro 2010 Start: 10:00 am Market to Table Event: Marie Simmons - Fig Heaven Start: 11:45 am Class: Ying Compestine - Making a Living as a Writer CLASS CANCELED Start: 1:30 pm End: 4:00 pm Niccolò Capponi - An Unlikely Prince: The Life and Times of Machiavelli ADDED EVENT! Start: 5:00 pm
08 / 29 Children’s Italian Book Fair - La Festa del Libro 2010 Start: 10:00 am End: 6:00 pm
08 / 30
08 / 31 Cooks with Books: Thomas Keller with Dave Cruz - Ad Hoc at Home Start: 5:00 pm
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09 / 4 Sisters in Crime Tea Party - with Penny Warner, Hailey Lind, Terri Thayer & Rita Lakin Start: 2:00 pm
09 / 5 Children’s Italian Book Fair - La Festa del Libro 2010 Start: 10:00 am
09 / 6 Children’s Italian Book Fair - La Festa del Libro 2010 Start: 10:00 am End: 6:00 pm
09 / 7 Left Coast Writers - Molly Dwyer Start: 7:00 pm Rhys Bowen - Royal Blood Start: 7:00 pm
09 / 8 Erika Lee & Judy Yung - Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America Start: 1:00 pm David Finkel - The Good Soldiers Start: 1:00 pm Class: Mehri Dadgar - Iranian Culture & Civilization Start: 3:00 pm End: 5:00 pm Book Group: John Hart - Becoming a Great Reader Start: 7:00 pm End: 9:00 pm Terry Laszlo-Gopadze & Contributors - The Spirit of a Woman: Stories to Empower and Inspire Start: 7:00 pm
09 / 9 Jeff Kreisler - Get Rich Cheating: The Crooked Path to Easy Street Start: 6:00 pm Jean Haner - The Wisdom of Your Child's Face: Discover Your Child's True Nature with Chinese Face Reading Start: 7:00 pm
09 / 10 William Gibson - Zero History Start: 1:00 pm Linda Watanabe McFerrin - Dead Love Start: 7:00 pm
09 / 11 Class: Leslie Keenan - Microsoft for Writers (Mac) Start: 10:00 am End: 1:00 pm Class: Amy Novesky - On-the-Spot Children’s Writing Workshop Start: 10:00 am End: 2:00 pm Class: Wendy Nelson Tokunaga - Strong Beginnings CLASS CANCELED Start: 10:30 am End: 4:30 pm Market to Table Event: Joyce Goldstein - Mediterranean Fresh Start: 11:00 am John Brandon Signing - Citrus County Start: 1:00 pm Carol Scott - Optimal Stress: Living in Your Best Stress Zone Start: 2:00 pm Jane Vandenburgh - Architecture of the Novel: A Writer’s Handbook Start: 4:00 pm Gary Zukav - Spiritual Partnership: The Journey to Authentic Power Start: 7:00 pm Todd Crawshaw - Exploits of the Satyr Start: 7:00 pm
09 / 12 Carolyn Scott Kortge - Healing Walks for Hard Times: Quiet Your Mind, Strengthen Your Body, and Get Your Life Back Start: 2:00 pm Writing Mamas Salon - Melanie Gideon Start: 5:00 pm Dennis Portnoy - Riding the Point Reyes Equestrian Trails Start: 7:00 pm
09 / 13 Class: Gisella Petrone - 5th Year Italian Start: 9:30 am End: 11:15 am Osprey Orielle Lake - Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature Start: 6:00 pm Class: Peg Pursell - Crafting Creative Prose Start: 6:30 pm End: 8:30 pm David Burke - Writers in Paris: Literary Lives in the City of Light Start: 7:00 pm Book Group: Joe Herzberg - The Man’s Point of View: Life Changing Experiences Start: 7:00 pm End: 9:00 pm
09 / 14 Book Group: Pat Holt - Contemporary Classics BOOK GROUP SOLD OUT Start: 10:30 am End: 12:30 pm Richard Lupoff - The Emerald Cat Killer Start: 6:00 pm Class: Richard Wolinsky - How to Give an Effective Radio Interview Start: 7:00 pm End: 9:00 pm Elizabeth Rosner - Blue Nude Start: 7:00 pm
09 / 15 Class: Gisella Petrone - 3rd Year Italian Start: 8:00 am End: 10:15 am Rick Bass - Nashville Chrome Start: 1:00 pm Steven Saylor - Empire: The Novel of Imperial Rome Start: 6:00 pm Class: Leslie Keenan - Is There a Book in You? Start: 6:30 pm End: 8:30 pm
09 / 16 Joyce Maynard - The Good Daughters Start: 6:00 pm Marin Literacy's Student Authors - One World, Many Voices Start: 6:00 pm Book Group: Lawrence White - Medicine & Literature Book Group CANCELED Start: 6:30 pm End: 8:30 pm
09 / 17 Class: Gisella Petrone - Beginning Italian Start: 8:30 am End: 10:15 am Book Group: Pat Holt - Contemporary Classics Start: 10:30 am End: 12:30 pm
09 / 18 Class: Spud Hilton - Feature Writer’s Road Map Start: 10:00 am End: 4:00 pm Class: Elaine Beale - Five Fundamentals of Fiction Start: 1:00 pm End: 5:00 pm Barbara Pope - The Blood of Lorraine Start: 2:00 pm Betty de Shong Meador - Princess, Priestess, Poet: The Sumerian Temple Hymns of Enheduanna Start: 4:00 pm
09 / 19 California Writers Club - Four Debut Novelists Tell All Start: 2:00 pm Mark Oldman - Oldman's Brave New World of Wine Start: 5:30 pm Workshop: Inna Segal - Physical Ailments: Healing the Physical, Mental & Energetic Causes Start: 6:30 pm End: 8:30 pm Sheldon Siegel - Perfect Alibi Start: 7:00 pm
09 / 20 Class: Genevieve Blaise-Sullivan - French for Movie Lovers Start: 1:00 pm End: 3:15 pm Yiyun Li - Gold Boy, Emerald Girl Start: 1:00 pm David A. Kessler - The End of Overeating Start: 6:00 pm Book Group: Carol Benet - Potpourri of Literary Prizes Start: 7:00 pm End: 9:00 pm James Ellroy - The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women Start: 7:00 pm
09 / 21 Class: Wendy Walsh - Elementary Italian Start: 8:30 am End: 10:15 am Class: Genevieve Blaise-Sullivan - French Lit & Grammar Start: 12:45 pm End: 2:45 pm Book Group: Carol Benet - Potpourri of Literary Prizes Start: 1:00 pm End: 3:00 pm Lisa Birnbach - True Prep Start: 6:00 pm Pseudonymous Bosch - This Isn't What It Looks Like Start: 7:00 pm Andres Edwards - Thriving Beyond Sustainability: Pathways to a Resilient Society Start: 7:00 pm
09 / 22 Class: Wendy Walsh - High Intermediate Italian Start: 9:00 am End: 10:45 am Class: Wendy Walsh - Low Intermediate Italian Start: 11:00 am End: 12:45 pm Tom McCarthy - C Start: 1:00 pm Mae Ngai - The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America Start: 6:00 pm Anne Fortier - Juliet Start: 7:00 pm
09 / 23 Class: Wendy Walsh - Advanced Italian Start: 9:00 am End: 11:00 am Melanie Thernstrom - The Pain Chronicles Start: 6:00 pm Monique Truong - Bitter in the Mouth Start: 7:00 pm
09 / 24 Class: Alice Acheson - The Greatest Marketing Tool Start: 10:00 am End: 1:00 pm Class: Wendy Walsh - High Intermediate Italian Start: 1:00 pm Class: Alice Acheson - Publishing Choices: Print-on-Demand, Self-Publishing, Traditional Publisher Start: 2:00 pm End: 5:00 pm Daniel Kehlmann - Fame: A Novel in Nine Episodes Start: 7:00 pm
09 / 25 Class: Alice Acheson - Make a Hit with Your Book Publication Start: 10:00 am End: 5:00 pm Class: Karen Benke - Rip The Page: A Poetry Workshop for Kids! Start: 10:00 am End: 12:00 pm Mona Simpson - My Hollywood Start: 2:00 pm Susan Casey - The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean Start: 4:00 pm Dana Kelly Photo Exhibit - Reception in the Gallery Start: 5:30 pm End: 7:00 pm Michael Hiltzik - Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century Start: 7:00 pm
09 / 26 Eoin Colfer - Artemis Rocks! Start: 12:00 pm Julie Metz - Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal Start: 2:00 pm Carolyn Rosenblatt - The Boomer’s Guide to Aging Parents Start: 4:00 pm Peter Lewis - Dead in the Dregs: A Babe Stern Mystery Start: 7:00 pm
09 / 27 Class: Anne Bishop - Advanced French Start: 10:30 am End: 12:30 pm Class: Graciela Pera - Beginning Spanish II Start: 10:30 am End: 12:30 pm Class: Graciela Pera - Beginning Spanish I THIS SESSION SOLD OUT Start: 1:00 pm End: 3:00 pm Linda Clever - The Fatigue Prescription: Four Steps to Renewing Your Energy, Health, and Life Start: 6:00 pm Kid Lit Salon - Lewis Buzbee, N.H. Senzai & Emily Whitman Start: 7:00 pm Carol Cassella - Healer Start: 7:00 pm Book Group: Pamela Feinsilber - Meet the Author Start: 7:00 pm End: 9:00 pm
09 / 28 Class: Anne Bishop - Cours de Perfectionnement Start: 10:30 am End: 12:30 pm Class: Graciela Pera - Beginning Spanish I Start: 10:30 am End: 12:30 pm Dianne Jacob - Will Write For Food Start: 6:00 pm Class: Pamela Feinsilber - Secrets of Narrative Nonfiction/ Feature Writing Start: 6:30 pm End: 8:30 pm Ann Weisgarber - The Personal History of Rachel Dupree Start: 7:00 pm Diana Gabaldon & Hoang Nguyen - The Exile (An Outlander Graphic Novel) Start: 7:00 pm
09 / 29 Class: Graciela Pera - Beginning Spanish III Start: 9:00 am End: 11:00 am Class: Mehri Dadgar - Miniature Painting Class II Start: 10:00 am End: 1:00 pm Nancy G. Brinker - Promise Me: How a Sister’s Love Launched the Global Movement to End Breast Cancer Start: 1:00 pm Class: Anne Bishop - Beginning French Start: 1:00 pm End: 3:00 pm Class: Mehri Dadgar - Miniature Painting Class II Start: 3:00 pm End: 6:00 pm John Vaillant - The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival Start: 7:00 pm
09 / 30 Class: Graciela Pera - Conversational Spanish Start: 9:00 am End: 11:00 am Class: Anne Bishop - Upper Intermediate French Start: 11:15 am End: 1:15 pm Class: Anne Bishop - Lower Intermediate French Start: 2:00 pm End: 4:00 pm Chandrahas Choudhury & Vikram Chandra - India: A Traveler's Literary Companion ADDED EVENT! Start: 6:00 pm Sara Gruen - Ape House Start: 7:00 pm

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