Events
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Start: 2:00 pm
Free Event - Open to the Public Carolyn Scott Kortge discusses Healing Walks for Hard Times: Quiet Your Mind, Strengthen Your Body, and Get Your Life Back ($15.95). Kortge outlines a practical program for navigating your way through life’s hard times. Within the supportive framework of this program, you set your own pace, taking steps that restore a sense of order. Start: 5:00 pm
Speaker: Melanie Gideon, Author of The Slippery Year: A Meditation on Happily Ever After Writing Mamas Salon® Start: 7:00 pm
Free Event - Open to the Public Dennis Portnoy talks about Riding the Point Reyes Equestrian Trails (Written by Horse and Rider) ($22.00). The variety and beauty of the Pt. Reyes National Seashore is one of Marin County’s treasures. There are over 70,000 acres of trails. Riding the Pt. Reye’s Equestrian Trails is more then just a guide book. | 13
Start: 9:30 am
End: 11:15 am
Book Passage Class Gisella Petrone grew up in Italy. She received a Masters degree from the University of Calabria. She has taught English, Italian, Latin, Roman History, and Italian cooking. Start: 6:00 pm
Free Event - Open to the Public Left Coast Writers Launch! Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Book Passage Class Learn the fundamental tools of narrative writing, including plot, setting, characterization, dialogue, and point of view. The lectures provide published texts as models, and writing exercises help you apply what you learn to your work. Peg Pursell started the creative writing program at the Charleston School of the Arts and taught fiction writing at the College of Charleston. She curates the “Why There Are Words Literary Reading Series” in Sausalito. Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Book Passage Book Group We will discuss the impact of the variety of life changing experiences reported in these stories, and what prepared these men to be open to having them. Joe Herzberg is a Marin psychiatrist with a degree in American Studies. Start: 7:00 pm
Free Event - Open to the Public David Burke presents "Bad Boys and Bad Girls of Literature in Paris," an illustrated talk based on his long years of literary detective work on his acclaimed book Writers in Paris: Literary Lives in the City of Light ($19.95). The presentation features scandalous "boys" from the days of medieval poet, thief, priest-killer, and Master of Arts in Theology François Villon to such 20th Century shockers as Henry Miller, Jean Genet, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, and such scandalous "girls" as George Sand, Colette, and Anaïs Nin. Burke is a longtime writer/producer of television documentaries, most notably for 60 Minutes, who left New York with his director/editor wife Joanne Burke in 1986 to spend a year in Paris. They have been working there ever since. | 14
Start: 10:30 am
End: 12:30 pm
TUESDAY SESSION IS NOW FULL. Start: 6:00 pm
Free Event - Open to the Public Richard Lupoff discusses his mystery novel The Emerald Cat Killer ($25.99). Hobart Lindsey is called back to the San Francisco Bay Area for one last case. A local book publisher is being sued over a novel that might actually be the last, lost work of a novelist killed more than a year ago. Lupoff is also the author of Marblehead. Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Book Passage Class Being interviewed is not merely about selling your book; it’s also about selling yourself. Richard Wolinsky offers tips on how to prepare for your interviews, and he discusses dos and don’ts for the interview novice. Wolinsky has been hosting radio interview programs for 30 years. He can be heard on the Bookwaves segment of Cover to Cover on KPFA FM, Thursdays at 3:30 pm. Start: 7:00 pm
Free Event - Open to the Public
Corte Madera store Order a signed copy Elizabeth Rosner talks about her novel Blue Nude ($15.00). Born in the shadow of postwar Germany, Danzig is a once-prominent painter who now lives in San Francisco. But while he shares wisdom and technique with students, his own canvases remain mysteriously empty. When a new model poses for his class, Danzig senses that she may be the muse he has been waiting for. | 15
Start: 8:00 am
End: 10:15 am
Book Passage Class Gisella Petrone grew up in Italy. She received a Masters degree from the University of Calabria. She has taught English, Italian, Latin, Roman History, and Italian cooking. Start: 1:00 pm
Free Event - Open to the Public
Corte Madera store Order a signed copy Rick Bass presents his novel Nashville Chrome ($24.00). Late in 1959, the Brown siblings—Maxine, Bonnie, and Jim Ed—were enjoying international success, rivaled only by Elvis Presley. Lyrical and nuanced, this work evokes an era in American music, while presenting a wrenching meditation on the complexities of fame and family. Start: 6:00 pm
Free Event - Open to the Public Steven Saylor presents Empire: The Novel of Imperial Rome ($25.99). Continuing the epic story begun in his New York Times-bestselling novel Roma, Saylor charts the destinies of five more generations of the aristocratic Pinarius family, from the reign of Augustus to the height of Rome’s empire. Saylor is the author of The Triumph of Caesar. Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Book Passage Class Leslie Keenan has been in publishing for 28 years as an editor, agent, publisher, writer, and teacher. She has helped hundreds of writers find and complete their writing projects. A student wrote, “Leslie is inspiring, compassionate, and has a natural gift for creating a safe place for a writer. She’s like a living life preserver.” | 16
Start: 6:00 pm
Free Event - Open to the Public Sponsored by Book Passage & Bank of Marin Start: 6:00 pm
Free Event - Open to the Public Joyce Maynard discusses The Good Daughters ($24.99). From the bestselling author of Labor Day comes a spellbinding novel about friendship, family secrets, and the strange, unexpected twists of fate that shape our lives. Maynard is the author of six novels and four books of nonfiction, including her bestselling memoir At Home in the World. Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
This book group is canceled. We will look forward to a future book group with Lawrence White. | 17
Start: 8:30 am
End: 10:15 am
Book Passage Class Gisella Petrone grew up in Italy. She received a Masters degree from the University of Calabria. She has taught English, Italian, Latin, Roman History, and Italian cooking. Start: 10:30 am
End: 12:30 pm
Book Passage Book Group | 18
Start: 10:00 am
End: 4:00 pm
Book Passage Class Start: 1:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
Book Passage Class Start: 2:00 pm
Free Event - Open to the Public Barbara Pope presents The Blood of Lorraine ($25.00). In the wake of murders in Aix-en-Provence, magistrate Bernard Martin moves to a town in Lorraine, along with his pregnant wife Clarie. Both are fervent about French Republican ideals. They are not there long when an infant boy is found dead, perhaps the victim of ritual sacrifice. Start: 4:00 pm
Free Event - Open to the Public
Corte Madera store Order a signed copy Betty de Shong Meador talks about Princess, Priestess, Poet: The Sumerian Temple Hymns of Enheduanna ($30.00). In 2300 BCE, Sumerian high priestess Enheduanna became the first known author by signing her name to a collection of hymns written for 42 temples throughout ancient Mesopotamia. This work presents the first collection of these hymns. |
