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Start: 12:30 pm
This event is now sold out. If you would like to be placed on the waiting list, please call the store at (415) 927-0960, ext. 1 to reserve.
Carol Field spent two years traversing Italy to capture the regional specialties and adapted them through rigorous testing in her own American kitchen. When Field first published The Italian Baker in 1986, it won the IACP Award and was named among the James Beard Baker’s Dozen list of 13 indispensable baking books. Field is an award-winning journalist, author of seven cookbooks, and has been a contributor to Bon Appetit, Travel+Leisure, and Food & Wine. The price includes the meal, wine, coffee, tax,
tip & a
signed copy of the author’s book.
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Start: 4:00 pm
Join us for an afternoon of poetry as Conflux Press poets read from their works.
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Start: 12:40 pm
End: 2:10 pm
This class is now sold out. We are accepting requests to be placed on a waiting list. Please call (415) 927-0960, ext. 1. Eight Mondays: Jan. 30-Mar. 19
Students will develop basic proficiency in speaking, reading, understanding, and writing. They will be introduced to vocabulary, grammar, and syntax through spoken and written exercises. Readings, music, and video will be used to present Italian culture. Wendy Walsh, Ph.D. in Italian Literature from UCB, has been teaching Italian language, literature, and cooking since 1979. She leads a yearly Language Study Tour Program to Italy.
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 7:30 pm
By the end of this class, you’ll be equipped with everything the aspiring magazine writer needs to write and pitch story ideas that sell. You’ll learn how to pick a topic, write a compelling query letter, match your query to the appropriate magazine(s), establish all-important personal contact with the editors you’re pitching, negotiate your fee, and move up the magazine food chain. Come prepared to take copious notes; this will be a jam-packed day of practical instruction. You’ll go home with at least one query that’s ready to go. Meredith Maran writes for People, Ladies Home Journal, Salon.com, Self, and many more. Her novel A Theory of Small Earthquakes will be published on Valentine’s Day.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Four Mondays: Jan. 30, Feb. 27, Mar. 26, Apr. 30
We’ll have an intimate conversation with the authors of a quietly forceful novel set in post-Cultural Revolution China, by a MacArthur Fellow “born to write this book”; this year’s One Book/One Marin selection, about a child with unusual gifts in Ottoman Empire Turkey; an entertaining look back at growing up poor, Jewish, and white in 1970s San Francisco; and a delightful novel entwining separate strolls, with three visitors and their language guides, on a summer day in Paris. Longtime senior and literary editor of San Francisco magazine, Pamela Feinsilber is a writing consultant and book editor.
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Start: 8:30 am
End: 10:15 am
Eight Tuesdays: Jan. 31-Mar. 20
Class will continue with second half of the text Ultimate Italian. Emphasis is on building vocabulary and using basic structures in conversation. Wendy Walsh, Ph.D. in Italian Literature from UCB, has been teaching Italian language, literature, and cooking since 1979. She leads a yearly Language Study Tour Program to Italy.
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Start: 9:00 am
Eight Wednesdays: Feb. 1-Mar. 21
This class will continue review work in its textbook Quaderno degli Esercizi. Emphasis is on review of difficult structures (il congiuntivo) but also on mastery of the language through conversation, vocabulary work and reading. Wendy Walsh, Ph.D. in Italian Literature from UCB, has been teaching Italian language, literature, and cooking since 1979. She leads a yearly Language Study Tour Program to Italy.
Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:45 pm
Eight Wednesdays: Feb. 1-Mar. 21
Class will begin a new textbook (TBA) to review difficult structures. Emphasis is on conversation and mastery of following tenses: il passato prossimo, l’imperfetto, il trapassato prossimo e il condizionale. Wendy Walsh, Ph.D. in Italian Literature from UCB, has been teaching Italian language, literature, and cooking since 1979. She leads a yearly Language Study Tour Program to Italy.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Seven Wednesdays: Feb 1-Mar. 14
Everybody writes poetry, it sometimes seems. It’s the discerning readers that are scarce. “To have great poets,” Walt Whitman said, “there must be great audiences, too.” In this reading group we look at English-language poetry of many styles and periods, taking nobody’s word for it about what is “great.” What makes poetry tick? What makes a poem worth the effort of reading it? How do we enjoy and judge the seemingly obscure or difficult poem? Widely-published local poet and author John Hart co-edits the venerable all-poetry journal Blue Unicorn, now in its 34th year.
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all day
Eight Wednesdays: Feb. 1-Mar. 21
This class will continue review work in its textbook Quaderno degli Esercizi. Emphasis is on review of difficult structures (il congiuntivo) but also on mastery of the language through conversation, vocabulary work and reading. Wendy Walsh, Ph.D. in Italian Literature from UCB, has been teaching Italian language, literature, and cooking since 1979. She leads a yearly Language Study Tour Program to Italy.
Start: 9:00 am
End: 10:45 am
Eight Thursdays: Feb. 2-Mar. 22
Class will continue reviewing difficult grammar structures (il periodo ipotetico, la forma passiva e la forma impersonale) and we will begin reading some famous Italian novelle. Emphasis is on conversation.
Start: 6:00 pm
 Join us for a beer and food tasting with Jeremy Cowan as he presents Craft Beer Bar Mitzvah ($25.00 hc; $16.99 pb). Cowan’s book is subtitled: How It Took 13 Years, Extreme Jewish Brewing & Circus Sideshow Freaks to Make Shmaltz Brewing Co an International Success. He tells how the nation’s only Jewish Celebration beer came to fruition.
Start: 7:00 pm
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 2012 One Book One Marin reading program with the selection of The Oracle of Stamboul (pb $13.99; hc $24.99) by Michael David Lukas. Join us for the launch of this county-wide celebration with a talk and signing by the author.
A girl changes the course of an empire in The Oracle of Stamboul, Lukas’ lyrical novel set in 19th-century Turkey. It is beautifully written, passionate, and fragrant with political intrigue, historical upheaval and Eastern mysticism. Booklist calls this bestseller “a bold portrait of an empire precariously poised on the chasm between an old and a new world.”
Oakland-born Michael David Lukas has been a Fulbright scholar in Turkey, a proofreader in Tel Aviv, and a Rotary scholar in Tunisia. He birngs a raconteur’s sense of storytelling and a traveler’s eye for detail and history to his novel One Book One Marin provide readers with a shared reading experience that leads to open dialogue and celebrates the joy of reading. Previous authors celebrated in this program have included Isabel Allende, Amy Tan, Michael Chabon, Abraham Verghese, and Dave Eggers. For more information see www.onebookonemarin.org.
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all day
Eight Wednesdays: Feb. 1-Mar. 21
This class will continue review work in its textbook Quaderno degli Esercizi. Emphasis is on review of difficult structures (il congiuntivo) but also on mastery of the language through conversation, vocabulary work and reading. Wendy Walsh, Ph.D. in Italian Literature from UCB, has been teaching Italian language, literature, and cooking since 1979. She leads a yearly Language Study Tour Program to Italy.
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
Eight Fridays: Feb. 3-Mar. 23
Class
will begin a new textbook (TBA) to review difficult structures.
Emphasis is on conversation and mastery of following tenses; il passato
prossimo, l’imperfetto, il trapassato prossimo e il condizionale. Wendy Walsh, Ph.D.
in Italian Literature from UCB, has been teaching Italian language,
literature, and cooking since 1979. She leads a yearly Language Study
Tour Program to Italy.
Start: 7:00 pm
Join us for a beer and food tasting with Jeremy Cowan as he presents Craft Beer Bar Mitzvah ($25.00 hc; $16.99 pb). Cowan’s book is subtitled: How It Took 13 Years, Extreme Jewish Brewing & Circus Sideshow Freaks to Make Shmaltz Brewing Co an International Success. He tells how the nation’s only Jewish Celebration beer came to fruition.
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all day
Eight Wednesdays: Feb. 1-Mar. 21
This class will continue review work in its textbook Quaderno degli Esercizi. Emphasis is on review of difficult structures (il congiuntivo) but also on mastery of the language through conversation, vocabulary work and reading. Wendy Walsh, Ph.D. in Italian Literature from UCB, has been teaching Italian language, literature, and cooking since 1979. She leads a yearly Language Study Tour Program to Italy.
Start: 10:00 am
End: 4:00 pm
Sat., Feb. 4 • 10:00-4:00 pm & Sun., Feb. 5 • 10:00-3:00 pm
Aristotle believed that plot was the most important and difficult challenge the writer faced. But by plot he meant the architecture of change in the hero’s fortunes. Character and structure are inextricably linked. David Corbett, drawing on five iconic films—Vertigo, The Godfather, Chinatown, Silence of the Lambs and Michael Clayton—will demonstrate how the architecture of story deepens our understanding of character, with scene-by-scene breakdowns of how the drama is built. He will also, in the class discussion that follows, apply the lessons learned to individual student film and fiction projects. David Corbett is the author of four novels and is currently working on several fiction, teleplay and screenplay projects. His book on the craft of characterization will be published by Penguin in early 2013.
Start: 11:00 am
 The authors of Kitchen on Fire! Mastering the Art of Cooking in 12 Weeks ($35.00) talk about the book and present a cooking demo. On Saturday mornings at the Ferry Building, chefs and cookbook authors lead free cooking demonstrations using seasonal ingredients from the Farmers Market. Join them in the CUESA kitchen (North Arcade) for tips, recipes, and a sample. We’ll be there with the books.
Start: 1:00 pm
Renee Stephens talks about Full-Filled ($26.99). This transformative guide provides a step-by-step plan that lets readers love themselves slim, sexy, and healthy for a lifetime. With a six-week program that yields insights every day of the journey, Stephens brings readers deep inside their relationship to eating.
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
In this workshop, attendees learn the principles and elements of comedy. They can use those ideas to create their own comedic novel, short story, play, stand-up routine or screenplay. Author and teacher Homzie will help writers discover and develop their unique comedic voice. Participants will have the opportunity to start their own creative story and share their writing with others. A take-home comedy workbook included. Hillary Homzie is the author of the tween novels, The Hot List and Things Are Gonna Get Ugly, as well as the comedic chapter book series Alien Clones From Outer Space, which is being made into an animated television series for ABC Australia.
Start: 4:00 pm
with Joan Baranow, Barbara Swift Brauer, Catharine Clark-Sayles, CB Follett, Rafáel Jesus González, Jodi Hottel, Janet Jennings, William Landis, Gregory Mahrer, Myron Michael, Shawn Pittard, Gregory Randall, and Gretchen Stengel
Join us for a celebration of Spillway #17, which features over 25 Bay Area poets, hosted by editor Susan Terris.
Start: 7:00 pm
Sere Prince Halverson talks about her novel Underside of Joy ($25.95). Ella, a happily married stepmother, loses her husband Joe in a drowning accident. Ella and their two young children cling to one another in the wake of Joe’s death. But their biological mother, whom Ella believed had abandoned the family, shows up at the funeral to stake her claim.
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