Events

« May 21 2012 - July 20 2012 »

05 / 21 Julia Ross - The Diet Cure Start: 7:00 pm
05 / 22 Peter Carey - The Chemistry of Tears Start: 1:00 pm Paul Goldstein - Havana Requiem Start: 6:00 pm Craig Johnson - As the Crow Flies Start: 7:00 pm
05 / 23 CANCELLED: Linda Gray Sexton - Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide Start: 6:00 pm Arlie Hochschild - The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times Start: 7:00 pm
05 / 24 Cindy Pawlcyn - Cooks with Books: Cindy’s Supper Club: Meals from Around the World to Share with Family and Friends Start: 12:00 pm Eugenia Bone - Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms Start: 6:00 pm Captain Sully - Making a Difference: Stories of Visions and Courage from America's Leaders Start: 7:00 pm
05 / 25 Susan Morse - The Habit Start: 7:00 pm
05 / 26 SOLD OUT Class: Amy Novesky - On-the-Spot Children's Writing Workshop Start: 10:00 am End: 2:00 pm Ani Phyo - Ani’s 15 Day Fat Blast Start: 11:00 am Mona Talbott - Zuppe: Soups from the Kitchen of the American Academy in Rome Start: 1:00 pm Dreams of Community: UC Santa Cruz writers - Karen Yamashita & Micah Perks Start: 4:00 pm
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05 / 28 Literary Pilgrimage to the Soul of England - A Journey Abroad with Roger Housden Start: 9:00 am
05 / 29 Anne Cherian - The Invitation Start: 7:00 pm
05 / 30 Thomas McNamee - The Man Who Changed The Way We Eat:: Craig Claiborne and the American Food Renaissance Start: 6:00 pm Buzz Bissinger - Father's Day: A Journey Into the Mind and Heart of My Extraordinary Son Start: 7:00 pm
05 / 31 Class: Andrew Mellen - Unstuff Your Life: Advanced Start: 4:07 pm Henry Crumpton - The Art of Intelligence Start: 7:00 pm
06 / 1 San Francisco Writers Grotto - 3 minute reads Start: 6:00 pm Melanie Gideon - Wife 22 Start: 7:00 pm
06 / 2 Class: Sophie & Liz Epstein - Create Your Own Blog: Hands-on Workshop Start: 9:00 am End: 12:00 pm Stages on Pages special event Start: 11:00 am Richard Ford - Canada Start: 1:00 pm CANCELLED Class: Lindsay Whiting - Living into Art: Journeys in Collage Start: 1:00 pm End: 5:00 pm Anthony DeBenedict - Culpable Innocence: The American Dream Reprised Start: 4:00 pm Ayesha Mattu - Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lifes of American Muslim Women Start: 7:00 pm
06 / 3 Class: Mary Mackey - Your Incredible Life Start: 10:00 am End: 1:00 pm Gena Dawn - The Rainbow’s Journey Start: 12:00 pm Tricia Hellman Gibbs - A New Song Start: 1:00 pm Class: Mary Mackey - Secrets of Writing Great Dialogue Start: 2:00 pm End: 5:00 pm Marta Fuchs - Legacy of Rescue: A Daughter's Tribute Start: 2:00 pm Poets John Miatech and Rebecca Radner read their work Start: 4:00 pm William Carter - Causes & Spirits Start: 6:00 pm Allison Wenglin Belger - The Power of Community: CrossFit and the Force of Human Connection Start: 7:00 pm
06 / 4 Class: Ellen Karel - Advanced French Review Start: 10:30 am End: 12:30 pm Class: Nicolas Wolff - The Day After (Single Session) Start: 1:00 pm End: 3:00 pm Brian Doherty - Ron Paul's rEVOLution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired Start: 7:00 pm Michele Jin - Passionfruit Start: 7:00 pm
06 / 5 New Bay Area Voices Start: 6:00 pm Class: Nicolas Wolff - Paris at Night (In French) Start: 6:30 pm End: 8:30 pm Kim Stanley Robinson - 2312 Start: 7:00 pm
06 / 6 Class: Ellen Karel - Intermediate French Review Start: 10:30 am End: 12:30 pm Will Allen - The Good Food Revolution Start: 6:00 pm Class: Leslie Keenan - Is There a Book in You? Start: 6:30 pm End: 8:30 pm Anthony Swofford - Hotel, Hospitals, and Jails: A Memoir Start: 7:00 pm
06 / 7 Class: Ellen Karel - Beginning French Review Start: 10:30 am End: 12:30 pm David Talbot - Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love Start: 6:00 pm Alison Bing - Discover Italy Start: 7:00 pm
06 / 8 Marion Nestle and Malden Nesheim - Why Calories Count: From Science to Politics Start: 5:00 pm San Francisco Writers Grotto - 3 minute reads Start: 6:00 pm Nell Freudenberger - The Newlyweds Start: 7:00 pm
06 / 9 Class: Martha Engber - Grow a Great Character Start: 10:00 am End: 3:00 pm Class: Seymour Boorstein - Communication for Couples Start: 10:00 am End: 12:00 pm Ruta Kahate - Quick Fix Indian Start: 11:45 am Marion Nestle - Why Calories Count: From Science to Politics Start: 12:00 pm Morton Beebe and Peter Beren - The Golden Gate: San Francisco's Celebrated Bridge Start: 2:00 pm Dixon Long - Markets of Paris 2nd Edition Start: 4:00 pm Joanna Biggar & Linda Watanabe McFerrin - Wandering in Bali: A Tropical Paradise Discovered Start: 7:00 pm
06 / 10 Jon Young - What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World Start: 1:00 pm Class: Nina Solomita - Introduction to Writing for the Theater Start: 1:30 pm End: 4:30 pm Olin Dodson - Melissa's Gift Start: 7:00 pm
06 / 11 Joanna Biggar and Linda Watanabe McFerrin - Wandering in Bali: A Tropical Paradise Discovered Start: 6:00 pm Bryan Gruley - The Skeleton Box Start: 7:00 pm
06 / 12 Class: Roger Housden - Poetry To Change Your Life: How Poetry Gives Voice to our Joys, Sorrows, Loves, and Longings Start: 3:30 pm End: 5:00 pm Class: Nicolas Wolff - Paris at Night (In English) Start: 6:30 pm End: 8:30 pm Rosecrans Baldwin - Paris, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down Start: 7:00 pm
06 / 13 Class: Kerrin Meis - Innocents Abroad: American Artists in Europe 1830 - 1930 Start: 2:00 pm End: 3:45 pm Steven Saylor - The Seven Wonders: A Novel of the Ancient World Start: 6:00 pm David and Michael Hanson - Breaking Through Concrete Start: 6:00 pm Neil Abramson - Unsaid Start: 7:00 pm Scott Jurek - Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness Start: 7:00 pm
06 / 14 Children's Writers & Illustrators Conference Start: 2:00 pm Andrew Blackwell - Visit Sunny Chernobyl: And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places Start: 6:00 pm Barney Saltzberg - Arlo Needs Glasses Start: 7:30 pm
06 / 15 Angelo Sosa - Flavor Exposed: 100 Global Recipes from Sweet to Salty, Earthy to Spicy Start: 6:00 pm Katherine Applegate and Michael Grant talk about their new books Start: 7:00 pm
06 / 16 John Toulze and Sondra Bernstein - Plats Du Jour Start: 11:45 am Justin Frank - Obama on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President CANCELLED Start: 7:00 pm
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06 / 18 Class: Karen Benke and Prartho Sereno - Ripping & Stirring: A Creative Writing Adventure Camp Start: 10:00 am End: 11:45 am Class: Graciela Pera - Spanish II Start: 10:00 am End: 12:00 pm Terry Tempest Williams - When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice Start: 5:00 pm Robert Moss - Dreaming the Soul Back Home: Shamanic Dreaming for Healing and Becoming Whole Start: 7:00 pm
06 / 19 Class: Gloria Lopez Gutierrez - Spanish Review for Intermediate-Advanced Level Start: 9:30 am End: 11:30 am Alix Ohlin - Inside Start: 6:00 pm Class: Cheryl McLaughlin - Create Your Buzz-Kicking Blog : The Hands-On Workshop Start: 6:30 pm End: 8:30 pm Robert Dugoni - The Conviction Start: 7:00 pm
06 / 20 Ridley Pearson - The Risk Agent Start: 6:00 pm Francine Du Plessix Gray - The Queen's Lover Start: 7:00 pm
06 / 21 Class: Graciela Pera - Beginning Spanish (Session III) Start: 10:00 am End: 12:00 pm Literary Luncheon with Belva Davis Start: 12:00 pm Rich Roll - Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself Start: 6:00 pm Andrew Blum - Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet Start: 7:00 pm
06 / 22 Medea Benjamin - Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control Start: 5:30 pm Mark Shriver - A Good Man EVENT CANCELED Start: 7:00 pm
06 / 23 Class: Mary Edwards - Jump Start Your Art Career Start: 10:00 am End: 12:30 pm Colin Dickey - Afterlives of the Saints Start: 1:00 pm Katie Workman - The Mom 100 Cookbook Start: 4:00 pm Dana Kelly - Photographs Start: 5:30 pm Alan Furst - Mission to Paris Start: 7:00 pm
06 / 24 Jean Zimmerman - The Orphanmaster Start: 2:00 pm Anita Amirrezvani - Equal of the Sun Start: 7:00 pm
06 / 25 Agapi Stassinopoulos - Unbinding the Heart EVENT CANCELLED Start: 6:00 pm Jess Walter - Beautiful Ruins Start: 7:00 pm
06 / 26 Class: Hamid Emami - German Conversation Start: 1:00 pm End: 3:00 pm Shehan Karunatilaka - The Legend of Pradeep Mathew Start: 6:00 pm Peter Zuckerman - Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day Start: 7:00 pm
06 / 27 Adrienne Arieff -The Sacred Thread Start: 6:00 pm Bonnie Jo Campbell - Once Upon a River Start: 7:00 pm
06 / 28 Phil Stutz & Barry Michels - The Tools: Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and Creativity Start: 7:00 pm Jeffery Deaver - XO: A Kathryn Dance Novel Start: 7:00 pm
06 / 29 Glen Duncan - Talulla Rising Start: 6:00 pm Natalie Serber - Shout Her Lovely Name Start: 7:00 pm
06 / 30 Kristen Iversen - Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats (introduced by Daniel Ellsberg) Start: 1:00 pm Anita Hughes - Monarch Beach Start: 4:00 pm Andy Couturier - A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance Start: 7:00 pm
07 / 1 Francis Slakey - To the Last Breath: A Memoir of Going to Extremes Start: 4:00 pm
07 / 2 Left Coast Writers: Mary Jo McConahay Start: 7:00 pm
07 / 3 Bay Area Writing Project (BAWP) - Group Reading Start: 5:30 pm
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07 / 7 Class: Tressa Berman - Art of the Interview Start: 10:00 am End: 1:00 pm Georgeanne Brennan - Davis Farmers Market Cookbook Start: 11:45 am Christian Kiefer - The Infinite Tides Start: 4:00 pm
07 / 8 Katherine Chiljan - Shakespeare Suppressed: The Uncensored Truth About Shakespeare and His Works Start: 12:00 pm Lori Stewart - If I Had As Many Grandchildren As You… Start: 1:00 pm Sarah Robinson - Nesting: Body, Dwelling, Mind Start: 3:00 pm Tim Ward - Zombies on Kilimanjaro: A Father/Son Journey Above the Clouds Start: 4:00 pm Donna Sheehan and Paul Reffell - Seduction Redefined: A Guide to Creative Collaboration of the Feminine and Masculine Start: 6:00 pm
07 / 9 Left Coast Writers® Book Launch: Carol Sheldon Start: 6:00 pm William Gordon -The King of the Bottom Start: 7:00 pm
07 / 10 Stephanie Lucianovic - Suffering Succotash: A Picky Eater's Quest to Understand Why We Hate the Foods We Hate Start: 6:00 pm Marin Poetry Center - Summer Traveling Show Start: 7:00 pm
07 / 11 Class: Laura Deutsch - Mapping Out Your Memoir Start: 3:30 pm End: 5:30 pm Manuel Roig-Franzia - The Rise of Marco Rubio Start: 6:00 pm Priscilla Gilman - The Anti-Romantic Child: A Memoir of Unexpected Joy EVENT CANCELLED Start: 6:00 pm Class: Albert DeSilver - The Mindful Writer: Practices for Great Writing & a Great Life Start: 6:30 pm End: 8:30 pm Brian Doyle and Gerald Asher read from their work Start: 7:00 pm
07 / 12 Marcus Samuelsson - Cooks with Books: YES, CHEF with Traci Des Jardins EVENT SOLD OUT Start: 12:00 pm Marcus Samuelsson - YES, CHEF Start: 6:00 pm Carlos Ruiz Zafón with Isabel Allende - The Prisoner of Heaven Start: 7:00 pm
07 / 13 Joshua Henkin - The World Without You Start: 1:00 pm Julie Otsuka - Buddha In the Attic Start: 6:00 pm Jennifer Woodlief - A Bolt from the Blue: An Epic Story of Danger, Daring, and Heroism at 13,000 Feet Start: 7:00 pm
07 / 14 Class: Laura Deutsch - How to Write for Magazines Start: 10:00 am End: 1:00 pm Sean Meshorer - The Bliss Experiment: 28 Days to Personal Transformation Start: 1:00 pm Class: Virginia Simpson-Magruder - Express Yourself: The Art of Altered Books Start: 1:00 pm End: 4:00 pm Class: Cynthia Pepper - Intro to the Short Film Start: 1:30 pm End: 4:30 pm Linda Fairstein - Night Watch Start: 7:00 pm
07 / 15 Ronda Giangreco - The Gathering Table: Defying Multiple Sclerosis With a Year of Pasta, Wine & Friends Start: 1:00 pm Class: Karen Benke - Experimental Writing Circle for Boys & Girls Entering Sixth Grade Start: 1:00 pm End: 3:00 pm Class: Sophie & Liz Epstein - Hands-On Social Media Workshop for Beginners Start: 1:00 pm End: 2:30 pm Douglas Brinkley - Cronkite Start: 3:30 pm Valerie Coleman Morris - It's Your Money So Take it Personally Start: 4:00 pm Aminta Arrington - Home is a Roof Over a Pig: An American Family's Journey in China Start: 7:00 pm
07 / 16 Class: Genevieve Blaise-Sullivan - Conversation Course in French Start: 10:30 am End: 1:00 pm Class: Wendy Walsh - Beginning Italian Review Start: 1:30 pm End: 4:00 pm King John: The best Shakespeare play you've never seen? Start: 7:00 pm
07 / 17 Class: Wendy Walsh - 2nd Year Italian Review Start: 9:30 am End: 12:30 pm Class: Wendy Walsh - Intermediate Italian Verb Review Start: 1:00 pm End: 3:30 pm Carissa Phelps - Runaway Girl: Escaping Life on the Streets, One Helping Hand at a Time Start: 6:00 pm Karen Thompson Walker - The Age of Miracles Start: 7:00 pm
07 / 18 Literary Luncheon with Chris Cleave, Author of Little Bee Start: 12:00 pm Andrea Nguyen - Asian Tofu: Discover the Best, Make Your Own, and Cook it at Home Start: 6:00 pm Abrahm Lustgarten - Run to Failure: BP and the Making of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster Start: 7:00 pm
07 / 19 Class: Wendy Walsh - Advanced Italian Review of Verb Sequences Start: 9:30 am End: 12:30 pm Dave Eggers - A Hologram for the King Start: 12:00 pm D.P. Lyle - Two Pre-Conference Crime Writing Classes Start: 1:00 pm End: 3:30 pm David Corbett - Pre-Conference Class: Deconstructing Chinatown Start: 1:00 pm End: 3:30 pm D.P. Lyle - Pre-Conference Class: Best Laid Plans: What Were They Thinking? Start: 1:00 pm End: 2:10 pm D.P. Lyle - Pre-Conference Class: Voice: Whose Story Is It? Start: 2:20 pm End: 3:30 pm Mystery Writers Conference Start: 3:30 pm Tarquin Hall - The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken Start: 7:30 pm
07 / 20 Don Winslow - Keynote Speaker at the 2012 Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference Start: 7:30 pm

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