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Start: 1:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
EXTREMELY LIMITED SPACE! PLEASE CALL STORE TO REGISTER: (415) 927-0960, ext. 1 Calling all fourth grade girls...this is the “play-shop” for you. We’ll erect a tent of wonder, make magic word tickets, experiment with poems and mini story “blasts,” and take our creations home. All materials provided. All that’s required is a sense of wonder and a willingness to surprise yourself. Karen Benke has inspired kids’ creative journeys in the form of poem-making for 17 years as a California Poet in the Schools and has authored a collection of poems, Sister, and a new book for kids and kids-at-heart, Rip the Page! Adventures in Creative Writing. Class limited to 15.
Start: 4:00 pm
John Bateson presents The Final Leap ($29.95). The Golden Gate Bridge, which celebrates its 75th anniversary, is one of the most beautiful structures in the world. It's also the most deadly. Weaving together drama, politics and design against the backdrop of Bay Area life, this new book is the first ever written on a tragic subject which has touched many lives, including the staff at Book Passage, who last year lost a member of our bookselling family to a suicide off the bridge. John Bateson is Executive Director of the Contra Costa Crisis Center in Contra Costa County, California and the author of Building Hope. He has served on the steering committee of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. In 2007 he was appointed to a blue-ribbon committee charged with creating the California Strategic Plan on Suicide Prevention. Start: 5:00 pm
Mastering Children’s Writing
Start: 5:30 pm
Novelist and anthologist Victoria Zackheim and contributors present Exit Laughing: How Humor Takes the Sting Out of Death ($18.95). This is more than a collection of twenty-four personal stories, written by some of our country's finest authors, on the subject of death and humor. It's a reminder that all of us approach “the end” in very different ways. Among the contributors expected to participate in this event are Sherry Glasser, Barbara Lodge, Zoe Carter, Bonnie Garvin, Kathi Kamen Goldmark, and Sam Barry. Start: 7:00 pm
Former Detroiter Leo Litwak talks about Home for Sale ($20.00), a novel set in the Motor City in the 1950s at a time when real estate is booming, fat cats are selling homes fast and furious, and veterans of the Second World War are working hard in the city’s many automotive assembly plants. In Home for Sale, a time and place is brought vividly to life.
A Detroit native and a recipient of both Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, Leo Litwak has written two novels, two works of nonficition, a short story collection, and articles for national publications. His 2001 war memoir, The Medic, was a Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year. Litwak was a professor at San Francisco State University for more than thirty years. | 21
Start: 7:00 pm
Julia Ross discusses The Diet Cure ($16.00). For the more than eighty million Americans who diet regularly — and without success — this amazing new program, based on ten years of proven clinical results, offers a revolutionary approach to nutrition that can safely curb your cravings and make you feel better in less than twenty-four hours.
Julia Ross, M.A., is executive director of Recovery Systems, a clinic that treats mood, eating, and addiction problems with counseling, nutrient therapy, and biochemical rebalancing. | 22
Start: 1:00 pm
Two-time Booker Prize winner Peter Carey reads from The Chemistry of Tears ($26.00), a story of secret grief assuaged, an automaton, a man and woman who can never meet, an affair, and the fate of the warming world brought to incandescent life in a haunting new novel from one of the most admired writers of our time. Carey’s books include the bestselling Oscar and Lucinda. Peter Carey is the author of eleven previous novels and has twice received the Booker Prize. His other honors include the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award, which he has won 3 times. Born in Australia, he has lived in New York City for twenty years. Start: 6:00 pm
Paul Goldstein reads from his new legal thriller, Havana Requiem ($26.00). Fueled by alcohol and legal brilliance, Michael Seeley once oversaw his law firm’s most successful litigation. Until it all fell apart. Recklessness and overreach cost him his wife, his job, and likely the life of his last client…. Then a renowned Cuban musician enters his office with a simple request. Start: 7:00 pm
Craig Johnson reads from As the Crow Flies ($25.95). In this latest Walt Longmire mystery, “All the elements his fans love are present: lively characters, easy banter, and, of course, a touch of the supernatural. In early books, Walt was less sure of himself, but, in his eighth adventure, it makes sense that he’s now the one ‘giving sheriff lessons’.” — Booklist
Craig Johnson is the author of the bestselling Walt Longmire mystery series. He lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population twenty-five. Yes, that's right, 25. | 23
Start: 6:00 pm
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Linda Gray Sexton talks about Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide ($15.95). After the agony of witnessing her mother's multiple — and ultimately successful — suicide attempts, Linda Gray Sexton, daughter of the acclaimed poet Anne Sexton, struggles with an engulfing undertow of depression. Here, she speaks about the need to escape the legacy of suicide. This special event is co-sponsored by National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI). This is a fundraiser. Book Passage will donate a portion of proceeds from book sales during the event to NAMI San Francisco. A gifted writer in her own right, Linda Gray Sexton has written four novels; her first memoir Searching for Mercy Street was published to critical acclaim. Start: 7:00 pm
Arlie Hochschild discusses The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times ($27.00). From this bestselling author comes a groundbreaking look at the transformation of private life in our for-profit world. Full of sympathy for the overstressed, Hochschild warns of market threats to the personal realm Americans are striving to preserve.
Arlie Hochschild is the author of The Time Bind, The Second Shift, and The Managed Heart. She is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and her articles have appeared in Harper's, Mother Jones, Psychology Today and elsewhere. She lives in San Francisco. | 24
Start: 12:00 pm
Admission $115 per person/ $185 per couple
Call (415) 927-0960, ext. 1 to reserve Join Cindy Pawlcyn, one of America's leading
chef's, for what we know will be a very special event! Twice nominated
as the James Beard Best Chef in California, Pawlcyn is rocking the food
world with her new cookbook, Cindy's Supper Club. Start: 6:00 pm
Eugenia Bone speaks about Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms ($25.99). Engrossing, earthy, surprising, and packed with up-to-date science and cultural exploration, Mycophilia is part narrative and part primer for foodies, science buffs, environmental advocates, and anyone interested in learning more about ‘shrooms. Eugenia Bone is an author and a food writer who has been featured in numerous national publications. She writes a blog on preserving foods for the Denver Post, and lives in New York City. Start: 7:00 pm
Captain Sully (Chesley) Sullenberger talks about Making a Difference: Stories of Visions and Courage from America's Leaders ($26.99). One of the most captivating heroes of the last decade and a source of inspiration for many after his emergency water landing of a disabled airliner on the Hudson River explores the nature of leadership with some of our best and brightest.
Captain Chesley B. Sullenberger III is a retired airline pilot, speaker, consultant and the author of the New York Times bestseller Highest Duty. He was named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People, and has been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley's Center for Catastrophic Risk Management. | 25
Start: 7:00 pm
Susan Morse speaks about The Habit ($16.99). This sometimes searing, often hilarious account of a mother-daughter relationship was praised by singer Rosanne Cash, who said “Susan’s epic effort to differentiate herself from the consuming power of this unique woman is every woman’s struggle, but writ large, crazy, and funny.”
Susan Morse was educated at Williams College and has worked as an actress in L.A. and New York. She now lives in Philadelphia. She has edited fiction, although this book is nonfiction. Mostly. She promises. | 26
Start: 10:00 am
End: 2:00 pm
SOLD OUT! -- More classes to be announced for Fall 2012 48-hour advance registration required You’ve written a brilliant story and can’t wait to hear what others think. You’re stuck and need a critique. What to do? Bring your manuscript—a picture book, a chapter, or even just an idea (ten-page limit) and we’ll workshop on the spot. Amy Novesky is an independent children’s book editor, author, and experienced workshop leader. Start: 11:00 am
Cosponsored by CUESA Ani Phyo presents Ani's 15-Day Fat Blast: The Kick-Ass Plan to Get Lighter, Tighter, and Sexier . . . Super Fast ($24.00). On Saturday mornings, chefs and cookbook authors lead free cooking demonstrations using seasonal ingredients from the Farmers Market. Join us out front of the Ferry Building in the Farmer's Market for tips, recipes, and a sample. We’ll be there with the books. Start: 1:00 pm
Meet n' Greet! Chef Mona Talbott presents Zuppe: Soups from the Kitchen of the American Academy in Rome ($18.95), the second volume in the Rome Sustainable Food Project series. Arranged by season, these fifty recipes draw from four traditional categories of Italian soups: those made with water (aqua cotta), with stock (brodo), with cream (veloute), and soups for the evening meal. Buon gusto!
After culinary school, Mona Talbott was hired by Alice Waters to work at Chez Panisse and the Edible Schoolyard program. She later worked at Eli Zabar’s Vinegar Factory and EAT stores in New York and consulted for Hillary Clinton at her home in Chappaqua, New York. In 1999, Talbott began working for photographer Annie Leibovitz, and in 2004, she was hired by Bette Midler’s New York Restoration Project to design a children’s gardening and cooking program. Since 2007, Talbott has been executive chef at the Rome Sustainable Food Project. She is the author of Biscotti. Start: 4:00 pm
In the context of two very different 1960s communities, two UC Santa Cruz faculty members will discuss the overlapping theme of the desire for community, and also the desire for freedom from it. Karen Yamashita discusses I Hotel ($19.95), a multi-voiced fusion of prose, playwriting, graphic art, and philosophy which spins an epic tale of America’s struggle for civil rights. Micah Perks discusses her Pagan Time: An American Childhood ($15.95), a memoir about the 1960s which also conveys the texture of those wild times. Yamashita and Perks codirect the Living Writers Series at UC Santa Cruz, which brings visiting writers, poets and publishing professionals to campus to give students an in-depth look into the world of the working writer. |
