Events
Left Coast Writers book launch: Editors Joanna Biggar & Linda Watanabe McFerrin discuss Wandering in Bali: A Tropical Paradise Discovered
($14.95). This collection of varied tales, some mystical, some funny,
some terrifying — are each told in a different, highly personal voice.
From temples to Balinese feasts to classical music and dance, the
writers here sample and share the multiple faces of Bali.
Joanna
Biggar is a writer, journalist, and teacher who has published fiction,
poetry, personal and travel essays and hundreds of feature articles for
newspapers and magazines. She has traveled solo in the most remote
corners of China, chaired a school board in Ghana, worked as a
journalist in Washington, DC, and taught school kids in Oakland,
California, where she lives.
Poet, travel writer and novelist Linda Watanabe McFerrin has been traveling since she was two and writing about it since she was six. A contributor to numerous journals, newspapers, magazines, anthologies and online publications, she is the author of poetry collections, award-winning novels and a short story collection, and the editor of a travel guidebook and literary anthologies.
Bryan Gruley is reporter at large for Bloomberg News and the former Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal. He has won the Anthony, Barry, and Strand Awards and was nominated for an Edgar Award for best first novel. He lives in Chicago.
Three Tuesdays: June 12-26
Poetry is prophetic speech, a spoken epiphany. A good poem gives voice to feelings, thoughts, and intuitions in us that we may have sensed the presence of, but never known how to say. This is poetry’s power: it summons the best, the deepest of who we are, and captures it in language.Roger will explore some of the world’s great poems, and with the help of simple exercises and reading aloud, the group shall reflect together upon the echoes, meanings, and relevance they have for our own lives. Poetry phobics are as welcome as poetry lovers—the point is not to study poetry, but to use it as a means to explore our own authentic feelings and perceptions.
This session will be taught in English.
Spending the night in Paris? The precious hours can slip away faster than a good bottle of Bordeaux. Nicolas Wolff provides an overview of everything a night in Paris has to offer: museums, walks, underground movie theaters, jazz clubs and, of course, food and wine. Bring questions about your upcoming trip and get expert, tailored advice.
“Even though I know Paris fairly well he provided me with many new places of interest to check out on my trip there this Fall. His handouts are super detailed and will be very useful too” one student reported.
Nicolas Wolff grew up in Paris and teaches French.
Rosecrans Baldwin reads from Paris, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down ($26.00), a fresh take on the City of Light in which the author, a self-described Francophile, dreams of living in Paris — drinking le café, eating les croissants, walking in les jardins — despite the fact that he wasn’t exactly fluent in French and is ill prepared to earn a living in the French city.
Rosecrans Baldwin's first novel, You Lost Me There, was named one of NPR's Best Books of 2010, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, and a Time and Entertainment Weekly Best Book of Summer 2010. He is a cofounder of the online magazine The Morning News.
Upstairs at the Ferry Building
Cosponsored by CUESA
David and Michael Hanson discuss Breaking Through Concrete ($29.95). Urban farming is a social movement that's transforming our national food system. In their book Breaking Through Concrete, brothers David and Michael Hanson and urban farmer Edwin Marty document twelve successful urban farms, from an alternative school for girls in Detroit to a restaurant supply garden on a rooftop in Brooklyn. They offer practical advice for budding farmers, such as composting and keeping livestock in the city and decontaminating toxic soil.
The talk will be followed by a book signing (books for sale by Book Passage) and reception with farmers market refreshments. Please note: if the event fills up, there will be a limited number of seats available on the day of the event. First come, first served. More info at http://breakingthroughconcrete.eventbrite.com/
Steven Saylor reads from The Seven Wonders: A Novel of the Ancient World ($25.99). The year is 92 B.C., and Gordianus has just turned eighteen and is about to embark on a journey to see the Seven Wonders of the World. Gordianus is not yet called “the Finder” — but at each of the Seven Wonders, the young Roman encounters a mystery to challenge the powers of deduction.
Steven Saylor is the author of acclaimed historical mystery novels featuring Gordianus the Finder, including The Triumph of Caesar, as well as the internationally bestselling historical novels Empire and Roma. He has appeared on the History Channel as an expert on Roman politics and life.
For nearly two decades, Scott Jurek has been a dominant force — and darling — in the grueling and growing sport of ultrarunning. And yet, perhaps even more impressive than his extensive list of race victories and course records is the fact that he achieves these astonishing accomplishments of endurance on an entirely plant-based diet. In Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness ($26.00), Jurek opens up about his life and career — as an elite ultrarunner and a vegan — and inspires athletes at every level.
Group run will start at 7:00 pm from Fleet Feet. The run will end back at the store in time for Scott’s talk, Q&A and signing to start at 8:00 pm. Book sales provided by Book Passage. More info about Scott Jurek's Fleet Feet San Francisco event at http://www.fleetfeetsanfrancisco.com/
Scott Jurek is a world-renowned ultramarathon champion who trains and races on a vegan diet. He has prominently appeared in two New York Times bestsellers, Born to Run and The 4-Hour Body.
Neil Abramson speaks about his novel, Unsaid ($14.99), a poignant book that will make you think about the relationship between people and animals. "If you love legal dramas... or dogs... or terrific writing... or originality... or people... or discovering wonderful new writers, then Neil Abramson's Unsaid is a book you simply must read.” — David Rosenfelt
"An extraordinary story of animals, mortality, and the power of love. Everyone needs to read this novel!" - Garth Stein
Neil Abramson is a partner in a Manhattan law firm, and his wife is a veterinarian. Abramson is also a past board member of the Animal Legal Defense Fund, an award recipient from the ASPCA for his legal work on behalf of animals, and a founding member of the New York City Bar Association Committee on Legal Issues Relating to Animals.
Learn the Skills & Make the Connections to Write, Illustrate & Publish Books for Children & Young Adults!
This year's participants will spend four event-filled days writing, workshopping, networking, and perfecting their craft with a celebrated faculty featuring prize-winning authors and illustrators including Gennifer Choldenko (Newbery Honor Book Al Capone Does My Shirts), Adam Kefman (Editor at McSweeney's), Annie Barrows (Ivy and Bean series, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society), and many more!
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The evening events with Barney Saltzberg and Katherine Applegate & Michael Grant are free and open to the public, although priority seating is reserved for conference participants.
Andrew Blackwell discusses Visit Sunny Chernobyl: And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places ($25.99). For most of us, traveling means visiting the most lively or beautiful places on Earth — like Paris or the Taj Mahal. This new book embraces a different kind of travel, taking a jaunt through the most gruesomely polluted places on Earth.
Andrew Blackwell is a journalist and filmmaker living in New York City. He is a 2011 fellow in nonfiction literature from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Barney Saltzberg talks about Arlo Needs Glasses ($15.95). Arlo is a shaggy, free-spirited dog who loves to play catch until one day he can’t. As a matter of fact, Arlo can’t really see the ball anymore. He needs glasses! Every child who wears glasses will know just how Arlo feels. And every parent will want that child to know that glasses are cool and fun and enable us to do the things we want to do. Like play!
Barney Saltzberg is the author of more than 30 books for children, including Beautiful Oops!, Good Egg and the bestselling Touch and Feel Kisses series, with over 800,000 copies in print. Additionally, he’s recorded four albums of songs for children. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, two dogs, and a pond full of fish.
Barney Saltzberg is on the faculty of the 6th annual Book Passage Children's Writers & Illustrators Conference, which takes place June 14-17 at Book Passage. This event is part of the Conference. It is open to the public, though priority seating is reserved for Conference participants.
As chefs go, Angelo Sosa is a fascinating blend of the classical and the modern. Having worked with culinary visionaries Alain Ducasse and Jean-Georges Vongerichten, his personal sensibility for food combines the elegance and sophistication of his rigorous training along with his passion for global flavors and more contemporary preparations. Known to many for his compelling role on Bravo's acclaimed "Top Chef," Angelo is currently Executive Chef at Social Eatz and Añejo Tequileria in New York City.
Katherine Applegate and Michael Grant wrote the hugely popular Animorphs series, which has sold more than 35 million copies worldwide.
Katherine Applegate and Michael Grant are on the faculty of the 6th annual Book Passage Children's Writers & Illustrators Conference, which takes place June 14-17 at Book Passage. This event is part of the Conference. It is open to the public, though priority seating is reserved for Conference participants.
Cosponsored by CUESA
John Toulze and Sondra Bernstein present Plats Du Jour: The Girl and the Fig’s Journey Through the Seasons in Wine Country ($48.00). 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.
Dr. Justin Frank, a widely-published national expert on psychoanalysis, is a clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Four Mondays: June 18-July 9
for kids entering 4th & 5th grade with Karen Benke, author of RIP THE PAGE! and Prartho Sereno, author of Causing a Stir
Here’s a camp to get you to open up to your inner life, rip into favorite words, and cook up some tantalizing images. We’ll play on and off the page with original detail and paint—literally—our poems into illustrations and greeting cards. You’ll leave with favorite haiku, pantoums, and poetry riddles. Just come with your curiosity and willingness to be surprised! All materials included.
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. Prartho Sereno has been one of Marin County’s beloved Poets-in-the-Schools for over 12 years. Her prize-winning poetry collections include Causing a Stir: The Secret Lives and Loves of Kitchen Utensils (winner of a 2008 IPPY) and Call from Paris.
4 Mondays, June 18 - July 9
Continuation of grammar and language immersion through conversation. Must have prior Spanish experience; speak to instructor to join if you're unsure.
Williams’s mother told her: “I am leaving you all my journals, but you must promise me you won’t look at them until after I’m gone.” Readers of Williams’s iconic and unconventional memoir, Refuge, well remember that mother. She was one of a large Mormon clan in northern Utah who developed cancer as a result of the nuclear testing in nearby Nevada. It was a shock to Williams to discover that her mother had kept journals. But not as much of a shock as what she found when the time came to read them.
"The writing of Terry Tempest Williams is brilliant, meditative, and full of surprises, wisdom, and wonder. She's one of those writers who changes peoples' lives by encouraging attention and a slow, patient awakening." --Anne Lamott
Terry Tempest Williams is the award-winning author of fourteen books, including Leap, An Unspoken Hunger, Refuge, and, most recently, Finding Beauty in a Broken World. She divides her time between Castle Valley, Utah, and Moose, Wyoming.
Robert Moss is the creator of Active Dreaming, an original synthesis of modern dreamwork and ancient shamanic techniques for healing and journeying. Born in Australia, he survived three near-death experiences in childhood. A former lecturer in ancient history at the Australian National University, he is a best-selling novelist, journalist, independent scholar, and author of nine books on dreaming, shamanism, and imagination.
Alix Ohlin is the author of The Missing Person, a novel; Babylon and Other Stories; and Signs and Wonders, a new collection. Her work has appeared in Best American Short Stories, Best New American Voices, and on public radio’s Selected Shorts. “Ohlin has a great eye, a great ear, and all the other equipment auguring a very successful future.” — Jay McInerney
Four Tuesdays: June 19 - July 17 (no class July 3)
Bring your laptop (if you have one) and roll up your sleeves. We’re going to Create Your Buzz-Kicking Blog. In this workshop you will learn: The Keys to Highly Successful Author Blogs and Why They Work; The 6 Essential Things Your Blog Must Have and Where to Put Them; How to Set Up Your Blog; Write Great Content Your Readers Will Love; Time-Saving Tools; How to Avoid Common, Costly Mistakes; Promote Your Blog Without Being Obnoxious.
Robert Dugoni has practiced as a civil litigator in San Francisco and Seattle for seventeen years and is a two-time winner of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Contest.
Ridley Pearson reads from his new thriller The Risk Agent ($25.95). Rich with the atmosphere of Shanghai and crackling with tension-filled suspense, Pearson's latest introduces two compelling new characters — and heralds the start of a brilliant new series. “Pearson writes thrillers, the kind that try to yank you to the edge of your seat and keep you there.” — Boston Sunday Globe
Ridley Pearson is the author of more than two dozen novels, including the New York Times-bestsellers In Harm’s Way, Killer Summer, Killer View and Killer Weekend, the bestselling Lou Boldt crime series, and many books for young readers including those with Dave Barry. Peter and the Starcatcher, the musical based on Ridley Pearson's and Dave Barry's best selling series, has received 9 Tony Award nominations.
Renowned author Francine Du Plessix Gray presents The Queen's Lover ($25.95), a work of historical fiction which tells the story of a love affair between Marie Antoinette and a Swedish aristocrat. Expertly researched and deeply imagined, this new novel offers a fresh view of the French Revolution and French royal family, as told through the love story that was at its center.
Francine du Plessix Gray has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker and is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including Simone Weil, At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life, and Soviet Women. She is most recently the author of the memoir Them: A Memoir of Parents.
4 Thursdays, June 21 - July 13
A very basic introduction for students who have never studied Spanish. Study guide can be purchased from the instructor the first day of class.
Graciela Pera was born in Buenos Aires. She is a graduate of the University of Buenos Aires. She has been teaching Spanish for 35 years.
Tickets $55(includes lunch & a signed book)
Call (415) 927-0960, ext. 1 to reserve
Join us for lunch with Belva Davis as she discusses her memoir Never in My Wildest Dreams — the story of a journalist who helped change the face of television news, a history-maker, an award-winning reporter, and a pioneering feminist. Born to a 15-year old Louisiana laundress during the Great Depression and raised in the projects of Oakland, Davis overcame abuse, racism, and sexism to become the first black female news anchor on the West Coast. Davis reported on some of the most explosive stories of the past decades, including the rise and fall of the Black Panthers, the Jonestown massacre, the Moscone/Milk murders, and the onset of the AIDS epidemic. She recounts her interviews with world leaders, including Fidel Castro and three U.S. presidents.
Davis has traveled the world reporting on politics, terrorism, racial and gender issues, and the role of art and culture in increasing human understanding. She has anchored at three major network affiliates, and currently hosts a highly respected political affairs program on KQED-TV in San Francisco.
Book Passage hosts literary luncheons with celebrated authors at our Marin store. These events are catered by the outstanding Insalata’s Restaurant of San Anselmo.
Rich Roll has been featured on CNN and has been named “one of the world’s 25 fittest men” by Men’s Fitness magazine. He is a graduate of Stanford University and Cornell Law School. He lives in Los Angeles.
Andrew Blum is a journalist and author whose Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet is the first book-length look behind the scenes of our digital lives and at the physical heart of the Internet itself. Before falling into the Internet's depths, Blum wrote about architecture, design, technology, urbanism, art, and travel — all subjects arising out of his interest in the relationship between place and technology.
Medea Benjamin is a co-founder of the peace group CODEPINK and the international human rights organization Global Exchange. She has been an advocate for social justice for more than thirty years. Described as “one of America’s most committed—and most effective—fighters for human rights” by New York Newsday, and called “one of the high profile leaders of the peace movement” by the Los Angeles Times, Benjamin has distinguished herself as an eloquent and energetic figure in the progressive movement.
Mark Shriver talks about A Good Man: Rediscovering My Father, Sargent Shriver ($24.00). When the founder of the Peace Corps and architect of President Johnson's War on Poverty died in 2011, thousands of tributes poured in from friends and strangers worldwide. A Good Man is an inspirational personal story about a son discovering the true meaning of his father's legacy.
Mark K. Shriver is the senior vice president of U.S. Programs at Save the Children in Washington, D.C., and a former Maryland state legislator. Shriver also started the Choice Program and served on the coalition to create the National Commission on Children and Disasters following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
What's going on in the art world? What are galleries and museums looking for now? What does an artist need to do to break through to the next level? This workshop will help emerging and established artists learn the basic business strategies required for success. Topics include how to create an "artist-friendly" business plan, how to think like an entrepreneu, and how to use professional networks to advance your career. Mary Edwards is a Career & Life Coach for artists and creative entrepreneurs. She works with painters, sculptors, photographers, designers, graphic artists, and other creative people. Mary has a Ph.D. from The University of Michigan and has taught workshops and classes for college students, business executives, and aritsts.
Colin Dickey is the author of Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Lapham's Quarterly, Cabinet, TriQuarterly, and The Santa Monica Review. He is also coeditor of Failure! Experiments in Aesthetic and Social Practices.
Katie Workman is the founding editor in chief of Cookstr.com, the website that features recipes by well-known chefs and cookbook writers. She writes about food and cooking for websites and magazines
Dana Kelly returns to the Book Passage Gallery with a show of photographs from all over Italy - from a beggar sitting in the midst of a swarm of tourists at Trevi Fountain to a Greco-Roman Parthenon near Salerno. "Rome, Venice & the Amalfi Coast" runs through the end of July. There will be a reception with the artist on Saturday, June 23 at 5:30 pm.
Book Passage patrons will know Dana as your frequent author event host, but in his other lives he's been an actor, comedian, puppeteer, graphic artist, film editor -- and photographer. He's pleased to be back in the Gallery.
Alan Furst is widely recognized as the master of the historical spy novel. Now translated into eighteen languages, he is the author of The Polish Officer, The World at Night, Kingdom of Shadows, The Foreign Correspondent, The Spies of Warsaw, and other books
Jean Zimmerman reads from her debut novel, The Orphanmaster ($27.95), a gripping historical thriller set in pre-Revolutionary America. It’s 1663 in the tiny, hardscrabble Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, and orphan children are going missing. Looking into the matter is a quick-witted 22-year-old trader, Blandine von Couvering. What she finds will surprise.
Jean Zimmerman was born in Tarrytown, New York. An honors graduate of Barnard College, she is the author of several works of nonfiction, including Love, Fiercely: A Gilded Age Romance and The Women of the House: How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune, and a Dynasty.
Anita Amirrezvani reads from Equal of the Sun ($26.00). Legendary women changed the course of history in the royal courts of England. They are celebrated in history books and novels, but few people know of the powerful women in the Muslim world. Amirrezvani’s gorgeously crafted tale of power, loyalty, and love in the royal court of Iran brings one such woman to life.
Anita Amirrezvani is the author of The Blood of Flowers, which was long-listed for the Orange Prize, and a former staff writer and dance critic for the San Jose Mercury News and the Contra Costa Times. She is currently an adjunct professor at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
Please note: This event has been cancelled. Agapi Stassinopoulos discusses Unbinding the Heart ($19.95), in which the Greek-born author, speaker, and Huffington Post regular invites readers on an inspiring journey of inner exploration to reconnect with their true selves. These 32 heartfelt stories will inspire readers with the confidence to let go of the beliefs that bind them and come to a deeper understanding of life.
“Besides being a loving sister, Agapi has an innate wisdom and a gift for communicating it to her readers. The insight and passion that she brings to Unbinding the Heart, and the lessons it holds for bringing freedom and grace into our lives, make it a must-read book.” - Arianna Huffington
“I laughed, I cried, I got a craving for hummus . . . read this book, it’s smashing.” - Tracey Ullman
Agapi Stassinopoulos was born and raised in Greece. At age 18, she entered the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London and afterward became a member of the Young Vic. She moved to the United States to do film and television. While her sister, Arianna Huffington, was doing research for her book about Greek mythology, Agapi’s love for the gods and goddesses was ignited and led to two books of her own — Conversations with the Goddesses and Gods and Goddesses in Love — as well as a one-woman show and a PBS special
Jess Walter reads from Beautiful Ruins ($25.99). The award-winning author of the bestselling The Financial Lives of the Poets returns with his funniest, most romantic, and most purely enjoyable novel yet: the story of an almost-love affair that begins in 1962 and is rekindled fifty years later. “Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.” — Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Russo
Jess Walter is the author of The Zero (a finalist for the National Book Award), Citizen Vince (a winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel), Land of the Blind, Ruby Ridge, and Over Tumbled Graves (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year). He lives in Spokane, Washington.
8 Tuesdays: June 26 - Aug. 21 (no class July 3)
This class is for beginners and for those who have previously had some exposure to German. You’ll focus on conjugating verbs in the present tense, declension of nouns, articles, and your ability to carry on a simple conversation with a native German speaker. Hamid Emami has a Masters from the University of Hamburg, and he is fluent in German, English, French, Spanish & Farsi. He has taught German for many years.
Shehan Karunatilaka reads from The Legend of Pradeep Mathew ($16.00), in which a drunk and totally unreliable narrator runs alongside the reader insisting on the great fictional possibilities of cricket. The Sunday Times (London) called this book “The first genuine contender for the title of Great Sri Lankan Novel.” While Booker Prize winner Michael Ondaatje called it “A crazy ambidextrous delight.”
Shehan Karunatilaka lives and works in Singapore. He has written advertisements, rock songs, travel stories, and bass lines. Here is a write-up of a recent event with Shehan which should convince you, dear reader, to attend our event. Don't miss it!
Peter Zuckerman presents Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day ($26.95), a compelling account of tragedy and the men who have literally shouldered the rest of the world’s mountaineers up the second-highest mountain on Earth. "I admired Buried in the Sky and enjoyed it, too.” — Peter Matthiessen
Check out this terrific review in the Wall Street Journal.
Peter Zuckerman is one of the youngest journalists ever to have received the Livingston Award, which is given for excellence to professional journalists under the age of 35. He lives in Oregon.
Adrienne Arieff is an expert in new media and communications, and is the principal of the public relations firm Arieff Communications. She has freelanced for Daily Candy and C Magazine and writes her company's blog, Weekly Pulse. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and their two children.
Bonnie Jo Campbell is the author of three previous books of fiction. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan. And, she has promised to personally apply American Salvage temporary tattoos to everyone who buys a book. There was also mention made of Bell's Two Hearted Ale. It ain't Stroh's.
International bestselling author Jeffery Deaver delivers XO: A Kathryn Dance Novel ($26.99), the latest sensational thriller in his wildly popular Kathryn Dance series. Newsweek calls Jeffery Deaver a “suspense superstar,” and in his new novel he lives up to the accolades as he sets his heroine on a quest to stop an obsessive stalker from destroying a beautiful young singer.
More info on the accompanying CD by Jeffrey Deaver at http://jefferydeaverxomusic.com
Jeffery Deaver is the international, #1 bestselling author of more than twenty-seven suspense novels, including The Bone Collector, which was made into a film starring Denzel Washington.
Join us for a special workshop event with Phil Stutz & Barry Michels, authors of The Tools: Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and Creativity ($25.00). As seen on The Dr. Oz Show, this groundbreaking book about personal growth presents an effective set of five tools that bring about dynamic change.
Admission to this special event is by purchase of The Tools from Book Passage.
The Tools offers a solution to the biggest complaint patients have about therapy: the interminable wait for change to begin. The traditional therapeutic model sets its sights on the past, but Phil Stutz and Barry Michels employ an arsenal of techniques—“the tools”—that allow patients to use their problems as levers that access the power of the unconscious and propel them into action. Suddenly, through this transformative approach, obstacles become opportunities—to find courage, embrace discipline, develop self-expression, and deepen creativity.
For years, Stutz and Michels taught these techniques to an exclusive patient base, but with The Tools, their revolutionary, empowering practice becomes available to every reader interested in realizing the full range of their potential. The authors’ goal is nothing less than for your life to become exceptional—exceptional in its resiliency, in its experience of real happiness, and in its understanding of the human spirit.
“An ‘open secret’ in Hollywood . . . [Stutz and Michels] have developed a program designed to access the creative power of the unconscious.”—The New Yorker
Glen Duncan reads from Talulla Rising ($25.95). Harnessing the same audacious imagination and dark humor, the same depths of horror and sympathy, and the same full-tilt narrative energy with which he crafted his acclaimed novel The Last Werewolf, Duncan now gives us a heroine like no other. “Loaded with beautifully constructed lunatic ravings,” Independent on Sunday.
Glen Duncan is the author of eight previous novels. He was chosen by both Arena and The Times Literary Supplement as one of Britain’s best young novelists. He lives in London.
Natalie Serber received an MFA from Warren Wilson College. Her work has appeared in The Bellingham Review and Gulf Coast, among others, and her awards include the Tobias Wolff Award.
Kristen Iversen discusses Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats ($25.00), a memoir about growing up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant once designated "the most contaminated site in America." Its the story of Iversen’s childhood and adolescence in the shadow of the Cold War in a landscape at once startlingly beautiful and — unknown to those who lived there — tainted with invisible, deadly particles of plutonium.
Kristen Iversen will be introduced by Daniel Ellsberg.
Kristen Iversen grew up in Arvada, Colorado and received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Denver. She is Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at The University of Memphis, and is the author of Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth and Shadow Boxing: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction. Her new book, based on extensive interviews, FBI and EPA documents, and class-action testimony, is a taut, beautifully written book which promises to have a very long half-life.
Anita Hughes attended UC Berkeley’s Masters in Creative Writing Program, and has taught Creative Writing at The Branson School in Ross, California. Hughes has lived at The St. Regis Monarch Beach for six years, where she is at work on her next novel.
Andy Couturier is an essayist, poet, and writing teacher. He lived in Japan for four years where he taught, was a journalist, and worked on environmental causes. He now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Francis Slakey is a lecturer on physics and public policy at Georgetown University. The founder and co-director of the Program on Science in the Public Interest and a MacArthur Scholar, Dr. Slakey has been profiled by NPR, National Geographic, and others, and his writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Scientific American.
The interview is so much a part of our multi-media society that rarely do we consider what it takes. In this workshop, we will look at the structure of interviews - dialogue, conversation, street exchanges,. We will explore in-class how to use these in subtle or surprising ways to feed our own writing. Tressa Berman has interviewed people from the hood of a car on a North Dakota highway to a five-star hotel in NYC to a tent in the middle of Occupied Oakland. She is the author of two books and numerous magazine articles. She credits her success to listening to the stories of others.
Cosponsored by CUESA
Georgeanne Brennan and Ann M. Evans presents The Davis Farmers Market Cookbook ($24.95). On Saturday mornings, chefs and cookbook authors lead free cooking demonstrations sing 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.Christian Kiefer reads from his novel The Infinite Tides ($26.00), the story of an astronaut aboard the International Space Station who one day receives word that his sixteen-year-old daughter has died in a car accident, and that his wife has left him. Returning to earth, he is alone with the ghosts, memories and feelings of the past. Kiefer's band will provide musical accompaniment; refreshments, including TANG, will also be served.
There is a good deal of buzz around The Infinite Tides, which is the July selection of our Signed First Editions Club.
Christian Kiefer earned his Ph.D. in American literature from the University of California, Davis, and is on the English faculty of American River College in Sacramento. His poetry has appeared in various national journals including the Antioch Review and Santa Monica Review. He is also an accomplished songwriter and recording artist who has been profiled on National Public Radio.
Katherine Chiljan discusses Shakespeare Suppressed: The Uncensored Truth About Shakespeare and His Works ($35.00). For hundreds of years, debate has swirled around the identity of The Bard and the authorship of his plays and poems. This new book makes the case that “William Shakespeare” was only the great author's pen name.
Katherine Chiljan is an independent scholar who has studied the Shakespeare authorship question for over 26 years. She has debated the topic with English professors at the Smithsonian Institution and at the Mechanics Institute in San Francisco. Chiljan served as editor of the Shakespeare-Oxford Newsletter, and edited two anthologies: Dedication Letters to the Earl of Oxford, and Letters and Poems of Edward, Earl of Oxford.
Donna Sheehan, a Northern California native, is an artist, community / environmental visionary activist and Evolutionary Behaviorist. At the age of almost eighty and in partnership with Paul, she feels successful, beautiful and sensual. Paul Reffell, an English transplant to Northern California, is an Evolutionary Behaviorist activist who writes poetry, fiction, and non-fiction on nature and human nature.
In conversation with Isabel Allende.
William Gordon reads from and discusses his new novel The King of the Bottom ($14.95). On a cold and gloomy morning the mutilated body of a prosperous businessman is found hanging from the gate of his toxic dump. The finger of the law points one way, but crime reporter Samuel Hamilton uncovers a sordid world of ancient revenge and violence.
William Gordon is an international man of mysteries – as well as an attorney with a law office in Sausalito, a father, photographer, and world traveler with his wife, author Isabel Allende.
Stephanie Lucianovic is a freelance writer, editor, and sometime cheese-monger in the San Francisco Bay Area. A former book editor and graduate of the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts in Massachusetts, she helped develop a line of cookbooks for Williams-Sonoma and worked in the prep kitchen of a Jacques Pépin cooking show. She is the author of CocktailSmarts and VampireSmarts, and was featured in Best Food Writing 2005.
Join us for an evening of poetry with members of the Marin Poetry Center (MPC). Their annual and always popular Summer Traveling Show will be hosted by Ethel Mays and will feature readers Catlyn Fendler, Lily Iona MacKenzie, Stephanie Noble, Terry Phelan, Maggie Morley, and Bruce Sams.
For more information visit www.marinpoetrycenter.org.
Three Wednesdays: July 11 - 25
Find the "flow" in your story and discover the secrets of transforming life experiences into memoir. You'll learn to uncover your best material and craft it into engaging, compelling pieces. Includes instruction, in-class writing, and an opportunity to bring writing for feedback. All levels welcome.
Laura Deutsch's personal essays, memoir and feautres have appeared in the L.A. Times, S.F. Chronicles, and More magazine, among others. Her next book, Writing From the Senses, will be published by Shambhala in 2013. Laura has taught writing at U.C. Berkeley, and leads writing retreats from Tassajara to Tuscany.
Manuel Roig-Franzia presents The Rise of Marco Rubio ($25.00). Florida’s junior senator has risen through the ranks of American politics with astonishing speed, so much so that this 40-year-old son of immigrants is known as the "Michael Jordan" of the Republican party. Having gained a level of national notoriety never before achieved by a Cuban-American, Rubio - considered by some to be the crown prince of the Tea Party - is poised to continue making history this fall. In this just released book, a Washington Post reporter chronicles Rubio's historic climb, tracing a family saga that began beneath a thatched roof in rural Cuba.
Manuel Roig-Franzia is a writer in The Washington Post's Style section. He writes long-form pieces on a broad range of subjects, exploring politics, power and the culture of Washington, as well as profiling major political figures and authors.
This event has been cancelled.
Priscilla Gilman discusses her memoir The Anti-Romantic Child: A Memoir of Unexpected Joy ($14.99). In her widely acclaimed and profoundly moving memoir, Gilman explores our hopes and expectations for our children, our families, and ourselves—and the ways in which experience and the arts, notably literature, may lead us to re-imagine them.
Priscilla Gilman grew up in New York City and received her B.A. and Ph.D. in English and American literature from Yale University. She was a professor of English literature at both Yale and Vassar College before leaving academia in 2006. She has published numerous articles, and chaired panels and lectured at literary and early childhood conferences.
Four Wednesdays: July 11 - August 1
This class will guide students through simple yet profound mindfulness exercises, dynamic fun writing practices, readings, and discussion. Open to beginning and advanced writers. Internationally published poet, author, publisher, and writing coach, Albert Flynn DeSilver is the author most recently of "Beamish Boy: A Memoir" (The Owl Press, 2012) and several books of poetry. He has taught writing workshops everywhere from the British Institute in Paris to San Quentin State Prison. He served as Marin County's Poet Laureate from 2008-2010.
This class is also available on a per session basis ($20/class). Please register over the phone or in-person if you prefer to sign-up for a single class.
Old friends read from new books. Brian Doyle reads from Bin Laden's Bald Spot ($16.95), a quirky collection of stories populated by curious characters of every sort and stripe. Gerald Asher reads from A Carafe of Red ($21.95), a collection of elegantly written and insightful essays on the subject of wine. Cheers!
Brian Doyle is the author of ten previous books: five collections of essays, two nonfiction books, two collections of short prose, and the sprawling novel Mink River, which Publishers Weekly called an “original, postmodern, shimmering tapestry of small town life.” Gerald Asher is author of four earlier books on the subject of wine. As an international wine merchant, he was decorated by the French Government in 1974 for his contribution to French viticulture.
Admission $110 per person - EVENT SOLD OUT
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Join Marcus Samuelsson at the top rated Jardinière restaurant
in San Francisco, along with co-owner and award winning chef/restauranteur Traci Des Jardins, for what is sure to be a very special event.
Some may recognize Marcus Samuelsson as the winner of Top Chef: Master's Season 2 or as the James Beard Foundation award winning chef of New York City's Red Rooster Harlem. In his memoir, YES, CHEF, Samulesson chronicles his incredible journey from the age of 3 when he was orphaned along with his sister in Ethiopia after walking 75 miles from a remote village to a hospital to try and save his mother from succumbing to tuberculosis. Later, when he was adopted by a loving Swedish family, Samuelsson developed a lifelong passion for cooking alongside his Swedish grandmother, Helga. From this humble beginning to some of the most demanding restaurants in Europe, Samuelsson then arrived in NYC's Aquavit. While there, he earned a coveted three-star rating from the New York Times at the age of 24. President Clinton writes, "In his famed dishes, and now in this memoir, Marcus Samuelsson tells a story that reaches past racial and national divides to the foundations of family, hope and downright good food."
Marcus Samuelsson is chef and co-owner of the New York City restaurant Aquavit. He is the youngest chef ever to receive two three-star ratings from the New York Times, and has appeared as the star of Discovery Home Channel's The Inner Chef television series. Samuelsson is the author of The Soul of a New Cuisine and Aquavit: And the New Scandinavian Cuisine
Carlos Ruiz Zafón is the author of six novels. His work has been published in more than forty different languages, and honored with numerous international awards, including the Edebé Award, Spain's most prestigious prize for young adult fiction. His break-out novel, The Shadow of the Wind, has been described as “Gabriel García Márquez meets Umberto Eco meets Jorge Luis Borges for a sprawling magic show." Zafón divides his time between Barcelona, Spain and Los Angeles, California.
Joshua Henkin reads from The World Without You ($25.95). From the author of the Los Angeles Times Notable Book Swimming Across the Hudson and the New York Times Notable Book Matrimony ["Beautiful . . . Brilliant."—Michael Cunningham] comes a moving and mesmerizing new novel about love, loss, and the aftermath of a family tragedy.
“Like a more bittersweet version of Jonathan Tropper’s This Is Where I Leave You or a less chilly variation on Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections, Henkin tenderly explores family dynamics in this novel about the ties that bind, and even lacerate . . . .” — Publishers Weekly (starred review). Joshua Henkin's new novel has also been praised - and warmly so, by four authors familiar to those who attend events at Book Passage, Julia Glass, Heidi Julavits, Jim Shepard, Gary Shteyngart.
Joshua Henkin is the author of the novels two novels. His stories have been published widely, cited for distinction in Best American Short Stories and broadcast on NPR's Selected Shorts. He directs the MFA Program in Fiction Writing at Brooklyn College.
Julie Otsuka was born and raised in California. She is the author of the novel When the Emperor Was Divine and a recipient of the Asian American Literary Award, the American Library Association Alex Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in New York City.
Jennifer Woodlief is a former reporter for Sports Illustrated. Her first book Ski to Die: The Bill Johnson Story was optioned by Warner Brothers. A graduate of Stanford University and UCLA School of Law, her past jobs included prosecuting first-degree murder cases as a district attorney and working as a case officer with top secret clearance for the CIA.
This practical “How to” workshop will give you the tools you need to get your writing published in magazines, newspapers, and other media. We’ll look at writer’s guidelines from various publications, as well as where to send your work and how to get editors to read your submissions (and accept them!). We'll discuss sending query letters instead of completed pieces, writing cover letters that work, formatting your piece for submission, and more. “Laura was terrific—organized and original, a generous and talented teacher. This is one of the best classes I’ve taken.”
Laura Deutsch is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in the N.Y. Times, S.F. Chronicle, More magazine, San Francisco magazine, and many others. She has taught writing at U.C. Berkeley and leads writing retreats from Tassajara to Tuscany. Laura's coaching clients have been published in top-tier magazines, newspapers, anthologies and other media.
Come discover the exciting art of altering books and journals. Through easy techniques and a rainbow of art supplies, you will take a used book and transform it into your own object d'art or journal. Even if you don't think you are creative, you will find altering books inspiring, liberating, and deeply satisfying! Virginia Simpson-Magruder of Kentucky Girl Designs is a jewlery, collage and altered artist. Materials included.
Sean Meshorer talks about The Bliss Experiment: 28 Days to Personal Transformation ($24.00). We have a higher standard of living and more ways to fulfill every desire than ever before. Then why are we unhappy? Is it because happiness isn’t what we really want. Meshorer contends that happiness is good, but bliss is better.
Sean Meshorer is an inspirational speaker, teacher, and spiritual coach based in Los Angeles. He graduated from Stanford in 1993 with a degree in Philosophy and Religious Studies. He spent fifteen years meditating, studying, practicing, and living at Ananda, the renowned ashram and network of spiritual communities headquartered in Northern California.
Cynthia Pepper has worked on 75 film productions with budgets ranging from pennies to $15 million. Her short films have won Emmy Awards and are distributed worldwide. This class will discuss all elements involved in translating a short story into a film. Topics discussed include writing a simple treatment or screenplay, creating shooting boards, casting, finding locations, directing, producing, editing, and scoring a short film with no experience on a variety of budgets. Students are invited to send a three sentence synopsis prior to the class (instructions provided at time of registration). Submissions are allowed up to seven days prior to class.
Linda Fairstein was chief of the Sex Crimes Unit of the district attorney’s office in Manhattan for more than two decades and is America’s foremost legal expert on sexual assault and domestic violence. Her Alexandra Cooper novels are international bestsellers and have been translated into more than a dozen languages.
A freelance writer and passionate chef, Ronda Giangreco has written features for magazines for the past twenty years. She resides in Sonoma.
Unwind your mind and play with words in a whole new way. Surprise yourself with syntax, verb your nouns, write in fragments and feel right at home. We'll leap from open-ended writing experiments and sample meandering mini memoirs, using never-before-seen prompts from Karen's forthcoming book for tweens, LEAP WRITE IN! Adventures in Creative Writing that will s-t-r-e-t-c-h & surprise your one-of-a-kind mind! (Shambhala, 2013)
PLEASE NOTE: THIS CLASS HAS BEEN MOVED TO SUNDAY, AUGUST 5. CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE LISTING.
Bring your laptop! Join blogger extraordinaire Sophie Epstein, from the young adult book blog MrsMagooReads.com and her mother Liz Epstein (LiteraryMasters.net) as they present a fun and friendly workshop where you will learn how to use Facebook and Twitter to promote your blog or business, or just to keep in touch with friends. Before leaving, you will create your own Facebook Page and your own Twitter account, and you will learn how to navigate them and how to link them to your existing (or future) blog or website.
Douglas Brinkley discusses Cronkite ($34.99), the definitive biography of the television journalist known as the "the most trusted man in America." Drawing on unprecedented access to Cronkite's private papers as well as interviews with his family and friends, an acclaimed historian now brings this American icon into focus as never before.
Douglas Brinkley is a professor of history at Rice University and a contributing editor to Vanity Fair. His most recent books are The Quiet World, The Wilderness Warrior, and The Great Deluge. Six of his books have been selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. He lives in Texas.
Valerie Coleman Morris is an Emmy award winning journalist and the former Business Anchor for CNN domestic and international. Her broadcast career spans more than 35 years and includes both coasts. She came to CNN in 1996 from WPIX-TV in New York where she was both a general assignment reporter and weekend anchor. Morris began her career as a broadcast journalist in San Francisco where she worked for KRON-TV and KGO-TV. Morris was also the morning drive anchor at KCBS Radio in San Francisco and midday anchor at KCBS-TV in Los Angeles. In 2007, Morris made the decision to focus exclusively on financial literacy as an aspect of business and social economics.
Aminta Arrington has an M.A. in international relations from Johns Hopkins University School of advanced International Studies and studied at Waseda University in Tokyo. She has written about China for The Seattle Times, and she edited the anthology Saving Grandmother's Face: and Other Tales from Christian Teachers in China. Arrington continues to live and work in China with her family.
Please note this class now starts one week later (on July 16) than as listed in our newsletter!
Four Mondays: July 16 - August 6
The four classes will review the basic structures of Beginning Italian the present tense, gender and number of nouns and adjectives and the always pesky articulated prepositions. Much conversation and laughter.
In Shakespeare's day, the story of King John was hugely popular on the Elizabethan stage. Today, the play is rarely produced. Join Marin Shakespeare Company's Lesley Currier and actor Barry Kraft in a discussion of the history and theatricality of this little known Shakespeare play. You can see Barry Kraft perform in King John at the Forest Meadows Amphitheatre through August 12.
Lesley Currier is a founder of Marin Shakespeare Company, now in its 23rd year. She produces, directs and teaches Shakespeare with people of all ages, and run the Shakespeare at San Quentin program. Lesley is the director of this summer's main stage production of King John at Dominican University's Forest Meadows Amphitheatre.
Barry Kraft has been an actor and dramaturg at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for 25 years, as well as performing as King Lear and Julius Caesar at Marin Shakespeare Company. Barry will be seen this summer as the King of France in King John.
Please note this class now starts one week later (on July 17) than as listed in our newsletter!
Four Tuesdays: July 17 - August 7
The four classes will review the basic structures of Italian the present tense, gender and number of nouns and adjectives and the always pesky articulated prepositions. Much conversation and laughter.
Please note this class now starts one week later (on July 17) than as listed in our newsletter!
Four Tuesdays: July 17 - August 7
In these four weeks students will intensively review the major tenses of the Indicative mood of this wonderful language: presente, passato prossimo, imperfetto, trapassato prossimo, futuro, [presente e passato] condizionale [presente e passato]. Much pratice and conversation.
An attorney, motivational speaker, and youth advocate, Carissa Phelps works as part of a global collective to help local and international survivors of sex trafficking rebuild their lives. Her life story was the subject of the award-winning documentary Carissa.
Karen Thompson Walker reads from The Age of Miracles ($26.00), a luminous, haunting, and unforgettable coming of age novel set against the backdrop of an utterly altered world…. On a seemingly ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia and her family awake to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the earth has suddenly begun to slow.
“The Age of Miracles spins its glowing magic through incredibly lucid and honest prose, giving equal care and dignity to the small spheres and the large. It is at once a love letter to the world as we know it and an elegy.”—Aimee Bender
Karen Thompson Walker is a graduate of UCLA and the Columbia MFA program and a recipient of the 2011 Sirenland Fellowship as well as a Bomb magazine fiction prize. A former editor at Simon & Schuster, she wrote The Age of Miracles in the mornings before work.
Tickets $55
(includes lunch & a signed book)
Call (415) 927-0960, ext. 1 to reserve
Join us for lunch as Chris Cleave, the author of Little Bee, talks about his new novel Gold, which asks “What would you sacrifice for the people you love?” With heart-in-throat storytelling, with humanity and glorious prose, Cleave examines the values that lie at the heart of our most intimate relationships, and the choices we make when lives are at stake and everything is on the line.
Chris Cleave is the author of Incendiary and the #1 New York Times bestseller Little Bee. He lives with his wife and three children in Kingston-upon-Thames, England.
Book Passage hosts literary luncheons with celebrated authors at our Marin store. These events are catered by the outstanding Insalata’s Restaurant of San Anselmo.
Andrea Nguyen presents Asian Tofu: Discover the Best, Make Your Own, and Cook it at Home ($30.00), whose nearly 100 recipes explore the culinary spirit of East, Southeast, and South Asia. Included are favorites from Japan, Korea, Thailand, Singapore, and India, as well as delicious dishes from the United States. Tofu goodies will be provided by Delica Restaurant.
“This book is worth buying just for the glorious Tofu Chicken Meatballs in Lemongrass Broth. But it is full of other tofu wonders from up and down the East Asian coast such as Soft Tofu and Seafood Hotpot and Savory Tofu Pudding. It will find much use on my shelf.” — Madhur Jaffrey
“Andrea Nguyen’s exquisite book restores tofu to its proper place.” — Deborah Madison
Andrea Nguyen is one of the country’s leading voices on Asian cuisine and the author of the acclaimed Asian Dumplings and the James Beard – and IACP-nominated Into the Vietnamese Kitchen. She has written for Saveur magazine, where she is also a contributing editor, the Los Angeles Times, and many more publications.
Abrahm Lustgraten is an award-winning reporter for ProPublica and a former writer for Fortune. He covers energy and environmental topics, and is a winner of numerous prizes, including the George Polk Award for environmental reporting. He has appeared frequently in national media to discuss energy issues, including NPR's Fresh Air, Rachel Maddow, and Hardball with Chris Mathews. In 2004 Lustgarten recieved a grant from the MacArthur Foundation to support his international reporting in China and Tibet, a project that led to his first book, China's Great Train. He lives in San Francisco.
Please note this class now starts one week later (on July 19) than as listed in our newsletter!
Four Thursdays: July 19 - Aug. 9Indicative and Subjunctive:The first two classes will be dedicated to the sequence of tenses in the Indicative; the following two weeks to that of the Subjunctive. Challenging with much drill and conversation.
Dave Eggers visits Book Passage to sign copies of acclaimed new novel, A Hologram for the King (McSweeneys, $25.00). We are excited, as the reviews have been stunning: Carmela Ciuraru, writing in the San Francisco Chronicle, called Eggers' book “An extraordinary work of timely and provocative themes.... This novel reminds us that above all, Eggers is a writer of books, and a writer of the highest order….An outstanding achievement in Eggers's already impressive career, and an essential read.”
Please note: this is a booksigning only. If you cannot attend this special event and would like a signed 1st edition of A Hologram for the King, please follow < this link > and please note "signed 1st ed" in the comments field.
“Mr. Eggers uses a new, pared down, Hemingwayesque voice to recount his story... he demonstrates in Hologram that he is master of this more old-fashioned approach as much as he was a pioneering innovator with A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.... A comic but deeply affecting tale about one man’s travails that also provides a bright, digital snapshot of our times.” — Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Dave Eggers is the bestselling author of Zeitoun, winner of the American Book Award and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. His novel What Is the What was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won France’s Prix Medici.
A Pre-Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference Class
Crime fiction writers must learn to think like criminals. They must plot the perfect crime so that when their protagonist solves the caper, he or she will be a true hero. To do this the writer must answer several basic questions: What goes on in a criminal’s mind when he decides that some criminal activity is the only solution to his problems? What pushes him to act? What steps does he take to plan, commit, and attempt to get away with the crime? Where do his plans jump the tracks? In this lecture we will look at several famous crimes and attempt to gain some insight into what the criminal was thinking, the logic—or illogic—of his planning, and the fatal flaws that unraveled his best laid plans.
This class is part of the pre-conference events leading up to the Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference. The class is open to both conference participants and non-particpants, although conference participants receive a discount. To learn more about the conference, please visit this link.
A Pre-Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference Class
Almost everything you need to know about writing a great crime story can be learned from wisely analyzing this classic film. David Corbett will lead the class in a group analysis of the story to explore such techniques as: Charting the character arcs for the greatest dramatic impact; creating the exterior desire, the inner need and the "crisis of insight" that define a compelling hero; how to orchestrate the opposition from an offscreen villain; the love interest and her role in exposing the hero; employing "four-corner conflict" to create moral complexity; using secondary characters to flesh out major characters; the importance of a symbol system in intensifying your thematic concerns; and more. Student works will also be discussed to explore these same issues to examine how works-in-progress can be dramatically strengthened, thematically deepened, and better structured. (Class time will not permit a full viewing of the film, so students should reacquaint themselves with it before hand.)
This class is part of the pre-conference events leading up to the Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference. The class is open to both conference participants and non-particpants, although conference participants receive a discount. To learn more about the conference, please visit this link.
Two Pre-Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference Classes
Best Laid Plans: What Were They Thinking?
Crime
fiction writers must learn to think like criminals. They must plot the
perfect crime so that when their protagonist solves the caper, he or she
will be a true hero. To do this the writer must answer several basic
questions: What goes on in a criminal’s mind when he decides that some
criminal activity is the only solution to his problems? What pushes him
to act? What steps does he take to plan, commit, and attempt to get away
with the crime? Where do his plans jump the tracks? In this lecture we
will look at several famous crimes and attempt to gain some insight into
what the criminal was thinking, the logic—or illogic—of his planning,
and the fatal flaws that unraveled his best laid plans.
And
Voice: Whose Story Is It?
What is voice? How do you find it and what do you do with
it? In this class we will discover the sound, the rhythm, and the feel
of a writer’s most powerful tool, his or her voice.
These classes are part of the pre-conference events leading up to the Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference. The classes are open to both conference participants and non-particpants, although conference participants receive a discount. To learn more about the conference, please visit this link.
A Pre-Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference Class
What is voice? How do you find it and what do you do with it? In this class we will discover the sound, the rhythm, and the feel of a writer’s most powerful tool, his or her voice.
This class is part of the pre-conference events leading up to the Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference. The class is open to both conference participants and non-particpants, although conference participants receive a discount. To learn more about the conference, please visit this link.
Discover All the Clues for a Successful Career as a Mystery or Suspense Writer!
This year's participants will spend four event-filled days in beautiful Northern California writing, workshopping, networking, and perfecting their craft with a celebrated faculty featuring prize-winning authors including conference keynote speaker Don Winslow (New York Times bestselling author of Savages--adapted to film by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone, The Dawn Patrol, and the forthcoming The Kings of Cool: A Prequel to Savages); Cara Black (Author of the Aimée Leduc Investigation series); Tarquin Hall (Author of the Vish Puri mysteries); Karin Slaughter (Internationally bestselling author of the Grant County series) and others.
View the complete faculty list >>
The evening events with Tarquin Hall, Don Winslow, and Karin Slaughter are free and open to the public, although priority seating is reserved for conference participants.
Tarquin Hall has lived and worked throughout South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. He has also written dozens of articles and three works of nonfiction. He and his family live in Delhi.
Tarquin Hall is on the faculty of the 19th Annual Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference, which takes place July 19-22 at Book Passage. This event is part of the Conference. It is open to the public, though priority seating is reserved for Conference participants
Book Passage is thrilled to announce that the widely acclaimed, bestselling crime fiction writer Don Winslow will be the keynote speaker at the 2012 Mystery Writers Conference. Winslow is the author of the forthcoming The Kings of Cool: A Prequel to Savages ($25.00), due out from Simon & Schuster in June. Winslow’s new novel is being published to coincide with the release of the film adaption of Savages, directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone. Set to hit theaters in July, Stone’s widely anticipated film stars John Travolta, Blake Lively, Benecio Del Toro, Uma Thurman, Emile Hirsch, Taylor Kitsch, Aaron Johnson, and Salma Hayek.
In Savages, Winslow introduced Ben and Chon, twenty-something best friends who risk everything to save O, the girl they both love. Among the most celebrated literary thrillers in recent memory, Savages was selected as a Top 10 Book of 2010 by Janet Maslin in The New York Times and Stephen King in Entertainment Weekly, as well as other publications around the world. Now, in his high-octane prequel, Winslow reaches back in time to tell the story of how Ben, Chon, and O became the people they are. A series of breakneck twists and turns puts two generations on a collision course, culminating in a stunning showdown that will ultimately force them to choose between their real families and their love for each other.
Don Winslow is The New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels, including The Gentlemen’s Hour, Satori, The Dawn Patrol, The Winter of Frankie Machine, The Power of the Dog, California Fire and Life, and The Death and Life of Bobby Z.
The 19th Annual Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference takes place July 19-22 at Book Passage in Corte Madera, CA. This event is open to the public, though priority seating is
reserved for Conference participants.
Karin Slaughter is the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of twelve thrillers. She is a native of Georgia.
Karin Slaughter is on the faculty of the 19th Annual Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference, which takes place July 19-22 at Book Passage. This event is part of the Conference. It is open to the public, though priority seating is reserved for Conference participants
World Travel Tips: Plan Your Own Trip
Arctic and Antarctica
In part one of this six-class series, Rea will take you on a fascinating photographic journey contrasting these two remarkable regions. She'll share the beauty, flora, fauna and diverse habitas she discovered on her expeditions.
This registration is for Arctic and Antarctica only. Please click here to register for the entire series, or to select other individual installments.
Six Mondays: July 23 - August 27
Please note: This registration page is for the entire six-class series, which runs $130. If you do not wish to take the entire series, click on any of the individual sessions ($25 each) below to be taken to their registration pages. Take the full series and save!
July 23 Arctic and Antarctica
In part one, Rea will take you on a fascinating
photographic journey contrasting these two remarkable regions. She'll
share the beauty, flora, fauna and diverse habitas she discovered on her
expeditions.
July 30 Patagonia, Argentina & Chile
In
part two, see remote and scenic areas of the
world and stay in special Estancias and hotels in the region.
Aug. 6 Galapagos, Peru & Bolivia
In
part three, discover the best ways to access
Darwin's ecological discovery, the Incan treasures, the beauty of the
Andes and less traveled Bolivia with its rich Spanish colonial history.
Aug. 13 Africa: Beyond Safaris
In
part four, go beyond your average safari.
Learn about gorilla and chimpanzee tracking, climbing Kilimanjaro and
walking with lions.
Aug. 20 Southern Europe
In
part five, discover Rome, Florence, Paris,
Madrid, Barcelona and more. Organize an itinerary around art, culture,
food and wine.
Aug. 27 Northern Europe
In
part six, go from Germany to the Arctic,
Russia and Iceland. Learn the best way to get around and the highlights
that are not to be missed.
Rea Franjetic was born in Croatia, raised in South America and became part of her family's travel business. She is an avid photographer and leads unique small travel groups.
Anne Mendel grew up in Arkansas and attended Miss Ashleigh’s Charm School, where she learned absolutely nothing about dealing with disasters (unless breaking a high heel counts as a disaster). Before she began writing full time she used her Master’s Degree in Community Organizing to advocate for women and girls.
Building on the principles and tools discussed in Unstuff Your Life, this workshop offers participants one-to-one coaching and interaction with professional organizer Andrew Mellen. Jam-packed with useful tips, tools and suggestions, you will learn new skills to tackle anything from paper, mail and email to the sad, scary corner of your basement, attic or garage. You’ll leave with a clear action plan for budgeting time, managing your day, planning projects and living your passion and your values in everything you do.
Adrienne Kane presents United States of Pie: Regional Favorites from East to West and North to South ($24.99), a collection of heirloom American pies, including long-lost recipes and classic favorites, illustrated, and chock-full of time-tested baking tips and secrets for perfect pies including Meyer Lemon Cream Pie, Concord Grape Pie, and Burnt Sugar Meringue Pie.
United States of Pie was selected by National Public Radio (NPR) as one of the Top 10 Summer Cookbooks for 2012, and, it was just recently featurted on the radio - <listen here>. "The charming book offers pies that reflect the country's varying palates and personalities, from Concord Grape pie in New England to Hoosier Pie in the Midwest to Olallieberry in the Pacific Northwest...Pies like this make me proud to be American." - Marissa Rothkopf Bates
Adrienne Kane is the author of the memoir Cooking and Screaming and of the popular food blog www.nosheteria.com. She is a food writer, recipe developer, and food photographer whose work has appeared in Natural Health and Prevention and on Chow and foodandwine.com. Originally from the Bay Area, she now lives and cooks in New Haven, Connecticut.
The author of two previous novels, The Lace Makers of Glenmara, and Snow in July, Heather Barbieri has won international prizes for her short fiction. She lives in Seattle.
Eddie Campbell presents 44 Horrible Dates ($14.99). For anyone who knows what it's like to be on at least one crappy date, this book is for you. For everyone who wants that dinner back, this book is for you. For everyone who sat through a boring movie only to realize the person you were with was not your type, this book is for you.
“This book is a hilarious romp of true life (unfortunately). Read it to prepare for your next date!” -James Van Praagh, author of Talking to Heaven
Eddie Campbell was born and raised in Los Angeles. He has a bachelor's degree from USC Annenberg School of Communication and USC School of Cinema-Television. His background is in art direction for both TV and film, creative direction, and graphic design.
Nancy Mullane discusses Life After Murder: Five Men in Search of Redemption ($26.99). Once a murderer, always a murderer? Or can a murderer be redeemed? An award-winning journalist found herself facing these questions when she accepted an assignment to report on the exploding costs of incarceration.
Nancy Mullane develops, reports, and produces feature stories for Public Radio International’s This American Life, National Public Radio, and the NPR affiliate KALW News-Crosscurrents in San Francisco. With the support of the Open Society Foundation, she is producing a two-hour, four-part, radio documentary telling the stories of men and women convicted of murder which will air nationally in 2012. She is a member of the Society for Professional Journalists, the Association of Independents in Radio, and the International Women’s Media Foundation. In 2011, Nancy was the recipient of a National Edward R. Murrow Award.
Mark Haskell Smith presents Heart of Dankness: Underground Botanists, Outlaw Farmers, and the Race for the Cannabis Cup ($14.00). "A genially gonzo ride to the top of the cannabis world. Smith's prose crackles with unputdownable verve …. This book will change the way you look at the Cannabusiness." --Heather Donahue, author of Growgirl
Reporting for the Los Angeles Times on the international blind tasting competition held annually in Amsterdam known as the Cannabis Cup, novelist Mark Haskell Smith sampled a variety of marijuana that was unlike anything he’d experienced. It wasn’t anything like typical stoner weed, in fact it didn’t get you stoned. This cannabis possessed an ephemeral quality known to aficionados as “dankness.”
Armed with a State of California Medical Marijuana recommendation, he begins a journey into the international underground where super-high-grade marijuana is developed and tracks down the rag-tag community of underground botanists, outlaw farmers, and renegade strain hunters who pursue excellence and diversity in marijuana, defying the law to find new flavors, tastes, and effects. This unrelenting pursuit of dankness climaxes at the Cannabis Cup, which Haskell Smith vividly portrays as the Super Bowl/Mardi Gras of the world's largest cash crop.
Mark Haskell Smith is the author of four novels, Moist, Delicious, Salty, and Baked, and has written for film and televsion. A contributor to the Los Angeles Times and a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Review of Books, Smith is an assistant professor in the MFA program for Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts at the University of California, Riverside, Palm Desert Graduate Center.
Zoë Ferraris moved to Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of the first Gulf War to live with her then husband and his extended family of Saudi-Palestinian Bedouins. She has an MFA from Columbia University and is the author of two previous novels, Finding Nouf and City of Veils. She lives in San Francisco.
Jack Gibson has been on the board of directors of the Marin Municipal Water District since 1995. He is an avid historian, a former history teacher, and a practicing Marin County attorney.
Lawrence Baldassaro is a professor emeritus of Italian at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is the author of numerous articles on baseball, coeditor of The American Game: Baseball and Ethnicity, and editor of Ted Williams: Reflections on a Splendid Life.
Deanne Stillman is a widely published writer. Her books include Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West, a Los Angeles Times "Best Book 2008," and winner of the California Book Award silver medal for nonfiction, and Twentynine Palms: A True Story of Murder, Marines, and the Mojave, a Los Angeles Times "Best Book 2001" which Hunter Thompson called "A strange and brilliant story by an important American writer." Now a cult classic, it's out in a new, updated edition with a foreword by T. Jefferson Parker and preface by Charles Bowden
Colleen Morton Busch received her M.F.A. in poetry but writes and publishes fiction and nonfiction. A yoga student and Zen practitioner, Busch has worked as a college instructor-and as a magazine editor. Her work has appeared in Yoga Journal, where she was a senior editor, Tricycle: A Buddhist Review, the San Francisco Chronicle, Huffington Post, and numerous literary magazines.
World Travel Tips: Plan Your Own Trip
Patagonia, Argentina & Chile
In part two of this six-class series, see remote and scenic areas of the world and stay in special Estancias and hotels in the region.
This registration is for Patagona, Argentia & Chile only. Please click here to register for the entire series, or to select other individual installments.
Marianne Gage reads from The Putneyville Fables ($18.95). In today's world of collapsing economies and ecosystems, can the ageless wisdom of Aesop still apply? In her captivating new novel, Gage explores this question and bestows some timely wisdom of her own. Gage will be accompanied by actress Laurellee Westaway.
Marianne Gage is a San Francisco Bay Area artist, teacher, and writer. In the 50’s and 60’s she taught in the Oakland and Contra Costa County schools. Retiring from teaching, she worked as a portrait painter and printmaker for many years. With Plain View Press, she has published two novels. A third novel, about a woman portrait artist, is forthcoming.
Laurellee Westaway majored in theatre arts at UC Berkeley and graduated from The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in NYC. After acting in summer stock and Off-Broadway, she returned to the Bay Area and became a founding member of the One Act Theatre Company in San Francisco, performing there for thirteen years. She has recorded audio books and has appeared in episodic television and movies.
Six Wednesdays: August 1 to September 5
From the Hittites to Suleyman the Magnificent, we study her architecture, sculpture, paintings, mosaics and illustrated manuscripts , beginning with the archaeological museum in Ankara. After Hittite Yazilkaya it's off to Lycia, Pergamon, Ephesus, Aphrodisias, and to Constantinople where we study Hagia Sophia, and other Byzantine monuments, including the 14 century art in the Chora church. Highlights include the frescoes of Cappadocia ,and the caravansaries, and medrese of the Selcuk Turks .In Eastern Turkey we delight in the sculpture of the 10th century Church on Ahtamar Island and the megalomaniac Antiochus 'Nemrut Dag. We return to Istanbul for the splendid mosques of the architect Sinan, Topkaki Palace, and the Blue Mosque. Kerrin Meis has traveled extensively in Turkey and has taught classes in Byzantine and Islamic Art.
Madeline Levine, Ph.D., has been a practicing clinical psychologist in Marin County for the past twenty-five years. She is the author of Viewing Violence and See No Evil: A Guide to Protecting Our Children from Media Violence. A frequent lecturer on child and adolescent issues, she lives in California with her husband and three sons.
Ken Weaver presents The Northern California Craft Beer Guide ($21.95), the definitive handbook to the artistry, people, and culture of the region's craft beer scene. Encompassing breweries, beer bars, restaurants, bottle shops, and homebrew shops, this new book highlights the best the region has to offer. This event includes a beer tasting.
This special event, which includes an author talk, will take place in the Book Passage Cafe. Come raise a glass!
Ken Weaver is a beer writer, fiction writer, and technical editor based in Northern California. Previously, he has worked as a particle physicist, a renewable energy consultant, and a creative writing professor in a remote Miskito village in Nicaragua. He believes beer people are good people, and he's happy to be among them. Ken received his MFA in creative writing from the University of Maryland, and his M.S. in physics from Cornell. He's a Certified BJCP beer judge and a frequent contributor to All About Beer.
Gerald Chertavian is the founder and CEO of Year Up. He serves on the boards of Bowdoin College, the Boston Foundation, the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative, and the Massachusetts State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.
"LaSalle understands how women in French movies are allowed to be deeper, older, and more real than most Hollywood characters."—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Mick LaSalle has been the film critic for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1985. He is the author of Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood (2000) and Dangerous Men: Pre-Code Hollywood and the Birth of the Modern Man (2002), both of which were named "Book of the Month" by Turner Classic Movies. LaSalle has been a panelist at the Venice and Berlin Film Festivals and has served on the jury for the Cinema for Peace Gala in Berlin.
After the event, Mick LaSalle wrote about the event on his blog on SFGate.
Strategies, Tools and Choices
Today, the web is exploding with powerful (often FREE) tools you can use to develop author platform and promote and sell your books. But what are these tools? How work, and how do you choose the strategies and tools that are right for you and project? If you want to learn more about blogs, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, GoodReads, Pinterest, Google+ and more and how they can help you, this class is for you.
Judith Horstman is the author of The Scientific American Day in the Life of Your Brain, The Scientific American Brave New Brain, and The Scientific American Book of Love, Sex, and the Brain. She is an award-winning science journalist whose work has been widely published, and is the author of four other books.
Today, if you don’t have a web presence, you don’t exist. But how do you develop this presence, this site—your home on the web? What should it include and why? This course, in plain “author speak,” will take you “under the hood” of successful author blogs and blogsites and show you how they work and why. Even more, you will learn how to avoid the most common costly mistakes authors make and save yourself a lot of headaches, time and money!
M.L. Stedman reads from her debut novel The Light Between Oceans ($25.00), the story of a lighthouse keeper and his wife who make one devastating choice that forever changes two worlds. Stedman’s compelling characters, still trying to make sense of life in the wake of so much death in WWI, are imperfect people seeking to find their north star in a world of incomprehensible complexity.
M.L. Stedman was born and raised in Western Australia and now lives in London. The Light Between Oceans is the Indie Next List pick for August, 2012.
Michele Dunkerley presents Houses Made of Wood and Light: The Life and Architecture of Hank Schubart ($50.00). Schubart was regarded as a genius for finding the perfect site for a house and for integrating its design into the natural setting, so that his houses appear to be as native to the forest around them as the trees and rocks.
Michele Dunkerley was introduced to Schubart’s work in 2003. She drew on Schubart’s copious files and notes, as well as files at the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives and the Friedman Archives at the University of California, Berkeley, and interviews with family, clients, and contractors, to author this exploration of his life and works. Dunkerley is a business attorney whose current portfolio of work involves helping revitalize a historic downtown square.
Bring your laptop! Join blogger extraordinaire Sophie Epstein, from the young adult book blog MrsMagooReads.com and her mother Liz Epstein (LiteraryMasters.net) as they present a fun and friendly workshop where you will learn how to use Facebook and Twitter to promote your blog or business, or just to keep in touch with friends. Before leaving, you will create your own Facebook Page and your own Twitter account, and you will learn how to navigate them and how to link them to your existing (or future) blog or website.
Robert Holmes discusses A Traveller's Wine Guide to California ($22.00). This guidebook gives you everything you need to know when touring California’s beautiful wine country, including spectacular photography as well as easily-accessible information on such topics as The Winery Experience and The System of Classification and Grape Varieties.
Raymond Winery is co-sponsoring this special event: wine will be served.
Robert Holmes is an award-winning photographer and author. He has been named Travel Photographer of the Year by the Society of American Travel Writers for an unprecedented three years in 1990, 1992 and 2010. He has written four books and supplied the photographs for more than 40 others, the latest being Passion for Pinot.
World Travel Tips: Plan Your Own Trip
Galapagos, Peru & Bolivia
In part three of this six-class series, discover the best ways to access Darwin's ecological discovery, the Incan treasures, the beauty of the Andes and less traveled Bolivia with its rich Spanish colonial history.
This registration is for Galapagos, Peru & Bolivia only. Please click here to register for the entire series, or to select other individual installments.
Four Tuesdays: Aug. 7 - 28
We'll use prompts and experiments from Karen Benke's forthcoming book Leap Write In! Adventures in Creative Writing to s-t-r-e-t-c-h and surprise your one-of-a-kind mind. The focus will be on what's required to truly surprise ourselves and turn our wild lines into poems, mini memoirs, and imaginative sketches. Snacks included! Camp limited to 12 students.
Shakespearean actor Barry Kraft reads from The Complete Poems ($40.00) of Philip Larkin. Regarded as one of the great English poets of the latter half of the 20th century and called "the saddest heart in the post-war supermarket," Larkin (1922–1985) wrote of diminished expectations in work marked by a glum accuracy about emotions, places, and relationships.
Barry Kraft has been a professional actor for 45 years. He has acted in all 38 of Shakespeare's plays, playing more than 100 roles in 85 full productions. In addition to many seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, he has had seasons with San Diego’s Old Globe, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Utah Shakespearean, Marin Shakespeare, and A.C.T. Barry is also a dramaturg, guest lecturer, educator, an avid Chess and Go player, and a poetry lover.
A Pre-Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference Class
Join award-winning photographer Robert Holmes for a day in San Francisco. After meeting at Book Passage in Corte Madera, the group will take the ferry to San Francisco and head to North Beach to photograph and document one of the city’s most colorful and historic neighborhoods. Participants will return to Book Passage to review the day and look at some of the photographs taken by participants. Digital cameras are recommended so that participants can get instant feedback at the end of the day. Lunch and round-trip ferry ticket included. Enrollment is limited.
This class is part of the pre-conference events leading up to the Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference. The class is open to both conference participants and non-particpants, although conference participants receive a discount. To learn more about the conference, please visit this link.
A Pre-Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference Class
Join National Geographic Traveler writer and editor at large Don George for a day of exploration and travel writing around San Francisco Bay. This group will meet at Book Passage in Corte Madera at 9:00 am and take the ferry to the historic Ferry Building. Don will talk about the art of finding, researching and writing travel stories, then participants will continue to S.F.’s lively and atmospheric North Beach, where they will take a short guided group walk led by Don. After that, they will be let loose to find their own stories before reconvening for lunch to discuss what they found. After lunch each participant will write a short piece based on the day’s discoveries. The group will then return to Book Passage, where they’ll meet workshop-style to enjoy and evaluate each other’s literary creations. Lunch and roundtrip ferry ticket included. Enrollment is limited.
This class is part of the pre-conference events leading up to the Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference. The class is open to both conference participants and non-particpants, although conference participants receive a discount. To learn more about the conference, please visit this link.
Roger Housden grew up in the Cotswolds on the edge of Bath, in England. He has led contemplative journeys all over the world, and has been a freelance writer for The Guardian newspaper and an interviewer for the BBC. Housden is the author of numerous books on poetry, art, and travel, including the bestselling Ten Poems series, as well as the novella Chasing Rumi. Since 1998, he has made his home in Sausalito.
Tickets $10
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Peter Greenberg is the travel editor for CBS News, and appears on The Early Show and CBS Evening News. He is a New York Times bestselling author, travel expert, Chief Contributing Editor for Michelin Travel, and contributing editor to Men’s Health, and has been a featured guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The View, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, and Larry King Live. He is also the author of the recently released The Best Places for Everything: The Ultimate Insider's Guide to the Greatest Experiences Around the World ($19.99), an all-access pass to the most unique, inspiring, and life-changing experiences on Earth.
Peter Greenberg will be in conversation with Phil Cousineau. Peter Greenberg and Phil Cousineau are on the faculty of the 21st Annual Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference, which takes place August 9-12 at Book Passage. This event is part of the Conference. Tickets are $10.00 for the public, free for conference participants.
Tickets $10
Call (415) 927-0960, ext. 1 to reserve
Actor, director, and travel writer Andrew McCarthy is a two-time Lowell Thomas Award winner, and was named the SATW Foundation 2010 Travel Journalist of the Year. He has twice been cited for “notable” work in the Best American Travel series, and is a contributing editor at National Geographic Traveler. His travel writing has also appeared in Travel+Leisure, Afar, Men’s Journal, Islands, National Geographic Adventure. His forthcoming book is The Longest Way Home: One Man's Quest for the Courage to Settle Down ($26.00).
Andrew McCarthy will be in conversation with Don George. Andrew McCarthy and Don George are on the faculty of the 21st Annual Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference, which takes place August 9-12 at Book Passage. This event is part of the Conference. Tickets are $10.00 for the public, free for conference participants.
