Events

« July 10 2012 - September 08 2012 »

07 / 10 Stephanie Lucianovic - Suffering Succotash: A Picky Eater's Quest to Understand Why We Hate the Foods We Hate Start: 6:00 pm Marin Poetry Center - Summer Traveling Show Start: 7:00 pm
07 / 11 Class: Laura Deutsch - Mapping Out Your Memoir Start: 3:30 pm End: 5:30 pm Priscilla Gilman - The Anti-Romantic Child: A Memoir of Unexpected Joy EVENT CANCELLED Start: 6:00 pm Manuel Roig-Franzia - The Rise of Marco Rubio Start: 6:00 pm Class: Albert DeSilver - The Mindful Writer: Practices for Great Writing & a Great Life Start: 6:30 pm End: 8:30 pm Brian Doyle and Gerald Asher read from their work Start: 7:00 pm
07 / 12 Marcus Samuelsson - Cooks with Books: YES, CHEF with Traci Des Jardins EVENT SOLD OUT Start: 12:00 pm Marcus Samuelsson - YES, CHEF Start: 6:00 pm Carlos Ruiz Zafón with Isabel Allende - The Prisoner of Heaven Start: 7:00 pm
07 / 13 Joshua Henkin - The World Without You Start: 1:00 pm Julie Otsuka - Buddha In the Attic Start: 6:00 pm Jennifer Woodlief - A Bolt from the Blue: An Epic Story of Danger, Daring, and Heroism at 13,000 Feet Start: 7:00 pm
07 / 14 Class: Laura Deutsch - How to Write for Magazines Start: 10:00 am End: 1:00 pm Sean Meshorer - The Bliss Experiment: 28 Days to Personal Transformation Start: 1:00 pm Class: Virginia Simpson-Magruder - Express Yourself: The Art of Altered Books Start: 1:00 pm End: 4:00 pm Class: Cynthia Pepper - Intro to the Short Film Start: 1:30 pm End: 4:30 pm Linda Fairstein - Night Watch Start: 7:00 pm
07 / 15 Class: Sophie & Liz Epstein - Hands-On Social Media Workshop for Beginners Start: 1:00 pm End: 2:30 pm Ronda Giangreco - The Gathering Table: Defying Multiple Sclerosis With a Year of Pasta, Wine & Friends Start: 1:00 pm Class: Karen Benke - Experimental Writing Circle for Boys & Girls Entering Sixth Grade Start: 1:00 pm End: 3:00 pm Douglas Brinkley - Cronkite Start: 3:30 pm Valerie Coleman Morris - It's Your Money So Take it Personally Start: 4:00 pm Aminta Arrington - Home is a Roof Over a Pig: An American Family's Journey in China Start: 7:00 pm
07 / 16 Class: Genevieve Blaise-Sullivan - Conversation Course in French Start: 10:30 am End: 1:00 pm Class: Wendy Walsh - Beginning Italian Review Start: 1:30 pm End: 4:00 pm King John: The best Shakespeare play you've never seen? Start: 7:00 pm
07 / 17 Class: Wendy Walsh - 2nd Year Italian Review Start: 9:30 am End: 12:30 pm Class: Wendy Walsh - Intermediate Italian Verb Review Start: 1:00 pm End: 3:30 pm Carissa Phelps - Runaway Girl: Escaping Life on the Streets, One Helping Hand at a Time Start: 6:00 pm Karen Thompson Walker - The Age of Miracles Start: 7:00 pm
07 / 18 Literary Luncheon with Chris Cleave, Author of Little Bee Start: 12:00 pm Andrea Nguyen - Asian Tofu: Discover the Best, Make Your Own, and Cook it at Home Start: 6:00 pm Abrahm Lustgarten - Run to Failure: BP and the Making of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster Start: 7:00 pm
07 / 19 Class: Wendy Walsh - Advanced Italian Review of Verb Sequences Start: 9:30 am End: 12:30 pm Dave Eggers - A Hologram for the King Start: 12:00 pm D.P. Lyle - Two Pre-Conference Crime Writing Classes Start: 1:00 pm End: 3:30 pm D.P. Lyle - Pre-Conference Class: Best Laid Plans: What Were They Thinking? Start: 1:00 pm End: 2:10 pm David Corbett - Pre-Conference Class: Deconstructing Chinatown Start: 1:00 pm End: 3:30 pm D.P. Lyle - Pre-Conference Class: Voice: Whose Story Is It? Start: 2:20 pm End: 3:30 pm Mystery Writers Conference Start: 3:30 pm Tarquin Hall - The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken Start: 7:30 pm
07 / 20 Don Winslow - Keynote Speaker at the 2012 Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference Start: 7:30 pm
07 / 21 Karin Slaughter - Criminal Start: 6:30 pm
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07 / 23 Class: Rea Franjetic - Arctic and Antarctica Start: 10:00 am End: 11:30 am Class: Rea Franjetic - World Travel Tips: Plan Your Own Trip Start: 10:00 am End: 11:30 am Class: Andrew Mellen - Unstuff Your Life Start: 5:30 pm End: 8:30 pm Anne Mendel - Etiquette for an Apocalypse Start: 7:00 pm
07 / 24 Class: Andrew Mellen - Unstuff Your Life: Advanced Edition Start: 5:30 pm End: 8:30 pm Adrienne Kane - United States of Pie: Regional Favorites from East to West and North to South Start: 6:00 pm Heather Barbieri - The Cottage at Glass Beach Start: 7:00 pm
07 / 25 Eddie Campbell - 44 Horrible Dates Start: 6:00 pm Nancy Mullane - Life After Murder: Five Men in Search of Redemption Start: 7:00 pm
07 / 26 Mark Haskell Smith - Heart of Dankness: Underground Botanists, Outlaw Farmers, and the Race for the Cannabis Cup Start: 6:00 pm Jack Gibson - Mount Tamalpais and the Marin Municipal Water District Start: 7:00 pm Zoë Ferraris - Kingdom of Strangers Start: 7:00 pm
07 / 27 Lawrence Baldassaro - Beyond DiMaggio: Italian Americans in Baseball Start: 7:00 pm
07 / 28 Deanne Stillman - Desert Reckoning: A Town Sheriff, a Mojave Hermit, and the Biggest Manhunt in Modern California History Start: 7:00 pm
07 / 29 Class: Cheryl McLaughlin - Twitter Strategies for Authors Start: 10:00 am End: 4:00 pm Colleen Morton Busch - Fire Monks: Zen Mind Meets Wildfire Start: 4:00 pm
07 / 30 Class: Rea Franjetic - Patagonia, Argentina & Chile Start: 10:00 am End: 11:30 am
07 / 31 Marianne Gage - The Putneyville Fables Start: 6:00 pm
08 / 1 Class: Kerrin Meis - Exploring the Art of Turkey: A Mini-Cultural Feast Start: 2:00 pm End: 3:45 pm Madeline Levine - Teach Your Children Well: Parenting for Authentic Success Start: 7:00 pm
08 / 2 Ken Weaver - The Northern California Craft Beer Guide Start: 6:00 pm Gerald Chertavian - A Year Up: How A Pioneering Program Teaches Young Adults Real Skills for Real Jobs - With Real Success Start: 7:00 pm
08 / 3 Mick LaSalle - The Beauty of the Real: What Hollywood Can Learn from Contemporary French Actresses Start: 7:00 pm
08 / 4 Class: Cheryl McLaughlin - Online Marketing for Authors Start: 10:00 am End: 1:00 pm Class: Kate Hopper - Use Your Words Start: 10:00 am End: 12:30 pm Judith Horstman - The Scientific American Healthy Aging Brain: The Neuroscience of Making the Most of Your Mature Mind Start: 1:00 pm Class: Lewis Buzbee - Writing for Young Readers Start: 1:00 pm End: 4:00 pm Class: Cheryl McLaughlin - Create Your Buzz-Kicking Blog for Beginners Start: 2:00 pm End: 5:00 pm M.L. Stedman - The Light Between Oceans Start: 4:00 pm
08 / 5 Class: Cheryl McLaughlin - How to Build Your Author Platform: The Road Map Start: 10:00 am End: 4:00 pm Michele Dunkerley - Houses Made of Wood and Light: The Life and Architecture of Hank Schubart Start: 1:00 pm Class: Sophie & Liz Epstein - Hands-On Social Media Workshop for Beginners Start: 1:00 pm End: 2:30 pm Robert Holmes - A Traveller's Wine Guide to California Start: 4:00 pm
08 / 6 Class: Rea Franjetic - Galapagos, Peru & Bolivia Start: 10:00 am End: 11:30 am Left Coast Writers: Daniel Riviera Start: 7:00 pm
08 / 7 Class: Karen Benke - Leap Write In! Experimental Writing Camp for the Middle School Crowd Start: 3:00 pm End: 5:00 pm Barry Kraft - An Evening of Philip Larkin's Poetry and Prose Start: 7:00 pm
08 / 8 Robert Holmes - Pre-Conference Class: Photography Field Workshop Start: 9:00 am End: 5:00 pm Don George - Pre-Conference Class: Travel Writing Intensive Start: 9:00 am End: 5:00 pm Roger Housden - Saved by Beauty: Adventures of an American Romantic in Iran Start: 7:00 pm
08 / 9 An Evening with Peter Greenberg Start: 8:00 pm
08 / 10 An Evening with Andrew McCarthy Start: 8:30 pm
08 / 11 Oksana Marafioti - American Gypsy Start: 7:30 pm An Evening with Susan Orlean Start: 8:30 pm
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08 / 13 Class: Rea Franjetic - Africa: Beyond Safaris Start: 10:00 am End: 11:30 am Left Coast Writers® Book Launch: Erin Byrne & Contributors Start: 6:00 pm
08 / 14 Jennie Fields - The Age of Desire Start: 7:00 pm
08 / 15 Dustin Thomason - 12.21 Start: 6:00 pm
08 / 16 Class: Laura Deutsch - Starting Your Memoir Start: 3:30 pm End: 5:30 pm
08 / 17 Laura Lippman - And When She Was Good Start: 7:00 pm
08 / 18 Class: Cheryl McLaughlin - Getting "Eyes" for Your Blog, Book or Website Start: 10:00 am End: 4:00 pm Literary Luncheon with Gail Tsukiyama Start: 12:00 pm Left Coast Writers® Book Launch: Marianne Betterly Start: 7:00 pm
08 / 19 Class: Cheryl McLaughlin - Create Your Facebook Fan Page Start: 10:00 am End: 4:00 pm Fault Lines group poetry reading Start: 4:00 pm
08 / 20 Class: Graciela Pera - Spanish II Start: 10:00 am End: 12:00 pm Class: Rea Franjetic - Southern Europe Start: 10:00 am End: 11:30 am Selden Edwards - The Lost Prince Start: 7:00 pm
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08 / 23 Class: Graciela Pera - Beginning Spanish Plus Start: 10:00 am End: 12:00 pm Class: Leslie Keenan - You Can Complete That Book Start: 6:30 pm End: 8:30 pm
08 / 24 Class: Graciela Pera - Spanish Conversation Start: 10:00 am End: 12:00 pm San Francisco Writers Grotto - 3 minute reads Start: 6:00 pm Daniel Wolff - The Fight For Home: How (Parts Of) New Orleans Came Back Start: 7:00 pm
08 / 25 Class: Amy Novesky - On-the-Spot Children's Writing Workshop Start: 10:00 am End: 2:00 pm Erich Origen - Don't Let the Republican Drive the Bus! Start: 11:00 am Tamara Greenberg - When Someone You Love Has a Chronic Illness: Hope and Help for Those Providing Support Start: 12:00 pm Susan Kirsch and Jane Mellor - Poetry Reading Start: 1:00 pm Stephanie Marohn - What the Animals Taught Me: Stories of Love and Healing from a Farm Animal Sanctuary Start: 3:00 pm Dietrich Stroeh - Three Months: A Caregiving Journey from Heartbreak to Healing Start: 6:00 pm Marty Brounstein - Two Among the Righteous Few: A Story of Courage Start: 7:00 pm
08 / 26 Louis Breger - Psychotherapy: Lives Intersecting Start: 12:00 pm Gerald and Janice Haslam - In Thought and Action: The Enigmatic Life of S.I. Hayakawa Start: 1:00 pm Joy Reichard - Celebrate the Divine Feminine - RESCHEDULED Start: 3:00 pm Lian Gouw - Only a Girl Start: 4:00 pm Peter Fairfield - Deep Happy: How to Get There and Always Find Your Way Back Start: 6:00 pm Jean Symmes - A Daughter's Inheritance Start: 7:00 pm
08 / 27 Class: Rea Franjetic - Northern Europe Start: 10:00 am End: 11:30 am Gregg Hurwitz - The Survivor Start: 7:00 pm
08 / 28 Robert Hass - What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World Start: 7:00 pm
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09 / 1 Rebecah Freeling - Puppet Show for Preschoolers Start: 11:00 am Louise Penny - The Beautiful Mystery: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Start: 4:00 pm Ann Garrett - Art in the Gallery Start: 10:00 pm
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09 / 4 Class: Gisella Petrone - Italian 5th Year Start: 10:00 am End: 11:45 am Class: Hamid Emami - German Conversation Start: 1:00 pm End: 3:00 pm "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and the Spirit of Aloha Start: 7:00 pm Left Coast Writers® Literary Salon Presents Claudia Sternbach Start: 7:00 pm
09 / 5 Class: Gisella Petrone - Italian 3rd Year Start: 11:30 am End: 1:15 pm Jane Hodges - Rent vs. Own: A Real Estate Reality Check for Navigating Booms, Busts, and Bad Advice Start: 6:00 pm Amanda Coplin - The Orchardist Start: 7:00 pm
09 / 6 Jonathan Kozol - Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America Start: 12:00 pm Class: Gisella Petrone - Italian Beginning Start: 1:15 pm End: 3:00 pm
09 / 7 Laurie R. King - Garment of Shadows Start: 7:00 pm
09 / 8 Geoffrey Nunberg - Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years Start: 1:00 pm Jonathan and Margaret Kathrein - Surviving the Shark: How a Brutal Great White Attack Turned a Surfer into a Dedicated Defender of Sharks Start: 4:00 pm Clint Wilder - Clean Tech Nation: How the U.S. Can Lead in the New Global Economy Start: 7:00 pm Left Coast Writers® Book Launches Presents Jerry Parrick - Beyond Animal, Ego and Time Start: 7:00 pm

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