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Percival Everett at City Lights

  • Percival Everett
  • December 5, 2011
Percival Everett, a professor of English at the University of Southern California and the author of sixteen books (including Wounded, American...
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Spencer Tracy biographer talks shop, new book

One of Spencer Tracy's first acting roles was as a robot in Karel Čapek's R.U.R. (1922). That small part in a Broadway play was followed by...
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Intergenerational Writers Lab collective book launch party at Intersection for the Arts, July 7

Intersection for the Arts is San Francisco's oldest alternative, nonprofit art space (established in 1965!) and has a long, long history of...
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So you think you are the next Dr. Seuss? Children's book writing and illustrating workshop, June 26

The Best Advice I Ever Received: Dr. Seuss (By Kelly N Patterson) Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better....
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Andrew Beahrs reads from his new culinary history novel, Twain's Feast, June 24, Berkeley

“Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes are made, not born. I might...
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Local author Dave Eggers @ the Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, June 6

I have to confess, I have a crush on local author, Dave Eggers. Not so much for his best-selling clever memoir, “A Heartbreaking Work of...
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Tea with local bestselling author Tiffany Baker, May 29, Hayward Main Library

This Saturday, May 29th, at 2 pm, Hayward Main Library is hosting afternoon tea with Tiffany Baker, author of the bestselling novel The Little...
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Poet Chris Buckley reads at Cal State East Bay Distinguished Writers Series on May 25, 7 pm

Christopher Buckley, the poet, (not the conservative!!!), will read from his new collection, “Rolling the Bones,” at the Cal State East...
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Fourteen Hills literary magazine spring 2010 release party in the Mission, May 21

Fourteen Hills is San Francisco State University's internationally acclaimed literary magazine which publishes innovative poetry, fiction,...
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Map out your route to a dream profession in travel writing at the Writing Salon, May 15, 10 - 4 pm

Do you love to travel? Keep a travel journal? Why not take the next step and turn your daily scribbles into salable articles? You can do this by...
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