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San Jose memoir

Brothers in conversation: Geoffrey and Tobias Wolff

  • Geoffrey Wolff
  • May 1, 2012
Wednesday's in conversation with Geoffrey Wolff was a family affair. BrothersGeoffrey and Tobias Wolff invited Andrew Altschul, SJSU CLA...
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An Argentine Honeymoon

At eighteen, Leora Marie Boessen leaves her school-teaching job and her Oregon home to marry Claude Banning, a grade school friend. The next day...
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Julia Scheeres Reading and Book Signing: San Jose

Julia Scheeres is the New York Times bestselling author of Jesus Land and A Thousand Lives. A Thousand Lives is the vivid and memorable portrait of...
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Gauchos & Gumption: Lovely memoir by Santa Cruz author Lynna Banning

At eighteen, Leora Marie Boessen leaves her school-teaching job and her Oregon home to marry Claude Banning, a grade school friend. The next day...
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Keeping it all inside

KEEPING IT ALL INSIDEImagine an individual who wants his life story written but wants no one to read it. Such was my first client as a biographer...
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Relaunching Forever Remembered

I have recently launched my workshop, Forever Remembered, for the second time at the Fior d’Italia restaurant.For six Saturday afternoons,...
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The people who come to Forever Remembered

A month ago in early June I gave a talk at the UCSF Cancer Resource Center's Art in Recovery Program. This program is a creative outlet for...
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Braving a Storm at Il Cenacolo

A three-year-old boy stands alone under a tree atop a knoll overlooking a valley. A storm gathers overhead, its gray clouds lower, thrashing the...
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How to bring drama to your life story

Recently I gave a talk at Cypress Lawn Heritage Foundation in Colma, California. Like many of the cemeteries south of San Francisco, Cyprus Lawn...
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What Danny Wants

Yesterday I interviewed a man who wants me to write a book about his family and the family business, a restaurant.Youngish, 30 something, trim and...
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