Poet and former Stegner Fellow Ari Banias will be reading from Anybody. Stanford University (Hopkins Marine Station, Boat Works Lecture Hall) in Pacific Grove at 12 p.m. Green Apple Books on the Park in San Francisco at 7:30 p.m.įriday 10/5: Curious about the future of nature conservation? Come for a talk by Heather Tallis, Global Managing Director and a lead scientist for strategy innovation for The Nature Conservancy. City Lights Booksellers in San Francisco at 7 p.m.ĭon’t miss a chance to meet both author and translator! Join Man Booker International Prizewinners Olga Tokarczuk and Jennifer Croft as they discuss Flights.
Thursday 10/4: Join writer, conceptual artist, and activist John Sims as he releases his multimedia poem chapbook, A Blazing Grace and the AfroDixieRemixes: The San Francisco Session. The Bindery in San Francisco at 7:30 p.m. Grande will be in conversation with Carolina De Robertis. Grande’s newest book documents her story as a first-generation Latina university student and aspiring writer. Join Reyna Grande for the San Francisco launch of her new memoir, A Dream Called Home. (free for Mechanics’ Institute members, Alta Magazine subscribers, and friends of ZYZZYVA.
Mechanics’ Institute Library in San Francisco at 6:30 p.m. Ulin will be in conversation with ZYZZYVA Managing Editor Oscar Villalon. Ulin will be discussing The Lost Art of Reading: Books and Resistance in a Troubled Time. How does fake news affect our reading? Former LA Times book critic David L. Palo Alto High School in Palo Alto at 7 p.m. Will he survive? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.Wednesday 10/3: What was it like growing up in the shadow of Steve Jobs? Join Lisa Brennan-Jobs as she reads from Small Fry. A highly refined banker, an unconventional relationship results in blackmail ruinous bank politics end his career. Will he withstand the gales that are sweeping through his life? Will he atone for his past dishonesty and be reconciled with those he loves? Or will he too succumb to the Russian wolves? Alexander must reconcile his mother's elusive past with his present life. An ex-lover is dying of AIDS and offers Alexander his business, an art dealership that Alexander would love. However, he is blackmailed over an unconventional relationship and loses his job while piecing together Tatiana's suicide and family secrets. Ignoring Tatiana's gifts, Alexander has become an international banker and leads a comfortable life in San Francisco. Alexander sees himself as fragile confronting Tatiana's past is a daunting task. Although Alexander inherited many of Tatiana's gifts, he wonders if Tatiana's bequest includes insanity. Tatiana's imagination kept her past at bay until insanity-the Russian wolves- took her and unleashed Alexander's mental breakdown. Alexander adored his mother, Tatiana, an exotic and magical woman.
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