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JANUARY AND FEBRUARY AUTHOR EVENTS
Welcome to The Booksmith calendar of author events. Our readings/
booksignings are a great opportunity to meet an author, hear them read
from their work, or purchase an autographed copy of their latest book.
As always, our events are free and open to the public.
We're a bit late with sending out our January Calendar, as you may
have noticed! However, we have two great events still to come in
January.
The Booksmith is located at 1644 Haight Street (between Clayton &
Cole) in San Francisco's historic Haight Ashbury neighborhood. Call us
at 415-863-8688 or check our information page at www.booksmith.com for
directions and a map to the store.
If you are unable to attend an event and are interested in purchasing
a signed book (available at no extra charge), please please give us a
call Tues- Friday at 415-863-8688 and ask for Christy, or contact us
via email at re...@booksmith.com. We're happy to hold a book or ship it
to you.
__
JANUARY EVENTS
TODD MCCAFFREY
reading & booksigning for Dragon Harper
Tuesday, January 8 - this one has passed, but we have signed stock
Bestselling author Anne McCaffrey has dazzled audiences with her
tales of the Dragonriders of Pern, one of the most popular science
fiction series of all time. Recently, her son Todd McCaffrey has
delved into the Pern universe with his own Pern novel and through two
collaborations with his mother. Now, in Dragon Harper (hardback,
$25.95), Anne and Todd spin a tale of a mysterious illness that may
succeed in doing what centuries of Threadfall could not: kill every
last human on Pern.
Todd McCaffrey is the bestselling author of the Dragonsblood, as well
as Dragon's Kin and Dragon's Fire, which he co-wrote with his mother,
the legendary fantasy author Anne McCaffrey. A computer engineer, Todd
currently lives in Los Angeles. Having grown up in Ireland with the
epic of the Dragonriders of Pern, he is bursting with ideas for new
stories of that worl and its people.
ROBERT HASS
reading & booksigning for Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005
Tuesday, January 22 at 7 pm
RESCHEDULED FROM NOVEMBER: Robert Hass is a poet of great
eloquence, clarity, and force whose work is rooted in the landscapes
of his native Northern California. Widely read and much honored, he
has brought the kind of energy in his poetry to his work as an
essayist, translator, and activist. Time and Materials: Poems
1997-2005 (hardback, $22.95) - his first new collection in a decade -
is grounded in the beauty and dynamics of the physical world, and in
the bafflement of the present moment in American culture.
Robert Hass was born in San Francisco and lives in Berkeley, where he
teaches at the University of California. Hass served as Poet Laureate
of the United States from 1995 to 1997. A MacArthur Fellow , a two-
time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the recent
winner of the National Book Award, he has published poems, literary
essays, and translations.
HEIDI JULAVITS
reading & booksigning for The Uses of Enchantment
Friday, January 25 at 7 pm
In late afternoon on November 7, 1985, sixteen-year-old Mary Veal
was abducted after field hockey practice at her all-girl New England
prep school. Or was she? Heidi Julavits' new novel, The Uses of
Enchantment (softcover, $13.95) - which is just out in paperback,
weaves a provocative spell in which the reader sees how the
extraordinary power of a young woman's sexuality, and the desire to
wield it, have a devastating effect on all involved.
Heidi Julavits is the author of two previous novels, The Mineral
Palace and The Effect of Living Backwards, as well as a collaborative
book, Hotel Andromeda. She is a founding editor of The Believer, and
her writings have appeared in The New York Times, Esquire, Time, and
McSweeney's. She lives in Manhattan and Maine.
FEBRUARY AUTHOR EVENTS
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN
reading & booksigning for Riding Toward Everywhere
Thursday, February 8 at 7:00 pm
William T. Vollmann has investigated humanity's obsession with
violence (Rising Up and Rising Down), taken a personal look into the
hearts and minds of the poor (Poor People), and now turns his
attentions to America, to our romanticizing of "freedom" and the ways
in which we restrict the very liberties we profess to admire. Riding
Toward Everywhere is the new book from the National Book Award winning
author of Europe Central.
William T. Vollmann is the author of seven novels; three collections
of stories; a seven-volume critique of violence, Rising Up and Rising
Down (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award); and Poor
People, an examination of poverty. His most recent novel, Europe
Central, won the National Book Award in 2005. He has also won the PEN
Center USA West Award for Fiction, a Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize, and
a Whiting Writers' Award. No other writer has appeared more often at
The Booksmith as has this acclaimed California author.
DINAW MENGESTU
reading & booksigning for The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Wednesday, February 13 at 7:00 pm
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, by Dinaw Mengestu, is a deeply
affecting novel about what it means to lose a family and a country -
and what it takes to create a new home. "This first novel, by an
Ethiopian-American, sings of the immigrant experience, an old American
story that people renew every generation, but it sings in an
existential key...His straightforward language and his low-key voice
combine to make a compelling narrative." - Alan Cheuse
Dinaw Mengestu was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1978. In 1980, he
immigrated to the United States with his mother and sister, joining
his father, who had fled Ethiopia during the Red Terror. He is a
graduate of Georgetown University and Columbia University's MFA
program in fiction and the recipient of a 2006 fellowship in fiction
from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
BETH LISICK
reading & booksigning for Helping Me Help Myself
Tuesday, February 19 at 7:00 pm
From Bay Area favorite Beth Lisick, author of Everybody into the Pool,
comes Helping Me Help Myself - the engaging and often-humorous story
of one skeptic (the author), ten self-help gurus (John Gray, Richard
Simmons, Stephen R. Covey, Jack Canfield, etc....), and a year spent
trying to improve one's self. The author doesn't think of herself as a
victim of the self-help movement. But is she?
Beth Lisick, author of the New York Times bestselling book Everybody
into the Pool, is also a performer and odd-jobs enthusiast. Her
writing has appeared in numerous publications and anthologies
including Best American Poetry, the Christian Science Monitor, and
Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Movement. She has
contributed to public radio's This American Life and is the cofounder
of the monthly Porchlight storytelling series in San Francisco.
CHARLES BOCK
reading & booksigning for Beautiful Children
Wednesday, February 20 at 7:00 pm
In his debut novel, Charles Bock mixes incandescent prose with devious
humor in capturing life in contemporary Las Vegas. And in doing so,
the author provides a glimpse into a microcosm of modern America.
Beautiful Children is an odyssey of heartache and redemption -
heralding the arrival of a major new writer. "Beautiful Children
careens from the seedy to the beautiful, the domestic to the epic, all
with huge and exacting heart." - Jonathan Safran Foer
Charles Bock was born in Las Vegas, Nevada. He has an MFA from
Bennington College and has received fellowships from Yaddo, UCross,
and the Vermont Studio Center. He lives in New York City. Visit the
author's website at www.beautifulchildren.net.
CHARLES BAXTER
reading & booksigning for The Soul Thief
Thursday, February 21 at 7:00 pm
Charles Baxter - the acclaimed author of The Feast of Love - now gives
us one of his most beautifully wrought and unexpected novels. The Soul
Thief is a work of fiction at once lyrical and eerie, acutely
observant in its sensual and emotional detail, and audaciously
metaphysical in its underpinnings. The Soul Thief is a brilliant novel
- one that is certain to expand both his already-stellar reputation
and ever-growing readership.
Charles Baxter is the author of eight previous works of fiction,
including Saul and Patsy, The Feast of Love (nominated for the
National Book Award and recently released as a film), Through the
Safety Net, and Believers. He has also authored books of poetry and
the art of writing.
PHILIP FRADKIN
reading & booksigning for Wallace Stegner and the American West
Tuesday, February 26 at 7:00 pm
As a writer and novelist, as the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning
Angle of Repose and National Book Award winning The Spectator Bird, as
a teacher and founder of the Stanford Creative Writing Program, and as
an advocate of the Western landscape, Wallace Stegner has few equals.
Philip Fradkin's new biography, Wallace Stegner and the American West,
is the definitive account of one of the most acclaimed and admired
writers, teachers, and conservationists of our time.
Philip L. Fradkin shared the Pulitzer Prize as a reporter for the Los
Angeles Times and was western editor of Audubon magazine. He is the
author of ten previous books, including The Great Earthquake and
Firestorms of 1906: How San Francisco Nearly Destroyed Itself and
Stagecoach: Wells Fargo and the American West. He lives on the coast
north of San Francisco.
__
The Booksmith is located at 1644 Haight Street (between Clayton &
Cole) in San Francisco's historic Haight Ashbury neighborhood. Call us
at 415-863-8688 or check our information page at www.booksmith.com for
directions and a map to the store.
If you are unable to attend an event and are interested in purchasing
a signed book (available at no extra charge), please please give us a
call Tues- Friday at 415-863-8688 and ask for Christy, or contact us
via email at re...@booksmith.com. We're happy to hold a book or ship it
to you.
Welcome to The Booksmith calendar of author events. Our readings/
booksignings are a great opportunity to meet an author, hear them read
from their work, or purchase an autographed copy of their latest book.
As always, our events are free and open to the public.
We're a bit late with sending out our January Calendar, as you may
have noticed! However, we have two great events still to come in
January.
The Booksmith is located at 1644 Haight Street (between Clayton &
Cole) in San Francisco's historic Haight Ashbury neighborhood. Call us
at 415-863-8688 or check our information page at www.booksmith.com for
directions and a map to the store.
If you are unable to attend an event and are interested in purchasing
a signed book (available at no extra charge), please please give us a
call Tues- Friday at 415-863-8688 and ask for Christy, or contact us
via email at re...@booksmith.com. We're happy to hold a book or ship it
to you.
__
JANUARY EVENTS
TODD MCCAFFREY
reading & booksigning for Dragon Harper
Tuesday, January 8 - this one has passed, but we have signed stock
Bestselling author Anne McCaffrey has dazzled audiences with her
tales of the Dragonriders of Pern, one of the most popular science
fiction series of all time. Recently, her son Todd McCaffrey has
delved into the Pern universe with his own Pern novel and through two
collaborations with his mother. Now, in Dragon Harper (hardback,
$25.95), Anne and Todd spin a tale of a mysterious illness that may
succeed in doing what centuries of Threadfall could not: kill every
last human on Pern.
Todd McCaffrey is the bestselling author of the Dragonsblood, as well
as Dragon's Kin and Dragon's Fire, which he co-wrote with his mother,
the legendary fantasy author Anne McCaffrey. A computer engineer, Todd
currently lives in Los Angeles. Having grown up in Ireland with the
epic of the Dragonriders of Pern, he is bursting with ideas for new
stories of that worl and its people.
ROBERT HASS
reading & booksigning for Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005
Tuesday, January 22 at 7 pm
RESCHEDULED FROM NOVEMBER: Robert Hass is a poet of great
eloquence, clarity, and force whose work is rooted in the landscapes
of his native Northern California. Widely read and much honored, he
has brought the kind of energy in his poetry to his work as an
essayist, translator, and activist. Time and Materials: Poems
1997-2005 (hardback, $22.95) - his first new collection in a decade -
is grounded in the beauty and dynamics of the physical world, and in
the bafflement of the present moment in American culture.
Robert Hass was born in San Francisco and lives in Berkeley, where he
teaches at the University of California. Hass served as Poet Laureate
of the United States from 1995 to 1997. A MacArthur Fellow , a two-
time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the recent
winner of the National Book Award, he has published poems, literary
essays, and translations.
HEIDI JULAVITS
reading & booksigning for The Uses of Enchantment
Friday, January 25 at 7 pm
In late afternoon on November 7, 1985, sixteen-year-old Mary Veal
was abducted after field hockey practice at her all-girl New England
prep school. Or was she? Heidi Julavits' new novel, The Uses of
Enchantment (softcover, $13.95) - which is just out in paperback,
weaves a provocative spell in which the reader sees how the
extraordinary power of a young woman's sexuality, and the desire to
wield it, have a devastating effect on all involved.
Heidi Julavits is the author of two previous novels, The Mineral
Palace and The Effect of Living Backwards, as well as a collaborative
book, Hotel Andromeda. She is a founding editor of The Believer, and
her writings have appeared in The New York Times, Esquire, Time, and
McSweeney's. She lives in Manhattan and Maine.
FEBRUARY AUTHOR EVENTS
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN
reading & booksigning for Riding Toward Everywhere
Thursday, February 8 at 7:00 pm
William T. Vollmann has investigated humanity's obsession with
violence (Rising Up and Rising Down), taken a personal look into the
hearts and minds of the poor (Poor People), and now turns his
attentions to America, to our romanticizing of "freedom" and the ways
in which we restrict the very liberties we profess to admire. Riding
Toward Everywhere is the new book from the National Book Award winning
author of Europe Central.
William T. Vollmann is the author of seven novels; three collections
of stories; a seven-volume critique of violence, Rising Up and Rising
Down (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award); and Poor
People, an examination of poverty. His most recent novel, Europe
Central, won the National Book Award in 2005. He has also won the PEN
Center USA West Award for Fiction, a Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize, and
a Whiting Writers' Award. No other writer has appeared more often at
The Booksmith as has this acclaimed California author.
DINAW MENGESTU
reading & booksigning for The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Wednesday, February 13 at 7:00 pm
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, by Dinaw Mengestu, is a deeply
affecting novel about what it means to lose a family and a country -
and what it takes to create a new home. "This first novel, by an
Ethiopian-American, sings of the immigrant experience, an old American
story that people renew every generation, but it sings in an
existential key...His straightforward language and his low-key voice
combine to make a compelling narrative." - Alan Cheuse
Dinaw Mengestu was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1978. In 1980, he
immigrated to the United States with his mother and sister, joining
his father, who had fled Ethiopia during the Red Terror. He is a
graduate of Georgetown University and Columbia University's MFA
program in fiction and the recipient of a 2006 fellowship in fiction
from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
BETH LISICK
reading & booksigning for Helping Me Help Myself
Tuesday, February 19 at 7:00 pm
From Bay Area favorite Beth Lisick, author of Everybody into the Pool,
comes Helping Me Help Myself - the engaging and often-humorous story
of one skeptic (the author), ten self-help gurus (John Gray, Richard
Simmons, Stephen R. Covey, Jack Canfield, etc....), and a year spent
trying to improve one's self. The author doesn't think of herself as a
victim of the self-help movement. But is she?
Beth Lisick, author of the New York Times bestselling book Everybody
into the Pool, is also a performer and odd-jobs enthusiast. Her
writing has appeared in numerous publications and anthologies
including Best American Poetry, the Christian Science Monitor, and
Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Movement. She has
contributed to public radio's This American Life and is the cofounder
of the monthly Porchlight storytelling series in San Francisco.
CHARLES BOCK
reading & booksigning for Beautiful Children
Wednesday, February 20 at 7:00 pm
In his debut novel, Charles Bock mixes incandescent prose with devious
humor in capturing life in contemporary Las Vegas. And in doing so,
the author provides a glimpse into a microcosm of modern America.
Beautiful Children is an odyssey of heartache and redemption -
heralding the arrival of a major new writer. "Beautiful Children
careens from the seedy to the beautiful, the domestic to the epic, all
with huge and exacting heart." - Jonathan Safran Foer
Charles Bock was born in Las Vegas, Nevada. He has an MFA from
Bennington College and has received fellowships from Yaddo, UCross,
and the Vermont Studio Center. He lives in New York City. Visit the
author's website at www.beautifulchildren.net.
CHARLES BAXTER
reading & booksigning for The Soul Thief
Thursday, February 21 at 7:00 pm
Charles Baxter - the acclaimed author of The Feast of Love - now gives
us one of his most beautifully wrought and unexpected novels. The Soul
Thief is a work of fiction at once lyrical and eerie, acutely
observant in its sensual and emotional detail, and audaciously
metaphysical in its underpinnings. The Soul Thief is a brilliant novel
- one that is certain to expand both his already-stellar reputation
and ever-growing readership.
Charles Baxter is the author of eight previous works of fiction,
including Saul and Patsy, The Feast of Love (nominated for the
National Book Award and recently released as a film), Through the
Safety Net, and Believers. He has also authored books of poetry and
the art of writing.
PHILIP FRADKIN
reading & booksigning for Wallace Stegner and the American West
Tuesday, February 26 at 7:00 pm
As a writer and novelist, as the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning
Angle of Repose and National Book Award winning The Spectator Bird, as
a teacher and founder of the Stanford Creative Writing Program, and as
an advocate of the Western landscape, Wallace Stegner has few equals.
Philip Fradkin's new biography, Wallace Stegner and the American West,
is the definitive account of one of the most acclaimed and admired
writers, teachers, and conservationists of our time.
Philip L. Fradkin shared the Pulitzer Prize as a reporter for the Los
Angeles Times and was western editor of Audubon magazine. He is the
author of ten previous books, including The Great Earthquake and
Firestorms of 1906: How San Francisco Nearly Destroyed Itself and
Stagecoach: Wells Fargo and the American West. He lives on the coast
north of San Francisco.
__
The Booksmith is located at 1644 Haight Street (between Clayton &
Cole) in San Francisco's historic Haight Ashbury neighborhood. Call us
at 415-863-8688 or check our information page at www.booksmith.com for
directions and a map to the store.
If you are unable to attend an event and are interested in purchasing
a signed book (available at no extra charge), please please give us a
call Tues- Friday at 415-863-8688 and ask for Christy, or contact us
via email at re...@booksmith.com. We're happy to hold a book or ship it
to you.
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