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In This Newsletter:
Judy Halebsky, Matthew Zapruder and Troy Jollimore - Tuesday, September 20 at 7 PM
Eleanor Burke - Thursday, September 22 at 7 PM
More Upcoming Events

JUDY HALEBSKY, MATTHEW ZAPRUDER and TROY JOLLIMORE
Read from Their Recent Works
Tuesday, September 20 at 7 PM

Don't miss a great evening of poetry with three award-winning poets!

Judy Halebsky's book, Sky=Empty, won the 2009 New Issues Poetry Prize.

Matthew Zapruder's most recent book, Come On All You Ghosts, was selected as one of the top five poetry books by Publishers Weekly, and was the 2010 Booklist Editors' Choice for Poetry, and the 2010 Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Poetry Book of the Year.

Troy Jollimore's most recent collection, At Lake Scugog, was selected by Paul Muldoon as part of the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. His first book, Tom Thomson in Purgatory, won the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award.

ELEANOR BURKE
Sketching San Francisco's Neighborhoods
Thursday, September 22 at 7 PM

Come see Eleanor Burke's sketches and hear her stories of San Francisco's neighborhoods this Thursday evening.

Burke, a lifetime SF resident who grew up on Jackson Street in Presidio Heights, has lived in seven of the city's neighborhoods. She has created a beautiful book full of sketches of everything she has seen while exploring the city on her motor scooter.

More upcoming events:

• BARBARA LEFF
  And God Said...A Brief History of Creation
  Tuesday, October 4 at 7 PM



• CHARLES MANN
  1493
  Wednesday, October 5 at 7 PM



• MARY ROACH
  The Best American Science and Nature Writing
  Tuesday, October 11 at 7 PM



• LAURIE BARKIN
  The Comfort Garden
  Tuesday, October 18 at 7 PM



• JENNIFER ARNOLD
  In a Dog's Heart
  Wednesday, October 19 at 7 PM



• RACHAEL HERRON
  Wishes & Stitches: A Cypress Hollow Yarn
  Thursday, October 20 at 7 PM



• EMILY LEIDER
  Myrna Loy
  Thursday, October 27 at 7 PM



• ANNIE BARROWS
  Ivy & Bean: No News is Good News
  Sunday, November 13 at 11 AM



• ALAN KAUFMAN
  Drunken Angel
  Tuesday, November 15 at 7 PM

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about these and other upcoming events.

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