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UPCOMING AUTHOR EVENTS
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DONNA LONG
The Best Dog in the World: Vintage Portraits of Children and
Their Dogs
Saturday, June 16 at 10:30 AM
Move over, Timmy and Lassie! Packed with gorgeous sepia-toned
photographs, The Best Dog in the World is a tribute to loyal
canine companions and the kids who love them — with antique and
vintage photographs taken between 1875 and 1925. A must-see for dog lovers
and lovers of Victoriana. Bring your dog! A professional pet photographer
will be available, should you wish to purchase a photo of you and your
pet. This event will be held in the courtyard, weather permitting.
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GWEN MAZER and CHRISTINE ALICINO
Wise Talk, Wild Women
Tuesday, June 19 at 7 PM
In Wise Talk, Wild Women, journalist Gwen Mazer
(fashion editor for Harper's Bazaar, articles in New Yorker
and Vogue) and fine art photographer and Cleo Award winner
Christine Alicino show, through stories and photographs, that women
now achieving the age of sixty and beyond are experiencing age differently
that did their mothers. "It's wonderful to find a documentation of
the power of aging in a time when most media and social structures render
women over sixty invisible. What a joy to read," writes actress Susan
Sarandon.
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ANNE FADIMAN
At Large and At Small
Wednesday, June 20 at 7 PM
Anne Fadiman, the author of essays in Ex Libris
and of the moving study of the Hmong in The Spirit Catches You and
You Fall Down (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award),
now offers her new book of essays, At Large and At Small.
When you open the book, you're in for essays on coffee, the friendlier
aspects of the Arctic, dipping in and out of the lives of Melville
(wife-beater?) and Emerson (misogynist?), Fadiman's inability to sleep at
night, and her long-abiding affection for Haagen-Dazs. What more can one
ask for?
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EMILY MITCHELL
Last Summer of the World
Thursday, June 21 at 7 PM
In the summer of 1918 with the Germans threatening Paris, Edward
Steichen arrives in France to do aerial reconnaissance photography for the
allies. His search for enemy movement and armament is paralleled by his
search for the reasons that his own marriage had gone awry in a nearby
French village where he lived just a few years earlier. The Last
Summer of the World is a beautifully written debut novel by local
author Emily Mitchell. Her quietly building story probes with
deadly accuracy the way two people can misunderstand each other, and with
ongoing self-absorption fail to see the hurts they cause to their own
loved-ones.
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CAROL POGASH
Seduced by Madness: The True Story of the Susan Polk Murder
Case
Friday, June 22 at 7 PM
Carol Pogash tackles the intricate details of the case of
Susan Polk, who was accused in 2002 of murdering her husband, a prominent
Berkeley psychologist in their Orinda home. The case attracted media
attention due to Polk's bizarre behavior during the trial, including
talking over the judge and insulting the prosecutor. Polk insisted that
she stabbed her husband, Felix, in self-defense. What's the true story?
Pogash, a contributor to the New York Times and the Washington
Post, is also the author of As Real As It Gets, an
account of the AIDS epidemic as seen through the eyes of staff at San
Francisco General Hospital.
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KAUI HART HEMMINGS
The Descendants: A Novel
Tuesday, June 26 at 7 PM
Put together a father and his two out-of-control daughters, along
with a wife in a coma and a secret affair—and all this in
Hawaii!—and you've got the makings of a terrific first novel.
Publishers Weekly calls Descendants a "sharply
observed, frequently hilarious and intermittently heartbreaking look at a
well-meaning father trying to hold together his unconventional
family." Hemmings, the author of the critically acclaimed
short-story collection House of Thieves, lives in San
Francisco.
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BRIDGET KINSELLA
Visiting Life: Women Doing Time on the Outside
Thursday, June 28 at 7 PM
In this beautifully written, brutally honest memoir, Publishers
Weekly editor Bridget Kinsella tells how she stumbled into a
relationship with a prison lifer and became part of a sorority she never
thought she'd join. Over the course of three years, she spends time with
and ultimately befriends the wives, girlfriends and mothers of some
inmates at Pelican Bay. Through the lens of her own experience, Kinsella
examines those impacted by crime and punishment with keen observation,
candor and compassion.
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JUNE
Learn to Knit:
Mondays, June 4, 11,18, 25
7 PM - 9 PM
It Felt Good!
Sundays, June 10 and 17
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Knitting Socks:
Sunday, June 24
10 AM - 1 PM
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JULY/AUGUST
Basic Shaping Workshop
Sunday, July 1
10:30 AM - 12 PM
Finishing Workshop
Sunday, July 8
10 AM - 1 PM
First Sweater Workshop
Mondays, July 2, 9, 23, 30 &
August 6, 13
7 PM - 9 PM
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UPCOMING KNITTING CLINIC AND SOCIAL CIRCLE:
Wednesday June 27, 7-9 PM
Wednesday July 11, 7-9 PM
Wednesday July 25, 7-9 PM
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To sign up for a class, please call the store at 415-564-8080.
For more information, visit our website
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