News & Events
May 2013
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Thursday, May 30, 7:30pmread from The Stick Soldiers (BOA Editions, $16), Portuguese (Tin House/Octopus, $14.95) and Centaur (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, $16.95), respectively.
Triple your pleasure, triple your fun: three local poets!
June 2013
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Sunday, June 2, 3:00pm
reads from Odd Duck (First/Second Books, $15.99).
Theodora is a perfectly normal duck. She may swim with a teacup balanced on her head and stay north when the rest of the ducks fly south for the winter, but there's nothing so odd about that.
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Wednesday, June 5, 7:30pmJoin 5 publisher's representatives and Mrs. Dalloway's staff as we recommend our favorite books for summer reading.
Come and see what's hot for summer: recommendations from industry experts and Mrs. Dalloway's staff.
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Thursday, June 6, 7:30pmby Don Bogen, Geoffrey Brock, Randall Mann, D. A. Powell, Mira Rosenthal, and Kathleen Winter.
The Cincinnati Review draws together within its pages the finest creative and critical work from across the country. It provides a venue for writers of any background, at any point in their literary careers, to showcase their best writing.
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Wednesday, June 12, 7:30pminvite you to read and discuss Sattin's League of Somebodies (Dark Coast, $18.95) with the author!
Join Ellen Cushing, staff writer/reviewer for the East Bay Express, and Samuel Sattin to discuss Oakland resident Sattin's League of Somebodies.
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Thursday, June 13, 7:30pm
reads from her memoir My Father Who Is Not in Heaven (Writers' Block, $16.95 trade paper original).
"A coming-of-age novel for the over-fifty set. It will resonate for readers with 'difficult' family members, which is to say most of us."--Peter Sussman
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Saturday, June 15, 7:30pmLaunch party for YA novel Charm & Strange (Griffin, $17.99).
"Twisted, and twisting. Relentlessly compelling. Lush storytelling. A must-read." —Ellen Hopkins, New York Times bestselling author of Triangles, Fallout and Tricks
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Sunday, June 16, 4:00pmJoin us for Irish soda bread and Guinness as Thomas Lynch and George Davis read from James Joyce's Ulysses.
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Monday, June 17, 7:30pm
presents his bestselling and James Beard Award-winning memoir Yes, Chef (Random House, $16), just released in paper. KPFA benefit: $12 advance tickets: brownpapertickets.com, 800.838.3006, or at Mrs. Dalloway's. $15 door.
St. John's Presbyterian Church"One of the great culinary stories of our time."--Dwight Garner, New York Times
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Thursday, June 20, 7:30pm
reads from The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Viking, $28.95).
"Not only a great and inspiring true story, it is a fascinating work of history."--Nathaniel Philbrick
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Thursday, June 27, 7:30pm
presents The Hormone Cure: Reclaim Balance, Sleep, Sex Drive & Vitality Naturally with The Gottfried Protocol (Scribner, $28).
"The Hormone Cure is the medicine of the future, and Dr. Gottfried is the leading edge."--Christiane Northrup, M.D.
