News & Events
May 2012
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Thursday, May 17, 7:00pmpresented by Mac Barnett, Annie Barrows, Jennifer Holm, and the kids' experts at Mrs. Dalloway's. Ticketed event: $5 admission applicable to book purchases; books on recommended list discounted 20% this evening only.
Call the store to reserve your place: 510.704.8222.
We've got a fabulous panel lined up to present their favorite children's books (books they enjoyed as a kid, or kids' books they've loved as an adult). Come away from this fun evening with a terrific list of summer reads to keep your young ones engaged and occupied over the next months. Ticketed event: $5 admission applicable to book purchases, and books on recommended list discounted 20% this evening only.
Call the store to reserve your place: 510.704.8222.
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Saturday, May 19, 4:00pm
presents Markets of Paris, 2nd Edition (The Little Bookroom, $18.95).
"A perfect guide to a quintessentially romantic feature of the city that's often difficult for visitors to navigate." —Culture & Travel
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Sunday, May 20, 4:00pmpresent handmade books.
"We live in exciting times. Since the invention of the printing press the book, as a medium for the artist, has been encumbered by function. Over the course of the last two decades the personal computer has released the book from servitude to information, and thus set it free to become an aesthetic object, a work of art. Now, free of function, the book is becoming the premier medium of the artist. The book is clearly the most complex and versital art medium that exists, and I believe that very soon artists will discover how to exploit these potentials to create works of art that today are still unimaginable."
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Thursday, May 24, 7:30pm
reads from Nitro Nights (Copper Canyon Press, $15).
"With language that's as simple as it is musical, Di Piero sets dazzling moments amid plainsong."--The New York Times Book Review
June 2012
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Friday, June 1, 7:00pm
read from the anthology Exit Laughing: How Humor Takes the Sting Out of Death (North Atlantic, $18.95 paperback original).
A collection of twenty-four personal stories, written by some of our country's finest authors, on the subject of death and humor.
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Sunday, June 3, 4:00pm
reads from her novel Boleto (Graywolf, $24).
An unforgettable story of men and horses, the American West, and the dream of a ticket out.
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Thursday, June 7, 7:30pm
reads from her novel Make It Stay (The Permanent Press, $26).
"First-class fiction."--Kirkus Reviews
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Wednesday, June 13, 7:30pm
reads from They Eat Puppies, Don't They? (Twelve, $25.99).
Hillside ClubA hilarious and sure-to-be controversial novel about U.S.-China relations.
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Saturday, June 16, 1:00pm
with Thomas Lynch, George Davis and Marion Abbott reading from James Joyce's Ulysses.
Join us for Irish soda bread, Guinness, and the magic of Joyce's language as "Lotus-Eaters" is read aloud . . .
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Saturday, June 16, 4:00pm
offer a double header for native plant enthusiasts with California Native Gardening: A Month-by-Month Guide (UC Press, $29.95 paper) and Growing California Native Plants, Second Edition, Expanded and Updated, with Marjorie G. Schmidt, author, and Beth Merrick, illustrator (UC Press, $26.95).Good news for native plant lovers! A much-loved bible revised, and a new month-by-month guide just released!
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Thursday, June 21, 7:30pm
on the wisdom of saying goodbye as explored in her new book Exits: The Endings That Set Us Free (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26).
Hillside ClubSara Lawrence-Lightfoot is enthralled by exits: long farewells, quick goodbyes, sudden endings, the ordinary and the extraordinary. There’s a relationship, she attests, between small goodbyes and our ability “to master and mark the larger farewells.”
