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Clinton Fein: Banned & Recovered: Artists Respond to Censorship

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:50:43 -0500

Start: 08/15/2008 - 7:44pm

End: 12/31/2008 - 7:44pm

An exhibition at two venues:

San Francisco Center for the Book
Aug. 15-Nov. 26, 2008
Public reception Fri., Aug. 15, 6-8pm
Gallery hours: Mon-Fri, 10-5; Sat, 12-4

M H (Maggie) Bonham: Free Ebook of the full length novel Lachlei

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:37:01 -0500

Start: 10/17/2008 - 7:34am

End: 11/25/2008 - 7:34am

Get a FREE copy of the Lachlei Ebook. This is the full version! Read it and join us on 11-25-08 for your chance to become a character in my next novel!

How cool is that?

John Pipkin: Starting (and Finishing) Your Novel -- Saturdays 9:30am - 1:00pm -- October 25 to December 6

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:44:22 -0500

Start: 10/25/2008 - 9:30am

End: 12/06/2008 - 9:30am

For many writers, their first published book is not the first book they've written.

Mayra Calvani: The Slippery Art of Book Reviewing Virtual Book Tour

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:15:13 -0600

Start: 11/04/2008 - 12:00am

End: 11/30/2008 - 12:00am

Join authors/reviewers Mayra Calvani and Anne K. Edwards as they tour the blogosphere this November and discuss various aspects of book reviewing.

Belle Yang: Hannah Is My Name: A Child's Immigration Story

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:18:39 -0600

Start: 11/04/2008 - 8:14pm

End: 11/28/2008 - 8:14pm

Hannah Is My Name: A Child’s Immigration Story

Tuesday, November 4th – Sunday, December 28th

My original artwork from the children’s book, Hannah Is My Name, is on display.

Tasha Alexander: Southern Writers Reading

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:24:59 -0500

Start: 11/21/2008 - 12:00am

End: 11/23/2008 - 12:00am

Readings

Danielle Ackley-McPhail: Philcon 2008

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:32:09 -0500

Start: 11/21/2008 - 3:00am

End: 11/23/2008 - 3:00am

A weekend-long literary science fiction convention. Danielle Ackley-McPhail will be attending as a guest participant and launching her second novel, Tomorrow's Memories

Sean Taylor: Atlanta Supercon

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:45:19 -0500

Start: 11/21/2008 - 8:41am

End: 11/23/2008 - 8:41am

Come by and visit me. Get stuff signed. Buy stuff. Support my kids' education fund.

W.L. Hoffman: Book Signing and Interview - PHILCON 2008

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:34:02 -0500

Start: 11/21/2008 - 10:00am

End: 11/23/2008 - 4:00pm

November 21-23, 2008 - 10:00 am to 5:00 pm - PHILCON 2008 - Book Signing and Interviews - Crowne Plaza Hotel, 2349 W. Marlton Pike, Cherry Hill, NJ 08002 (pending)

Laurel Hill: Orycon 30, Days of Futures Past (A Science Fiction/Fantasy Retrospective)

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:04:32 -0500

Start: 11/21/2008 - 12:00pm

End: 11/23/2008 - 4:00pm

Laurel Anne Hill will be a guest participant at Orycon 30. She is looking forward to the event in Portland, one of her favorite places.

Angela Nickerson: Travel to Michelangelo's Italy: Florence and Rome

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:26:36 -0600

Start: 11/21/2008 - 1:23pm

End: 12/31/2008 - 1:23pm

In conjunction with the release of A Journey into Michelangelo’s Rome, Angela Nickerson is taking small groups on tours of Michelangelo’s Italy.

Carolyn Jourdan: Southern Writers Reading

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:30:25 -0500

Start: 11/22/2008 - 12:00am

End: 11/23/2008 - 12:00am

Fairhope, AL Southern Writers Reading

Sean Beaudoin: National Conference Of Teachers Of English

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:40:48 -0500

Start: 11/22/2008 - 4:35pm

End: 11/26/2008 - 4:35pm

I'll be speaking on a panel on the amorphous subject of "The Realities Of Humor". Fly on out to San Antonio and I'll buy you a Negro Modelo.

Roy Blount, Jr.: Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society Words & Music Interview With Ted Turner

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:33:17 -0500

Start: 11/22/2008 - 6:00pm

End: 11/22/2008 - 8:00pm

The much loved southernn humorist Roy Blount, Jr—author of 20 books, including his new one, Alphabet Juice, a delicious cocktail about words, and hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles on every

Erika Mailman: Witch's Trinity at A Great Good Place for Books, Oakland

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:39:37 -0600

Start: 11/22/2008 - 7:00pm

End: 11/22/2008 - 7:00pm

Reading and book-signing

Jennifer McLagan: Book Signing

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:28:14 -0500

Start: 11/23/2008 - 2:30pm

End: 11/23/2008 - 4:00pm

Signing at Granville Island Store

Ernie Zelinski: Turkish National Quality Organization - 2008 Annual Congress

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:44:08 -0500

Start: 11/24/2008 - 12:00am

End: 11/26/2008 - 12:00am

Jennifer McLagan: Barbara-jo's Social Club - FAT

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:08:32 -0600

Start: 11/24/2008 - 6:00pm

End: 11/24/2008 - 8:00pm

This promises to be the wildest social club series to date. Fourteen carnivores will meet at six o'clock pm on six Monday evenings throughout the fall.

M H (Maggie) Bonham: Don't Be a Turkey! Buy Lachlei and Support the Author

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:33:31 -0500

Start: 11/25/2008 - 7:28am

End: 11/25/2008 - 7:28am

Lachlei Buy Day! Support the Author and Buy Your Copy of Lachlei Here on 11-25-08. Show Your Support of the Author and avoid the Holiday Rush and the Malls.

Jennifer McLagan: From Bones to Fat

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:30:54 -0600

Start: 11/25/2008 - 6:00pm

End: 11/25/2008 - 8:00pm

From Bones to Fat, Jennifer McLagan knows what to do with her meat.

beverley brahic: Reading at The Redwheelbarrow Bookstore, Paris

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:42:01 -0600

Start: 11/25/2008 - 7:00pm

End: 11/25/2008 - 7:00pm

Poet and translator Beverley Bie Brahic will read from her collection "Against Gravity," and her translations of Hélène Cixous’s "Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint," "Manhattan,

Laurel Hill: Loscon XXXV Science Fiction Convention

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:05:07 -0500

Start: 11/28/2008 - 12:00pm

End: 11/30/2008 - 4:00pm

A funny thing happened on the way to Loscon. Well, that's the theme of Loscon XXXV. The Loscon flyer distributed at Denvention3 suggested wearing a toga.

Michele Barker: Local Authors Extravaganza

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:53:57 -0500

Start: 11/28/2008 - 12:00pm

End: 11/28/2008 - 5:00pm

Meet and greet local authors and get autographed copies of their books at Borders Books, Music & Cafe
476 Boston Turnpike
Shrewsbury, MA 01545
508-845-8665
Free and open to the public

Lauren John: Little Heathens Brunch and Discussion

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:09:21 -0600

Start: 11/29/2008 - 11:30am

End: 11/29/2008 - 2:00pm

Usually when I recommend an event to people, I have an idea of what they can expect.
Well...have no idea what will happen here except that there will be interesting people in an unusual setting with

Kevin Siepel: One-Stop Book Signing

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:58:29 -0600

Start: 11/29/2008 - 12:00pm

End: 11/29/2008 - 2:00pm

Local authors with books to sign and sell.

Judith Tannenbaum: Sherman Alexie Reading

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:34:06 -0500

Start: 12/01/2008 - 12:00am

End: 12/01/2008 - 12:00am

Sherman Alexie, winner of the 2007 National Book Award, will be at City Arts & Lectures on December 1 in an event benefiting WritersCorps.

Jeanne Powell: Featured Reading and Book Signing

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:12:16 -0500

Start: 12/01/2008 - 7:00pm

End: 12/01/2008 - 7:00pm

Featured Reading and Book Signing

Adam Braver: Books Inc. reading

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:26:24 -0600

Start: 12/01/2008 - 7:30pm

End: 12/01/2008 - 7:30pm

Adam Braver, author of November 22, 1963, will read at Books Inc. in Mountain View at 7:30 pm.

Lauren John: Infopeople Online Class--Book Discussion Groups: A New Look

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:10:24 -0500

Start: 12/02/2008 - 12:00am

End: 01/20/2009 - 8:57am

Lauren John is teaching a a four week online class on starting and running and improving book groups.

Adam Braver: Book Passage reading

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:34:16 -0600

Start: 12/02/2008 - 6:00pm

End: 12/02/2008 - 6:00pm

Adam Braver, author of November 22, 1963, will read at Book Passage at 6:00 pm.

Blair Kilpatrick: Sauce Piquante plays at Ashkenaz in Berkeley

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:19:32 -0600

Start: 12/02/2008 - 8:00pm

End: 12/02/2008 - 11:00pm

Cajun dance lesson at 8, Sauce Piquante plays from 8:30 to 11 or so. All ages.

Ugo Mattei: Plunder. When The Rule of Law is Illegal

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:21:30 -0500

Start: 12/03/2008 - 5:00pm

End: 12/03/2008 - 7:00pm

Campus wide lecture and book signing at Central European Uiversity

Adam Braver: A Great Good Place For Books reading

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:36:17 -0600

Start: 12/03/2008 - 7:00pm

End: 12/03/2008 - 7:00pm

Adam Braver, author of November 22, 1963, will read at A Great Good Place for Books at 7:00 pm.

Patricia Davis: Word by Word with Gil Mansergh

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:14:58 -0600

Start: 12/03/2008 - 7:00pm

End: 12/03/2008 - 7:00pm

KRCB Radio’s Word By Word: Conversations With Writers returns with all new shows and Gil Mansergh as the new host.

Michele Barker: Alpha Gamma Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma dinner

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:57:09 -0500

Start: 12/04/2008 - 6:00pm

End: 12/04/2008 - 8:00pm

M.P.

Michele Barker: Guys Read Book Group

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:59:17 -0500

Start: 12/04/2008 - 6:30pm

End: 12/04/2008 - 7:30pm

The Guys Read Book Group at the Farmington Public Library will be discussing A Difficult Boy

Grades 5 and 6.

Adam Braver: Fresno State reading

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:46:59 -0600

Start: 12/04/2008 - 7:30pm

End: 12/04/2008 - 7:30pm

Adam Braver, author of November 22, 1963, will read at Fresno State at 7:30 pm.

Robert Wrigley: A Reading

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:57:56 -0500

Start: 12/04/2008 - 8:00pm

End: 12/04/2008 - 9:00pm

A poetry reading

Kristy Kiernan: Books-A-Million Booksigning

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:58:43 -0500

Start: 12/05/2008 - 12:00pm

End: 12/05/2008 - 2:00pm

Join me at Books-A-Million, on US 41 across from the Coastland Center Mall, December 5th, where I'll be signing copies of Matters of Faith and Catching Genius.

Kim Barnes: Reading at the LCSC Center for Arts and History

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:22:42 -0500

Start: 12/05/2008 - 7:00pm

End: 12/05/2008 - 7:00pm

I get to spend some time with my dear author-friend Claire Davis!

Q&A to follow the reading.

Adam Braver: The Avid Reader reading

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:49:23 -0600

Start: 12/05/2008 - 7:30pm

End: 12/05/2008 - 7:30pm

Adam Braver, author of November 22, 1963, will read at The Avid Reader in Davis at 7:30 pm.

Catherine Lundoff: Reading at Patrick's Cabaret

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:56:15 -0500

Start: 12/05/2008 - 8:00pm

End: 12/06/2008 - 8:00pm

Patrick's Cabaret is a Minneapolis institution. Shows feature dancers, filmmakers, poets, actors, authors and any other kind of performer you can imagine.

Mylene Dressler: Writers Workshop

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:04:59 -0500

Start: 12/06/2008 - 9:30am

End: 12/06/2008 - 12:00pm

Sponsored by the Fort Bend Writers Guild

Clive Matson: Crazy Child Writing Workshop

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:25:35 -0600

Start: 12/06/2008 - 10:00am

End: 12/06/2008 - 5:00pm

In these Saturday workshops we persuade the editorial and writerly voices to take a break and give our creative unconscious - our "Crazy Child" - free reign.

Michelle Goodman: Book signings @ Urban Craft Uprising

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:00:17 -0600

Start: 12/06/2008 - 12:00pm

End: 12/06/2008 - 1:00pm

Join me at the fourth annual Urban Craft Uprising, a rocking indie craft show with 100+ vendors, just in time for the holidays.

When: Saturday signing 12 to 1 pm. Sunday signing 1 to 2 pm.

Andrew Smith: SCV Literature and Arts Festival

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:51:32 -0500

Start: 12/06/2008 - 12:00pm

End: 12/06/2008 - 6:00pm

Author reading and signing event

Adam Braver: The Avid Reader reading

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:51:42 -0600

Start: 12/06/2008 - 2:00pm

End: 12/06/2008 - 2:00pm

Adam Braver, author of November 22, 1963, will read at The Avid Reader in Sacramento at 2:00 pm.

devorah major: PEN Oakland Josephine Miles 18th Annual National Literary Awards Readings

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:24:10 -0600

Start: 12/06/2008 - 2:00pm

End: 12/06/2008 - 2:00pm

The Public is invited to attend the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles 18th Annual National Literary Awards Readings hosted by devorah major.

Andrew Wice: Reading at KGB Bar

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:32:50 -0600

Start: 12/06/2008 - 7:00pm

End: 12/06/2008 - 9:00pm

I will be reading selections from my novel "To The Last Drop" on Saturday, December 6th from 7-9 in the venerable KGB Bar in the East Village.

Books will be available for signing & selling.

It w

Dorianne Laux: Esalen Poetry Writing Workshop

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:26:06 -0500

Start: 12/07/2008 - 12:00am

End: 12/12/2008 - 12:00am

Writing and Knowing

Ellen Bass, Dorianne Laux& Joseph Millar

Blair Kilpatrick: Ashkenaz International Holiday Crafts Bazaar (with music and local author table)

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:26:18 -0600

Start: 12/07/2008 - 11:00am

End: 12/07/2008 - 7:00pm

First annual international holiday crafts bazaar at Ashkenaz, Berkeley's world music club. Day long line-up of bands.

JT Ellison: Sherlock's Books Bookclub

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:13:46 -0600

Start: 12/07/2008 - 4:00pm

End: 12/07/2008 - 4:00pm

Discussion of 14

John Robison: Raising Student Achievement conference

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:47:00 -0500

Start: 12/08/2008 - 8:00am

End: 12/08/2008 - 8:00am

Raising Student Achievement - I'll be a keynote speaker, folled by a reception, lunch and book signing. 8AM to 2PM at Pheasants Run Resort.

Terry Odell: Authors @ the Library

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:40:17 -0600

Start: 12/08/2008 - 11:37am

End: 12/08/2008 - 11:37am

Becoming A Writer By Mistake … Or How I Traded Needlepoint For Fiction.

Join multi-published author Terry Odell as she discusses breaking into a new career as a writer of romance even though she'

Jim Malusa: Slides and Reading at Heritage Highlands, Dove Mountain, Arizona

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:16:24 -0600

Start: 12/08/2008 - 3:00pm

End: 12/08/2008 - 4:30pm

Stories and pictures from Into Thick Air.

Clive Matson: Clive reads from Chalcedony's First Ten Songs

Fri, 23 May 2008 14:28:05 -0500

Start: 12/08/2008 - 7:00pm

End: 12/08/2008 - 9:00pm

CHALCEDONY obsesses on sexual passion and its 10,000 variations. She doesn’t know anything else. And why should she?

Linda Wisniewski: Friends of the Library Meet the Author Book Talk

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:11:25 -0500

Start: 12/09/2008 - 7:00am

End: 12/09/2008 - 9:00am

I'll be reading from Off Kilter and talking about the writing of my book, memoirs in general, as well as some tips on how to get started writing your own life stories.

Scott Owens: Poetry Hickory

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:16:00 -0500

Start: 12/09/2008 - 7:00pm

End: 12/09/2008 - 8:00pm

Poetry Reading with Jeff Davis, author of "Transits of Venus" and "Natures" and Rand Brandes, author of "Balefires"

Terry Odell: Release Day for When Danger Calls

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:04:06 -0600

Start: 12/10/2008 - 8:01am

End: 12/11/2008 - 8:01am

If someone asks single mother Frankie Castor to clear a room, she'll smile and find a vacuum cleaner. Ryan Harper uses a gun.

Ugo Mattei: Plunder and Current Global Transformations

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:16:26 -0600

Start: 12/10/2008 - 6:00pm

End: 12/10/2008 - 8:00pm

Professor Ugo Mattei

“Plunder and Current Global Transformations”

December 10th 6-8pm
Seligman Library
A607 Old Building, London School of Economics

Earlier this year Ug

Kristy Kiernan: Sanibel Bookshop

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:27:03 -0500

Start: 12/11/2008 - 11:00am

End: 12/11/2008 - 1:00pm

Signing at the fabulous Sanibel Bookshop. Come on by, grab a book, pet some dogs, go the the beach!

Kevin Siepel: Meet the Author

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:57:15 -0600

Start: 12/12/2008 - 6:00pm

End: 12/12/2008 - 8:00pm

Kevin Siepel will sign copies of his book, Rebel: The Life and Times of John Singleton Mosby

Keith Morris: Regulator Bookshop reading with Keith Lee Morris

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:45:33 -0600

Start: 12/12/2008 - 7:00pm

End: 12/12/2008 - 7:00pm

Keith Lee Morris, author of The Dart League King, will read at The Regulator Bookshop at 7:00 pm.

Kevin Siepel: Meet the Author

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:02:50 -0600

Start: 12/13/2008 - 12:00pm

End: 12/13/2008 - 2:00pm

Kevin Siepel will sign copies of his book, Rebel: The Life and Times of John Singleton Mosby

devorah major: Bob Kaufman Memorial Reading

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:58:21 -0500

Start: 12/13/2008 - 2:00pm

End: 12/13/2008 - 4:00pm

An afternoon of poetry written and inspired by Bob Kaufman performed by devorah major, Kamau Da'ood, Jack Hirschman and on saxophone Roscoe Mitchell.

Kevin Siepel: Meet the Author

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:05:55 -0600

Start: 12/14/2008 - 2:00pm

End: 12/14/2008 - 4:00pm

Kevin Siepel will sign copies of his book, Rebel: The Life and Times of John Singleton Mosby

Adam Braver: Freebird Books & Goods reading

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:53:39 -0600

Start: 12/14/2008 - 7:00pm

End: 12/14/2008 - 9:52pm

Adam Braver, author of November 22, 1963, will read at Freebird Books & Goods at 7:00 pm.

Mark DeWitt: KPFA radio appearance

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:23:03 -0600

Start: 12/15/2008 - 11:00am

End: 12/15/2008 - 12:00pm

"Music of the World" radio interview and preview of Dec. 20 Ashkenaz event with host Kutay Derin Kugay, author Mark DeWitt, and the Creole Belles on KPFA-94.1 FM.

Jeanne Powell: Featured Reading and Book Signing

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:16:01 -0600

Start: 12/15/2008 - 7:00pm

End: 12/15/2008 - 7:00pm

Featured Reading and Book Signing; with Q. R. Hand Jr. and Giovanni

Ben Fong-Torres: A Conversation with Quincy Jones

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:51:10 -0600

Start: 12/16/2008 - 8:00pm

End: 12/16/2008 - 10:00pm

The legendary producer, entrepreneur and humanitarian, Quincy Jones, is celebrating a new book, The Complete Quincy Jones: My Journey and Passions (Insight Editions).

Ron Arons: Willow Glen Bookstore

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:14:29 -0500

Start: 12/18/2008 - 7:00pm

End: 12/18/2008 - 8:00pm

Ron will discuss his book The Jews of Sing Sing.

Alex Grant: WUNC NPR Interview/reading - Change to original date...

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:53:18 -0600

Start: 12/19/2008 - 12:00pm

End: 12/19/2008 - 1:00pm

Poet Alex Grant makes his second appearance on "The State of Things" with Frank Stasio. He will read a selection from his latest work, "The Circus Poems".

Mark DeWitt: Ashkenaz Book Celebration and Dance

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:01:39 -0500

Start: 12/20/2008 - 7:30pm

End: 12/20/2008 - 8:00pm

Come to hear Mark talk about his book, meet some of the people he interviewed for it, and stay for the dance featuring the Creole Belles (led by Delilah Lee Lewis, with special guest Andrew Carriere),