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EventsUPCOMING EVENTS
Saturday, December 22, 2-4 p.m. PST, 5-7 p.m. EST
Firedoglake Book Salon To my way of thinking, as a leftish-liberal sort, Firedoglake is the premier political blog and website on the internet. Their book salons ordinarily involve the most august of progressive political writers: think Chris Hedges, Greg Palast, Paul Krugman, David Swanson, Medea Benjamin, Sibel Edmonds, Steve Coll, etc. But every now and then, they take a walk on the light side, and that's where yours truly comes in. As a long-time member of the Firedoglake community, it's an honor to be selected for an FDL Book Salon. **************************************************
Thursday, January 3, 2013 at 6:30 p.m.: Mid-Manhattan Public Library, 455 5th Ave. at 40th St., 6th floor New York, NY 10016, (212) 340-0837 This will be part of the prestigious "Lunchtime: NYC" lecture series, whose speakers have included Mark Kurlansky, Andrew F. Smith and others. This event came into being after librarian Deborah Hirsch ran across a promotional display for "Creamy and Crunchy" at Columbia University Press's booth at Book Expo America (the national trade show for the publishing industry, at Manhattan's Javits Center in June) and thought it would be a good fit for the series.
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013, 7 p.m.:
Vroman's Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101, (626) 449-5320 Vroman's is the grand-daddy of Southern California independent bookstores, and is a plum location to do a reading and signing. I've been a customer there since I was in college, have participated in their book groups, taken a creative writing class there and did a reading for my second book there. Having been a customer and a student there, it's nice to return as an author. **************************************************
Thursday, February 7, 12:15 p.m.
Thursdays@Central Los Angeles Central Library, 630 West Fifth St., Los Angeles, CA 90071, (213) 228-7000 This is an intermittent series of lunchtime readings by LA authors. Sheryn Morris, a stalwart of the Literature and Fiction Department and a friend, was instrumental in setting this up. Park under the library, entering on Flower Street. If you have an LA Public Library Card, parking will be MUCH cheaper. **************************************************
April 19-21
Arkansas Literary Festival, Little Rock, AR The Arkansas Literary Festival has been held every April for the last 10 years in Little Rock. Not only would they like me to appear as a speaker, but -- the magic words -- they're going to pay for my travel and lodging. I haven't been in Arkansas since 1977-78 when I had a rather, ah, interesting eight-month run as a copy editor at the Texarkana Gazette, which is located on the Texas-Arkansas boundary (literally: one side of Stateline Avenue is in Arkansas and the other is in Texas). Skippy's only U.S. plant is in Little Rock, which probably helps to explain ALF's interest in having me speak. I'll post more information about this as it becomes available. **************************************************
Saturday, May 2013, 10 a.m.:
Culinary Historians of Southern California Los Angeles Central Library, 630 West 5th St., Los Angeles, CA 90071, (213) 228-7000 CHSC is the leading group of culinary historians in Southern California. They meet one Saturday morning every month; following the event, attendees repair to the Central Library's patio for snacks related to the theme of that day's talk. I'm planning on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches using the best bread, peanut butter and jelly I can find. These sandwiches were a hit at the December 2011 meeting of the Southern California section of the Biographers' International Organization (BIO).
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ALREADY-CONCLUDED EVENTS
Thursday, December 13, 2012, 7 p.m.:
Glendale Public Library, 222 E. Harvard Street, Glendale, California 91205, (818) 548-2030 This was the first solo event I did for "Creamy and Crunchy." It had an interesting genesis: Lora Martinolich, a librarian at Glendale Public, has the same masseuse I do (Linda Ferrero, who works in the Atwater section of Los Angeles, and who is a masseuse par excellence). In effect, Linda passed notes between the two of us and the event was born.
I spoke for a little more than an hour and a half, including audience questions. I was a little nervous, but crack technician Ara was there to help me out. Chuck Wike and Joe Olivares of GPL allowed me to practice with the equipment two days ahead of time, which was very helpful. And Lora graciously introduced me and served as mistress of ceremonies. After the talk, we had juice and excellent peanut butter cookies from the Echo Lake Coffee Company on Alvarado, just off of Sunset (it used to be the Downbeat Cafe). It was a good evening. ************************************************** |
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