Saturday, April 7, 7PM
Book Passage || 51 Tamal Vista Dr. || Corte Madera, CA
For Info: Book Passage

From MICHAEL SHAPIRO:
I’m coordinating a benefit with Prosper Ndabishuriye to rebuild homes in Burundi. Prosper is a director of a home-building project in Burundi’s Camara area, bringing together Hutu and Tutsi youth to construct homes for some of the country s thousands of refugees. During the 1990s, Burundi was devastated by civil wars similar to those in Rwanda, but Prosper’s group is building homes and giving employment to young men and women.

Martin McDonagh is “The most wickedly funny, brilliantly abrasive young dramatist on either side of the Irish Sea!.. A born storyteller.” – The New York Times.

Wed. through Sun. until April 15
Berkeley City Club
Tues. through Sun. April 19 – 29
Magic Theatre in San Francisco
Tickets $20 – $30 Discounts available
Tickets and information: http://wildeirish.org and 510-644-9940.

From HILLARY FLYNN:

If you’ve seen Pillowman, the award winning Beauty Queen of Leenane or any other McDonagh plays you won’t want to miss Wilde Irish Production’s The Cripple of Inishmaan. If you missed Pillowman, now is your chance to see another of Martin McDonagh’s masterful black comedies. The Cripple of Inishmaan has just as many twists and turns as Pillowman, and is hilarious and just as satisfying.

If you didn’t get to the Monticello for our March LCW Book Launch party for Mark Shaw and his latest book, Melvin Belli: King of the Courtroom, you missed a real treat.

Mark is a fabulous storyteller, and he brought the legendary San Francisco attorney, Melvin Belli, to life. Belli changed the landscape of law. He showed lawyers the power of storytelling and, in the words of Shaw, there were “so many stories about his courtroom antics, battles with judges and lawyers alike, and a personal life that seems more like fiction than fact,” that it was challenging to write his biography.

Monday, April 2, 2007 7pm
Book Passage – CORTE MADERA || 51 Tamal Vista Dr. || Corte Madera
For Info: Book Passage or leftcoastwriters@aol.com

Broadcast journalist and Emmy-winner, Jan Yanehiro has skydived with the Army’s Golden Knights and ventured up a frozen waterfall!all in the name of getting a good story! Jan pioneered the magazine format on television as co-host of Evening Magazine, a nightly program in San Francisco from 1976-90.

In honor of National Poetry Month, we will be in a Poetic Frenzy as this star-studded cast of Left Coast Writers poets read their work. For a special treat Dusty Miller will be performing her songs before the reading so come early!

Monday, April 9 5:30 -7:00pm with networking at a nearby restaurant/bar
Theme: Poetic Frenzy
Poets: Dusty Miller (Elaine Bond), Iris Joan Price, Lowry McFerrin, Rebecca Foust, Adrienne Amundsen, Marianne Betterly Kohn, Elizabeth Weaver, Colleen McFerrin, Mary Jean Pramik, Demian Entrekin

Book Passage – FERRY PLAZA
One Ferry Plaza #46
San Francisco, CA
For Info: Left Coast Writers or leftcoastwriters@aol.com

Monday, June 4, 2007

Left Coast Writers Literary Salon, 7pm

Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA

For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com

Monday, July 2, 2007

Left Coast Writers Literary Salon, 7pm

Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA

For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com

Monday, August 6, 2007

Left Coast Writers Literary Salon, 7pm

Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA

For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Left Coast Writers Literary Salon, 7pm

Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA

For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com

Monday, October 1, 2007

Left Coast Writers Literary Salon, 7pm

Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA

For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com

Monday, November 5, 2007

Left Coast Writers Literary Salon, 7pm

Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA

For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com

Monday, December 3, 2007

Left Coast Writers Literary Salon, 7pm

Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA

For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com

Monday, February 12, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
Romance: Is It Love?

Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA

For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com

Monday, January 15, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
Risky Resolutions

Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA

For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com

Monday, March 12, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
Just My Luck

Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA Â

For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.comÂ

Monday, April 9, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
Poetic Frenzy (National Poetry Month)

Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA

For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com

Monday, May 14, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
All About Me: Memoir, Momoir, and Personal Essay

Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA Â

For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.comÂ

Monday, June 11, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
Hitting the Road (Travel)

Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA Â

For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.comÂ

Monday, July 9, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
Food Fixations

Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA

For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com

Monday, August 13, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
How I Spent My Summer Vacation

Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA

For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com

Monday, September 10, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
Epiphanies

Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA

For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com

Monday, October 8, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
Spooky Stories

Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA

For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com

Monday, November 12, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
Family Therapy and Other Relative Disasters

Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA

For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com

Monday, December 1, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
Seasonal Cacophony

Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA

For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com

JEFF GREENWALD’S article, Passing Through but Leaving a Lasting Impression, about his work and what it means to be an ethical traveler, was published in the March 13, 2007 edition of The New York Times.

“Travel often turns my expectations upside down. In 1999, I visited Iran with a small group of Americans to watch a total eclipse of the sun. On the afternoon of the event, I found myself alone in Esfahan’s vast Khomeini Square: one American among 50,000 Iranians…Aldous Huxley was right. To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” To read more, click here.

Monday, March 5, 2007

Left Coast Writers Literary Salon, 7pm

Brian Tacang, Author

“Bully-Be-Gone” from the Misadventures of Millicent Madding series

Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA

For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com