LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH: Wandering in Bali: A Tropical Paradise Discovered with Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Joanna Biggar
Saturday, June 9th, 2012 || 7pm Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||www.bookpassage.com
Come to Bali in Corte Madera!
Wine, music, stories and other treats …
The word Bali conjures images of lush tropical beaches and coastlines, mysterious temples, gracious people, their transporting music and rice fields of impossible green.
But this paradisiacal Indonesian island isn’t all goddesses and frangipani. In addition to the beauty, this group of writers (www.wanderlandwriters.com) also found the humor—and the terror—of the place. Computer crashes, marauding monkeys, international paranoia, flesh-eating fish and even a few zombies also found their way into the stories collected here.
Readers will include:
- Nancy Alpert
- Adrienne Amundsen
- Thomas Harrell
- Laurie McAndish King
- Diane LeBow
- Ethel Mussen
- Mary Jean Pramik
- Anne Sigmon
Popular workshop leaders and travel writers Linda Watanabe McFerrin (www.lwmcferrin.com) and Joanna Biggar have floated down the Canal du Midi in France, danced in the sunlight of southern Greece, toasted the best of times in Ireland, devoured the culture and countryside of southern Italy, wandered through landscapes lost and found in Costa Rica with their merry band of travel writers … and now they land in faraway Indonesia to explore an island that is known as an earthly Paradise. The writers return with a varied collection of tales, some mystical, some funny, some terrifying—each in a different, highly personal voice. From temples to Balinese feasts to classical music and dance, the writers here sample and share the multiple faces of Bali.
For centuries, Bali has drawn souls from east and west to its natural beauty, mystical spirituality, and captivating arts. This collection of stories, poems, and photographs offers multiple windows from which to view this engaging place, all presented with rhythms and moods as melodic as the sound of the gamelan.
—Larry Habegger, Executive Editor, Travelers’ Tales Books
“Like renting a frangipani-scented hut, kicking back and sharing the sensory wonderland that is Bali with a bunch of your fast friends—if your friends knew how to tell really good stories.”
—Spud Hilton, Travel Editor, SF Chronicle
For a peek at what’s inside, you can read Linda Watanabe McFerrin’s travel tale, “In the Sacred Monkey Forest” in the Travel Section of the San Francisco Chronicle on Sunday, April 15, 2012. Here’s the link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/15/TR6J1NS9RG.DTL
And in worldhum.com on Thursday, May 16, 2012: http://www.worldhum.com/features/travel-stories/bali-belly-on-the-bukit-and-the-zombie-apocalypse-20120515/
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