LEFT COAST WRITERS LITERARY SALON: William C. Gordon, Author of King of the Bottom
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Maybe some of you remember celebrating wildly that night at Book Passage with Willie Gordon and Isabel Allende earlier this year when The Chinese Jars came out. It was definitely a night to remember. Well, one of our heroes (he's been a huge supporter of our Left Coast Writers) is at it again. William C. Gordon has a new book out: King of the Bottom.
Oddly, it's been a long haul getting books out in English, even for this internationally famous author, so we're sure he has a revealing story to tell about writing and publishing books. He also has some fascinating fiction in his arsenal.
In The Chinese Jars, Gordon takes readers to 1960s San Francisco. The story follows Samuel Hamilton, who is a successful ad salesman for a local newspaper. Donning the role of investigator, Hamilton examines the bizarre death of a local millionaire. Hamilton eventually uncovers a set of clues that lead him through the mystical world of Chinese art and antiquities. In King of the Bottom Hamilton returns, this time to work with Janak Marachak, a formidable attorney whose clients are implicated in a case involving industrial chemicals, illegal immigrants, and murder. It's noir and just bizarre enough to satisfy even jaded literary palates. Definitely our top choice for an energetic summer read that spotlights our beloved Bay Area!
William C. Gordon grew up in the beautiful landscapes of the old West. His father died when he was six, leaving his family to shift for themselves in tough times. Gordon attended UC Berkeley and, after a military stint, earned a law degree from Hastings College of Law. He eventually retired from the legal profession and, his passion for writing rekindled by his long romantic alliance with internationally famous author, Isabel Allende, he refocused his attention on the page and began writing a series of novels that were first published abroad. Four of his books will be published in English and Spanish in pocketbook editions this year and next. His fifth Samuel Hamilton mystery, The Halls of Power, is due out in 2013.
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Monday, May 7, 7pm
Book Passage || Corte Madera
51 Tamal Vista Drive || www.bookpassage.com
Maybe some of you remember celebrating wildly that night at Book Passage with Willie Gordon and Isabel Allende earlier this year when The Chinese Jars came out. It was definitely a night to remember. Well, one of our heroes (he's been a huge supporter of our Left Coast Writers) is at it again. William C. Gordon has a new book out: King of the Bottom.
Oddly, it's been a long haul getting books out in English, even for this internationally famous author, so we're sure he has a revealing story to tell about writing and publishing books. He also has some fascinating fiction in his arsenal.
In The Chinese Jars, Gordon takes readers to 1960s San Francisco. The story follows Samuel Hamilton, who is a successful ad salesman for a local newspaper. Donning the role of investigator, Hamilton examines the bizarre death of a local millionaire. Hamilton eventually uncovers a set of clues that lead him through the mystical world of Chinese art and antiquities. In King of the Bottom Hamilton returns, this time to work with Janak Marachak, a formidable attorney whose clients are implicated in a case involving industrial chemicals, illegal immigrants, and murder. It's noir and just bizarre enough to satisfy even jaded literary palates. Definitely our top choice for an energetic summer read that spotlights our beloved Bay Area!
William C. Gordon grew up in the beautiful landscapes of the old West. His father died when he was six, leaving his family to shift for themselves in tough times. Gordon attended UC Berkeley and, after a military stint, earned a law degree from Hastings College of Law. He eventually retired from the legal profession and, his passion for writing rekindled by his long romantic alliance with internationally famous author, Isabel Allende, he refocused his attention on the page and began writing a series of novels that were first published abroad. Four of his books will be published in English and Spanish in pocketbook editions this year and next. His fifth Samuel Hamilton mystery, The Halls of Power, is due out in 2013.
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Firoozeh Dumas moved with her family from Abadan, Iran, to Whittier, California, at the age of seven. With great humor and a sense of adventure, Dumas chronicles the American journey of her wonderfully engaging family in Funny In Farsi: A Memoir Of Growing Up Iranian In America, which was selected as a finalist for the PEN award in the Creative Nonfiction category. In a series of deftly Drawn scenes, we watch the family grapple with American culture in a story of Identity, discovery and family love. You may have heard Firoozeh's commentaries on NPR. Dumas graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. She lives with her husband and children in Northern California.
Georgia I. Hesse was founding travel editor of the San Francisco Examiner and held that position on the S.F. Examiner-Chronicle for 20 years. She has contributed to several anthologies, is a co-author of travel guides to France and California published by Fisher and by Berlitz, and teaches travel writing and related courses at Book Passage in Corte Madera. Georgia holds the Chevalier/Ordre de la République from Tunisia and the Ordre du Mérite from France. She is a graduate of Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, and attended the University of Strasbourg, France, on a Fulbright scholarship. She claims to have been born on Crazy Woman Creek near Buffalo, Wyoming.
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Sheldon Siegel graduated from the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley in 1983. He has been in private practice in San Francisco for over twenty years and specializes in corporate and securities law with the firm of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP. His four novels, Special Circumstances, Incriminating Evidence, Criminal Intent and Final Verdict, have all been national best sellers. His fifth novel, The Confession, will be released August 2004. His books have sold millions of copies worldwide and have been translated into seven languages.
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Larry Habegger, executive editor of Travelers' Tales, has been writing about travel since 1980. He has visited almost fifty countries and six of the seven continents, traveling from the frozen Arctic to equatorial rain forest, from the high Himalayas to the Dead Sea. In the early 1980s he co-authored mystery serials for the San Francisco Examiner with James O'Reilly, and since 1985 their syndicated column, "World Travel Watch," has appeared in newspapers in five countries and on WorldTravelWatch.com. As series editors of Travelers' Tales, they have worked on some seventy titles, winning many awards for excellence. Larry regularly teaches the craft of travel writing at workshops and writers conferences, and he lives with his family on San Francisco's Telegraph Hill.
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Journalist Constance Hale grew up in Hawaii but left the islands to get a bachelors degree from Princeton and a masters from the Graduate School of Journalism at UC-Berkeley. Hale worked as a reporter and editor at the Oakland Tribune, the San Francisco Examiner, Wired, and Health and her freelance journalism has appeared in those publications, as well as in Honolulu, HotWired, and the Atlantic Monthly. Her travel essays have been published in several anthologies, Via, the Miami Herald, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Los Angeles Times. Hale is the author of two popular books on language, Sin and Syntax and Wired Style. Once dubbed, "Marion the Librarian on a Harley," Hale speaks extensively about the craft of writing, sin and syntax, and the intersections of language and technology. She is on the faculty of UC-Berkeley Extension, Book Passage, and the Writing Salon.
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Mark Routhier is the Literary Manager at the Magic Theatre. Founder and Artistic Director of San Francisco's Mettle Theatre, 1989-1999, Routhier produced, wrote, directed, designed, and/or acted in 25 productions nationwide. His plays Scrap, Jam, Drunken Grownups, They Shall Inherit (formerly A Curious Christmas), and Someguy were produced by Mettle Theatre. His Bay Area directing credits include Ionesco's Exit The King with American Citizens' Theatre, Someguy, Drunken Grownups, and Ellen McLaughlin's Iphigenia and Other Daughters with Mettle Theatre, Sam Shepard's Cowboy Mouth with Mostly Grounded Theatre Co., readings of Alice Tuan's Last of the Suns, and Talila Baron's Corpus Delicti for the Magic Theatre. Routhier has directed for the Young California Writers Project, and will be directing a one-man show called The Bone Man of Benares by Terry Tarnoff with Encore Theatre in September, 2004. Routhier, who holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU, is working on a new play, and currently teaching a popular course, "From Page to Stage," at Marin-based Book Passage.
Poet, travel writer, novelist and workshop leader Linda Watanabe McFerrin is a contributor to numerous journals, newspapers, magazines, anthologies and online publications including the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Modern Bride, Travelers' Tales, and Salon.com. She is the author of two poetry collections and the editor of the 4th edition of Best Places Northern California.
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