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Book Launch: Wrestling With God by Barbara Falconer Newhall

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH: Wrestling With God by Barbara Falconer Newhall

Saturday, April 11th, 2015 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

It’ll be a spirited night at Book Passage when we join Barbara Falconer Newhall in a book launch for her new book Wrestling With God.

Wrestling With God presents the intimate first-person narratives of thoughtful Americans seeking to live their faith in an increasingly secular, multicultural and globalized world.

The stories are woven together by Barbara’s own spiritual quest as she reveals how the people she has interviewed have moved her along on her personal journey – from a restless yearning for the lost God of her Christian childhood to a new and unexpected kind of faith. Among the storytellers in Wrestling With God are a Native American, a Nobel Laureate physicist, a World War II POW, a former Buddhist monk, a Shamanic priestess and an atheist.

Seekers and believers alike will find inspiration in the Barbara’s journey toward a belief that can withstand the challenges of our twenty-first-century world.

Barbara Falconer Newhall is a journalist with experience as an editor, feature writer, columnist and religion reporter on magazines and major metropolitan daily (more…)

Literary Salon: Rebecca Foust

LEFT COAST WRITERS LITERARY SALON: Rebecca Foust, Author of Paradise Drive

Monday, April 6th, 2015 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

Join us for a craft talk and reading at the next Left Coast Writers Literary Salon at Book Passage.

Rebecca Foust will talk about how reading and writing poetry can enrich a prose practice and will tell the story of how taking a Book Passage class in 2006 brought her back from a 35-year hiatus, from publishing her first poem the year she turned 50 to writing her fifth book, Paradise Drive, winner of the Press 53 Award for Poetry.

Rebecca will read from Paradise Drive, a new collection of linked sonnets that tells the story of “Pilgrim,” whose journey begins in rust belt Pennsylvania and winds up in the tony suburbs of Marin, offering up poignancy along with some sharp-tongued social commentary along the way.

Rebecca Foust was the 2014 Dartmouth Poet in Residence and is the recipient of fellowships from the Frost Place and the MacDowell Colony. Her fifth book, Paradise (more…)

On Sunday, March 15th from 12-2pm, join Left Coast Writers® Live on FCCFREE RADIO’s popular show, Lilycat on Stuff. Lilycat’s guest on Sunday will be Left Coast Writer® Marianne Lonsdale, author of the upcoming Three Mornings.

Three Mornings follows a thirty-six-year-old woman, strong in her career skills and weak in relationship skills, navigate her first year with Paul, the man she thinks may be the love of her life, the man she wants to marry and have children with. Paul, a carpenter and singer-songwriter, is gorgeous, attentive, great in bed — and struggles with anger issues. They meet in Oakland in 1991 and the book follows the highs and lows of their first year together, as Nora lets her attraction to Paul override her doubts about him until an event happens that forces her to make a decision about their future together. Marianne will also discuss writing in community and the opportunities she started having when she was in the LCW Salon. In addition she will talk about Write On Mamas and the anthology they published, and the show Listen To Your Mother which she’s helping produce on May 9th.

Marianne Lonsdale writes personal essays and short stories, and is now focused on developing a novel. Her work has been published in the San Francisco Chronicle, (more…)

Book Launch: Laurel Feigenbaum and Kat Crawford

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH: Laurel Feigenbaum, Author of The Daily Absurd, and Kat Crawford, Author of A Particular Heaven

Saturday, March 14th, 2015 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

Join us for a celebratory event for two great poets and friends: Laurel Fegienbaum and Kat Crawford.

The Daily Absurd is filled with deft poems that consider the complications of an ever-changing world against the joys yet shifting interiors of a long marriage.

Laurel Feigenbaum, a San Francisco native, lives in Corte Madera with her husband of 65 years.
She holds a BA in English literature from UC Berkeley and MA in educational research and psychology from SF State College. Through poetry she seeks balance in navigating the complex, confusing and often absurd world in which we live. Her work appears in recent issues of Nimrod, Spillway, Marin Poetry Center Anthology, Cyclamens and Swords online and in an upcoming 2016 Les Femmes Folles anthology of women (more…)

Ferry Plaza Book Party: Shooting Genji by Richard Voorhees

LEFT COAST WRITERS FERRY PLAZA BOOK PARTY: Shooting Genji by Richard Voorhees

Monday, March 9th, 2015 || 6pm
Book Passage || San Francisco
1 Ferry Building, San Francisco ||www.bookpassage.com

Please join us for a glass of wine, a bit of chat and a particularly fitting evening event at Book Passage in the San Francisco Ferry Plaza when Richard Voorhees reads from his novel, Shooting Genji.

Shooting Genji is a noir romance that careens from the Crash of 1929 in New York to the early Talkies in Hollywood. As a young rube, the story’s protagonist falls from a ladder, leaving him practically blinded by daylight. Nature makes it up to him, though, by giving him shockingly good night vision. Countless shady careers beckon, including working for whiskey smugglers, Wall Street cons, and Hollywood scoundrels. All-too-late he discovers he’s still the guy in the dark; but there’s (more…)

Literary Salon: Patricia Bracewell

LEFT COAST WRITERS LITERARY SALON: Patricia Bracewell, author of Shadow on the Crown and The Price of Blood

Monday, March 2nd, 2015 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

We hope all of you will come out for this very special event. Our beloved Roadwork editor, Patricia Bracewell, will be speaking about her experience writing historical fiction. Her first novel, Shadow on the Crown (Viking, 2012), was very well received and critically acclaimed and her newest novel, The Price of Blood (Viking, 2015) looks like it will be another hit. Patricia will be discussing the research that goes into writing such novels, how much to fabricate and how much to keep to the facts, and other problems one might face when writing fact-based fiction.

Patricia Bracewell is a native of California where she taught literature and composition before embarking on her writing career. A lifelong fascination with British history and a chance, on-line reference to an unfamiliar English queen led to years of research, a (more…)

The Plot Thickens Workshop
with Linda Watanabe McFerrin
Saturday, February 21st, 2015, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Location: Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Boulevard, Corte Madera, CA 94925
$120

Aristotle called plot “the most important element of storytelling.” But to plot properly, you must have a plan, and the plan must give rise to emotion. Does the plot always seem to elude you? Spend a day planning and plotting and find out what you’re missing. Bring your flat-lining fiction and nonfiction and fix it.

Poet, travel writer, and novelist Linda Watanabe McFerrin (www.lwmcferrin.com) is a contributor to numerous newspapers, magazines and anthologies. She is the author of two poetry collections, past editor of a popular Northern California guidebook and a winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction. Her novel, Namako: Sea Cucumber, was named Best Book for the Teen-Age by the New York Public Library. In addition to authoring an award-winning short story collection, The Hand of Buddha, she has co-edited several anthologies, including the Hot Flashes: sexy little stories & poems series. Her latest novel, Dead Love (Stone Bridge Press, 2009), was short-listed as a finalist in the 2007 William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Competition and was a Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Superior Achievement in a Novel in 2009.

Linda has judged the San Francisco Literary Awards, the Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence and the Kiriyama Prize, served as a visiting (more…)

Left Coast Writers Literary Salon: Tom Christensen

LEFT COAST WRITERS® LITERARY SALON: Tom Christensen, Author, Editor and Translator and author of 1616: The World in Motion and River of Ink: Literature, History and Art

: Tom Christensen

Monday, February 2nd, 2015 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

Sometimes we get surprised. You will be tonight when Tom Christensen makes an exciting, albeit unexpected salon appearance. Perhaps you saw the profile in yesterday’s paper. If not, you’ll get to meet the well know author, editor and translator this evening.

Thomas Christensen has published more than twenty books as author, editor, or translator. His two most recent books, 1616: The World in Motion and Landscape with Yellow Birds (a translation of the poetry of José Ángel Valente), were both nominated for Northern California Book Awards. 1616 was given a starred review and named one of the best history books of its season by Publishers Weekly. He was a senior editor at North Point Press and executive editor of Mercury House Publishing. Under his direction, Mercury House was nominated for a Carey-Thomas Award for (more…)

Ferry Plaza Book Party: Left Coast Love

LEFT COAST WRITERS FERRY PLAZA BOOK PARTY: Love on the Left Coast – Hot Flashes & Hot Flashes 2

Monday, February 9th, 2015 || 6pm
Book Passage || San Francisco
1 Ferry Building, San Francisco ||www.bookpassage.com

Join us for wine, chocolate and a look at love, here on the Left Coast with Hot Flashes editors Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Laurie McAndish King and a whole new crop of super scintillating writers. Hot Flashes and Hot Flashes 2 are collections of spicy, saucy, and sensual flash fiction and poetry guaranteed to raise your temperature in a way that is positively hormonal.

Guest readers will include: Tania Amochaev, Jonathan Arnowitz, Laurie McAndish King, Lowry McFerrin, Susanna Solomon Joan Steidinger and more. (more…)

Linda Watanabe McFerrin is talking about Writing Sexy Stuff at Redwood Writers

Writing Sexy Stuff with Linda Watanabe McFerrin

Redwood Writers
Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015, 3-5 p.m.,
Flamingo Hotel, Empire Room
2777 Fourth Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95405
707-523-4745
Fee: $5/Members (of Redwood Writers), $8/Non-members

Does having to write sexy stuff make you a little nervous? It’s time to overcome your trepidation. Whether you write commercial or literary fiction, poetry, screenplays, plays, creative nonfiction or even journalism, there are times when you want to be able to subtly articulate the sensual/sexual realm of experience with greater finesse, humor and originality.

So come and find out how to steam up the page. Tips and techniques for adding spicy, sensual, and sometimes funny sizzle to your work and a very special free write will have you moving from comfort to erogenous zones in no time.

Award-winning poet, travel writer, and novelist, Linda Watanabe McFerrin has also served as the editor for eight literary anthologies and a guidebook. Linda has judged the San Francisco Literary Awards, the Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence and the Kiriyama Prize, served (more…)

Book Launch: Wrestling With God by Barbara Falconer Newhall

Literary Salon: Rebecca Foust

Left Coast Writers® Live: Marianne Lonsdale on Lilycat on Stuff

Book Launch: Laurel Feigenbaum and Kat Crawford

Ferry Plaza Book Party: Shooting Genji by Richard Voorhees

Literary Salon: Patricia Bracewell

Workshop: The Plot Thickens with Linda Watanabe McFerrin

Left Coast Writers Literary Salon: Tom Christensen

Ferry Plaza Book Party: Left Coast Love

Linda Watanabe McFerrin is talking about Writing Sexy Stuff at Redwood Writers

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