Monday, May 11, 2009 || 5:30pm ||
Reading: On Scent and Sensation
Book Passage – Ferry Plaza
Ferry Plaza, San Francisco
On the second Monday of every month Left Coast Writers read from their favorite work. Colette Obrien hosts.
This month: On Scent and Sensation
Readers so far:
Please contact us (leftcoastwriters@aol.com) to sign up to read.
Monday, June 8, 2009 || 5:30pm ||
Reading: Colorful Stories
Book Passage – Ferry Plaza
Ferry Plaza, San Francisco
On the second Monday of every month Left Coast Writers read from their favorite work. Colette Obrien hosts.
This month: Colorful Stories
Readers so far:
Please contact us (leftcoastwriters@aol.com) to sign up to read.
Monday, July 13, 2009 || 5:30pm ||
Reading: The Great Outdoors
Book Passage – Ferry Plaza
Ferry Plaza, San Francisco
On the second Monday of every month Left Coast Writers read from their favorite work. Colette Obrien hosts.
This month: The Great Outdoors
Readers so far: Bill Keener, Susan Alcorn
Please contact us (leftcoastwriters@aol.com) to sign up to read.
Monday, August 10, 2009 || 5:30pm ||
Reading: Wipe Outs
Book Passage – Ferry Plaza
Ferry Plaza, San Francisco
On the second Monday of every month Left Coast Writers read from their favorite work. Colette Obrien hosts.
This month: Wipe Outs
Special Guests:
Paul McHugh
Paul McHugh has been one of California’s leading outdoor writers for three decades. For 22 years, he was outdoor feature writer and editor at the San Francisco Chronicle. During that time, he covered the dramatic big-wave surf break called Maverick’s at Half Moon Bay in features, interviews and reports on the annual contest there. After taking a buy-out from the Chronicle in ’07, he continued providing Maverick’s stories and coverage to the New York Times. He has put all he knows about big-wave adventures in the piece he will read Monday night at the Ferry Building, a short piece of new journalism called, “Mav’s”.
McHugh is the author of a novel, “The Search for Goodbye-to-Rains,” editor and writer of a non-fiction book, “Wild Places,” and has a new novel coming out soon, a mystery based in San Francisco called, “Deadlines.”
Also: Well known journalist and past contributor to the Washington Post, Joanna Biggar.
Please contact us (leftcoastwriters@aol.com) to sign up to read.
Monday, September 14, 2009 || 5:30pm ||
Reading: Trauma & Drama
Book Passage – Ferry Plaza
Ferry Plaza, San Francisco
On the second Monday of every month Left Coast Writers read from their favorite work. Colette Obrien hosts.
This month: Trauma & Drama
Readers so far: Griffin Dix, Jane Straus
Please contact us (leftcoastwriters@aol.com) to sign up to read.
Monday, October 12, 2009 || 5:30pm ||
Reading: Grizzly Tales
Book Passage – Ferry Plaza
Ferry Plaza, San Francisco
On the second Monday of every month Left Coast Writers read from their favorite work. Colette Obrien hosts.
This month: Grizzly Tales (and other spooky Halloween reminders)
Readers so far:
Please contact us (leftcoastwriters@aol.com) to sign up to read.
Monday, November 9, 2009 || 5:30pm ||
Reading: On the Soapbox
Book Passage – Ferry Plaza
Ferry Plaza, San Francisco
On the second Monday of every month Left Coast Writers read from their favorite work. Colette Obrien hosts.
This month: On the Soapbox
Readers so far:
Please contact us (leftcoastwriters@aol.com) to sign up to read.
Monday, December 14, 2009 || 5:30pm ||
Reading: Home Sweet Home
Book Passage – Ferry Plaza
Ferry Plaza, San Francisco
On the second Monday of every month Left Coast Writers read from their favorite work. Colette Obrien hosts.
This month: Home Sweet Home
Readers so far:
Please contact us (leftcoastwriters@aol.com) to sign up to read.
Laurie McQueen will present An Erotic Alphabet ($9.95) at Book Passage on February 7 at 7 p.m.. This book of rhymes celebrates eroticism in all its forms, from silly to sensual, playful to to x-rated. Laurie reveals the surprising joy she discovered by liberating her “dirty mind” and embracing sexuality … and invites you to join her in the gentle sport of rhyming. This book will be printed in a very limited quantity; please pre-order for Valentine’s Day.
Monday, February 2, 2009 || 7pm ||
Niloufar Talebi, award winning editor and translator of Belonging New Poetry By Iranians Around the World.
Book Passage – Corte Madera
51 Tamal Vista Dr., Corte Madera
In this time of great international misunderstanding, many things are “lost in translation.” Join us for an exciting and truly enlightening evening that will add a little clarity and introduce new voices with important things to share.
Award-winning translator, Niloufar Talebi, was born in London to Iranian parents. She received a BA in Comparative Literature from UC Irvine, and an MFA in Writing and Literature from Bennington College. She studied theater with Jean Shelton and Cyril Clayton and has produced and performed nationally. She created The Translation Project (TTP), a literary organization and production company in 2003 to bring contemporary Iranian literature to larger audiences. Her translations have been anthologized and published in Two Lines, Poetry International, CIRCUMFERENCE, Agni on-line and Harvard Divinity Bulletin, and she is the guest editor of the Spring 2006 issue of Rattapallax. She has presented at the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature in NYC, The Asia Society, The New School, UC Irvine, University of Iowa, The National Arts Club, St. Mark’s Poetry Project, Asia Society, the New York Public Library, LitQuake, Theater Artaud, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Actor’s Theater and Intersection for the Arts.
She created “Midnight Approaches”, a DVD of short films, as well as “ICARUS/RISE”, a multimedia theatrical piece, both based on new Iranian poetry. She is the recipient of translation prizes from the International Center for Writing and Translation (2004), the American Literary Translators Association (2005), the PEN/New York State Council on the Arts (2006) and the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize (2006). She is a member of ALTA, MESA and PEN American Center. She is the editor and translator of BELONGING: New Poetry By Iranians Around the World (North Atlantic Books, July 2008).
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