by editor | May 12, 2017 | Articles, Author Events, News + Features
By Jennifer Dwight The tall and gracious Professor Emerita, Judith L. Newton, held the book launch celebration for her debut novel one recent evening at Books Inc. in Berkeley. The star of the evening was Oink, A Food for Thought Mystery (She Writes Press), the first...
by editor | Apr 24, 2017 | Articles, Author Events, Author Interviews
By Jennifer Dwight | @jennifer_dwight Author and satirist, Ron Currie recently entertained his following with tales of his newly-released novel, The One-Eyed Man (Penguin Rand House 2017) and its curious protagonist, “K,” who is a sort of modern-day Diogenes. K., a...
by editor | Mar 31, 2017 | Articles, Author Events, News + Features
By Jennifer Dwight The San Francisco Bay Area’s iconic book store, Book Passage, was the setting for many a teary eye one recent afternoon when Ariel Levy’s audience shared their deep connections with her new memoir, The Rules Do Not Apply (Random House 2017). Ms....
by editor | Mar 6, 2017 | Articles, Author Events, News + Features
By Jennifer Dwight | @jennifer_dwight | authorjenniferdwight.com Paulette Jiles is a subtle woman with a penetrating gaze who chooses her words with obvious punctiliousness, as a great author must. She delivered them to an adoring audience at the preeminent Corte...
by editor | Feb 2, 2017 | Articles, Author Events, News + Features
By Jennifer Dwight What happens when a British documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist with a wicked sense of humor uproots herself to California when her husband takes a job at a Silicon Valley start-up? She explores her new environs, of course, and is...
by editor | Jan 18, 2017 | Articles, Author Events, News + Features
By Jennifer Dwight At a book signing event last October, the greatly admired Alaskan writer, Eowyn Ivey (pronounced “A-o-win”), spoke at Book Passage in San Francisco’s Ferry Building about her enticing new book, To the Bright Edge of the World. It is an epistolary...
