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...
by editor | Jan 10, 2017 | Articles, News + Features
This week, we polled our reviewers: What was the best book you read in 2016? The book didn’t necessarily even have come from us. The overwhelming response I received was “How can you make me choose? That’s like asking a parent which child is their...
by editor | Jan 3, 2017 | Articles, Guest Contributors, News + Features
By Joseph Arellano Let’s suppose you’ve spent a few years in a rock band, The Runners. You haven’t starved, but you’ve just managed to get by in terms of life’s necessities. Finally, the band releases a first album, It’s The Runners! It may not be as big as Meet The...
