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 | Oct 5, 2016 | Articles, News + Features
Bestselling author Amor Towles spoke to a spellbound audience at Rakestraw Books in Danville, CA on Sunday, September 18th, about many things related to his new novel, A Gentleman in Moscow (Viking, Sept. 6, 2016, 462 p.). On Monday, Gentleman hit The New York...
by editor | Aug 15, 2016 | Articles, Guest Contributors, News + Features
If Jonathan Shapiro’s credentials don’t get your attention, his charm and poise as a speaker certainly will. He spoke at San Francisco’s iconic Ferry Building book store, Book Passage, recently while on tour for his debut novel, Deadly Force. Mr. Shapiro’s background...
