UPCOMING EVENTS
Saturday, July 11 at 7:00pm
at the bookstore
Nicolette Hahn Niman
- part of the Food for Thought author series with Point Reyes Books and Marin Organic
Nicolette Hahn Niman, author of Righteous Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms, is a rancher, attorney, and writer. Much of her time is spent speaking and writing about the problems of industrialized livestock production. Previously, she was the Senior Attorney for Waterkeeper Alliance where she was in charge of the organization's campaign to reform the concentrated livestock and poultry industry.
Friday, July 17th at 7:30 pm
at the bookstore
Mark Dowie, author of Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict Between Global Conservation and Native Peoples
Local award-winning author Mark Dowie tells the "good guy vs. good guy" story of indigenous peoples displaced in the interests of conservation—from Yosemite National Park to Central Africa, Thailand, and India. Dowie explores the fact that, although the indigenous peoples’ movement and conservation organizations have a vital common goal—to protect biological diversity—and could work effectively and powerfully together to protect the planet and preserve species and ecosystem diversity, for more than a hundred years these two forces have been at odds. The result: thousands of unmanageable protected areas and native peoples reduced to poaching and trespassing on their ancestral lands or "assimilated" but permanently indentured on the lowest rungs of the economy. Instead, Dowie argues, conservationists and native peoples need to acknowledge the interdependence of biodiversity conservation and cultural survival so that they can together create a new and much more effective paradigm for conservation.
Monday, July 20th at 7:00 pm
at the bookstore
Reif Larsen, author of The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
Reif Larsen's first novel, this book features a 12-year-old cartographer who stretches the definition of maps in unusual ways. Penguin won a hot bidding war to be the publisher of this book, which has been called "startlingly original and intelligent and well-written” and "stunning and beautiful (both the writing and the visuals)." Come see for yourself.
Saturday, July 25 at 7:00pm
at the bookstore
Lisa Hamilton
- part of the Food for Thought author series with Point Reyes Books and Marin Organic
Lisa Hamilton, author of Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness, is a writer and photographer whose work focuses on the stories of farmers. Her work has also been published in the Nation, Harper's, National Geographic Traveler, Orion, and Gastronomica.
Sunday, July 26th at 3:00 pm
at Toby’s Gallery
Point Reyes Books’ Poetry Sundays
John Felstiner, author of Can Poetry Save the Earth? A Field Guide to Nature Poems
Felstiner, a professor of English at Stanford, teaches and writes about poetry. During the 1970s he developed critical approaches to poetry by civilians and soldiers from the Vietnam era. After teaching at the Hebrew University in Israel (1974-75), he studied the literature, art, photography, and music that emerged from the European Jewish catastrophe. His book on the German-speaking Jewish poet, Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew (1995),won the Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism. He is co-editor of a Norton anthology of American Jewish literature. Felstiner's most recent book, Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems, about poetry and environmental urgency, was written partly at the Point Reyes Mesa Refuge.
Monday, July 27th at 7:00 pm
Spanish Reading Group
The Spanish Reading Group meets on the last Monday of each month at the bookstore. Te di la vida entera by the Cuban author Zoé Valdés. In March the group will begin reading Delirio by Colombian writer Laura Restrepo.
Saturday, August 1st at 7:00 pm
at Toby's Feed Barn
David Whyte, poet and author of The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self & Relationship
Tickets: $25.00 Available at bookstore or online
Benefit for Vuleka, a South African educational program for 600 children “from Alex, Soweto, Diepsloot, Zewenfontein, the inner city, and the children and grandchildren of domestic workers in the surrounding suburbs.” Poet David Whyte, an Associate Fellow at the University of Oxford, is one of the few poets to take his perspectives on creativity into the field of organizational development, where he works with many American and international companies. His new book, The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self & Relationship, looks beyond the notion of work-life balance to three crucial areas that most individuals simply can't avoid: relationship, work, and all those strange and inexplicable inner ways we belong to ourselves. Thinking of these as three marriages offers the possibility of living them out in a way in which they are not put into competition with one another, where each of the marriages can protect, embolden and enliven the others and help keep us mutually honest, relevant, authentic and alive.
Sunday, August 16th at 4:00pm
at Toby's Gallery
West Marin Review Volume II Release Party
Readings by writers and poets from the second volume of the West Marin Review. Artists from the Review will show their work. Everyone welcome! Refreshments.
Monday, August 17th at 7:00 pm
at the bookstore
Jamie Monson, author of Africa’s Freedom Railway: How a Chinese Development Project Changed Lives and Livelihoods in Tanzania, in conversation with Sarah Hobson
Jamie Monson, professor of history at Carleton College, looks at one of the most ambitious international development efforts ever undertaken in Africa — by China, at the height of the Cultural Revolution. Her book has been called "An extremely nuanced and textured history of negotiated interests that includes international stakeholders, local actors, and - importantly - early Chinese policies of development assistance." (James McCann, Boston University).
Jamie is joined by Inverness resident Sarah Hobson who, as executive director of the New Field Foundation, has worked extensively in Africa.
Friday, August 21st at 7:30 p.m.
at the Dance Palace
Film: Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
$10 general, $8 seniors, $5 teens & kids
Join Emmy and Sundance-award-winning filmmaker Judy Irving and author Mark Bittner for a special screening and discussion of the documentary and the book, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill. The film follows Bittner, a former street musician, as he develops a relationship with a flock of wild parrots. Irving and Bittner will discuss the film and birds with audience members, as well as Bittner’s newly released book, also titled The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill. Co-sponsored with The Dance Palace.
Saturday, August 22, 2009 at 7:00 pm - POSTPONED!
at Toby's Feed Barn
Marion Nestle - part of the Food for Thought author series with Point Reyes Books and Marin Organic
Marion Nestle, author of What to Eat: An Aisle-by-Aisle Guide to Savvy Food Choices and Good Eating, is the most respected nutritionist in America today. Her book, Food Politics, was given the James Beard Award, the top award for food writing.
Saturday, September 5th at 7:00pm
at Toby's Feed Barn
David Mas Masumoto - part of the Food for Thought author series with Point Reyes Books and Marin Organic
David Mas Masumoto, author of Wisdom of the Last Farmer, Harvesting Legacy from the Land, Eptitah for a Peach, and three other books, is a third-generation organic peach and grape farmer whose organic farming techniques have been adopted by farmers across the nation.
Sunday, October 4th from 1:00 - 3:00 pm
at the Dance Palace
Edward Espe Brown
Edward Espe Brown, author of The Complete Tassajara Cookbook: Recipes, Techniques, and Reflections from the Famed Zen Kitchen and The Tassajara Bread Book is a Soto Zen Buddhist priest, an accomplished chef, who helped found Greens Restaurant with Deborah Madison and author of five books. In 2007, Edward appeared in How to Cook Your Life, a critically acclaimed feature-length documentary.
Saturday, October 24th at 8:00 pmat the bookstore
Pam Houston, author of Cowboys Are My Weakness, and Shawna Yang Ryan, author of Water Ghosts
Pam Houston’s annual reading at the bookstore has become a favorite event. Author of two collections of award-winning short stories, Houston is the Director of Creative Writing at the University of California, Davis and Tomales Bay Writers’ Workshop. Shawna Yang Ryan’s debut novel, Water Ghosts, is the tale of a real-life immigrants' enclave in the mining town of Locke in early 20th-Century California. One reviewer wrote, “Ryan explores love, desire, loss, and betrayal as she combines history and myth in lyrical prose that is both delicate and sensuous. An accomplished and affecting first novel.”
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