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• Jacob Needleman in conversation with John Goldthorpe

  In this new book, philosopher Jacob Needleman, whose voice and ideas have done much to open the West to esoteric and Eastern religious ideas, revisits the path of his discovery of the need for the very nature of human experience to change. From own early experience as an atheistic, existential student of philosophy, he recalls an unsettling...

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• Robert Hass and Michael Ondaatje
  

  Engage with award-winning authors Robert Hass and Michael Ondaatje in a conversation benefiting the Tomales Bay Library Association. Robert Hass was awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize and the 2008 National Book Award for his collection of poems, Time and Materials. He was Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He has also co-...

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• T.C. Boyle Returns to Point Reyes
  

  Dressed in a flashy, new, red suit, author T.C. Boyle made his second appearance at The Dance Palace. His first appearance was 30 years ago. Boyle is the idiosyncratic author of several novels and the newly published, Wild Child, a collection of short stories about human relationship to nature run amok. Boyle’s talk was...

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• Jon Carroll in conversation with Catherine Caufield
  

  Jon Carroll is the current winner of the Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. Carroll attracts an avid and passionate following for the column he has written for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1982, in which he skewers politicos, espouses moderate to liberal causes, and hilariously...

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• Rebecca Solnit in Conversation with Philip Fradkin

  Rebecca Solnit was in conversation with local author Philip Fradkin on April 28 as part of the bookstore's ongoing Country Arts and Lectures series. You can watch a video of their animated conversation.

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• Llewellyn Vaughan Lee
  

  Llewellyn Vaughan Lee will discuss his new book, The Return of the Feminine and World Soul. He will focus on our need to reclaim the divine mystery of the feminine in creation and understand her unique contribution at this time of global crisis and transformation...

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• Joseph Goldstein
  

  Buddhist teacher Joseph Goldstein on July 25, 2010 was in conversation with Chris Desser at a benefit sponsored by the bookstore for the Insight Mediation Society.

  Joseph Goldstein has led insight and lovingkindness meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. He is a cofounder and one...

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• Robert Reich in conversation with Peter Barnes
  

  A Benefit for the Mesa Refuge Writers Retreat in Point Reyes Station.

  Robert B. Reich is professor of public policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He last served in government as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. His articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The...

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