Jan 3, 2011 | Book Store Events
Acclaimed historian Simon Winchester‘s many books include The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, Krakatoa, and A Crack in the Edge of the World. Winchester discusses his new book Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic...
Dec 27, 2010 | Book Store Events
Thomas McGuane, one of America’s most acclaimed literary figures (“an important as well as brilliant novelist”-New York Times Book Review), reads from and discusses his new book Driving on the Rim. This major new novel is a “marvelous book,...
Dec 20, 2010 | Book Store Events
Most people know Greg Graffin as the lead singer of the punk band Bad Religion, but few know that he also received a Ph.D. from Cornell University and teaches evolution at the University of California at Los Angeles. Graffin discusses his new book Anarchy Evolution:...
Dec 13, 2010 | Book Store Events
Renowned chef Ming Tsai, owner of the award-winning Blue Ginger restaurant, and currently battling on Food Network’s “The Next Iron Chef,” discusses his new cookbook Simply Ming One-Pot Meals. Chef Tsai believes there are four basic needs in everyday...
Dec 6, 2010 | Book Store Events
Acclaimed Native American poet, memoirist and novelist Leslie Marmon Silko reads from and discusses her new book The Turquoise Ledge: A Memoir. Silko’s new book, her first in ten years, combines memoir with family history and reflections on the creatures and...
Nov 29, 2010 | Book Store Events
Nicole Krauss, author of the international bestseller The History of Love, reads from and discusses her critically acclaimed new novel Great House, a powerful, soaring novel about a stolen desk that contains the secrets, and becomes the obsession, of the lives it...
