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Events at Book Passage in San Francisco

Parties + Dessert + Books + Insalata's = Amazing! Join us!
Dont miss this special, double-author event and cookbook celebration at one of our favorite local restaurants, Heidi Krahling's Insalata's. Diane Rossen Worthington is a veteran author, food consultant, editor, and James Beard award-winning radio show host. Her new cookbook Seriously Simple Parties is part of a series of Seriously Simple cookbooks. With her will be Alice Medrich, who has won so many awards for her desserts that she's often referred to as the "First Lady of Chocolate." Medrich is the author of Sinfully Easy Delicious Desserts. Guests will receive both cookbooks as part of the ticket price!   

Thursday, September 20, 2012, 7:00 pm    

Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA 94925
Tickets $25.95+tax (includes a signed book)   

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Martin Amis reads from his new novel, Lionel Asbo: State of England ($25.95), the story of a terrifying yet weirdly loyal thug who has always looked out for his ward and nephew, the orphaned Desmond Pepperdine. This is vintage Amis, a savage, funny, and mysteriously poignant novel by a renowned author at the height of his powers.

Martin Amis is the author of twelve previous novels including The Rachel Papers and London Fields, the memoir Experience, two collections of stories and six of nonfiction, most recently The Second Plane. Though British-born, Amis is now one of America's finest writers. Amis now lives in Brooklyn, New York. 

Monday, September 24, 2012, 7:00 pm    

Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA 94925
Priority seating to this Book Passage event with purchase of the author's new book from Book Passage    

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Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon reads from Telegraph Avenue ($27.99), an exhilarating, big-hearted novel that explores the intertwined lives of two Oakland families, one black and one white. Telegraph Avenue is a world grounded in pop culture-Kung Fu, '70s Blaxploitation films, vinyl LPs, jazz and soul music-and a bravura epic of friendship, race, and secret histories.

Michael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the Mysteries of Pittsburgh, A Model World, Wonder Boys, Werewolves In Their Youth, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Final Solution, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Maps & Legends, Gentlemen of the Road, and the middle-grade book Summerland. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, the novelist Ayelet Waldman, and their children.

Salman Rushdie discusses Joseph Anton: A Memoir ($30.00). In 1989, the Indian-born writer received a telephone call from a journalist who told him he had been "sentenced to death" by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini. It was the first time Rushdie, a British resident, had heard the word "fatwa." His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses. Long anticipated, this new memoir tells of his life under a sentence of death.

Joseph Anton is the extraordinary story of how a writer (under the name made from the first names of two favorite writers) was forced underground, moving from safe house to safe house and always with the constant presence of police protection. Compelling, provocative, and moving, Joseph Anton is a book of exceptional frankness, honesty, and vital importance.   

Thursday, September 27, 2012, 7:00 pm    

Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA 94925    

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Acclaimed actor and award winning travel writer Andrew McCarthy talks about The Longest Way Home: One Man's Quest for the Courage to Settle Down ($26.00), a revealing and insightful memoir about how travel helped him become the man he wanted to be, which meant helping him overcome life-long fears and confront his resistance to commitment.

McCarthy will be in conversation with fellow travel writer Don George.

Andrew McCarthy has been a fixture on screen, television, and stage since making his debut at age 19. He has appeared in such films as Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, and Less Than Zero. For the last ten years, he has been a prolific and successful travel writer, publishing with National Geographic Traveler Magazine, The Atlantic, Slate, Travel + Leisure, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. He has won the Lowell Thomas Award twice, including being named "Travel Journalist of the Year" by the Society of American Travel Writers, and has been cited twice for notable work in the Best American Travel Series. 

Tuesday, October 16, 2012, 12:00 noon
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA 94925
Tickets $55 (includes lunch & a signed book)     

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Join us for lunch as Debra Dean talks about The Mirrored World. The critically acclaimed author of The Madonnas of Leningrad returns with a novel of love and madness set in 18th century Russia. Dean will be introduced by Isabel Allende, who described Dean's earlier work as "Elegant and poetic, the rare kind of book that you want to keep but you have to share."

Debra Dean will be introduced by Isabel Allende.

Debra Dean's bestselling debut novel, The Madonnas of Leningrad, was a New York Times "Editors' Choice," a #1 Booksense Pick, a Booklist "Top Ten Novel," and an American Library Association "Notable Book of the Year." It has been published in 20 languages. Her collection of short stories, Confessions of a Falling Woman, won the Paterson Fiction Prize and a Florida Book Award.

Book Passage hosts literary luncheons with celebrated authors at our Marin store. These events are catered by the outstanding Insalata's Restaurant of San Anselmo. 

Susan Feniger 

Thurs., Sept. 20, 2012, 6:30 pm, $110 per person   

Insalata's, 120 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., San Anselmo, CA 94960      

Street Food: Irresistibly crunchy, creamy, crunchy, spicy, sticky, sweet recipes!    

Alice Medrich & Diane Rossen Worthington   

Sun., Sept. 30, 2012, 12:30 pm, $120 per person   

Insalata's, 120 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., San Anselmo, CA 94960      

Sinfully Easy Delicious Desserts & Seriously Simple Parties   

Charles Phan    

Sun., Oct. 7, 2012, 6:30 pm, $115 per person   

San Francisco Ferry Building, Grand Hall, San Francisco, CA 94111      

Vietnamese Home Cooking    

Shelley Lindgren & Matthew Accarrino   

Sun., Oct. 28, 2012, 12:30 pm, $115 per person   

A16, 2355 Chestnut St., San Francisco, CA 94123      

SPQR: Modern Italian Food and Wine   

Tom Douglas    

Sun., Nov. 4, 2012, 12:30 pm, $110 per person   

Left Bank, 507 Magnolia Ave., Larkspur, CA 94939       

The dahlia bakery cookbook    

Maricel E. Presilla     

Mon., Nov. 5, 2012, 12:30 pm, $110 per person   

Marinitas, 218 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., San Anselmo, CA 94960        

Gran Cocina Latina: The Food of Latin America     

Kim Severson & Julia Moskin    

Thurs., Nov. 29, 2012, 6:30 pm, $110 per person   

Left Bank, 507 Magnolia Ave., Larkspur, CA 94939      

Cook Fight 

Bruce Aidells     

Sat., Dec. 1, 2012, 12:30 pm, $115 per person   

Prospect, 300 Spear St., San Francisco, CA 94105       

The Great Meat Cookbook  

Hubert Keller      

Thurs., Dec. 6, 2012, 6:30 pm, $125 per person   

Left Bank, 507 Magnolia Ave., Larkspur, CA 94939        

Hubert Keller's Souvenirs   

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