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Event Name: Edward Bergman at Barnes & Noble Court Street
Street Address: 106 Court Street
Brooklyn, New York
Start Date: 10/10/2001
End Date: 10/10/2001
Times: 07:30:00 PM-08:30:00 PM
Contact Phone: 718-246-4158
Join Edward Bergman as he discusses his new book THE SPIRITUAL TRAVELER
NEW YORK CITY: THE GUIDE TO SACRED SPACES & PEACEFUL PLACES.
Event Name: Carnie Wilson at Barnes and Noble, New York
Location: Barnes and Noble
Street Address: 600 Fifth Ave
New York, New York 10020
Start Date: 10/10/2001
End Date: 10/10/2001
Times: 12:30:00 PM-01:30:00 PM
Contact Phone: 212-765-0592
Contact FAX: 212-489-2355
"Gut Feelings." Carnie Wilson will appear for a signing only.
Event Name: Edwardo Jackson at Barnes and Noble, Santa Monica
Location: Barnes and Noble
Street Address: 1201 3rd Street
Santa Monica, California 90401
Start Date: 10/10/2001
End Date: 10/10/2001
Times: 07:30:00 PM-08:30:00 PM
Contact Phone: 310-260-9110
Contact FAX: 310-260-9429
"Ever After: A Novel." Edwardo Jackson will appear for a reading and
signing.
Event Name: Willard Carroll at Borders, Westwood
Location: Borders Books & Music
Street Address: 1360 Westwood Boulevard
Westwood, California 90024
Start Date: 10/11/2001
End Date: 10/11/2001
Times: 07:30:00 PM
Contact Phone: (310) 475-3444
"I Toto." Willard Carroll will appear for a discussion and signing.
Event Name: Edwardo Jackson signs "EVER AFTER"
Location: Brentanos
Street Address: Beverly Center
8500 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, California
Start Date: 10/11/2001
End Date: 10/11/2001
Times: 07:00:00 PM-08:30:00 PM
Contact Phone: 815-394-3904
Contact Email: L. Peggy Hicks (Publicist@tricomweb.com)
In this funny and heartwarming debut, newcomer Edwardo Jackson gives
us a fresh take on the male broken heart in EVER AFTER (Villard; September 18, 2001;
$22.95). Jackson has a great ear for dialogue and a knack for truthful, uncompromising
storytelling. So, be ready to laugh out
loud as you follow Nick's romantic misfortunes and mishaps as he struggles
to find love after all in EVER AFTER.
Event Name: Jonathan Franzen at Barnes and Noble, New York
Location: Barnes and Noble
Street Address: 2289 Broadway
New York, New York 10024
Start Date: 10/12/2001
End Date: 10/12/2001
Times: 07:30:00 PM-08:30:00 PM
Contact Phone: 212-362-8835
Contact FAX: 212-362-6908
"The Corrections; A Novel." Jonathan Franzen will appear for a reading,
q&a and signing.
Event Name: Reeve Lindbergh at Barnes and Noble, New York
Location: Barnes and Noble
Street Address: 240 East 86th Street
New York, New York 10028
Start Date: 10/12/2001
End Date: 10/12/2001
Times: 07:30:00 PM-08:30:00 PM
Contact Phone: 212-794-1962
Contact FAX: 212-794-2409
"No More Words: A Journal Of My Mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh." Reeve
Lindbergh will appear for a reading, q&a and signing.
Event Name: Calligraphy and Typography Zapfest Lecture with CYNTHIA HOLLANDSWORTH at the
San Francisco Main Library
Location: San Francisco Main Library's Koret Auditorium
Street Address: 100 Larkin Street (at Grove)
San Francisco, California
Start Date: 10/13/2001
End Date: 10/13/2001
Times: 02:00:00 PM
Contact Phone: (415) 557-4277
"A Thoughtful Look Back at Calligraphic Disputes," a lecture by CYNTHIA
HOLLANDSWORTH, is the fifth in a series of slide slectures featuring some of the foremost
practitioners in the typographic and calligraphic professions. Hollandsworth, an
accomplished calligrapher and an authority on the intellectual property protection of
typefaces, will provde her views and insight, together with a live demonstration of
calligraphic technique.
Event Name: Coleman Barks at Barnes and Noble, Santa Monica
Location: Barnes and Noble
Street Address: 1201 3rd Street
Santa Monica, California 90401
Start Date: 10/14/2001
End Date: 10/14/2001
Times: 08:00:00 PM-09:00:00 PM
Contact Phone: 310-260-9110
Contact FAX: 310-260-9429
"The Soul Of Rumi." Coleman Barks will appear for a reading and signing.
Event Name: George & Wendy Rodrigue at Barnes and Noble, New York
Location: Barnes and Noble
Street Address: 675 6th Avenue
New York, New York 10010
Start Date: 10/16/2001
End Date: 10/16/2001
Times: 07:30:00 PM-08:30:00 PM
Contact Phone: 212-727-1227
Contact FAX: 212-727-1618
"Blue Dog Love." George & Wendy Rodrigue will appear for a discussion
and signing.
Event Name: Glen David Gold at Barnes and Noble, Santa Monica
Location: Barnes and Noble
Street Address: 1201 3rd Street
Santa Monica, California 90401
Start Date: 10/16/2001
End Date: 10/16/2001
Times: 07:30:00 PM-08:30:00 PM
Contact Phone: 310-260-9110
Contact FAX: 310-260-9429
"Carter Beats The Devil." Glen David Gold will appear for a reading,
discussion and signing.
Event Name: Doug Marlette at Borders, Chicago
Location: Borders Books & Music
Street Address: 830 N. Michigan
Chicago, Illinois 60611
Start Date: 10/17/2001
End Date: 10/17/2001
Times: 07:00:00 PM
Contact Phone: (312) 573-0564
Event Description:
"Bridge." Doug Marlette will appear for a discussion and signing.
Event Name: Eugene Gloria @ City Lights Bookstore
Location: City Lights Booksellers and Publishers
Street Address: 261 Columbus Avenue
San Francisco, California
Start Date: 10/17/2001
End Date: 10/17/2001
Times: 07:00:00 PM
Contact Phone: 415-362-8193
Contact FAX: 415-362-4921
Contact Email: staff@citylights.com
Celebrated author of DRIVERS AT THE SHORT-TIME MOTEL reads from his works. Garrett Hongo
says about Gloria's work:"Eugene Gloria has built a rich poetry out of family memoir,
out of sojourns and residencias in Filipino transnational culture, all with captivating,
deliberately mythopoeic perspective. He has become unique as a poet, possessing the
emotional depth and writerly patience to both describe a landscape and explain a
globalized, postcolonial perspective of horror, poverty, splendor, and diaspora."
Event Name: KGB presents sf writers Wil McCarthy and Tony Daniel
Location: KGB Bar
Street Address: 85 east 4th(just off 2nd Av, upstairs)
New York, New York
Start Date: 10/17/2001
End Date: 10/17/2001
Times: 07:00:00 PM
Contact Email: datlow@bway.net
KGB presents an evening of Contemporary Science Fiction hosted by Terry
Bisson and Ellen Datlow featuring: Wil McCarthy, author of The Collapsium, a vibrant
scientific and social satire & Tony Daniel, author of Metaplanetary, a novel of
interplanetary civil war.
Event Name: KIRK READ - Author Reading at the San Francisco Public Library
Location: Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center
Street Address: San Francisco Main Library (Third Floor)
100 Larkin Street at Grove (Civic Center)
San Francisco, California
Start Date: 10/18/2001
End Date: 10/18/2001
Times: 06:30:00 PM
Contact Phone: (415) 557-4277
Author Kirk Read reads from his new book "How I learned to Snap," a
1980s comic and poignant reflection on growing up gay in the Bible Belt
South.
Event Name: GERALD STERN AT THE SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER
Location: Skirball Cultural Center
Street Address: 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles, California
Start Date: 10/21/2001
End Date: 10/21/2001
Times: 02:00:00 PM
Price: $5 - students free
Contact FAX: 310-440-4695
Contact Email: asanchez@skirball.org
THE RATTLE POETRY SERIES AT THE SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER PRESENTS GERALD STERN. A poet of
extraordinary vision, Gerald Stern is the author of more than a dozen volumes of poetry
including The Red Coal, This Time: New and Selected Poems, Bread Without Sugar, and his
latest, Last Blue: Poems. Stern has earned numerous honors including the National Book
Award. In April 2000, he was named the first Poet Laureate of the State of New Jersey. He
has taught at Columbia University, University of Iowa, and New York University.
Event Name: Allan Zola Kronzek & Elizabeth Kronzek at Barnes and Noble, New York
Location: Barnes and Noble
Street Address: 2289 Broadway
New York, New York 10024
Start Date: 10/22/2001
End Date: 10/22/2001
Times: 07:30:00 PM-08:30:00 PM
Contact Phone: 212-362-8835
Contact FAX: 212-362-6908
"The Sorcerer's Companion: A Guide To The Magical World Of Harry Potter."
Allan Zola Kronzek & Elizabeth Kronzek will appear for a discussion,
magic show and signing.
Event Name: Christopher Awdry at Borders, Torrance
Location: Borders Books & Music
Street Address: 3700 Torrance Blvd
Torrance, California 90503
Start Date: 10/22/2001
End Date: 10/22/2001
Times: 02:30:00 PM
Contact Phone: (310) 540-7000
"Really Useful Engines & Other Thomas The Tank Books." Christopher Awdry
will appear for a discussion and signing.
Event Name: Rebecca Miller at Borders, Chicago
Location: Borders Books & Music
Street Address: 830 N. Michigan
Chicago, Illinois 60611
Start Date: 10/22/2001
End Date: 10/22/2001
Times: 07:00:00 PM
Contact Phone: (312) 573-0564
"Personal Velocity." Rebecca Miller will appear for a discussion and
signing.
Event #: 126 (Authors in Person)
Event Name: Cindy Crawford at Barnes and Noble, New York
Author Name: Cindy Crawford
Location: Barnes and Noble
Street Address: 600 Fifth Ave
New York, New York 10020
Start Date: 10/23/2001
End Date: 10/23/2001
Times: 12:30:00 PM-01:30:00 PM
Price:
Contact Phone: 212-765-0592
Contact FAX: 212-489-2355
Event Description:
"About Face." Cindy Crawford will appear for a signing only.
Event Name: Jay Winik at Barnes and Noble, New York
Location: Barnes and Noble
Street Address: 160 E 54th Street
New York, New York 10022
Start Date: 10/23/2001
End Date: 10/23/2001
Times: 05:00:00 PM-07:30:00 PM
Contact Phone: 212-750-8033
Contact FAX: 212-727-1618
"April 1865: The Month That Saved America." Jay Winik will appear for
a off site signing.
Event Name: Joseph O'neill at Barnes and Noble, New York
Location: Barnes and Noble
Street Address: 4 Astor Place
New York, New York 10003
Start Date: 10/23/2001
End Date: 10/23/2001
Times: 07:30:00 PM-08:30:00 PM
Contact Phone: 212-420-1322
Contact FAX: 212-420-1652
"Blood-dark Track." Joseph O'neill will appear for a discussion and
signing.
Event Name: Oriah Mountain Dreamer at Barnes and Noble, Santa Monica
Location: Barnes and Noble
Street Address: 1201 3rd Street
Santa Monica, California 90401
Start Date: 10/24/2001
End Date: 10/24/2001
Times: 07:30:00 PM-08:30:00 PM
Contact Phone: 310-260-9110
Contact FAX: 310-260-9429
"The Dance." Oriah Mountain Dreamer will appear for a discussion, reading
and signing.
Event Name: Owen West at Barnes and Noble, New York
Location: Barnes and Noble
Street Address: 240 East 86th Street
New York, New York 10028
Start Date: 10/24/2001
End Date: 10/24/2001
Times: 07:30:00 PM-08:30:00 PM
Contact Phone: 212-794-1962
Contact FAX: 212-794-2409
"Sharkman Six." Owen West will appear for a reading, q&a and signing.
Event Name: Carrie Schneider at Borders, Kips Bay NYC
Location: Borders Books & Music
Street Address: Kips Bay
576 Second Ave
New York, New York 10016
Start Date: 10/24/2001
End Date: 10/24/2001
Times: 07:00:00 PM
Contact Phone: (212) 685-3938
"Yoga Within." Carrie Schneider will appear for a discussion and signing.
Event Name: Adam Gopnik at Barnes and Noble, New York
Location: Barnes and Noble
Street Address: 2289 Broadway
New York, New York 10024
Start Date: 10/25/2001
End Date: 10/25/2001
Times: 07:30:00 PM-08:30:00 PM
Contact Phone: 212-362-8835
Contact FAX: 212-362-6908
"Paris To The Moon." Adam Gopnik will appear for a reading and signing.
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