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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181002T193000
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SUMMARY:Juan Gabriel Vasquez
DESCRIPTION:Juan Gabriel Vasquez\n\n\n\n\nreads from The Shape of the Ruins\, his highly anticipated\, deeply personal masterpiece that is being heralded as the most ambitious novel of his career. \n“A highly sophisticated\, fast-moving political thriller set in Colombia and an excellent read.”–Alan Furst \n“One of the great novels of recent years.”–Mario Vargas Llosa \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of The Shape of the Ruins by speaking with a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, October 2\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy\, political obsession\, and literary investigation. When a man is arrested at a museum for attempting to steal the bullet-ridden suit of a murdered Colombian politician\, few notice. But soon this thwarted theft takes on greater meaning as it becomes a thread in a widening web of popular fixations with conspiracy theories\, assassinations\, and historical secrets; and it haunts those who feel that only they know the real truth behind these killings. \nThis novel explores the darkest moments of a country’s past and brings to life the ways in which past violence shapes our present lives. A compulsive read\, beautiful and profound\, eerily relevant to our times and deeply personal\, The Shape of the Ruins is a tour-de-force story by a master at uncovering the incisive wounds of our memories. \nJuan Gabriel Vásquez’s previous books include the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award winner and national bestseller\, The Sound of Things Falling\, as well as the award-winning Reputations\, The Informers\, The Secret History of Costaguana\, and the story collection\, Lovers on All Saints’ Day. Vásquez’s novels have been published in twenty-eight languages worldwide. After sixteen years in France\, Belgium\, and Spain\, he now lives in Bogotá. \n 
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181004T193000
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SUMMARY:Miriam Pawel in Conversation with T.J. Stiles discussing The Browns of California
DESCRIPTION:Miriam Pawel in Conversation with T.J. Stiles\ndiscussing The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty That Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation. \n“A remarkable book–a generational biography of a political dynasty\, ranging from the California Gold Rush to the presidency of Donald Trump. She recounts the pivotal governorship of Pat Brown and the even more significant career of his son Jerry with assured prose and a keen sense of historical context. This is the engrossing saga of complicated family at the center of American political life for the last sixty years.”–T.J. Stiles\, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Custer’s Trials and The First Tycoon. \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of The Browns of California by speaking to a bookseller or via our website. \nEven in the land of reinvention\, the story is exceptional: Pat Brown\, the beloved father who presided over California during an era of unmatched expansion; Jerry Brown\, the cerebral son who became the youngest governor in modern times–and then returned three decades later as the oldest. \nIn The Browns of California\, journalist and scholar Miriam Pawel weaves a narrative history that spans four generations\, from August Schuckman\, the Prussian immigrant who crossed the Plains in 1852 and settled on a northern California ranch\, to his great-grandson Jerry Brown\, who reclaimed the family homestead one hundred forty years later. Through the prism of their lives\, we gain an essential understanding of California and an appreciation of its importance. \nThe magisterial story is enhanced by dozens of striking photos\, many published for the first time. This book gives new insights to those steeped in California history\, offers a corrective for those who confuse stereotypes and legend for fact\, and opens new vistas for readers familiar with only the sketchiest outlines of a place habitually viewed from afar with a mix of envy and awe\, disdain\, and fascination. \nMiriam Pawel is the author of The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography\, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and winner of the California Book Award\, and The Union of Their Dreams—Power\, Hope and Struggle in Cesar Chavez’s Farm Worker Movement. She is a Pulitzer-Prize winning editor and reporter who spent twenty-five years at Newsday and the Los Angeles Times. She lives in Southern California. \nT.J. Stiles is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America\, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt\, and Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War. 
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181011T180000
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SUMMARY:Evening for Educators of grades K-5
DESCRIPTION:If you are a local educator\, you are cordially invited to join us for a special Educator Evening celebrating non-fiction books\, reading\, and you. The event is free but we ask that you RSVP via Eventbrite (https://mrsdseducatornight.eventbrite.com) so we can plan for attendance and refreshments. \n\n\n\n\nWe’ve created a fun-filled\, information-packed evening just for elementary school educators\, grades K-5: \n\n7 non-fiction authors will present their books–each author will pair her book(s) with a fiction book. We look forward to welcoming: Patricia Newman\, Jeanne Walker Harvey\, Christy Hale\, Lynn Fulton\, Pamela S. Turner\, and Laura Atkins.\nMrs. Dalloway’s kids’ specialists will preview our favorite fall releases.\nWe’ll have lots of giveaways.\nMingle with local authors to arrange school visits.\nNetwork and make new friends\n\nLight refreshments and wine will be served. \nWe always offer a 20% discount to our partner school educators for books used in the classroom. Sign up today by contacting Ann Whaling (ann@mrsdalloways.com). \nBring your educator friends!
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181014T150000
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SUMMARY:Georgia Freedman Come meet the author of Cooking South of the Clouds
DESCRIPTION:Georgia Freedman\n\n\n\n\nCome meet the author of Cooking South of the Clouds: Recipes and Stories from China’s Yunnan Province. \n“More than a cookbook\, it’s an intimate journey through culinary traditions almost unknown in the West. Josh Wand’s photos of the region’s countryside\, villages\, markets\, and dishes paint a stunning portrait of Yunnanese cuisine and life. . . . Deserves a place of honor in every collection of Chinese cookbooks.”–Grace Young\, James Beard Award-winning author of Stir-Frying to the Sky’s Edge \n\n\n\n\n\n\nChina’s Yunnan Province is the most geographically\, biologically\, and ethnically diverse region in China. Stretching from the Himalayan plateau to the subtropics\, the province is home to thousands of species of plants and animals as well as twenty-four of China’s minority groups. As a result\, Yunnan is one of the most culinary interesting and delicious places on earth\, with a wide variety of cuisines and flavors all packed into one small province.\nCooking South of the Clouds offers a tour of Yunnan’s many foods\, from the famed Crossing the Bridge Noodles to dishes like spiced chicken grilled in banana leaves\, which will introduce cooks to a side of Chinese cooking still relatively unknown outside of the country itself.\nEach chapter covers a different area featuring its classic recipes such as Tibetan momo dumplings from the north\, grilled chicken with chiles and fresh herbs and the famed “crossing-the-bridge” noodles from the south\, fried rice with ham\, potatoes\, and peas from the east\, and roasted eggplant salad with tomatoes and herbs from the west\, near the Burmese border.\nComplete with profiles of local cooks\, artisans\, and farmers\, as well as breath-taking location photography\, this book takes you on an unforgettable journey through the land of Shangri-La and presents a whole new world of flavors. \nGeorgia Freedman is a freelance journalist and editor based in the Bay Area. Her writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal\, Afar\, Martha Stewart Living\, Rodale’s Organic Life\, Roads and Kingdoms\, and other food and travel publications including Saveur magazine\, where she was previously the managing editor. Georgia has been traveling to China to learn about the country’s food and culture since 2000\, and she lived in Yunnan Province for two years. She returns to Yunnan regularly with her husband\, Josh Wand\, and their young daughter\, sharing stories about their travels at ChinaSouthoftheClouds.com.
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jaap Robben in Conversation with Jeroen Dewulf reads from his award-winning novel\, You Have Me to Love
DESCRIPTION:Jaap Robben in Conversation with Jeroen Dewulf\n\n\n\n\nreads from his award-winning novel\, You Have Me to Love\, an unforgettable story about lost childhood innocence\, isolation\, guilt and mother-son relationships. \n“An intense and dramatic novel filled with meticulous use of detail and a forensic psychological accuracy. Its power comes from the fierce energy of the narrative structure\, the way of handling silence and pain\, and the ability to confront the darkest areas of experience with clear-eyed sympathy and care. Jaap Robben handles delicate\, dangerous material with subtlety and sympathy\, but also with a visionary sense of truth that is masterly and unforgettable.”–Colm Tóibín \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of You Have Me to Love by speaking to a bookseller or ordering via our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMikael lives with his parents on an island somewhere between Scotland and Norway. One day Mikael’s father saves him from drowning in the ocean\, but is himself thrown against the rocks by a wave and disappears under water. In shock and unable to speak\, Mikael blocks out the memory of what took place\, silently joining his mother in the search for his missing father. As Mikael’s mother realizes her husband has drowned\, the relationship between her and Mikael transforms: she slowly starts to unravel\, forcing the son to replace his father in every possible way. \nJaap Robben is a popular Dutch poet\, playwright\, actor\, and children’s author. You Have Me to Love is his first novel. It received glowing reviews in the Dutch press and won the prize for the best Dutch debut novel and the 2014 Dutch Booksellers Award. \nJeroen Dewulf is Director of Dutch Studies at UC Berkeley.
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181024T193000
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SUMMARY:Jeffrey Meyers presents Resurrections: Authors\, Heroes--and a Spy
DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey Meyers presents Resurrections: Authors\, Heroes–and a Spy\, portraits of writers and artists including Ian Watt\, Paul Theroux\, James Salter\, and Anthony Blunt.\n\n\n\n\n“ Intellectually stimulating . . . a portrait of the artist in portraits of other artists.”–Kirkus Reviews \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Resurrections by speaking to a bookseller or ordering via our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this new book\, the prolific biographer Meyers brings to life a set of extraordinary writers\, painters\, and literary adventurers who turned their lives into art. Meyers knew nine of these figures\, in some cases intimately\, while five others he admires and regrets never meeting. As he writes in the preface\, “The chapters in this book represent in miniature my career as a life-writer. My biographies have always been driven by fascination with the source of artistic creativity\, with people who wrote or painted and with the worlds they inhabited.”
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181025T190000
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SUMMARY:Fox Butterfield presents In My Father's House
DESCRIPTION:Fox Butterfield presents In My Father’s House: A New View of How Crime Runs in the Family\, a pathbreaking examination of our huge crime and incarceration problem that looks at the influence of the family–specifically one Oregon family with a generations-long legacy of lawlessness.\n\n\n\n\n“A spellbinding book\, brilliant and bone-chilling. In My Father’s House will change the way we look at what makes a criminal.”–Linda Fairstein\, author of Deadfall \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of In My Father’s House by speaking to a bookseller or ordering on our website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe United States currently holds the distinction of housing nearly one-quarter of the world’s prison population. But our reliance on mass incarceration\, Butterfield argues\, misses the intractable reality: As few as 5 percent of families account for half of all crime\, and only 10 percent account for two-thirds. In introducing us to the Bogle family\, the author invites us to understand crime in this eye-opening new light. He chronicles the malignant legacy of criminality passed from parents to children\, grandchildren\, and even great-grandchildren. Examining the long history of the Bogles\, a white family\, Butterfield offers a revelatory look at criminality that forces us to disentangle race from our ideas about crime and\, in doing so\, strikes at the heart of our deepest stereotypes. And he makes clear how these new insights are leading to fundamentally different efforts at reform. With his empathic insight and profound knowledge of criminology\, Butterfield offers us both the indelible tale of one family’s transgressions and tribulations\, and an entirely new way to understand crime in America.\n\n\nFox Butterfield is the author of China: Alive in the Bitter Sea\, which won the National Book Award\, and All God’s Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence. He was a member of the New York Times reporting team that won the Pulitzer Prize for its publication of the Pentagon Papers\, and served as a bureau chief for the newspaper in Boston\, Saigon\, Tokyo\, Hong Kong\, and Beijing–where he opened the Times bureau in 1979. Most recently he was a national correspondent for the Times\, covering crime and violence. He lives in Portland\, Oregon.
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore\, 2904 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181027T110000
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SUMMARY:Leif Enger celebrating the publication of his wonderful new novel\, Virgil Wander
DESCRIPTION:Leif Enger OFFSITE @ Rialto Cinemas Elmwood\n\n\n\n\ncelebrating the publication of his wonderful new novel\, Virgil Wander\, much of which takes place in and around a beloved old movie theater not unlike our own here in the Elmwood. There will be a special screening of Cinema Paradiso in connection with the reading and signing. Buy your tickets\, with or without book\, through Eventbrite: https://leifengermrsds.eventbrite.com or in the store. We will have additional copies of Virgil Wander and Peace Like a River for sale at the event. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMidwestern movie house owner Virgil Wander is “cruising along at medium altitude” when his car flies off the road into icy Lake Superior. Virgil survives but his language and memory are altered and he emerges into a world no longer familiar to him. Awakening in this new life\, Virgil begins to piece together his personal history and the lore of his broken town\, with the help of a cast of affable and curious locals–from Rune\, a twinkling\, pipe-smoking\, kite-flying stranger investigating the mystery of his disappeared son; to Nadine\, the reserved\, enchanting wife of the vanished man\, to Tom\, a journalist and Virgil’s oldest friend; and various members of the Pea family who must confront tragedies of their own. Into this community returns a shimmering prodigal son who may hold the key to reviving their town. \nWith intelligent humor and captivating whimsy\, Leif Enger conjures a remarkable portrait of a region and its residents\, who\, for reasons of choice or circumstance\, never made it out of their defunct industrial district. Carried aloft by quotidian pleasures including movies\, fishing\, necking in parked cars\, playing baseball and falling in love\, Virgil Wander is a swift\, full journey into the heart and heartache of an often overlooked American Upper Midwest by a “formidably gifted” (Chicago Tribune) master storyteller. \nLeif Enger was raised in Osakis\, Minnesota\, and worked as a reporter and producer for Minnesota Public Radio before writing his bestselling debut novel Peace Like a River\, which won the Independent Publisher Book Award and was one of the Los Angeles Times and Time Magazine’s Best Books of the Year. His second novel\, So Brave\, Young\, and Handsome\, was also a national bestseller\, and a Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Award Honor Book for Fiction. He and his wife Robin live in Minnesota.
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LOCATION:Rialto Cinemas Elmwood\, 2966 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
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