{"id":28010,"date":"2018-04-04T00:01:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T07:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.195.124.125\/~barbass7\/bfn\/?p=28010"},"modified":"2018-04-04T00:01:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T07:01:04","slug":"bay-area-authors-your-chance-to-meet-some-cool-ones-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/bay-area-authors-your-chance-to-meet-some-cool-ones-and-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay Area Authors: Your Chance to Meet Some Cool Ones (and Me)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Twenty lively Bay Area authors will join the festivities at the Walnut Creek Library Foundation gala<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n

Want to have some fun? Sip a cocktail in interesting company? Bid in a silent auction for Warriors tickets or a visit to Disneyland? Meet some cool Bay Area authors — like Don Lattin, Joyce Maynard and, um, me?<\/p>\n

You can do all that and support the terrific public libraries of Walnut Creek, California.<\/p>\n

As you might know, Walnut Creek is my old stomping grounds. It’s there, on the religion beat of what was then the Contra Costa Times, that I first heard the siren song to write my book<\/a>, Wrestling with God: Stories of Doubt and Faith.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

To join the party, simply accept this invitation to attend the Walnut Creek Library Foundation\u2019s ninth\u00a0Annual\u00a0Authors Gala<\/a>,\u00a0on\u00a0Saturday evening, April 28th.<\/p>\n

Take your choice — grab one of the few remaining dinner tickets (the author’s tables are sold out), or just come for the reception. Reception attendees will enjoy appetizers, drinks, the silent auction and a chance to meet some of the 20 authors participating in the gala. You can also purchase their books for signing.<\/p>\n

The Bay Area authors include . . .<\/h5>\n

<\/a>Shanna Farrell<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is an interviewer at UC Berkeley\u2019s Oral History Center and the author of\u00a0Bay Area Cocktails: A History of Culture, Community and Craf<\/strong>t<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Don Lattin<\/a><\/strong> is an award-winning journalist and author of six books. His\u00a0Changing Our Minds \u2013 Psychedelic Sacraments and the New Psychotherapy<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0chronicles a quiet revolution in our understanding of how psychedelic drugs work. Don also wrote the foreword to Wrestling with God.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/strong>Joyce Maynard<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is the popular author of sixteen novels, including\u00a0To Die For<\/em> and Labor Day,<\/em>\u00a0and the bestselling memoir At Home in the World. <\/em>Her memoir,\u00a0The Best of Us<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/em>is a heart-wrenching reflection on love and great loss.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Emily Murphy<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is the author of the foodie-centric garden blog\u00a0Pass The Pistil<\/i>. Her new book,\u00a0Grow What You Love<\/em><\/strong>, is a simple guide to growing vegetables, herbs and more.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Caroline Paul<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is the author of\u00a0Lost Cat, a True Story of Love, Desperation and GPS Technology<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Fighting Fire,\u00a0<\/em>a memoir about her 13-plus years as a San Francisco firefighter.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/strong>Jason Turbow<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0authored\u00a0Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic<\/strong><\/em>, which addresses the Oakland A\u2019s of the 1970s\u2014a revolutionary band of brawling Hall of Famers\u2014who won three straight championships and knocked baseball into the modern age.<\/p>\n

Christopher Sindt<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at St. Mary’s College of California. His\u00a0System and Population\u00a0<\/i><\/strong>is a lyrical account of the proposed damming of California’s American River.<\/p>\n

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See you there.<\/p>\n

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\nWant to have some fun with interesting company, sip a cocktail, bid on a silent auction to benefit our Walnut Creek libraries and meet some cool Bay Area authors — like Don Lattin, Joyce Maynard and, um, me? Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[1107,2079,2080,1038,1110,1419,2081,2082,1554,1931,173,2083,53],"class_list":["post-28010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-openers","tag-authors","tag-authors-gala","tag-bay-area-authors","tag-contra-costa-times","tag-don-lattin","tag-events","tag-fundraisers","tag-joyce-maynard","tag-libraries","tag-parties","tag-walnut-creek","tag-walnut-creek-library-foundation","tag-wrestling-with-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}