{"id":28600,"date":"2018-05-09T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T07:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=28600"},"modified":"2018-05-09T00:01:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T07:01:45","slug":"octopus-literary-salon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/octopus-literary-salon\/","title":{"rendered":"At the Octopus Literary Salon — Women Reading Stories About Women"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Barbara<\/a>
My next book, I’m hoping, will include mom stories from the columns I wrote for the Oakland Tribune back in the 1980s. Right now I’m sorting them into piles by year to see which ones hold up in the 21st century. Hopefully, I’ll have a chance to read one at the Octopus Literary Salon on Saturday. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

Looking for a literary Mother’s Day gift for the mothers in your life? Stop by the Octopus Literary Salon on Saturday to hear some local women read from their books and poetry and get some inspiration and maybe books to celebrate the day.<\/p>\n

The event is sponsored by<\/a> the San Francisco chapter of the Women’s National Book Association, and a half dozen or so writers and poets will be there with their books. Some of us \u00a0will be reading from our work, so it’s bound to be a lively event.<\/p>\n

If I get a chance to read, it won’t be from my book, “Wrestling with God.” It will be from what I hope will be my next book: a collection of essays I wrote as a columnist for the Oakland Tribune when Peter and Christina were busy little kids, Jon was working 50 high-pressure hours a week, and I was holding down what felt like two full-time jobs — one at the Tribune and one at home.<\/p>\n

The theme of the Saturday event is women in relationships, so right now I’m planning on reading one about taking Christina, age 7, to the old Emporium store’s lingerie department to give her a first-hand lesson in why she should never, ever wear a girdle. Or maybe I’ll read the one about my mother’s last words to me before she died . . . or the one about my glamorous Aunt Grace. We’ll see.<\/p>\n

Other writers presenting at the Octopus Literary Salon include\u00a0Aline Soules,\u00a0Mary Volmer,\u00a0Mary Mackey,\u00a0Marylee MacDonald,\u00a0Elise Collins and Lynn Goodwin. Bring your mother, your daughter, your sister, your BFF.<\/p>\n

The Octopus Literary Salon, btw, looks like an interesting place in its own right. Check it out.<\/p>\n

Members of the Women\u2019s National Book Association San Francisco Chapter will read about women in relationships from 4-6:00 pm, Saturday, May 12, at the Octopus Literary Salon,\u00a02101 Webster Street, Oakland.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For some of those old Tribune columns, go to “Death Is the Only Guarantee.”<\/a>\u00a0 Also, “Am I Scotch?* — Or Midwestern?”<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

More about the writing life at “Write Another Book? I Dunno.”<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"Barbara<\/a><\/p>\n

For Mother’s Day gift-giving inspiration, stop by Oakland’s Octopus Literary Salon on May 12 to hear San Francisco Bay Area women read from their books and poetry . Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[2092,432,81,2093,2043,1885],"class_list":["post-28600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-writing-reading","tag-lynn-goodwin","tag-mothers-day","tag-oakland-tribune","tag-octopus-literary-salon","tag-women-writers","tag-womens-national-book-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28600","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=28600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}