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Diesel\, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to welcome Mary Gaitskill to discuss and sign her new collection of stories\, Don't Cry\, her first in more than ten years\, on Wednesday\, March 10th\, at 7pm.
In “College Town l980\,” young people adrift in Ann Arbor debate the meaning of personal strength at the start of the Reagan era\; in the urban fairy tale “Mirrorball\,” a young man steals a girl’s soul during a one-night stand\; in “The Little Boy\,” a woman haunted by the death of her former husband is finally able to grieve through a mysterious encounter with a needy child\; and in “The Arms and Legs of the Lake\,” the fallout of the Iraq war becomes disturbingly real for the disparate passengers on a train going up the Hudson--three veterans\, a liberal editor\, a soldier’s uncle\, and honeymooners on their way to Niagara Falls.
Mary Gaitskill's stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker\, Harper’s Magazine\, Esquire\, The Best American Short Stories (1993)\, and The O. Henry Prize Stories (1998). Her story “Secretary” was the basis for the film of the same name. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, she teaches creative writing at Syracuse University. She lives in New York.
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Diesel\, A Bookstore in Brentwood is very pleased to welcome Lisa See back to the shop in celebration of the paperback publication of her beautiful bestseller Shanghai Girls\, a story of sisters\, terrible sacrifices\, impossible choices and one devastating\, life-changing secret on Tuesday\, March 16 at 7pm.
In addition to Shanghai Girls\, Lisa See is the author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan\, Peony in Love\, On Gold Mountain\, Flower Net\, Dragon Bones\, and The Interior.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100311T211608Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100321T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100321T230000Z UID:http://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/oakland-poetry-flash-janet-holmes-and-rusty-morrison URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/oakland-poetry-flash-janet-holmes-and-rusty-morrison SUMMARY:Oakland - Poetry Flash with Janet Holmes and Rusty Morrison DESCRIPTION:\;
Diesel\, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to present another installment of Poetry Flash on Sunday\, March 21 at 3pm with poets Janet Holmes and Rusty Morrison.
Janet Holmes' new book of poems\, The ms of m y kin\, as she explains\, is derived by erasure from The Poems of Emily Dickinson\, and so 'the manuscript of my kin'. She is the award-winning author of four previous books of poems\, most recently F2F. She is also Editor of Ahsahta Press\, an avant-garde poetry press.
Rusty Morrison's first book of poems\, Whethering\, won the Colorado Prize for Poetry\; her second\, The True Keeps Calm Biding Its Story\, won the 2007 Sawtooth Poetry Prize from Ahsahta Press\, selected by Peter Gizzi\, and then the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets for the best second book of poetry published in America that year. Morrison is co-founder and co-editor of Omnidawn Publishing.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100311T211608Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100401T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100401T030000Z UID:http://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/brentwood-robert-s-levinson-discusses-and-signs-traitor-us-all URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/brentwood-robert-s-levinson-discusses-and-signs-traitor-us-all SUMMARY:Brentwood - Robert S. Levinson discusses and signs \\"The Traitor in Us All\\" DESCRIPTION:\;
Diesel\, A Bookstore in Brentwood is pleased to welcome Robert S. Levinson to the shop to discuss and sign his new book\, The Traitor in Us All\, an "\;absolutely top-notch"\; thriller (Jeffery Deaver)\, on Wednesday\, March 31 at 7pm.
Robert S. Levinson is the bestselling author of the stand-alone novels In the Key of Death\, Where the Lies Begin and Ask a Dead Man\, as well as the Neil Gulliver and Stevie Marriner series of mystery-thrillers\, which to date comprises The Elvis and Marilyn Affair\, The James Dean Affair\, The John Lennon Affair\, and Hot Paint.
He won the Short Mystery Fiction Society's Best Short Story Derringer Award last year for "\;The Quick Brown Fox\,"\; a short that originally appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. The short is also among those featured in the anthology\, Between the Dark and the Daylight\: And 27 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year.
Levinson lives with his wife\, Sandra\, in Los Angeles.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100311T211608Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100403T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100403T030000Z UID:http://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/oakland-release-party-beeswax-magazine-issue-6 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/oakland-release-party-beeswax-magazine-issue-6 SUMMARY:Oakland - Release Party for \\"Beeswax Magazine Issue 6\\" DESCRIPTION:\;
Diesel\, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to present current Diesel bookseller John Peck and his wife\, Laureen Mahler\, to the shop to celebrate the publication of Beeswax Magazine Issue 6\, a journal of literature &\; art they co-edit. Beeswax contributors will be on-hand reading from their work!
Beeswax Magazine is an independent journal of literature and art based in Oakland\, California.
Join us for this First Friday event!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20100311T211608Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100407T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100407T200000Z UID:http://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/brentwood-literary-lunch-anchee-min-pearl-china URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/brentwood-literary-lunch-anchee-min-pearl-china SUMMARY:Brentwood - Literary Lunch with Anchee Min for \\"Pearl of China\\" DESCRIPTION:\;
Diesel\, A Bookstore in Brentwood is very excited to present a Literary Luncheon with acclaimed author Anchee Min in celebration of her newest novel\, Pearl of China an historical narrative about the life of Pearl S. Buck\, author of The Good Earth\, on Wednesday\, April 7.
Anchee Min was born in Shanghai in 1957. During the Cultural Revolution\, she was ordered to denounce Pearl Buck as an American imperialist. At seventeen\, she was sent to a labor collective\, where a talent scout for Madame Mao’s Shanghai Film Studio recruited her to work as a movie actress. Min moved to the United States in 1984. Her first book\, the memoir Red Azalea\, became an international bestseller and was published in twenty countries.
***Please Note*** The time\, location and cost for this event are TBD. More info to come.
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Diesel\, A Bookstore in Oakland is proud to present Judith Tannenbaum as she discusses and signs By Heart\: Poetry\, Prison\, and Two Lives\, a two-person memoir she wrote with Spoon Jackson that explores art\, education\, prison\, possibility\, as well as which children our world nurtures and which it shuns\, on Thursday\, April 8 at 7pm.
Judith Tannenbaum is a poet\, writer\, and teacher who has shared poetry in California public schools and state prisons and spoken nationally about teaching arts and prison arts. She is the author of memoir\, poetry\, texts for teachers\, and guidebooks\, including the Manual For Artists Working In Prison. She currently serves as training coordinator with WritersCorps\, a program of the San Francisco Arts Commission.
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Spoon Jackson is a published writer who began serving a Life Without Possibility of Parole sentence in 1977. His work has received awards from the William James Association’s Prison
Arts Project and from PEN American Center’s Prison Writing Program and has been used as text in films and musical suites. He facilitates two creative writing classes for prisoners at
California State Prison\, Sacramento.
Please check out the book trailer and this audio clip of Spoon reading from the book.
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