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Oakland - (Not Your Usual) Beach Reading - Ashby Stage 04/19/2010 7:00 pm
Beach reading is usually light, easy entertainment that fades away like last weekend's tan. But these writers know that anything can happen when people wind up in the water, on vacation, baking in the sun, or lost on the Jersey Shore... The Ashby Stage is easily reached from the Ashby BART station (directly across the street). The backdrop for the night is the gorgeous, theatrical set for Shotgun Players' current production, A Seagull in the Hamptons — imagine the ocean sky, the boardwalk, and lots of SAND. Reading from their work will be: K.M. Soehnlein, Robin and Ruby; Joshua Mohr, Some Things that Meant the World to Me; Elizabeth Rosner, The Speed of Light, Blue Nude; Catherine Sharpe, Opium 9 Jay Barmann, "Grub Street San Francisco" and SFist.com. *note this Soehnlein's only East Bay Reading for Robin and Ruby Jay Barmann is a fiction and blog writer who's currently serving as editor of Grub Street San Francisco and co-editor of SFist.com. His fiction has appeared hardly anywhere, but his nonfiction writing and reporting has appeared in The Village Voice, New York, MarthaStewart.com and elsewhere. His novel Disaster Readiness is seeking a publisher. Joshua Mohr is the author of the novels Some Things That Meant the World to Me, which was one of O Magazine's top 10 reads of 2009, and Termite Parade, due out July 2010. Elizabeth Rosner is the author of two highly acclaimed bestselling novels. The Speed of Light won several prizes in the US and Europe and was translated into nine languages. Blue Nude was named among the best books of 2006 by the San Francisco Chronicle and will be released in paperback this September 2010. Catherine Sharpe wrote mostly for live performance in the 1990's before turning her attention to gay marriage, IVF, gay divorce, parenting, fiction, and nonfiction. Her first collection, Ambition Towards Love, hasn't yet been published, but has read some of the interlocking essays and short fictions that appear in Opium Magazine, Errant Parent, Offsprung, The Battered Suitcase, and upcoming in the Decameron anthology.
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Diesel, A Bookstore will be selling books at The Ashby Stage for K.M. Soehnlein and friends for a night of Bay Area writers giving their spin on "beach reading" on Monday, April 19 at 7pm.
