"Books embody the spirit's dream of perpetual youth..." Sven Birkerts
July 8 @ 7:00 PM
Book Group Discussion The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama (Three Rivers Press, paperback)
Barack Obama's first book, Dreams from My Father, was a compelling and moving memoir focusing on personal issues of race, identity, and community. With his second book The Audacity of Hope, Obama engages themes raised in his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, shares personal views on faith and values and offers a vision of the future that involves repairing a "political process that is broken" and restoring a government that has fallen out of touch with the people.
July 24 @ 7:30 PM
Writer's Open Mike Attention ALL WRITERS: Open Mike at Moon News Bookstore.
The 4th Thursday of each month all fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers are invited to gather and share their best creative nuggets! This is a great opportunity to try out new material as well as get comfortable speaking in front of an audience.
If you are interested please contact the bookstore directly at 650-726-8610 to guarantee a slot. Everyone is welcome -- you don’t need to be a be a writer to participate! Please join us for these evenings of creativity, voice and community.
August 5 @ 7:00 PM
Book Group Discussion Five Skies by Ron Carlson
(Penguin, paperback)
The most remarkably simple, beautiful, and longingful writing I've come across in years. The three main characters nearly tumble off the page. This story and its telling will be with me, I would guess, nearly forever. Pitch perfect prose and storytelling that matches the best of Rick Bass or Cormac McCarthy.
-according to Mark at Moon News
August 7 @ 7:00 PM
Author Event Doug Dorst, Alive in Necropolis (Penguin, July 2008).
Colma, California, is the only incorporated city in America where the dead outnumber the living. The longtime cemetery for San Francisco, it is the resting place of the likes of Joe DiMaggio, Wyatt Earp, and aviation pioneer Lincoln Beachey. It is also the home of Michael Mercer, a rookie cop trying to go by the book as he struggles to navigate a new realm of grownup relationships—including a shaky romance with an older woman; a growing alliance with his cocky, charismatic partner, Nick Toronto; fading college friendships; and an aching sense of responsibility for a local rich kid who Mercer rescues from a dangerous prank in the cemetery.
Atmospheric. . .part mystery, part compelling account of an angst-ridden young man finding his way in the world.
-Booklist
Poignant and funny, especially about the self-destructive fools that love makes us. Dorst is a talent to watch.
-Kirkus
