3-3:30, Monday, Oct. 2
Cover to Cover with Denny Smithson
KPFA radio,  94.1 FM

I’ll be appearing on Denny Smithson’s Cover to Cover program, discussing Oakland’s Neighborhoods. Tune in and hear our stentorian tones!

This weekend!
3:00 Saturday, Aug. 12
Laurel World Music Festival
Laurel Bookstore Booth

I’ll be at the booth with Luan with a stack of Oakland’s Neighborhoods for an hour or so. Stop by and chat with us! MacArthur Boulevard will be closed off between 35th and 37th for this extravaganza of a block party.

2:30- 4 p.m., Saturday, March 25
Rockridge Branch Library,
5366 College Ave., Oakland

Join me and Annalee Allen for an event celebrating our new books about Oakland. Annalee and I are history columnists (her, the Oakland Tribune, and me, the Montclarion). Her book is Oakland, A Postcard History, and mine is Oakland’s Neighborhoods. Rockridge resident Anna Edmondson, who wrote a piece in Oakland’s Neighborhoods, will be a featured reader at the event. Come hear us talk about how we put our books together. Books for sale at this free event.

7:30-9:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16
at the Rickshaw Stop, 155 Fell Street (@Van Ness), San Francisco

I’ll be reading from my historical novel A Woman of Ill Fame at the Rickshaw Stop, a venue in San Francisco that has hosted Jonathan Richman (need I say more?) and is described on its website as “your weird uncle’s rumpus room.” The event is part of a new reading series organized by James Warner, and I’ll be one of five readers, including good friend Kemble Scott. The theme of the night is sexuality, and since my book is about a Gold Rush prostitute, I guess we’re a match!

PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE!  We’ll be starting an hour later, at 3 p.m., and we’ll meet at  Cafe DiBartolo, 3310 Grand Avenue, right next to Walden Pond Books, which is the event sponsor. Thanks, Cafe DiBartolo!
2 p.m., Saturday,  Feb. 11
Join me and writers Paradise Freejah Love, Rachel Medanic and Mertis Shekeloff at Cafe DiBartolo, right next door to Walden Pond Books for an afternoon event celebrating Oakland’s Neighborhoods.  This fabulous independent bookstore is at  3316 Grand Avenue by Lake Merritt.  Come hear poetry, prose and memoir… all about Oakland! For more information, call 510-832-4438.

CANCELLED
Unfortunately, this event has been cancelled.
7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3
Debi Echlin’s wonderful bookstore in Montclair will host an event for Oakland’s Neighborhoods, my new book that contains brief histories of 43 different neighborhoods, 87 historical photographs, a map, and creative writing by residents about their neighborhoods. Featured readers will be Rachel Medanic and Paradise Freejah Love. We start at 7 p.m. on Saturday, December 3. A Great Good Place for Books is located at 6120 LaSalle Avenue. For more information, call 339-8210.

Join us at the Lakeview Branch Library, 2-3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19 to launch the new book Oakland’s Neighborhoods. This book contains brief histories of all the neighborhoods, maps to assist you in locating those ‘hoods, wonderful historic photographs, and creative writing by residents about their neighborhoods. It was made possible by a grant from the city of Oakland’s Department of Cultural Funding and the assistance of the Oakland History Room of the Oakland Public Library. Featured readers at the event will be Gary Turchin and Chokwadi, whose work appears in the book. Oakland’s Neighborhoods will be for sale at the event and thereafter at local bookstores.

I will be giving a talk at the Oakmore Homes Association annual meeting at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2005, at the Montclair Women’s Club on Mountain Boulevard in Montclair. The topic of the talk will be Walter Leimert and his real estate genius… how he built a bridge over a steep canyon and thus was able to build on the other side, creating the beautiful neighborhood Oakmore.

I will be reading at the Litquake Litcrawl with Melodie Bowsher and Ed Waingortin, 5-6:15 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15. The venue is Forest Books, 3080 16th St., between Valencia and Mission in San Francisco, near the 16th Street BART station. Forest Books is a pretty cool little bookstore. This is an event for the San Francisco Writers Group and the Left Coast Writers. Hope to see you there for a brew and some stories.

I’ll be signing books along with three other Arcadia authors at the Walnut Creek Barnes and Noble on Saturday, August 27, starting at 2 p.m. and lasting an hour or two. The bookstore is at 1149 S. Main Street in Walnut Creek; 925-947-0373.