UPCOMING EVENTS
Every Saturday through November 1st, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm at Toby's Feed Barn
Our Market is the only all-local, all-certified organic produce market in Northern California. It features West Marin's best: fresh, locally-grown organic produce, baked goods, artisan cheeses and olive oils, eggs, grass-fed beef products, homemade preserves, oysters, bee products, flowers, locally-produced wool clothing, yarn and body care products. A fabulous time is guaranteed! Enjoy live music, cooking demonstrations and book signings by renowned chefs; be part of the community, meeting your neighbors and friends, our local farmers, and enjoy the finest organic food that can be grown! Sponsored by Point Reyes Books, Marin Organic, Toby's, County of Marin
Spanish Reading Group will resume with meetings on September 8th and 29th at 7:00 pm
The Spanish Reading Group meets on the last Monday of each month at the bookstore. The group is currently reading Luisa Valenzuela's Cambio De Armas.
Monday, August 25th at 7:00 pm
Writers' Group Forming
We're hosting an evening for writers who want to participate in a writers' group. We've had lots of inquiries about writers groups lately so it seems to be a good time to bring together those of you interested in having the structure and feedback of a group. We'll discuss the various formats writing groups can take and see what group(s) take form. Please call Kate at the bookstore if you are interested in participating in a writers' group but are unable to attend this initial meeting.
Wednesday, August 27th at 7:30-9:00 pm
Final meeting: Study Group on Eckhardt Tolle’s book, A New Earth,
led by Steve Hadland. In A New Earth, Eckhardt Tolle suggests that only a global awakening will save us from self-destruction through a radical change in our experience of who we are—not separate, individual egos in competition with one another for individual happiness but one undivided consciousness capable of the unity needed to heal the planet. Join Steve Hadland in continuing to explore the “Awakening” of which Tolle speaks and whether it is relevant to the problems we face.
Slow Food Nation Book Signings and Author Talks
Friday, August 29th, at the Herbst Theatre
10:30 am - Vandana Shiva, physicist, environmental activist and author of Manifesto on the Future of Food, Seed and Stolen Harvest.
Carlo Petrini, founder of the International Slow Food Movement and author of Slow Food Nation.
Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved.
Corby Kummer, author of The Pleasures of Slow Food.
Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food.
12:30 pm - Marion Nestle, author of What to Eat.
Andrew Kimbrell, Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Food Safety.
2:30pm - Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food.
Gary Nabhan, Founder, author of Renewing America's Food Traditions.
Winona LaDuke, Native American activist, environmentalist, economist and author of Recovering the Sacred.
4:30 pm - Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation and Chew on This.
Saturday, August 30th, at the Herbst Theatre
1:30 pm - Wes Jackson, Ph.D., author Becoming Native Place to This Place.
Ari Bernstein, MD, co-author of Sustaining Life.
Anna Lappé, author Grub and Hope's Edge.
Mark Hertsgaard, author of Living Through the Storm: Our Future Under Global Warming.
3:30 pm - Alice Waters, founder of Slow Food Nation author of The Art of Simple Food and Edible Schoolyard.
7:00 pm - Wendell Berry, author of The Mad Farmer, The Art of the Commonplace.
Vandana Shiva, author of Stolen Harvest.
Michael Pollan author of Omnivore's Dilemma.
Alice Waters, author of The Art of Simple Food.
Eric Schlosser author of Fast Food Nation.
Carlo Petrini author of Slow Food Revolution.
Corby Kummer, author of The Pleasures of Slow Food.
Saturday, August 30th, at Bay Books, Fort Mason Building C
12:00 pm - Gary Nabhan, editor of Renewing America's Food Traditions: Saving and Savoring the Continent's Most Endangered Foods and author of, Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods.
1:00 pm - M. Kat Anderson, author of Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resource.
2:00 pm - Jessica Prentice, author of Full Moon Feast: Food and the Hunger for Connection and creator of Local Foods Wheel for the San Francisco Bay Area.
4:00 pm - Joyce Goldstein, co-author of Mediterranean Fresh: A Compendium Of One-Plate Salad Meals And Mix-And-Match Dressings.
5:00 pm - Tim Porter, co-author and photographer of, Organic Marin: Recipes From Land to Table.
6:30 pm - Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System.
Saturday, August 30th, at Point Reyes Books at Fort Mason
12:00 pm - Amelia Saltsman, author of the Santa Monica Farmers' Market Cookbook.
1:00 pm - Wenonah Hauter, author of Water Consciousness and Darina, author of Year At Ballymaloe.
2:00 pm - Rick Bayless, author of Authentic Mexican, Mexican Everyday and Kurt Friese, author of A Cook's Journey.
3:00 pm - Charlie Trotter, author of Raw.
5:00 pm - Geoff Andrews, author of The Slow Food Story.
6:30 pm - Deborah Madison, author of Local Flavors.
7:00 pm - Scott Peacock, author of The Gift of Southern Cooking and Joyce Goldstein, author of Mediterranean Fresh
8:30 pm - Niloufer Ichaporia King, author of My Bombay Kitchen Forward to a Friend
Sunday, August 31st, at Bay Books, Fort Mason Building C
11:00 am - Wendy Johnson, author of Gardening at the Dragon's Gate.
12:00 pm - Claire Hope Cummings, author of Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds.
1:00 pm - Daphne Miller, author of The Jungle Effect: A Doctor Discovers the Healthiest Diets from Around the World.
2:00 pm - Desmond Jolly, coauthor of California's New Green Revolution: Pioneers in Sustainable Agriculture and editor of the pathbreaking book, Outstanding In Their Fields: California's Women Farmers and Ranchers.
3:00 pm - Kiko Denzer, author of Build Your Own Earth Oven.
4:00 pm - Jim Denevan, author of Outstanding in the Field: A Farm To Table Cookbook.
Sunday, August 31st, at Point Reyes Books at Fort Mason
12:00 pm - Joan Nathan, author of New American Cooking Jewish Holiday.
1:00 pm - Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser, authors of In Defense of Food, and Fast Food Nation.
2:00 pm - Sandor Katz, author of Wild Fermentation, and Jim Denevan, author of Outstanding in the Field.
4:00 pm - Alice Waters, author of Come To The Table and Edible Schoolyard and Katrina Heron, author of Art of Simple.
5:00 pm - Mas Masumoto, author of Four Seasons, Heirlooms, Letters to the Valley, Epitaph.
6:30 pm - Anna Lappe and Bryant Terry, authors of Grub.
8:30 pm - David Tanis, author of A Platter of Figs.
Sunday, September 7th from 2:00-4:00 pm at Commonweal in Bolinas
Life Lessons in Sustainability and Resilience: A Conversation with Paul Hawken.
Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur and author. Paul heads the Natural Capital Institute (www.naturalcapital.org), which has created a hub for global civil society (www.WiserEarth.org), a collaboratively written, free content, open source networking platform that links NGOs, funders, business, government, social entrepreneurs, students, organizers, academics, activists, scientists and citizens.
Starting at age 20, he dedicated his life to sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. His practice has included starting and running ecological businesses, writing and teaching about the impact of commerce on living systems and consulting with governments and corporations on economic development, industrial ecology and environmental policy.
Paul is author and co-author of dozens of articles, op-eds, papers, as well as six books including The Next Economy (Ballantine 1983), Growing a Business (Simon and Schuster 1987), The Ecology of Commerce (HarperCollins 1993), Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (Little Brown, September 1999) co-authored with Amory Lovins, and Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came Into Being, and Why No One Saw it Coming.
Co-sponsored with MMOB.
Monday September 8th, Knit Lit Group
The Knit Lit Group meets on the second Monday of each month to knit and read together. Bring your knitting or other handwork. All skill levels and genders are welcome.
Saturday, September 13th, around 10:00 am
Farina Wong Kingsley
Farmers' Market cooking demonstration
Organic Marin: Recipes From Land to Table author Farina Wong Kingsley
and Helge Hellberg, Executive Director of Marin Organic.
Michael Pollen says, "Organic Marin" gives you a taste of what has become one of America's most vibrant local food scenes; indeed, this beautiful book is the next best thing to eating there." And Alice Waters comments, "This beautiful book, full of recipes for delicious, seasonal meals, is a tribute to the Marin County farmers, artisans, and cooks who uphold [the] stewardship [of the land] and provide for our future." With beautiful photography and delicious recipes using seasonal ingredients, Organic Marin: Recipes from Land to Table tells the story of the connection between farmer and family, between land and table, between food and community.
Saturday, September 13th at 6:00 pm
Toby’s Feed Barn, Backyard Growers Harvest Potluck Picnic, followed by talk by Patricia Klindienst, author of The Earth Knows My Name Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic America.
A free event open to the first 150 people who sign up on the West Marin Commons Bulletin Board @ Toby's (located next to the coffee bar) and who bring a main dish or salad made (if possible) from produce grown in their gardens.
Publishers Weekly comments on “the beauty and humor in what is essentially a set of portraits of both American gardens and gardeners.…An unpretentious and touching tour of the increasingly rare corners of the country where land is worked by friendly locals who know the differences between five types of basil and can jaw for hours about plants, soil and the weather.…This book's broad scope touches on the best of nature writing, singing the rhythm of growth in both plants and people.”
Sponsored by Growing Gardeners/West Marin.
Sunday, September 14th at 4:00 pm at Toby's Gallery
Jules G. Evens,
naturalist and writer, has lived in the Point Reyes area for more than 30 years. He is a long-time research associate with Avocet Research Associates, Point Reyes Bird Observatory Conservation Science, and Audubon Canyon Ranch and the author of Introduction to California Birdlife (UC Press) as well as many scientific papers and natural history articles. This new edition of Natural History of the Point Reyes Peninsula weaves history, science, and personal anecdote into an absorbing chronicle, exploring the dynamic character and haunting appeal of this “island in time.”
Tuesday, September 16th at 5:00 pm
INDIGNATION DAY WEBCAST featuring PHILIP ROTH!
The event is a live web broadcast --- an interview with Philip Roth
Call to reserve a signed copy of Roth’s new book.
About the Webcast
- Roth will be interviewed by the author Ben Taylor in Manhattan, New York City on the night of September 16th at 8pm ET.
- Roth will be interviewed for one hour, which includes a segment of answering questions.
- *Five Questions per Store can be submitted prior to September 2nd. From the total number of questions suggested as many as practical will be integrated into the session.
- Roth's interview will be streamed only to the stores. He will not see/hear your stores.
- http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/books/indignationday_stores.html
Saturday, September 20th at 7:30 pm at Toby’s Feed Barn
Peter Matthiessen
Tickets go on sale August 8th for this don’t-miss event!
Matthiessen, well-known American naturalist, is a widely regarded author of historical fiction and nonfiction and one of the founders of The Paris Review. His many books include The Snow Leopard, At Play in the Fields of the Lord, and Killing Mr. Watson.
A benefit for the Environmental Action Committee of West Marin
Sunday, September 21, 2008
11:00 am to 4:30 pm at the Dance Palace
A rare chance to tour homes in the Point Reyes area built with green practices and materials. We will see examples of small homes, on-site lumber milling, passive solar construction, solar electricity and hot water, gardens, and other affordable green practices. Lunch is included.
$40. Tickets at www.clam-ptreyes.org or by mail to CLAM, P.O. Box 273, Point Reyes Station, CA 94956. For information: 415-663-1005.
Cosponsored by Point Reyes Books, Axel Nelson Construction, Bonnie Fisk-Hayden Graphic Design, Building Supply Center, Coastal Marin Real Estate, County of Marin Department of Public Works, Cowgirl Creamery, Dan Morse Real Estate, Drakes Bay Oyster Company, Fairfax Lumber & Hardware, Green Girls Events, John Hope Construction, Jon Fernandez, Korhummel Design & Construction, Lions Club of West Marin, Little House on the Trailer, Melissa Lyckberg, Realtor, Miriam Landman Eco-Consulting & Communications, Regenerative Design Institute, Point Reyes Nation, Rodoni Construction, Straus Family Creamery, Tomales Bay Oyster Company, West Marin Community Event Library, West Marin Real Estate.
Saturday, September 27th around 10:00 am
Jennifer Carden
Farmers' Market cooking demonstration with Jennifer Carden, author of Toddler Café: Fast, Healthy, and Fun Ways to Feed Even the Pickiest Eater.
The Toddler Cafe is a guide to making mealtime with children fun and interactive. It offers simple, creative ways for kids to identify with their food, like saying tuna salad is what mermaids eat, or making Minty Pea Pops in ice cube trays. Carden has created more than 50 unique recipes that encourage families (including toddlers) to work together to prepare, eat, clean up, and best of all, look forward to a healthy, delicious meal.
Tickets go on sale October 1 for two very special events, Terry Tempest Williams and Coleman Barks
Saturday October 4th around 10:00 am
Jesse Ziff
Farmers' Market Cooking Demonstration with Jesse Ziff Cool, author of Simply Organic: A Cookbook for Sustainable, Seasonal, and Local Ingredients.
Author and restaurateur Jesse Ziff Cool has compiled more than 30 years of knowledge about organic, local, and sustainable food into one magnificent cookbook. With 150 enticing recipes, Simply Organic encourages home cooks to embrace organics as a lifestyle rather than a fad.
Saturday, October 4th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Is Ennybody Home?
Unlocking The Enneagram
A lively theatre presentation of the Nine Personality Types
Performed by Sheilah Glover
The Enneagram is an insightful map of the nine personality types derived from traditional Sufi ideas
about spiritual transformation. Through clever and playful enactments, skits, and songs we glimpse
who we are and how we see ourselves in this hilarious one-woman performance.
A fundraiser sponsored by Lucid Art Foundation and Pt. Reyes Books for the Gallery Route One Artists in the School program.
$15 – $35 sliding scale
Sunday, October 5th at 7:00 pm
The West Marin Review
The West Marin Review—our literary and arts journal that made its debut this year—attracted prose writers, poets, and artists from West Marin and beyond. Contributors will read from their published work and display art that appeared in the Review. Sponsored by the Tomales Bay Library Association and Point Reyes Books, the Review is a collaborative effort of neighbors and friends. Writers Jody Farrell, Nancy Kelly, and Doris Ober, poets John Korty, Barbara Brauer, Devi Weisenberg, and many of the artists published in the Review will all share their work.
Saturday, October 11th at 7:30 pm
Paul Ekman,
co-author (with the Dalai Lama) of Emotional Awareness: Overcoming the Obstacles to Psychological Balance and Compassion
In this series of dialogues, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and renowned psychologist Paul Ekman seek answers to the central questions of emotional experience, exploring the bonds between science and spirituality, East and West: What are the sources of hate and compassion? What does science reveal about the benefits of Buddhist meditation? Can Buddhist thought be translated into exercises to help improve anyone’s life? A landmark conversation on human emotions and the pursuit of psychological fulfillment.
Saturday, October 18th at 7:30 pm at The Dance Palace, Diane Wilson,
author of Holy Roller and Unreasonable Woman.
A Benefit for the Tomales Bay Watershed Council.
In this rollicking memoir, Diane Wilson—a Texas Gulf Coast shrimper and author of the highly acclaimed An Unreasonable Woman—takes readers back to her childhood in rural Texas and into her family of Holy Rollers. From tent revivals with Brother Dynamite, an ex-con who finds Jesus in a baloney sandwich to scratching secret messages to Jesus into the paint on her windowsill, Wilson tells the story of the Texas childhood of a fierce little girl who will grow up to take on Big Industry, and win.
Wednesday, October 22nd at 8:00 pm at Marconi Conference Center in Marshall
Author Jane Smiley
Sponsored by University of California, Davis Creative Writing Program, Tomales Bay Writers Workshop. For reservations call bookstore. Jane Smiley was born in Los Angeles and grew up in St. Louis. She graduated from Vassar College and received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has written twelve books of fiction and four books of nonfiction, including Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel, an anatomy and history of the novel. Her most recent novel is Ten Days in the Hills. She writes frequently for magazines and also blogs at the Huffington Post.
Saturday, October 25th at 7:30 pm
Pam Houston,
author of the novel Sight Hound and two collections of linked short stories, Cowboys are My Weakness, which won the 1993 Western States Book Award, and Waltzing the Cat, which won the Willa Award for Contemporary Fiction. Pam is Director of the Tomales Bay Writers Workshop taking place October 22-27 at the Marconi Conference Center.
Other readings take place at Marconi Center and are open to the public.
Saturday, November 8th at Toby's Feed Barn
Point Reyes Farmers' Market Harvest Dinner
A celebration of and with the incredibly hardworking farmers and producers that make the Point Reyes Farmers' Market so nourishing in so many ways. A sit-down, family-style dinner. Tickets: $40, available at the bookstore and through Marin Organic.
Saturday, November 15th at 7:30
at the bookstore
John Tarrant,
author of Bring Me the Rhinoceros. In Bring Me the Rhinoceros, Tarrant begins each chapter with a koan — some as brief as a few sentences, others as long as a page or two — followed by the wise, warm, and enlightening insights into the lessons the koan can teach us about finding peace and joy in every moment.
Saturday, November 29th at 7:30pm
Eric Karpeles,
author of Paintings in Proust
Showing Powerpoint presentation of images.
A presentation of images from artist Eric Karpeles’s visual guidebook to Prousts’s In Search of Lost Time. Karpeles illuminates the winding corridors of Proust's visually rich, labyrinthine masterpiece. An actor will read passages from Proust’s novel.
Sunday December 7th, 4:00 pm at Toby's Feed Barn
Terry Tempest Williams,
reading from and talking about her upcoming book, Finding Beauty in a Broken World.
She is the author of the environmental classic Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place as well as An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field; Desert Quartet; and the forthcoming Finding Beauty in a Broken World, which begins in Ravenna, Italy, returns to the American Southwest, and ends in a small town in Rwanda, where she has helped to build a memorial to the victims of the 1994 genocide. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Robert Marshall Award from The Wilderness Society, and Lannan and Guggenheim fellowships. She teaches in the Environmental Humanities Program at the University of Utah.
Terry was one the first writers at the Mesa Refuge Writers Retreat in Point Reyes Station 10 years ago.
A benefit for the West Marin Review
Wednesday December 10th, 7:00 pm at the Dance Palace
An evening with Coleman Barks,
reading from his upcoming book, Winter Sky: New and Selected Poems, 1968-2000.
Coleman Barks taught poetry and creative writing at the University of Georgia for thirty years. The author of numerous Rumi translations, Barks’s work with Rumi was the subject of an hour-long segment in Bill Moyers's Language of Life series on PBS, and he is a featured poet and translator in Bill Moyers's poetry special, "Fooling with Words."
Writers in the Schools Program
We are in a crisis of literacy. The National Endowment of the Arts reports that 15 -24 year olds spend seven minutes a day on voluntary reading. (The Week 12/7/07) Therefore, it is every community's challenge to sponsor access to good writing so that the young too can be moved, inspired, and guided by the great lights of literature, especially in a time when the values of the enlightenment are being tested. In this spirit, we want to institute a Writers in the School's program in West Marin so that practicing accomplished writers / large minded people can spend time with our kids to model and inspire writing as well as encourage perceptiveness, presence and attention in observing the world. Wallace Stegner noted that literature can enhance life when a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth: In his talks, he said," All a teacher can do is encourage the will to explore plus a few do's and don'ts of voyaging. These observations are recorded in (Italics, please) On the Teaching of Writing published by Dartmouth in 1988. He says: "Writing is not a function of intelligence or application. It is a function of gift. All any teacher can do is work with what is given. But I believe that everyone born should be given the best he is capable of and that many have undeveloped or obscured gifts that, like spores, will grow if they are given waters...Let young people begin with what moves them...and let them discover many things themselves. Through contact, students discover the love and uses of language, "its tools, techniques, strategies and stances and ways of getting at the narrative essence ... or the memorable ness of a poetically honed thought. " We believe that the conversation generated by practitioners and novices will yield enormous rewards, knowing that being touched by an authentic being opens us up and helps us inhabit large rather than small minds, open rather than closed ones. We want our students to claim their birthright, the practice of engaging their awareness, understanding, and take on life through the vehicle of language.
To this end, we propose to solicit applications from Northern California writers for a residency of two months in Point Reyes during which time the writer will give, in the spirit of Stegner, creative and environmental writing classes and workshops to middle school and high school classes in our area: West Marin, Tomales, Stinson -Bolinas, San Geronimo Valley, Tomales High. There will be workshop opportunities for West Marin home schoolers and high school students matriculated elsewhere. We will provide room board and a stipend as well as time to contemplate or actively write. At the end of the program, there will be readings at each of the schools and a West Marin Anthology which we hope will be the first of many. Applications will be available Summer 2008 for a Spring 2009 residency.
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