On the April books:
April 4: Eat your words at the International Edible Book Festival at the Portland Public Library. More info.
April 12: San Francisco Literary Journal Instant City celebrates issue No. 4: Love — which the dotcom boom/buster editor/publishers describe as “gritty” — with a reading at City Lights Bookstore. More info.
April 13: Dave Brubeck will perform his acclaimed Cannery Row Suite — an homage to John Steinbeck’s immortal characters — commissioned by the Monterey Jazz Festival and played there last year to raves. Part of the Brubeck festival. More info and Brubeck on Steinbeck in the Modesto Bee.
April 17: The rights to OJ’s infamous If I Did It go on auction is Sacto. More info.
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