Take a break today from obsessively scrolling Huffington Post and consider some escapist reading instead. How about:
1. The just-released paperback about Big Sur’s Esalen Institute. From the San Francisco Chronicle: “Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion … the definitive intellectual history of the ideas behind the institute. … All sorts of psychologists, spiritualists [...]
Stories in Traveling:
Election Day distractions
Writers workshop…with a view.
Elaine and Bill Petrocelli, owners of the Book Passage, always host great classes and author events at their San Francisco bookstore. And now they’ve come up with a sweet offering overseas: a ten-day writers workshop in Italy next spring. “Your home base will be the charming village of Albisano, where Elaine and Bill have been [...]
On the wild side
It’s spring in Yosemite and Gary Kamiya hears John Muir calling. At Salon.
Cruising LA’s mean streets
Check out the Christian Science Monitor’s travel feature on a Saturday crime tour exploring Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles and “full of mystery-loving, novel-toting, passage-quoting noir junkies.” The idea: a rolling homage to both the author and the city he loved, then hated, and immortalized in his writings.
Daniel B. Wood’s story includes comments from [...]
Election Day distractions
Writers workshop…with a view.
Elaine and Bill Petrocelli, owners of the Book Passage, always host great classes and author events at their San Francisco bookstore. And now they’ve come up with a sweet offering overseas: a ten-day writers workshop in Italy next spring. “Your home base will be the charming village of Albisano, where Elaine and Bill have been [...]
On the wild side
It’s spring in Yosemite and Gary Kamiya hears John Muir calling. At Salon.
Cruising LA’s mean streets
Check out the Christian Science Monitor’s travel feature on a Saturday crime tour exploring Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles and “full of mystery-loving, novel-toting, passage-quoting noir junkies.” The idea: a rolling homage to both the author and the city he loved, then hated, and immortalized in his writings.
Daniel B. Wood’s story includes comments from [...]
Meet the authors of the California Authors Directory. Visit the directory to discover writers like Andrew Sean Greer, a San Francisco novelist whose latest book, 
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Two authors, the next president & a burger shack
Author Pico Iyer writes in Time magazine about his chance encounter with Barak Obama in Hawaii.
“It was three days before the New Year in late 2006, and I was eating a burger with the traveler and writer Paul Theroux on Oahu’s North Shore. Beside us in the rickety little shack was a quintessentially Hawaiian group [...]
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