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31St Annual Northern California Book Awards Get Social! June 2012 Vol. 43 No. 6 Pinned for 31st Annual Northern Summer Reading California Book Awards San Francisco has always been home to some very talented writers, many of whom have used library he 31st Annual Northern California Book Awards will be celebrated once resources to develop their stories and library spaces again at San Francisco’s Main Library. The awards honor the work of North- to write them. Here are a few recent novels written ern California authors in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Creative Nonfiction, by local scribes, and you can find more San Francisco Poetry, Translation and Children’s Literature. The featured speaker is Cody interest books on our Pinterest boards at TAward winner Michael Pollan, who is the New York Times best-selling author of pinterest.com/sfpubliclibrary. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals and Food Rules: an Eaters Manual and other books. He is also a contributing writer to The New York Times All Her Father’s Guns by James Warner (2011) Magazine. In 2003, Pollan was appointed the John S. and James L. Knight Professor Cal Lyte, a gun-loving venture capitalist, is tired of Michael Pollan of Journalism at U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, and the director of paying alimony to his ex-wife Tabytha. He plots to the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism. blackmail her and derail her campaign for Congress The Special Recognition Award will go to Everything Is Its Own by enlisting the help of their daughter’s boyfriend to Reward: An All Over Coffee Collection by Paul Madonna, a stunning unearth some Lyte family secrets. However, the re- book of artwork, storytelling and personal observations of sults turn out to be more than anyone bargained for. San Francisco, Paris, Rome, Buenos Aires and Tokyo. It is published by City Lights Books. Sedge Thompson moderates the event. The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka (2011) This event is sponsored by Northern California Book Reviewers, Poetry Flash, Center for the Art of Translation, San Francisco Public A gorgeous novel that tells the story Library, Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco of a group of young women brought Mechanics’ Institute, PEN West and Red Room (redroom.com). from Japan to San Francisco as A book sale by Readers Books follows the event. “picture brides” nearly a century For more information on the awards visit poetryflash.org or ago. In eight unforgettable sections, call (510) 525-5476. The Buddha in the Attic traces the extraordinary lives of these women: Northern California Book Awards: Sunday, June 10, 1 p.m., Main Library, Koret Auditorium. from their arduous journeys by boat, to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; from their experiences raising children who would later reject their culture and language; On the Same Page: Kevin Starr to the deracinating arrival of war. n honor of the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge, historian Kevin Crown of Dust by Mary Volmer (2010) Starr will read and discuss his book, Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America’s Greatest Bridge. The Golden Gate Bridge—9,000 feet long, 750-feet tall, weigh- In the small settlement of Mother- ing 887,000 tons, and coated in millions of gallons of International Orange lode, a group of disparate characters Ipaint—is a dazzling feat of engineering. This book is selected for our May/June have set up a community, held to- On the Same Page book club. gether by the formidable Emaline, In this book, Kevin Starr, one of America’s most acclaimed historians and the hostess of the Wayside Inn. It is there former city librarian of San Francisco, unfolds the making of this American icon. that Alex, on the run from something Like so much of California, the bridge is the work of civilization imposing itself, and disguised as a teenage boy, finds with both grace and hubris, on nature. Starr reveals the hidden-in-plain-sight refuge. But once she strikes gold, bur- meaning of the Golden Gate, putting it in its place among the monuments of ied secrets are revealed and danger surrounds her. American history—and the wonders of the modern world. Divine Comedy of Carlo Tresca by F. S. Rosa (2011) Starr is a professor of history at the Univer- sity of Southern California, and state librarian of A splendid, rowdy romp in the netherworld of California emeritus. His seven-part history, Americans and the California Dream, revolutionaries—the Rebel Girl, Big Bill Haywood, has earned him the National Medal for the Humanities, the Centennial Medal multitudes of rebels and victims—all seen through of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University, the Gold the eyes of recently murdered anarchist Carlo Tresca Medal of the Commonwealth Club of California, and election to the Society finding his way through the very rambunctious of American Historians. A book sale by Readers Books follows his presentation. world of the dead. Kevin Starr: June 19, 6:30 p.m., Main Library, Koret Auditorium Kevin Starr The Dog Park Club by Cynthia Robinson (2010) Max Bravo, a wise-cracking gay opera singer, and his best friend, advertising whiz Claudia Fantini, enjoy hanging out with their fellow dog friends at the local Summer Reading Kickoff Berkeley, Ca., dog park. But when one of their friends— pregnant Amy Carter—disappears, Max and his Join us at our launch party for SF Summer Read in front of the California Academy visiting German boyfriend stake out Amy’s house of Sciences at Golden Gate Park, on Sunday, June 3, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. If you because they suspect her husband has killed her. haven’t yet signed up for summer reading, you can do that during a fun-filled day featuring the San Francisco Green Bookmobile, a sidewalk chalk art workshop, Continued on Page 6 musical entertainment with Circus Finelli and more. Plus, it’s the quarterly free day at California Academy of Sciences, so you can see the new exhibit, Earthquake!, which will include a walk-through model of the Earth, an earthquake simulator, and an interactive space designed to teach earthquake preparedness. get social! Stop by the bookmobile and find all the books and materials you need to keep you reading over the summer. With San Francisco Public Library’s summer reading program, you also have a chance to win great pinterest.com/sfpubliclibrary prizes just by reading. See Page A for more details. Coming Up: JULY 6 & 27 JULY 11 JULY 16 JULY 20 & 27 Teen Knitting Which Side Are You On? Celebrate Lew Welch with Cartooning Workshops Glen Park, 2:30 p.m. Harry Hay and Labor Gary Snyder, Joanne Kyger with Cara Goldstein Organizing and special guests Chinatown, 3:30 p.m. Main, Koret, 6 p.m. Main, Koret, 6 p.m. SFPL.ORG AT THE LIBRARY JUNE 2012 1 Collections and Services Out and Online Bookmobile at the Library Schedules Bayview Bookmobile One of San Francisco Public Library’s most compelling exhibitions, 195 Kiska Road, in front of Out at the Library, is returning to public display at the Main Library, Willie Mays Boys & Girls Club Larkin Street Bridge area, Second Floor, June 1 through July 12. Second and Fourth Wednesdays Highlights from the panel exhibition, which was first on view in of the month, 3–5 p.m. 2005 at the Main Library and Eureka Valley/Harvey Milk Memorial Branch Library, can also be found online at sfpl.org under eLibrary, Early Literacy Mobile then Online Exhibits and Image Galleries. Out at the Library was culled from the archives of the Schedule of child care center visits at sfpl.org James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center at the Library. It offers a Swing into Stories rare look into the Hormel Center collection, demonstrating what archives are and how they ensure the legacy of the gay, lesbian, Golden Gate Park Children’s Playground 295 Bowling Green Drive bisexual and transgender communities. Reproductions of historic Boots worn by Dr. Mary Walker. photographs, documents and objects drawn from the archives (off Martin Luther King Drive) offer compelling views of both remarkable and ordinary lives, attributes of character, heroic actions, First & Third Tuesdays every month explosions of genius, cautionary tales and private worlds. (June 5 & 19), 9:30 a.m.–12 p.m. The exhibition includes items from the historic to the contemporary. For example, it begins with the Parque Niños Unidos leather boots worn by Dr. Mary Walker, the first female surgeon in the U.S. Army, who risked her life to care for 23rd & Treat streets the sick and wounded in the Civil War and continues on to mid-20th century pulp fiction, a lively collection of Second Tuesday every month (June 12) pulp paperback covers with titles such as Warped Desire, Giovanni’s Room and The Gay Year. 9:30 a.m.–12 p.m. Other items in the exhibition include correspondence between Barbara Grier, founder of Naiad Press (the longest running lesbian publishing house) and Patricia Highsmith (of The Talented Mr. Ripley fame) who Helen Wills Playground wrote under the pseudonym Claire Morgan the 1952 novel, The Price of Salt, considered to be the first lesbian Broadway & Larkin streets novel with a happy ending. Evander Smith’s California Hall files document the watershed moment that united Fourth Tuesday every month (June 26) San Francisco’s homophile organizations into an active political force. This San Francisco event took place 9:30 a.m.–12 p.m. on January 1, 1965, four years before New York’s Stonewall riots.
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