LISA LUTZ + DAVID HAYWARD: flip a coin

(Rick Kleffel) “…when you got the other person’s new chapter you had no idea what it was going to be…” —David Hayward Lisa Lutz and…

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JASPER FFORDE: reinventing the world

(Rick Kleffel) 10 Rules for Writing When I first told Capitola Book Café that I had snagged Jasper Fforde as a guest for the March…

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Sat Jan 8 11, Capitola (Rick Kleffel) “If you had to choose between heaven and hell, which would it be? Can you be sure about…

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Thomas Page McBee with Virgie Tovar
Author of "Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness, and Becoming a Man," which was named a best book of 2014 by NPR and BuzzFeed, among others, Brooklyn-based Thomas Page McBee celebrates the San Francisco launch of "Amateur: The True Story About What Makes a Man," which follows his efforts, as a trans man, […]
Laura Van Den Berg with Anthony Marra
The author of the acclaimed story collections "What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us" and "The Isle of Youth," both shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, and the novel "Find Me," presents her second novel, "The Third Hotel," which is set in Cuba and follows a widow […]
James Cagney
Oakland native James Cagney has been stunning crowds around the Bay Area for years with his original poems and strong voice, which needs less than two minutes to make a believer out of the casual poetry listener. Cagney celebrates the publication of his much-anticipated debut full-length collection "Black Steel Magnolias" (Nomadic Press) with a reading, […]
Ada Limón with Matthew Zapruder
Green Apple hosts Ada Limón for her new poetry collection "The Carrying," which NPR has called "her best yet, a much needed shot of, if not hope, then perseverance amidst much uncertainty." Limón is author of four previous collections, including "Bright Dead Things: Poems," a finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics […]