Capitola and KFOG

I’m very excited about this Thursday’s reading in my former hometown. See information below. As I mentioned before, the Capitola Book Cafe is one of my favorite bookstores on the planet. It’s well-lit and spacious, the staff is whip-smart, the coffee is good, and there’s a silver-colored elephant sculpture on the wall. And, best of all — it even has a movie marquee out front advertising the latest readings. I can’t tell you how many pots of tea I’ve swilled there while working on an earlier version of this thing.
Just for the occasion, I have unearthed some scary artifacts, including a couple of Chewbacca-esque photos of myself from the Cascades section of the walk. I will also bring your choice of archival stamps — horned lizard, Opuntia cactus, yucca and rattlesnake — with a brand new “rainbow-colored bloodsucking arthropod” stamp that I acquired just yesterday. Feel free to ask me any question you want. One question that I’m hearing a lot lately: “Why did you call the book The Cactus Eaters when only one of you actually eats a cactus, and, to get technical about it, you didn’t actually eat the thing at all? You just chewed it for a short while and then you spat it out?” Um. Good one … I will attempt to answer tomorrow.

I am speaking at the Book Cafe on June 19, 2008
7:30 PM. It is located on 1475 41st Avenue, Capitola (in a shopping center just a few blocks off Highway One. Look for the bookstore with the movie marquee.)

also, if you happen to be in the southlands this afternoon, (June 18) I am doing a live radio interview on KKZZ-Am Radio, “Evie’s Talk Show.” 6:15 p.m., PST. (covering Ventura and surrounding communities)

And —– if you’re right here in SF tomorrow morning (june 19) I will do a live in-studio interview at 730 PST on KFOG F.M. I’m actually showing up to the studio for this one. I sure hope that the MUNI is running nice and early tomorrow. I’ll bring my running shoes just in case.

And, finally — I will be speaking in Berkeley on June 26, 2008
7:30 P.M.., at the beautiful Mrs. Dalloway bookstore, on
2904 College Avenue. (check this place out if you haven’t seen it before; it’s one of my very favorite new-ish bookstores in the area.)

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