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Fallbrook’s Writers Read Schedule
• We meet the second Wednesday of each month, at 6 p.m., at the Café des Artistes in the Fallbrook Art Center.
• The free readings feature a guest author, book signing, and open mic for poetry and prose.
• Entrance to the Café is from the rear parking lot off Alvarado Street.
• Doors open at 5:30 p.m. For those who’d like to dine, there’s a special bistro supper menu. Call the Café for reservations: 760-728-3350.
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May 9, 2012, Fallbrook’s Writers Read Presents
This month’s reading is cancelled
We encourage you to support the Ann Patchett event on Monday 07 May — see below for more information.
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May 7, 2012, Fallbrook’s Writers Read Presents
An Evening with Ann Patchett
To benefit the Friends of the Fallbrook Library and Fallbrook Arts Inc.
Date Monday, May 7, 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Location Fallbrook Art Center, 103 S Main, Fallbrook
Tickets $30 per person (includes a glass of wine and appetizers)
Details Reservations required, call 760-731-9584, leave your name and the number in your party
Payment Pay at the door with cash or checks (no credit cards)
State of Wonder will be available for sale and signing.
New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett will discuss her latest novel, State of Wonder, in the beautiful Fallbrook Art Center.
Publishers Weekly said of State of Wonder, “Patchett is a master storyteller who has an entertaining habit of dropping ordinary people into extraordinary and exotic circumstances to see what they’re made of. An expansive page-turner … Patchett’s fluid prose dissolves in the suspense of this out-there adventure, a juggernaut of a trip to the crossroads of science, ethics, and commerce that readers will hate to see end.” State of Wonder will be available for sale and signing.
Patchett is the author of five other novels: the New York Times bestselling Run; The Patron Saint of Liars, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; Taft, which won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize; The Magician’s Assistant; and Bel Canto, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Orange Prize, the BookSense Book of the Year, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Patchett is also the author of two works of nonfiction: the New York Times bestselling Truth & Beauty and What Now? Patchett has written for many publications, including the Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s Magazine, the New York Times, Vogue, the Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal.
For more information, contact Kit-Bacon Gressitt at kbgressitt@gmail.com or 760-522-1064.
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June 13, 2012, Fallbrook’s Writers Read Presents
Poet Jane Mushinsky
preceded by open mic
Date: Wednesday, June 13, 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Location: Café des Artistes, 103 S Main, Fallbrook
enter from the rear parking lot off Alvarado St.
A native of Connecticut, Jane Mushinsky holds a BA in literature from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an MA (also in literature) from the University of Virginia. She is a tenured professor at MiraCosta College; has taught literature, writing, research, and critical thinking for more than 20 years, and she is co-editor of the college’s acclaimed literary journal, Tidepools.
Jane is a member of the Community College Humanities Association, the Skeptic’s Society, the Hotei Ji Zen Center of Vista, and the Shakespeare Oxford Society. She is both pessimistic and lazy about getting published, but has contributed poetry to the San Diego Poetry Annual, the California Poetry Society, and the journal of Yale Medical School.
Please join us June 13 to meet Jane Mushinsky and share you own writing during open mic.
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July 11, 2012, Fallbrook’s Writers Read Presents
San Diego Poetry Annual Celebration
Featuring Steve McDonald and another special guest TBA!
preceded by open mic
Date: Wednesday, July 11, 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Location: Café des Artistes, 103 S Main, Fallbrook
enter from the rear parking lot off Alvarado St.
Stephen McDonald is Professor Emeritus of English at Palomar College, where he also served as Dean of Languages and Literature. His poems have appeared in RATTLE, The Crab Creek Review, Spillway, Blue Unicorn, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Passager, Pinyon, The Cresset, and other journals. He was a finalist in the 2008 Sow’s Ear Poetry Awards, received Honorable Mention in the 2006 Passager poetry competition, and was a semi-finalist in the 2004 Dana Awards and in the 2007 Finishing Line Press chapbook competition. In 2010 his work appeared in Best New Poets 2010. His chapbook Where There Was No Pattern was published by Finishing Line Press in 2007, and his book House of Mirrors will be published by Tebot Bach Press in 2012.
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August 8, 2012, Fallbrook’s Writers Read Presents
Reading Summertime
preceded by open mic
Date: Wednesday, August 8, 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Location: Café des Artistes, 103 S Main, Fallbrook
enter in the rear parking lot off Alvarado St.
All open mic night — rise up singing!
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