Book Passage author event in SF Monday

David Downie

   SAN FRANCISCO - Left Coast Writers will be hosting a special book event Monday at 6 p.m. at Book Passage - a conversation with David Downie, author of the newly released book, The Gardener of Eden and Linda Watanabe McFerrin of the Left Coast group.
     The book event will be held at the Book Passage storefront in the Ferry Building. The public is invited.
     Copies of The Gardener of Eden will be available for purchase and signing by the author as part of the event.

Linda Watanabe McFerrin

    Downie is also the author of A Taste of Paris and has called Paris home since 1986. He has written for more than 50 publications worldwide, including the LA Times, Salon.com, and Town & Country Travel. He is also the author of several cookbooks and crime novels.
    Watanabe-McFerrin is a poet, travel writer and novelist. She has won awards in multiple genres for her poetry and fiction. A collection of selected works by the author will be forthcoming this year from Alan Squires Publishing.

Artist's reception March 9 at Kaleidoscope

   POINT RICHMOND - A public reception to celebrate a new exhibit at Kaleidoscope Coffee (109 Park Place) will be held Saturday March 9 from 4-6 p.m.
     The work on display - from today until the end of April - is that of Sharon Goods, part of an exhibit titled Mostly Talking Heads.
     The works are considered to be a departure from the artist's typically abstract, figurative art.
     Goods described the work in this exhibit as "more graphic novelesque."
     "Favorite quotes, collected over the past few years, have landed with images of slightly offbeat characters to depict the humor, angst, absurdity and vulnerability of the human drama," she says.