Special Delivery from Heller Highwater & Co.: Event This Sunday

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I don't often announce events, mostly because I try to have as few events as possible, but as we all plan our weekends I wanted to let you know about something I'll be doing on Sunday, at 4:30 p.m., at one of the Bay Area's great bookstores: Book Passage, in Corte Madera. The poet Tess Taylor and I will be talking about Northern California—its change, its continuities, and why we both find it such a fascinating place to write about. 

Tess is a wonderful poet who has done an exceptional job bringing California—the intense specificity of experience subtending the long arc of its history—onto the page. (Here's a very lively poem of hers, called "Berkeley in the Nineties"; here, in another mode, is one called "Altogether Elsewhere.") There will be some reading, and there will be some chatting. The event started as a "wouldn't it be fun to" notion we had over e-mail, early in the pandemic; I think it may, in fact, be fun. In the spirit of the proceedings, please consider dropping by at the end of a Sunday hike or bike excursion, a ferry ride across the bay, or a visit to the nearby Trader Joe's. Book Passage is right next to the DMV, which in literary terms makes its Californian power unsurpassable.

Maybe see you then,
Nathan