LIVE Saturday October 10, 10 AM- Noon, at the new Freight and Salvage, 2020 Addison St. near Shattuck, in Berkeley. Sedge's guests:
# RICHARD RUSSO, author of That Old Cape Magic and Nobody's Fool, a master of novels set in small towns.
# JOANA CARNEIRO, the new Music Director and Conductor of the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra whose season opens October 15th at Zellerbach Hall early 7pm .
# DOUG DORST, author of Alive in Necropolis, set in the small, sedentary town of Colma.
# AMY TAN, author of Joy Luck Club, The Bonesetter's Daughter, and recipient of a Litquake honor.
# STEVEN WILLIS, blues pianist and coffee roaster.
# others to be announced. Watch this space!
# MIKE GREENSILL, the man with the musical midas touch.
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As a child Amy Tan believed her life was duller than most. She read to escape. Her parents wanted her to be a doctor and a concert pianist. She secretly dreamed of becoming an artist. She began writing fiction when she was 33. Her first short story was...
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