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Feb.08.2013

When women get together, their voices ring out. Please join us at these three events! The following authors will be reading:

SATURDAY, FEB. 9, 1:00 PM - SF Library, Potrero Hill Branch: Pam Houston, Barbara Graham, Zoe FitzGerald Carter, Mara Purl, Victoria Zackheim

SATURDAY, FEB. 9, 6:00 PM - Books, Inc. (San Francisco, Opera Plaza store): Sylvie Simmons, Barbara Graham, Zoe FitzGerald Carter, Mara Purl, Victoria Zackheim

SUNDAY, FEB. 10, 7 PM - Book Passage (Corte Madera): Pam Houston, Barbara Graham, Zoe FitzGerald Carter, Mara Purl, Victoria Zackheim, Allison Bartlett, Sylvia Simmons

Victoria's Latest Blogs

Oct.26.2012 - 5:42 pm
When both of my children were off to college, I went to Paris for three months. I took a computer, printer, clothing for winter, and the key to the 17th century apartment I had...
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Sep.20.2011 - 9:49 pm
I live in Dogpatch, a historic San Francisco neighborhood on the east side of the city. Walk out of my building, cross the poorly maintained, railroad-tracked street -- I...
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Mar.04.2011 - 9:05 am
In the mid-eighties, I flew to London to attend a friend's wedding. This was my first foreign-land trip alone, having been through a divorce several years earlier. The morning...
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Nov.02.2010 - 3:35 pm
Paris: breathtaking architecture, the Louvre, kings and queens and guillotines and, of course, wines and cheeses revered around the world. It is no mystery that this is a...
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Comments from Victoria

Oct.25.2012 - 10:57 am
In response to: Memories or impressions of Paris
When both of my children were off to college, I went to Paris for three months. I took a computer, printer, clothing...
Sep.21.2011 - 9:28 am
In response to: Rats in San Francisco?
Brendan, hello! And thank you for the comment. I think "resigned bemusement" is an excellent observation. As for...
Mar.06.2011 - 9:24 pm
In response to: Memories or Impressions of England
In the mid-eighties, I flew to London to attend a friend's wedding. This was my first foreign-land trip alone, having...
Mar.04.2011 - 6:16 pm
In response to: Butterflies abounding
Jane, thank you.
Dec.19.2009 - 10:25 am
In response to: Growing up International
Thanks for the kind mention...and for posting part of your exceptional essay. I've read it many times and yet always...

Published Reviews

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May.01.2009
Published by O (Oprah) Magazine
Looking for a good time? Packed with trivia, deeply personal stories, and wacky accounts of scientific inquiry, these 10 books about sex are smart, engaging, occasionally...