Los Angeles, you’ve got some pretty stiff competition this week, San Francisco, to put it bluntly, is stacked this week with great author events. I have a little bit of faith in you that you’ll admirably compete but I really don’t think you can outshine the city by the bay. With any luck though these same authors, will, in due time make it to your neck of the woods.
Wednesday, August 25th
@ 7pm
- Eric Volz, author, can be heard talking about his book Gringo Nightmare: A Young American Framed for Murder in Nicaragua at Vroman’s. Here we have a book which a few months ago seemed all too real for me at the moment as I prepared for my trip to Central America. Although I haven’t read the book, the title pretty says it all, we all need to be more careful than we thought when traveling. Or maybe it’s just me that needs to be more careful because most of you probably already I. I mean getting picked up for something like drugs is pretty bad but getting framed for murder would be horrendous. I don’t know much about jails in Nicaragua but I have heard that some of the worst prisons in the world are in South America and I don’t imagine that some of those in Central America are very much different. Here’s hoping I nor you ever find out.
Thursday, August 26th
@ 7pm
- Mary Roach, author, will be at Diesel, a Book Store in Brentwood talking about her latest and greatest book Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void. Roach, who has written several other books including Stiff, this time tackles space and the strange and interesting methods undertaken to train future astronauts. I was incredibly close to buying this one the other day at the bookshop and undoubtedly will sooner or later. Given her previous work, I am sure this one will be interesting.
Yep, I was right, San Francisco has once again proven it’s dominance as a city over Los Angeles. You may have us beat in terms of warmth and sunshine but we sure as hell have you beat in author events, for this week at least. It’s hard to compare the two and I sure could use some sun right about now but I think I’ll stay in San Francisco and take my chances.
