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Books

Point Reyes Books Presents: Shelby Wynn Schwartz*

December 1, 2022 by Chris Grace

January 28 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm PST

elby Wynn Schwartz joins us to celebrate the U.S. publication of her Booker Prize-longlisted novel, After Sappho (Liveright).

“After Sappho is a project of both imagination and intimacy, but also of significant research. Schwartz’s protagonists are all real people, but she has captured the essence of their lives and identities by means of what she describes as ‘speculative biographies’. One of the beauties of this strange, spellbinding novel – other, that is, than the dreamlike, pellucid writing – is this merging of fact and fiction, historical record and artistic vision.” — Lucy Scholes, The Telegraph

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About After Sappho

An exhilarating debut from a radiant new voice, After Sappho reimagines the intertwined lives of feminists at the turn of the twentieth century.

“The first thing we did was change our names. We were going to be Sappho,” so begins this intrepid debut novel, centuries after the Greek poet penned her lyric verse. Ignited by the same muse, a myriad of women break from their small, predetermined lives for seemingly disparate paths: in 1892, Rina Faccio trades her needlepoint for a pen; in 1902, Romaine Brooks sails for Capri with nothing but her clotted paintbrushes; and in 1923, Virginia Woolf writes: “I want to make life fuller and fuller.” Writing in cascading vignettes, Selby Wynn Schwartz spins an invigorating tale of women whose narratives converge and splinter as they forge queer identities and claim the right to their own lives. A luminous meditation on creativity, education, and identity, After Sappho announces a writer as ingenious as the trailblazers of our past.

“This book is splendid: Impish, irate, deep, courageous. . . . Brava!”—Lucy Ellmann, author of Ducks, Newburyport

About Selby Wynn Schwartz

Selby Wynn Schwartz holds a PhD in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and Their Afterlives, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, and the forthcoming novella A Life in Chameleons.

*This event is held independently at the community center.  Please contact the organizer directly for up-to-date information regarding the event.

Point Reyes Books

(415) 663-1542

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Point Reyes Station, CA 94956 United States
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Point Reyes Books presents Rebecca Solnit and Jenny Odell – IN PERSON – SOLD OUT

August 19, 2021 by Chris Grace

October 30, 2021 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm PDT

SOLD OUT – Please note, all attendees must show proof of vaccination, sign in on contact tracing sheets, and must be masked throughout the event.

Point Reyes Books presents Rebecca Solnit and Jenny Odell in conversation about Solnit’s latest book, Orwell’s Roses. 


Proof of vaccination status required for all attendees; contact tracing sign-in required. Depending on County guidelines, masks may also be required.

Please reserve your spot early, as we expect to sell out quickly. We will also provide a streaming option for those unable to make it in-person. Tickets are $28+tax; each ticket includes a copy of Orwell’s Roses.

For more information, visit the Point Reyes Books website.

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Point Reyes Books Presents: Jenny Offill

November 26, 2019 by Chris Grace

February 21, 2020 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm PST

Jenny Offill – Weather

Presented by Point Reyes Books
Friday, February 21, 2020 – 7:00pm

Jenny Offill, bestselling author of Dept of Speculation, visits Point Reyes to discuss her highly anticipated novel, Weather. Jenny will be in conversation with the bookstore’s Stephen Sparks.

About Weather:

Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. For years she has tended to her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. They have both stabilized for the moment, but Lizzie has little chance to spend her new free time with husband and son before her old mentor, Sylvia Liller, makes a proposal. She’s become famous for her prescient podcast, Hell and High Water, and wants to hire Lizzie to answer the mail she receives: from left-wingers worried about climate change and right-wingers worried about the decline of western civilization. As Lizzie dives into this polarized world, she begins to wonder what it means to keep tending your own garden once you’ve seen the flames beyond its walls. When her brother becomes a father and Sylvia a recluse, Lizzie is forced to address the limits of her own experience–but still she tries to save everyone, using everything she’s learned about empathy and despair, conscience and collusion, from her years of wandering the library stacks . . . And all the while the voices of the city keep floating in–funny, disturbing, and increasingly mad.
About Jenny Offill:

JENNY OFFILL is the author of the novels Last Things (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the L.A. Times First Book Award), and Dept. of Speculation, which was shortlisted for the Folio Prize, the Pen Faulkner Award and the International Dublin Award. She lives in upstate New York and teaches at Syracuse University and in the low residency program at Queens University.

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