March author events

MARCH EVENTS AT THE BOOKSMITH

Author events are free and located at our San Francisco store (1644
Haight Street in San Francisco, between Clayton & Cole). For further
information, call 415-863-8688 or visit www.booksmith.com If you
can't attend an event and would like to purchase an autographed book,
please telephone or email the Booksmith.

Rob Roberge ***
reading and booksigning for More Than They Could Chew
Thursday, March 3rd at 7:30 pm

Nick Ray lives in a world where everything is for sale. University
Ph.D.s, pig fetuses, bomb shelters, and vending-machine-dispensed live
bait, to name just a few. But for the first time in a long time, Nick
Ray finally has something to sell. Rob Roberge's just published second
novel, More Than They Could Chew, is a dark, evocative tale of crime
and suspense that combines the gritty realism of James Ellroy and the
hyperkinetic energy of Chuck Palahniuk.

*** Rob Roberge is a novelist, screenwriter, and director, and plays in
a rock 'n' roll band. His first novel, Drive, was published in 2002.
His short fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals. This
event will take place at the Edinburgh Castle (950 Geary Street). The
author will also be performing with his rock group, The Violet Rays.

Jeff Smith
reading and booksigning for Bone: Out of Boneville
Friday, March 4th at 7:00 pm

After being run out of Boneville, the three Bone cousins, Fone Bone,
Phoney Bone and Smiley Bone, are separated and lost in a vast uncharted
desert. One by one, they find their way into a deep, forested valley
filled with wonderful and terrifying creatures. So begins Jeff Smith's
acclaimed comic book story, Bone (once described as a
Tolkien-meets-Pogo fantasy), that is now being published in a series of
full-color, graphic novel editions.

Jeff Smith was born and raised in the American Midwest, where he
learned about cartooning from comic strips, comic books and from
watching animated shorts on TV. An instant classic when it first
appeared as an underground comic book in 1991, Bone has since garnered
38 international awards and sold more than a million copies in 15
languages.

Eric Martin
reading and booksigning for Winners
Thursday, March 10th at 7:00 pm

Set in San Francisco during the boom years of the dot-com frenzy,
Winners is a work of startling scope and ambition. Eric Martin's second
novel reaches into the hearts and minds of would-be millionaires and
ghetto toughs, business women and single moms, gym-rat moguls and
slackers - each of them searching for something better.

Eric Martin - who lives in San Francisco - is working on a third novel.
His first novel, Luck, was published in 2000 to critical acclaim. Nobel
Prize winner J.M. Coetzee described it as "An impressive story of love
and of the struggle for social justice."

Karen Barbour
talk and booksigning for Let's Talk About Race
Sunday, March 13th at 1:00 pm

"I'll take off my skin. Will you take off yours?" In Let's Talk About
Race, Newbery Honor recipient Julius Lester shares his life as a Jewish
black American in order to explore issues of diversity and what makes
each of us special. Join illustrator Karen Barbour - whose colorful,
dramatic paintings speak to the heart of Lester's unique vision - as
she talks about the making of this extraordinary new book.

Karen Barbour illustrated Fire! Fire! Hurry! Hurry! and Marvelous Math:
A Book of Poems, which was the Parent's Choice Gold Award winner. She
also wrote and illustrated Little Nino's Pizzeria, which was a reading
Rainbow selection. Her paintings have been exhibited around the world.

Kevin Guilfoile
reading and booksigning for The Cast of Shadows
Monday, March 14th at 7:00 pm

Set in a not too distant future when human cloning is legal, The Cast
of Shadows is a philosophical thriller about what happens when the
daughter of a fertility specialist is murdered and her father uses his
professional skills (and DNA extracted from the death scene) to create
a copy of the killer. Kevin Guilfoile's debut novel - which follows the
fate of a little boy brought into the world to solve a crime - asks a
provocative question, "How far would you go to look into the face of
your child's killer?"

Kevin Guilfoile is a writer and humorist based in Chicago. He is the
author (with John Warner) of My First Presidentiary: A Scrapbook by
George W. Bush, a work of humor published in 2001. Guilfoile's work has
been published in McSweeney's, Salon, The New Republic and The Morning
News. Cast of Shadows is his first novel.

Tori Amos
booksigning for Tori Amos: Piece by Piece
Tuesday, March 15th at 7:00 - 10:00 pm

The unique voice of multi-platinum recording artist Tori Amos has won
her legions of fans, 8 Grammy Nominations, and album sales of more than
12 million copies worldwide. Now comes Tori Amos: Piece by Piece, a new
book that gives fans unprecedented access to her creative life, her
personal history, her muses, and her artistic process. Please note:
this is a ticketed event. Tori Amos will only be signing copies of her
new book and just released CD, The Beekeeper.

Tori Amos is foremost among the artists who have redefined the role of
women in music. Her piano-based music revived that instrument in rock
and roll, and her complex yet accessible songs have pushed the
parameters of songwriting. Written with acclaimed music journalist Ann
Powers, Tori Amos: Piece by Piece is a firsthand account of the most
intricate and intimate details of Amos's life as both a private
individual and a very public performing musician.

Seth Greenland
reading and booksigning for The Bones
Wednesday, March 23th at 7:00 pm

What's killing comedy? Is it the onslaught of reality television? Or is
fear of trying something fresh and inventive? Seth Greenland reveals an
insider's look at the dark side of the comedy industry in his debut
novel, The Bones, a wickedly funny satire about a maverick comedian who
gets into trouble because he won't conform and produce the bland
material the network demands from him.

Seth Greenland is an award-winning playwright whose first full-length
play, Jungle Rot, was published in 1997. He has also written
extensively for film and television. The Bones is his first novel.
(Sony Pictures has purchased the rights to The Bones, which David Mamet
will direct.)

Rupert Holmes
reading and booksigning for Swing
Thursday, March 24th at 7:00 pm

In Rupert Holmes' new novel, Swing, music and mystery go hand in hand.
Set in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1940, this is a story of a murder
at the Golden Gate International Exposition. It is also the story of
Ray, a big-band musician who gets drawn into a complex mystery that
will require all his nerve and improvisational ingenuity. Swing is
accompanied by a CD, (with music written by the Grammy and Tony Award
winning author), which contains clues to the solution of the book's
seductive mystery.

Rupert Holmes is a man of many accomplishments. Twice a recipient of
the Mystery Writers of America's coveted Edgar Award, Holmes' first
novel, Where The Truth Lies, has been made into a major motion picture
by director Atom Egoyan starring Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, and Alison
Lohman. Holmes' Broadway musical, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, won five
Tony Awards. He also created and wrote all four seasons of the Emmy
Award-winning television series Remember WENN. In the 1980's, he scored
a smash hit with "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)." And let's not forget
that infamous 1970's hit about cannibalism in a mine shaft, "Timothy"