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On Thursday, Sept. 22, Litquake will host a feast of words and French cuisine, as we welcome three authors heralded for the Parisian settings in their fiction: Cara Black, Diane Johnson and Ellen Sussman.
The charming setting for this fundraiser will be Cafe Bastille on Belden Place, in the heart of San Francisco. We shall take over their intimate cellar dining room for a prix fixe dinner that includes three courses, all the wine you can drink, and delicious readings sure to put you in the mood for all things Parisian!
Thursday, Sept. 22, 6:30-10 pm
Cafe Bastille, 22 Belden Place
Tickets $90 at Brown Paper Tickets
(All-inclusive three-course meal with unlimited wine and literary entertainment)
 Menu choices (suggested by restaurant): |
| Mesclun Salad or Onion Soup Gratinée Beef Bourguignon or Coq Au Vin or Mussels Marinière or (for vegetarians) Mushroom & Cheese or Ratatouille Crepe Tropical Mousse Cake or Triple Chocolate Mousse |
Please join us, enjoy a fabulous meal, and support the largest nonprofit literary festival in the country! Books will be for sale.
Our authors for the evening:
Cara Black writes the award-nominated and bestselling Aimée Leduc series of mysteries—including this year’s Murder in Passy—which are set in different districts of Paris. She’s a San Francisco Library Laureate, President of the Northern California Mystery Writers of America and member of the Marais Historic Society in Paris. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, who is a bookseller, and her son, and flies off to Paris at every opportunity. Contact her on her website, on Facebook or follow her on Twitter.
A two-time finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Diane Johnson has drawn comparisons to Jane Austen and Edith Wharton with her comedies of manners about Americans living and loving abroad – especially in La Ville-Lumière. Her books include L’Affaire (2004), Le Mariage (2000), and Le Divorce (1997), which won the California Book Awards gold medal for fiction and was made into a 2003 movie starring Kate Hudson. She has been a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, and co-authored the screenplay to “The Shining” with Stanley Kubrick.
Ellen Sussman‘s new novel, the New York Times-bestselling French Lessons, is set in the City of Lights, and follows the lives of three French tutors and their American students during the course of one eventful day. Her first novel, On a Night Like This, was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and was translated into six languages. She is also the editor of two anthologies, Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia Of Sex and Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave, and an acclaimed writing teacher. She and her husband Neal Rothman live in Los Altos Hills. Visit her website.
