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  • The U.S. Constitution and the Mystery Novel, by Micheal O’Connor

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    Zoom CA, United States

    Though not everyone realizes it, the U.S. Constitution can have serious repercussions on a mystery novel. Search warrant requirements, Miranda warnings, and prohibitions against rubber hoses are just a few of the many constraints placed on police detectives. While private detectives are not directly affected by the Constitution, disregarding the rules can have negative consequences […]

  • German Writer Thomas Brussig with Jonathan Franzen

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    Mechanics' Institute


    Thomas Brussig’s classic German novel, The Short End of the Sonnenallee, now appearing for the first time in English, is a moving and miraculously comic story of life in East Berlin before the fall of the Wall. Translator and author Jonathan Franzen, who also provides the foreword for this book, says that it’s “a reminder that, even […]

  • The Epicenter: Rita Chang-Eppig with Carolina De Robertis

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    Hotel Emblem 562 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Join Litquake's Epicenter as we help launch Rita Chang-Eppig’s debut novel, Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea, a riveting, roaring adventure story about a legendary Chinese pirate queen, her fight to save her fleet from the forces allied against them, and the dangerous price of power! When Shek Yeung sees a Portuguese sailor slay […]

  • Vanishing Maps: A Novel

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    Mechanics' Institute


    with author Cristina Garcia From the acclaimed author of Dreaming in Cuban, a follow-up novel that tracks four generations of the del Pino family against the tumultuous backdrops of Cuba, the U.S., Germany, and Russia in the new millennium.

  • Nancy Jooyoun Kim: What We Kept to Ourselves

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    Telegraph Hill Books 1501 Grant Ave, San Francisco, United States

    The New York Times bestselling author of The Last Story of Mina Lee returns with a propulsive and suspenseful new novel about a family that unravels when a stranger—who may hold the key to their missing mother—is found dead in their backyard. Both a riveting page-turner and moving family story, What We Kept to Ourselves masterfully explores the consequences of secrets […]

  • After Sappho

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    Mechanics' Institute


    with author Selby Wynn Schwartz in conversation with Professor Loretta Stec Join Selby Wynn Schwartz in conversation with Professor Loretta Stec on her debut novel After Sappho, an invigorating tale of women whose narratives converge and splinter as they forge queer identities and claim the right to their own lives.