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2020 Programs
In Conversation with Mary Ladd, Author of The Wig Diaries
Wednesday, June 24 | 7:00 – 8:30 PM
Walnut Creek Library, Oak View Room
The Wig Diaries is Mary Ladd’s debut disrespectful cancer book. Delivered with bold gallows humor, Mary delivers honest and hilarious anecdotes from her battle with cancer and hopes it encourages others still fighting the battle. Janine Kovac, author of Spinning: Choreography for Coming Home, will moderate the program with Mary.
Mary’s writing has appeared in Playboy, Time, the San Francisco Chronicle and five anthologies. She is a Writers Grotto member who collaborated with Anthony Bourdain on his Bay Area episodes of No Reservations. The Wig Diaries is illustrated by San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist Don Asmussen, who has cancer for the second time. Janine Kovac is the author of SPINNING: Choreography for Coming Home, and the recipient of the Elizabeth George Foundation Fellowship from Hedgebrook. She is hard at work on a collection of essays about the Nutcracker.
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2020 Past Events
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
March 2, 2020 – Video coming soon.
The Life of Robert Noble Burgess
February 12, 2020
Part of Our Lives: A People’s History of the American Public Library
January 15, 2020
2019 Past Events
D. Leah Steinberg, Author of “Raised in the Shadow of the Bomb: Children of the Manhattan Project”
1969: One Giant Year
Adventures in Produce: The Rewards of Growing and Cooking Weird Fruit and Veggies with authors Emily Murphy and Laura McLively
Elise Hooper, Author of “Learning to See: A Novel of Dorothea Lange, The Woman Who Revealed the Real America”
Brave Little Nell—The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
January 16, 2019
Live! from the Library, produced by the Walnut Creek Library Foundation, features free public lectures, literary events, and cultural programs at the Walnut Creek and Ygnacio Valley libraries. Program sponsors are the East Bay Times, Friends of the Walnut Creek Library, and Minuteman Press, Lafayette. Programming is also made possible by donations to the Foundation’s Annual Fund. View past programs on our Video page. Contra Costa TV airs past programs Sundays at 8 p.m. Visit their website for channel info.
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