Volunteer opportunities and applications are also listed in our website. The buzz is growing stronger as April 10 approaches. Over 30 authors and 300 guests will soon enjoy a memorable night of fine food and great conversations at the Fourth Annual Library Laureates Dinner, held at the Main Library. The largest literary gala of its kind, proceeds from this fundraising event will benefit every branch library in San Francisco. It's not too late to join the fun.
Individual tickets are available.
May 3, Herbst Theatre Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Indeed, Ms. Oates has said that her only concern as a writer is to portray, in the tradition of Dickens and George Eliot, the moral and social fabric of her generation. She has done so, in book after book, with dizzying versatility. Her early National Book Award-winning novel, them, depicted a poor Detroit family caught in a cycle of poverty and violence. In the 1980s, she wrote a trio of Gothic epics.