* FRI, NOV 24: Patricia Bauer Slate presents the re-release of The Sweetish
Hill Bakery Cookbook at BookPeople, 2pm. Slate will have samples of her
famous cookies and pastries to taste while you get 20 years of Sweetish Hill’s
best recipes… Miss Slate’s earlier appearance? Hie thee to Barnes &
Noble, for another signing/sampling, 7-9pm. (Sweetish Hill’s Prinz Tom cake is
my fave!).
* SAT, NOV 25: Another tasty booksigning at BookPeople, this time with Daniel
Reveles, author of Enchiladas, Rice & Beans, 2pm. Salsa and chips,
too — yum!… Lars Eighner, author of the critically acclaimed Travels with
Lizbeth, signs his latest, Pawn to Queen Four, at Bookstop Central
Park,
2-4pm… Local writer Joe D. Winter, author of The First Trail
Drive, will be at Bookstop Crossroads to sign his latest, Cow Pasture
Pool: Golf on the Muni Tour, 5-7pm.
* SUN, NOV 26: Mehdi Alavi will be at Bookstop Lincoln Village for a signing of
his book, O God!, 4-6pm. O God! explores dialogue between people
of Jewish and Islamic faiths… Gerald (Graveyard Working) Duff
will be at Book People for a reading of That’s All Right, Mama: The
Unauthorized Life of Elvis’s Twin, 5pm. (See review this page)… Kinky
(God Bless John Wayne) Friedman will be honored at a birthday party at
Barnes & Noble, 5-9pm. Music, munchies, and a belching contest (!) are on
the sched.
* MON, NOV 27: Cheryl and Bill Jami-son’s The Border Cookbook is the
subject of a signing/tasting at Book People, noon…
— Margaret Moser
“Post Scripts” is for author appearances and booksignings; the deadline is
two weeks before the issue date. Mail to Austin Chronicle, PO Box 49066,
Austin, 78765; fax 458-6910.
This article appears in November 24 • 1995 and November 24 • 1995 (Cover).