I plan to attend.  Should be interesting.
Arianne Laidlaw
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> *Subject: **Wednesday 4/23: Ben Tarnoff on Mark Twain's SF years--'The
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> *Wednesday*, April 23rd, 7:00pm
> Ben Tarnoff reading & signing
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> *The Bohemians: Mark Twain and theSan Francisco Writers whoReinvented
> American Literature*
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> *"In 1860s America, the Civil War destroyed old assumptions and rewarded
> radically new thinking. It triggered a cultural upheaval comparable to the
> Vietnam War, a national trauma that made an older generation suddenly
> obsolete and demanded novelty, innovation, experimentation. The 1860s was
> bloody, bewildering--and, if you managed to survive, a magnificent time to
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>     Thus begins Ben Tarnoff's enlightening and fascinating new book *The
> Bohemians*. Far from the front lines of the Civil War, the city at the
> western edge of America roared with youth and promise. A global seaport,
> home to immigrants from five continents, San Francisco had become a
> complex, vibrant metropolis virtually overnight. The bards of the moment
> were the Bohemians: a young Mark Twain, fleeing the draft and seeking
> adventure; literary golden boy Bret Harte; struggling gay poet Charles
> Warren Stoddard; and beautiful, haunted Ina Coolbirth, poet and
> protectorate of the group. *The Bohemians*reveals how these four
> pioneering western writers would together create a new American
> literature--ironic, irreverent, and unfettered by the heavy European
> influence that dominated the Eastern U.S.
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