July 4th, 2009 02:02pm
Sonoma County Book Festival Benefit
by Books
Celebrate Jonah Raskin’s most recent book, Field Days: A Year of Farming, Eating, and Drinking Wine in California,” at an Aug. 1 benefit for the Sonoma County Book Festival.
The year’s event takes place at Windrush Farm in Petaluma. Not only will Raskin read from his part memoir, part travel guide to gardening, eating, and sipping in Sonoma County, but the afternoon event includes culinary as well as literary pleasures. Brick over pizza will be served along with a variety of local wines and beer.
Reserve your place by July 28 by contacting J.J. Wilson at boxcar@sonic.net or 795-9028. Tickets are $40. Ask about discounts for students. Children are free.
Sara Peyton has 25 years experience as a staff and freelance reporter, essayist, columnist, and book reviewer for daily and weekly newspapers in northern California. Her column, Book People, appears in the New York Times-owned Press Democrat. Her essays, interviews, book reviews, and reporting have appeared in More Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Organic Style, Newsweek, New York Times, Poets & Writers, Stanford Magazine, Weight Watchers Magazine, More.com, LHJ.com, Publishers Weekly, San Francisco Magazine, and Women.com. Sara is the public relations manager at O’Reilly Media. Email her at sara.peyton@gmail.com. On twitter: twitter.com/sarapeyton
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