Spiritual Journeys October 7, 2010

Litquake and the Osher Marin Jewish Community Center present a multiple author event: Spiritual Journeys Thursday October 7 @ 7:30pm

For 11 years, Litquake has featured thousands of authors reading from thousands of books in front of tens of thousands of eager lovers of literature. The JCC is proud to join Litquake and Book Passage to present 4 amazing authors in Marin, sharing their literary and spiritual journeys with the community.

Authors:
Michael Krasny - "Spiritual Envy"
Host of the nation's most listened to locally produced NPR talk show (KQED's Forum with Michael Krasny), and a longtime college professor and literary scholar, Krasny comes to the table with his most recent book.

Sylvia Boorstein "Happiness is an Inside Job"
Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D., is a co-founding teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and a senior teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts. She is the bestselling author of five books, a psychotherapist and Buddhist, and a frequent presenter at psychology seminars and meditation retreats.

Dani Shapiro "Devotion"
Dani Shapiro's most recent books include "Black & White", "Family History" and the best-selling memoir "Slow Motion". Her short stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, Elle, Bookforum, Oprah, Ploughshares, among others, and have been broadcast on National Public Radio.

Moderator: Don Lattin is a freelance journalist and the author of four books. His most recent work, THE HARVARD PSYCHEDELIC CLUB - How Timothy Leary, Andrew Weil, Ram Dass and Huston Smith Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America, was a national bestseller in 2010.

$12 OMJCC & Litquake Members/$15 public Books will be available for purchase on-site.
This Kanbar Center for the Performing Arts event will take place in the Hoytt Theater, with general admission seating. Book sales and signing will immediately follow in the atrium, courtyard and gallery areas. FREE parking.

Official Website: http://www.marinjcc.org