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Book talk
By Piper Castillo, Times staff writer
Published November 4, 2007
Appearances Mike Vitel Charlie's Paradise, Nineteen Sixty-Seven to Sixty-Eight, 2 p.m. Wednesday, Gulf Beaches Public Library, 200 Municipal Drive, Madeira Beach. Hugh L. McEntire (Names), 1 p.m. Saturday, Barnes and Noble Tyrone, 2501 Tyrone Blvd., St. Petersburg. Events The Irritable Tribe of Poets presents "Dead Girls on Parade," a post-Halloween party with poets musing on the spooky theme of death. Poets include Silvia Curbelo, Melissa Fair, Rhonda J. Nelson and Susan Tyler. The event is at 7:30 tonight at the Dirty Shame, 1929 E Seventh Ave., Ybor City. For information, e-mail: irritabletribe@aol.com. An Evening with Rebecca Walker, part of the Presidential Events Series at Eckerd College, will be at 7 p.m. Monday at Fox Hall on the Eckerd campus, 4200 54th Ave. S, St. Petersburg. Walker (Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Selfand Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence) is the daughter of author Alice Walker (The Color Purple). She will discuss intergenerational feminism and multicultural identity as well as her books. The free event is open to the public. For information, go to www.eckerd.edu. Jewish Book Day at the Tampa Jewish Community Center, 13009 Community Campus Drive, Tampa, will start at 10 a.m. Nov. 11. A brunch with Glorida Goldreich (Leah's Journey and Dinner with Anna Karenina) will be at 11 a.m. A book fair and Channukah Shopping Bazaar, along with children's events, are free. The brunch is $36. For information, call the center at (813) 264-9000. "An Evening with the Authors" will be held Nov. 16 at the Clearwater Main Library, 100 Osceola Ave. The featured author is Jeff Klinkenberg, St. Petersburg Times columnist and author of Seasons of Real Florida. The event benefits the Clearwater Library Foundation and programs of the Clearwater Library system. Cost ranges from $20 to $40. Information: www.clearwatercwc.org. To place an item in Book Talk, send author's name and book title, appearance time and date, and venue name and address to pcastillo@sptimes.com or mail to Piper Castillo, St. Petersburg Times, P.O. Box 1121, St. Petersburg, FL 33731.
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