News & Events
NEWS…
Cakewalk is a finalist for the 2011 Northern California Book Award in Creative Nonfiction!
Winners to be announced April 10.
SeriousEats.com chooses Cakewalk as one of “5 Best Non-Cookbook Food Books of 2010“!
NPR includes Cakewalk in their list of favorite memoirs of 2010. Here’s the story on NPR.org. Many thanks Nancy Pearl!
Cakewalk chosen as one of the 16 ”most notable cookbooks of 2010″ vying for “The Piglet” trophy in food52.com’s Tournament of Cookbooks!
For fans of Cakewalk and Wintering:
Narrative Magazine has published “Chocolate Cake for Diane,” Kate’s tribute to the late biographer Diane Middlebrook, whose genius for friendship and gusto for life was the inspiration behind Cakewalk.
For fans of Wintering and Sylvia Plath:
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the publication of The Journals of Sylvia Plath edited by Karen V. Kukil, the online journal Plath Profiles has just republished Kate’s groundbreaking essay on Plath and the journals, originally a cover story in Salon. You can find “The Real Sylvia Plath” here.
For fans of Wintering and Cakewalk:
“Baking for Sylvia,” a chapter “outtake” from Cakewalk, has just been published in the online journal Plath Profiles
…and UPCOMING EVENTS:
Thursday March 31, 2011, 5:30pm reception, 6pm event:
“The Art of the Food Memoir”
with Dayna Macy (Ravenous, A Food Lover’s Journey from Obsession to Freedom) and Romney Steele (My Nepenthe: Bohemian Tales of Food, Family and Big Sur) and Kate Moses (Cakewalk, A Memoir), moderated by Davina Baum, Managing Editor of Chow
The Commonwealth Club
595 Market Street/2nd, San Francisco
$8 members/$20 non-members/$7 students
To buy tickets visit The Commonwealth Club website
PAST EVENTS…
Friday April 16, 2010, 7:30pm:
Join Kate Moses and the rest of this year’s honored San Francisco writers at the 14th Annual San Francisco Public Library’s Literary Laureates Dinner. Please check the SFPL website for ticket information.
Wednesday May 12, 2010, 7:30pm:
Reading & Freshly Baked Treats at The Booksmith
1644 Haight Street, San Francisco
415-863-8688
Thursday May 13, 2010, 9am-10am PST (12pm-1pm EST):
Online Author Chat at Barnes and Noble Food & Drink Book Club
Friday May 14, 2010, 9am:
Private on-campus event: Talk at Phi Beta Kappa initiation,
followed by book signing
University of the Pacific, Stockton
Friday, May 14, 2010, 7pm:
Reading & Freshly Baked Treats at A Great Good Place for Books
1620 LaSalle Avenue, Oakland
510-339-8210
Wednesday, May 19, 2010:
Guest Post on Meg Waite Clayton’s “1st Books” Blog
1st Books: Stories of How Writers Get Started
Tuesday May 25, 2010, noon:
Private on-campus event: Visit to Food Memoir class,
UCSC Creative Writing Program
Kresge College, UC-Santa Cruz
Wednesday May 26, 2010, 7pm:
Reading & Freshly Baked Treats at Books Inc. Palo Alto
Town & Country Village
855 Camino Real, Palo Alto
650-321-0600
Thursday May 27, 2010, 6pm:
Reading & Freshly Baked Treats at Book Passage Ferry Building
1 Ferry Building #42, San Francisco
415-835-1020
Saturday May 29, 2010, 10am:
“West Coast Live” Radio show hosted by Sedge Thomson
KALW 91.7 FM in the SF Bay Area
Nationwide affiliates
Streamed live at www.KALW.org
Thursday June 3, 2010, 7:30pm:
Reading & Freshly Baked Treats at Mrs. Dalloway’s Literary & Garden Arts
2904 College Avenue, Berkeley
510-704-8222
Sunday June 13, 2010, 3:00pm:
Reading & Freshly Baked Treats at Omnivore Books on Food
3885A Cesar Chavez Street, San Francisco
415-282-4712
Friday October 8, 6:3opm:
Life, Death, Love, Lies…and Cupcakes: Litquake’s All-Memoir Women’s Night. Featuring Zoe FitzGerald Carter, Katherine Ellison, Laura Fraser, Frances Lefkowitz, Meredith Maran, Kate Moses & Joan Ryan
Hotel Monaco, Paris Ballroom
501 Geary Street, San Francisco
$5-10 donation requested. No-host bar, 21 & over
For more information, see Litquake, San Francisco’s Literary Festival
Monday November 1, 7pm:
Kate Moses & Cakewalk at the JCCSF
(Yes, of course there will be cake!)
Tickets $20 public, $10 student
JCCSF
Fisher Hall
3200 California Street, San Francisco
Thursday December 16, 6:30-8:30pm:
Reading from Cakewalk, with holiday treats!
Inside Story Time Reading Series
Cafe Royale, 800 Post Street @ Leavenworth, SF
Wednesday January 19, 2011, 7pm:
Lorrie Moore with Kate Moses
Lannan Readings & Conversations
Lensic Performing Arts Center
211 W. San Francisco Street
Santa Fe, NM
BOOK CLUBS:
Kate is happy to connect with your membership via skype, email or, for San Francisco Bay Area clubs, in person. Please contact Kate to make arrangements.