Grog

Former board member Dixon Long has followed up his guide to the markets of Provence with one for the markets of Paris:

http://www.amazon.com/Markets-Paris-Dixon-Long/dp/1892145456/sr=1-1/qid=1171384447/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-0663895-4331955?ie=UTF8&s=books

Dixon will be at Book Passage in Corte Madera, on March 18; Readers Books in Sonoma on April 5, at Mrs. Dalloway's in Berkeley sometime in April, and at the Mechanics Institute in San Francisco on April 12: http://www.milibrary.org/events.html

Former board member Hans Gallas is celebrating this year's centennial of the meeting of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas: http://www.gertrudeandalice.com/

Former board member Darien Hsu Gee, writing as Mia King, has just published her first novel (Berkeley Trade): http://www.miaking.com/

She also takes part in a grog: http://www.thedebutanteball.com/

Meanwhile, former board members Beth Gutcheon, Brenda Webster, and Marilyn Yalom continue to thrive:
http://www.bethgutcheon.com/

http://www.well.com/~brenda1/

http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/10783/Marilyn_Yalom/index.aspx

And Wikipedia suggests that former board member Ethan Canin may be coming out with a novel, "In the Bed of Ian K. Myron," later this year.