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Book event! Join Sarah Relyea and Michael Bourne on Wednesday, December 13.

Hippies to Yuppies: Troubled Protagonists in San Francisco. Sponsored by the Historical Novel Society - NYC Chapter...

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Sarah Relyea and Loretta Goldberg read from their novels at the 440 Gallery

Sarah Relyea and Loretta Goldberg read from their novels at the 440 Gallery....

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From Protest to Plague and Back Again

Can we ever know the past? Sure, we have research—records, documents, and archaeological sites—but long-ago words and stones leave huge gaps. Sensory memory rushes to fill those gaps, dangling its low-hanging fruit....

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Berkeley in the 1960s: An Unforgettable Character

When I wrote Playground Zero, a coming-of-age novel set in Berkeley during the counterculture movement of the 1960s, I wanted to convey something of the city’s splendor, along with the anarchy of those years....

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Story Circle Network presents: Three authors of coming-of-age stories

Story Circle Network presents a coming-of-age webinar with Sarah Relyea, Shelley Blanton-Stroud, and Elise Schiller....

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