Just-published works of interest to Bay Area readers.

Alameda Women Artists Celebrate 20 Years

Edited and designed by N. Teddy Goldsworthy-hanner

(BLURB INC., 2013, $35, 86 PP.)

Alameda artist Bonnie Randall Boller deserves props for founding the Alameda Women Artists, a nonprofit group formed to support female artists, an often under-appreciated lot. This year marked AWA’s 20th anniversary, and the milestone prompted N. Teddy Goldsworthy-hanner, an artist and AWA vice president, to compile a book recognizing the members’ contributions. Her book includes press clippings and postcards of past shows, spreads on 32 artists with photographs of the women and depictions of their paintings, drawings, sculptures, cartoons, and photos. Each artist shares what AWA means to her and provides contact information plus info on current pursuits. To get a copy, visit www.alamedawomenartists.org, email alamedawomenartists@gmail.com, call 510-865-0541, or drop by Artistic Home Studio & Boutique, 1419 Park St., Alameda.

And There I Was, Volume II, A Backpacking Adventure in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Nepal, India,

by DH Koester witha cover illustration by Victor Guiza

(OUTSKIRTS PRESS, 2013, $24.95, 297 PP.)

Alameda author DK Koester leads a trip through Southeast Asia in this book, the second in his nine-volume There I Was series. It’s heavy-duty reflection on serious stuff: war, genocide, life, and death as contemplated by a traveler wandering through sacred, grand, and troubled locations in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Nepal, and India. The bandana-wearing Buddhist author describes himself as: “farmhand, aerospace engineer, atomic physicist, vagabond, materials engineer, migrant worker, professional photographer, soils technician, foundry worker, manufacturing engineer, artist, restaurateur, furniture maker, department store janitor, door-to-door fire alarm salesman, land surveyor, cannery worker, writer, and hobo.”

Jack London, An American Life

by Earle Labor

(FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX, 2013, $30, 461 PP.)

Biography fans might be interested in this authoritative tome by Earle Labor about one of the Bay Area’s most famous sons, Jack London. Labor, curator of the Jack London Museum and Research Center in Shreveport, La., is a noted London scholar who takes great pleasure in painting a complete picture of the brash adventurer and novelist.

This article appears in the December 2013 issue of Alameda Magazin
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