Pamela Gullard

Program:
6:00-6:45 Pamela Gullard presents Lake Crescent and Other Spirits
6:45-7:30 Wine reception

Local author Pamela Gullard joins us with her latest book of short stories, Lake Crescent and Other Spirits. These eleven stories, set in the San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle, look into the hearts of characters who want desperately to find love and talk intimately about their fears, their desires. But things go wrong. Conversations break off. People leave or make an outrageous demand or start an affair that flames out of control. In the title story, a writer discovers that the afternoon his careless mother dove from a cliff into Lake Crescent has sunk into his bones. Closed his soul. The secret grip of that day is lost to him until a new lover sees that his biggest obstacle is his own heart. These stories are understated, ironic, sometimes savage, but insistently compassionate.

About the Author

Pamela Gullard’s recent work has appeared in Arts & Letters, The North American Review, Free State Review, TriQuarterly and Sou’wester. She has won a PEN Syndicated Fiction Project Award and the H.G. Roberts Fiction Writing Award judged by Gordon Lish. Breathe at Every Other Stroke, her previous collection, includes stories that appeared in The Iowa Review and others. Pamela has also published three nonfiction books with Portola Valley historian Nancy Lund on important California towns (Scottwall Associates, San Francisco). These include histories of Palo Alto, Portola Valley, and Atherton. Pamela teaches literature at Menlo College and lives with her husband Mike in nearby Menlo Park, California. They have two sons who also love to read.

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