Camille Cusumano

Augusts 9, 2008

Sometimes you know a book will be great even before you open the cover, even before you hold it in your hands. I make such claims for Alison Wright’s new book, Learning to Breathe, just published by Penguin. Although Alison, a photographer and writer, is a friend and colleague, I don’t make this claim lightly. I haven’t held the book yet, but I know a lot about the hair-raising incidents that led to her writing a book, subtitled “one woman’s journey of spirit and survival.” I’m listing here for your edification all her bookstore appearances and a link to her beautiful Web site at www.alisonwright.com with some of her award-winning photography. On her way to Antarctica, Alison passed through Buenos Aires while I was still there and we got to know each other better. She’s in my upcoming book, Tango, so I’ll also post an excerpt from it, which should whet your appetite for devouring Alison’s book (and in October, mine!). Lest you doubt the power of her book, let me inform you that none other than his Holiness the Dalai Lama wrote the book’s foreword.

LEARNING TO BREATHE BOOKSTORES AND EVENTS

CALIFORNIA
9/9/08-Book Launch Party
Hyatt Fisherman’s Wharf
555 North Point Street
San Francisco, CA
5:30-7:00 pm
415-563-1234

8/16/09 Photo Presentation
Marin, CA Book Passage 8:30pm http://www.bookpassage.com/event_nextmonth.php?start=36

COLORADO
8/19/08 Denver, CO Tattered Cover @ 7:30pm
http://www.tatteredcover.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp

8/20/08 Boulder, CO Boulder Bookstore @7:30pm
http://boulderbookstore.booksense.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp

SEATTLE
8/21/08 Seattle, WA Elliott Bay Book Company @ 7:30pm
http://www.elliottbaybook.com/events/next/index.jsp

8/22/08 Seattle WA Third Place Books @ 6:30pm
http://www.thirdplacebooks.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp

OREGON
8/25/08 Portland, OR Powell’s City of Books @ 7:30pm
http://www.powells.com/

ARIZONA
8/27/08 Phoenix, AZ Changing Hands @ 7:00pm
http://www.changinghands.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp

NEW YORK
9/3/08
The home of Harriett and Aubrey Balkind
325 West End Ave PHA
New York , NY
6:30-8:30/Reading 7:30

9/4/08
The home of Amy Novogratz
70 Washington Street, Apt. 5i
Between Front and York, Dumbo, Brooklyn
7:00 start | 8:00 reading | Open-ended

9/5/08 New York Rubin Museum @7:30 pm
http://www.rmanyc.org

WASHINGTON DC
9/10/08
Discovery Channel Silver Spring, MD.
6:30 Photo Exhibit opening
7:30 Book reading (Info on site)
Photo exhibit opening/ book reading

CALIFORNIA
9/15/08 San Francisco, CA Books Inc. @ 7:30pm
http://www.booksinc.net/NASApp/store/IndexJsp

9/18/08 San Francisco, CA Get Lost Books @7 pm
http://www.getlostbooks.com/p_home.html
9/23/08 San Francisco, CA Bookshop, West Postal @ 7pm
http://www.bookshopwestportal.com/

9/27/08 Marin, CA Book Passage@ 7:00 pm
http://www.bookpassage.com/author_events.php

Alison Wright Photography
2261 Market Street #458
San Francisco, CA 94114
ph: 415-621-0638
fax: 415-487-1862
www.alisonwright.com
www.nationalgeographicassignment.com

For more information on bookstore appearances and events as well as my
Faces of Hope Fund which is helping to rebuild the Kasi clinic in Laos visit my website at:
http://www.alisonwright.com

To purchase (published by Penguin):
http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Breathe-Womans-Journey-Survival/dp/1594630461/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217377449&sr=1-1