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Manny’s: March Book Club!: “Season of the Witch” by David Talbot
This March we are excited to embark on a new book club journey! Together we will be reading Season of the Witch by David Talbot! Every week you’ll get the chance to gather, discuss, and converse with other readers. Additonally, each week we will be joined by a special guest speaker from the book. The characters will quite literally come to life as you get the chance to sit and hear from them directly.
20 books will be avaiable for purchase on Wednesday Febraury 28th when David Talbot comes to Manny’s for a fireside chat. Buy your ticket here. Stay tuned for speaker announcements.
Book summary: Salon founder David Talbot chronicles the cultural history of San Francisco and from the late 1960s to the early 1980s when figures such as Harvey Milk, Janis Joplin, Jim Jones, and Bill Walsh helped usher from backwater city to thriving metropolis.
About the author: David Talbot is a progressive author, journalist and media entrepreneur. Talbot is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The Devil’s Chessboard and Brothers, as well as the national bestseller Season of the Witch. He recently coauthored a history book with his sister Margaret Talbot (a staff writer at The New Yorker), By the Light of Burning Dreams: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Second American Revolution. The book, which will be published by HarperCollins in June, focuses on compelling turning points in the lives of radical heroes in the 1960s and ‘70s and what we can learn from them today.
Before becoming a best-selling historian, Talbot founded Salon, the pioneering online magazine, which he oversaw for its first ten years, from 1995 to 2005. He also worked as a senior editor at Mother Jones magazine and a features editor at the San Francisco Examiner when it was a Hearst publication. Talbot’s articles have appeared in The New Yorker, Time, Rolling Stone, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Guardian and elsewhere and he was featured as a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle.