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Michael Shapiro

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http://michaelshapiro.net/

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Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs

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Michael Shapiro writes about travel, the performing arts, and environmental issues for magazines and newspapers. A former staff reporter and editor at newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area, he’s the author of The Creative Spark, a collection of interviews with many of the world’s most creative people, and A Sense of Place, featuring conversations with leading travel writers. His stories appear in National Geographic, AFAR, The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle and many other publications.

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A conversation with Stephanie Elizondo Griest, author of the new book, Art Above Everything

Thursday, July 17th, 2025, 6pm, Book Passage, Corte Madera, free!

For young people it can be easy to be idealistic and devote ourselves to art. Then reality — and responsibilities — set in. As a friend said to me shortly after we graduated from college, “Life costs money.”

Stephanie Elizondo Griest’s new book, Art Above Everything: One Woman’s Global Exploration of the Joys and Torments of a Creativ

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Average rating: 3.43 · 475 ratings · 61 reviews · 118 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Sense of Place: Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration 3.86 avg rating — 244 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Creative Spark: How Musicians, Writers, Explorers, and Other Artists Found Their Inner Fire and Followed Their Dreams 3.90 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Jewish 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Jews of All Time 3.57 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bottom of the Ninth: Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball from Itself 4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage: Boy Heroines and Female Pages 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1995 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Children of the Revels: The Boy Companies of Shakespeare's Time and Their Plays 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1977	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Internet Travel Planner: How to Plan Trips and Save Money Online 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beat (Almost) Everybody at Chess 2.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Quick Start Guide to Geocaching 2.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Peirce Seminar Papers: Volume V: Essays in Semiotic Analysis liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2003	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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