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Karen Karbo-The Gospel According to Coco Chanel
| What | All Ages |
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| When |
October 14, 2009 from 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm |
| Where | The Community Room |
| Contact Name | susan park |
| Contact Email | sparks@cityofseaside.us |
| Contact Phone | 503.738.6742 |
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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009
KAREN KARBO, PORTLAND AUTHOR,
TO READ AT SEASIDE PUBLIC LIBRARY IN OCTOBER
The Friends of Seaside Library are hosting two readings by Portland author Karen Karbo on Wednesday, October 14, 2009. The author will give an evening reading from her newly released nonfiction title, The Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons from the World’s Most Elegant Woman at 6:00 p.m. In addition, she will give a presentation and reading from her Minerva Clark youth mystery series at 3:30 p.m. Both events will take place at Seaside Public Library. Beach Books will be on hand at the evening reading for book sales and signings.
Ms. Karbo will also be visiting a Seaside High School English class during the day to talk about her writing process, in a “young writers’’ feature of this monthly visiting authors program.
In The Gospel According to Coco Chanel, Karen Karbo explores a philosophy and aesthetic based on the famed French designer’s style. “If you have a collection of jackets
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for tossing on over a pair of jeans, the better to look as if you’ve actually dressed for the occasion--…that’s Chanel,” Ms. Karbo writes. “Any black dress is a direct descendent of Chanel’s 1926 short silk model. A knee-grazing pencil or A-line skirt? Chanel. Jersey anything? Chanel again.” Karen Karbo is the author of three novels, all of which were named New York Times Notable Books; four works of non-fiction—including How to Hepburn, which the Philadelphia Inquirer called “an exuberant celebration of a great original,” and The Stuff of Life, a People Magazine Critic’s Choice—and three books for young adults, the Minerva Clark mystery series featuring young detective Minerva Clark and her pet ferret Jupiter. . Her essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Outside, Elle, Vogue, More, and Salon.com. She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she is still hunting for a piece of vintage Chanel couture. |