This year's fall reading list comes to you courtesy of some mighty Bay Area pen-wielders, including a few who are making magic of the memoir.
Step inside the one-track dirty mind of a teenage boy with Daniel Handler; empathize with the childhood trauma of Amy Tan; find your "logical family" with Armistead Maupin; go through cancer with Joyce Maynard; and let Dave Eggers tell your kids the real story of the Statue of Liberty.
You've got a lot of reading to do.
We'd like to propose a toast to cocktail master Thad Vogler (Bar Agricole, Trou Normand) upon the occasion of his first book, By the Smoke and the Smell: My Search for the Rare and the Sublime on the Spirits Trail (Ten Speed Press).
