Wallace Baine is the author of Rhymes With Vain: Belabored Humor And Attempted Profundity and has been an arts writer, film critic, columnist and editor for the Santa Cruz Sentinel since 1991.
Wallace is a two-time winner of the national American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors Excellence in Writing competition for his well know Sunday column “Baine Street,” and has won several awards for his arts coverage. His work has been syndicated in newspapers nationwide and his fiction has appeared in the Catamaran Literary Reader and the Chicago Quarterly Review. His play, “Oscar’s Wallpaper” premiered on stage in Santa Cruz in 2015 and is adapted from one of the stories in “The Last Temptation of Lincoln.”
Wallace will talk to us about his work and his life as a popular columnist covering Arts and Entertainment in Santa Cruz County.
The Meet the Author programs are informal coffee hours around the fireplace where local authors discuss their works, answer questions from the audience and autograph copies of their books. The programs are free and open to the public. Refreshments and coffee will be served with the Ugly Mug providing the coffee. The library is located at 3050 Porter Street. Limited parking is available behind the library. Enter from Soquel Drive into the Bagelry parking lot and drive through to the left following the new sign.
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For more information, call the library at 475-3326 during library hours: Monday-Friday 12-4 and Saturday 10am -2pm, or check the library website at: www.porterml.org