Author Event: Pulling Stone by James Conaway

Thu May 28 2026 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm UTC-07:00

Napa Bookmine | Napa

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Author Event: Pulling Stone by James Conaway
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Join us for this special author event at Napa Bookmine.
About this Event

Join us for a special event with James Conaway, author of Pulling Stone. This event is free, but we appreciate your RSVP below so we can plan for your attendance.


ABOUT THE BOOK

"Jim Conaway's diverse talents are manifest here in poems, paintings and pottery, in a muscular melange for the soul and the senses. Whether luminous or flinty, these works are wrought from a reverence for inner and outer wilderness." — Meredith Davis Hadaway, author of the book, "Among the Many Disappearing Things" and other works of poetry


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

James Conaway is the author of seven novels including The Big Easy (Houghton) and Nose (St. Martin’s), a memoir, Memphis Afternoons (Houghton), and the travel books The Kingdom in the Country (Houghton) and Vanishing America (Counterpoint). His many books of nonfiction include Napa: The Story of an American Eden (Houghton), a bestseller, and two sequels, The Far Side of Eden (Houghton) and Napa at Last Light (Simon & Schuster).

His articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Harper’s, The New Republic, Outside, American Scholar, Smithsonian, National Geographic and other publications. He has worked for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the Rome Daily American, and the Washington Post Style section. He has been a Stegner Fellow at Stanford, an Alicia Patterson Fellow, and the editor of the National Trust’s magazine, Preservation.

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Napa Bookmine, 1625 2nd Street, Napa, United States

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