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Lindsey Remolif Shere:

Chez Panisse Desserts.

New York: Random House, 1985. Preface by Alice Waters. Illustrated by Wayne Thiebaud. 341 pages; index. ISBN 0-394-53860-9.
Second edition (first paperback edition), 1994. ISBN 0-679-75571-3.
Available in the second edition in good bookstores anywhere.

Still available! A limited number of copies of the first edition, with the Thiebaud wrapper.
E-mail for information: charlesshere@earthlink.net
 
 
 
 

Charles Shere:

Everbest Ever: Correspondence with Bay Area Friends.

By Virgil Thomson, Charles Shere, and Margery Tede,
gathered and annotated by Charles Shere with Margery Tede.
Berkeley: Fallen Leaf Press, 1996. 95 pages; index.
ISBN 0-914913-38-7; 0-914913-39-5 (paper).
Available from Scarecrow Press and other sources.

 
 
 

Thinking Sound Music: The Life and Music of Robert Erickson.

Berkeley: Fallen Leaf Press, 1995. Foreword by John Rockwell. With a compact disc of music by Robert Erickson.
277 pages; index. ISBN 0-914913-33-6;  0-914913-42-5 (paper).
Available from Scarecrow Press and other sources.

, Even Recent Cultural History.

Lebanon: Frog Peak, 1995. 98 pages; index.
ISBN 0-945996-07-1; 0-945996-06-3 (paper).
Available from Frog Peak Music.

 
 

 
 
 

Why I Read Stein.

Oakland: Mills College Center for the Book, 2002. Foreword by Sumner Carnahan.
40 pages.
Available from the publisher and the author.

 
 

Uncompromising Vision: the Art of Jack Jefferson. [San Francisco:] Hacket-Freedman Gallery, Inc., and the Wiegand Gallery, Notre Dame de Namur University, 2004. Introduction by Charles Strong; Rediscovering Jack Jefferson by Gerald Nordland; Jack Jefferson: Works on Paper by Charles Shere. 80 pages. Available from the Hackett-Freedman Gallery.

How I Saw Duchamp. Healdsburg: Ear Press, 2004. No. 5 in the Frog Peak Guppy series. 32 pages. A lecture given Sept. 12, 2003, at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Utrecht, on the composition of the opera The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even. Available from Frog Peak Music.

Mostly Spain. Healdsburg: Ear Press, 2007. Travels in Spain and The Netherlands, with side trips to Paris and Torino. Comments (more often meditations) on restaurants, hotels, the landscape, the people, and their history; on paintings and music, museums and cathedrals; and politics; and language; and books... /font> Black & white photos by the author. 240 pages.

Getting There. Healdsburg: Ear Press, 2007. 212 pages. Growing up in Berkeley, 1935-1945, and on a hardscrabble farm in Sonoma county, 1945-1952; college in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Berkeley; early marriage and children; beginning to learn about Modernism, writing, and the composition of music. The first thirty years, 1935-1964. 212 pages; b&w photos.

Roman Letters. Healdsburg: Ear Press, 2007. Reflections on daily life, politics, restaurants, art, and history during two months in Rome: January and November 2004. With a detailed listing of restaurants. Black & white photos by the author. 258 pages.

 
 

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