D.G.Wills Books

7461 Girard Avenue, La Jolla, Ca. 92037 (858)456-1800

HOURS: Monday-Saturday 10am-7pm; Sunday 11am-5pm

La Jolla's largest collection of new and used scholarly books; and home of the La Jolla Cultural Society.

Visit the D.G.Wills Books YouTube Channel, featuring past appearances by Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Maureen Dowd, Allen Ginsberg, Christopher Hitchens, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, Billy Collins, Patricia Neal with Stephen Michael Shearer, Edward Albee, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and Oliver Stone.

D.G.Wills Books events on Book TV, C-SPAN:

Professor Yunte Huang discussing his book Charlie Chan.

Journalist Dave Zirin discusses his book Welcome to the Terrordome.

D.G.Wills Books events on UCSD TV:
Professor Robert Polito and Patricia Patterson discussing

Farber on Film:The Complete Film Writing of Manny Farber.

Professor Andrew Feenberg discussing his collection The Essential Marcuse.

D.G.Wills Books events on TSN: THE SCIENCE NETWORK:
Professor V.S. Ramachandran dicusses his book The Tell Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human.

Professor Lawrence M. Krauss discusses his book Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life In Science.

Washington, D.C. poet
Jodie Hollander
will read from her new collection
THE HUMANE SOCIETY
Saturday, April 26th, 7PM

Romantic, surreal and tender, The Humane Society paints a family portrait that is a mixture of memoir, ghost story and artistic obsession, as well as being an elegy for an older, more mannered, world.

Jodie Hollander is originally from Wisconsin and now lives and works in Washington, DC. An alumna of Pomona College, Boston University and Bath Spa University, her poetry has appeared in a number of poetry magazines and journals both in the UK and America.

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Author and USD Professor

Halina Duraj

will read from her new short story collection

THE FAMILY CANNON

Saturday, May 10,7PM

Halina Duraj brings to her readers an American family, strikingly individual but recognizable to us all—as strange and familiar as home. An escalating neighborhood feud takes an unanticipated turn. A college student visiting Poland learns about drinking, dancing, and some of the more perplexing mysteries of adulthood. A mother opens up about her youth and courtship. A daughter tries to understand her own relationship within the context of what she has been taught about marriage. These tender and generous linked stories illuminate the hidden corners of our family lives and, in doing so, cast beautiful light on the shadows.

“With quiet astonishment, Halina Duraj explores the mysteries of love and madness, offering her readers the secret salvation of story. Between a father’s reinvention of himself, a mother’s perplexing fidelity, and a woman's navigation of the complexities of betrayal, we discover the exquisite pleasures of a world restored and redeemed through Duraj’s luminous gaze, the loving attention and tender playfulness of an extravagantly passionate imagination.”

—Melanie Rae Thon, author of The Voice of the River and In This Light

Halina Duraj’s stories have appeared in The Sun, The Harvard Review, Fiction, Witness, and other journals. She has an MA in creative writing from the University of California, Davis, and a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Utah. In 2012, she was a writer-in- residence at Hedgebrook, a women’s writing retreat on Whidbey Island, WA. She teaches at the University of San Diego, where she also directs the Lindsay J. Cropper Center for Creative Writing

Previous Events at D.G.Wills Books

Christopher Hitchens

Director Oliver Stone

Historian and Churchill biographer Sir Martin Gilbert

Vogue magazine photo of Francoise Gilot at the original store

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Nobel Laureate Gerald Edelman, Director of the Neurosciences Institute, with U.C. Berkeley philosopher John Searle with Mrs. Searle

Nobel Laureate Manfred Eigen

Noted editor Robert Weil, editing a Patricia Highsmith manuscript for W.W. Norton & Co.

Loeb Classical Library and Western Philosophy wall

Previous Events at D.G.Wills Books

NORMAN MAILER, l995

Ted Burke, Norman Mailer, Dennis Wills

Allen Ginsberg, l994

The New York Times Pulitzer Prize Columnist Maureen Dowd

Jill Abramson, Executive Editor, The New York Times, with Maureen Dowd

Billy Collins, Poet Laureate of the United States, 2001-2003

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Gore Vidal, November 2005

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Gore Vidal with Professor Dennis Altman

Gore Vidal, March l998, with noted South African playwright Athol Fugard in audience

Nobel Laureate Francis Crick, February 1995

James D. Watson and Francis Crick with their model of the DNA molecule, the Double Helix, at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, l953

Nobel Laureate James D. Watson, September 2007

Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott

Nobel Laureate Kary Mullis

Three & One-Half Time Pulitzer Prize Playwright Edward Albee

Pulitzer Prize Poet Gary Snyder

Pulitzer Prize poet Gary Snyder

Oscar-Winning Actress Patricia Neal with her biographer Stephen Michael Shearer

Patricia Neal holding a model of "Gort" from the science fiction film classic "The Day the Earth Stood Still"

Richard C. Atkinson, President Emeritus of the University of California, former UCSD Chancellor and former Director of the National Science Foundation

Renowned scientist Freeman Dyson

Freeman Dyson with Mrs. Dyson

A visit from Oscar Nominated and Emmy Award Winning Actor Paul Giamatti

A visit from Jim Belushi, 2003

Jim Belushi at the original store, l988

Claude Picasso and Francoise Gilot

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