Slow Living Radio is delighted to
welcome Features Editor, Sasha Paulsen of the Napa Valley Register who is also
an author and ghost writer. We hear
about her travels in Italy, new books and life as an editor in the famous Napa
Valley.
Sasha Paulsen
Features Editor
Sasha Paulsen attended Silverado and
Napa High School before leaving to pursue her degree in English at UC Berkeley,
followed by a masters in journalism from Cal. Her career has taken her to
London, Paris, Munich and Boston before returning to her home town Napa to
raise her two children, Sam and Ariel (Sam is now a med student at UCLA and
Ariel is a Linguist.) Sasha started working at the Napa Valley Register in
1999, being a perfect place for a single mom, and has been features editor ever
since, in charge of food, wine, arts, travel, and lifestyle stories.
In her spare time, Sasha, also writes
fiction (first novel “Dancing on a Spider’s Web” is set in Berkeley, SF and
Napa); and works on occasional non-fiction projects – Mike Grgich’s
autobiography “A Glass Full of Miracles”
most notably. She has collaborated extensively with Master of Wine Tim Hanni on
“The Masters Secrets to Enjoying Wine in China,” and “Why You Like the Wines You Like”
and, with the help of her daughter Ariel, is finishing up “The Sweet Wine
Lovers’ Manifesto.”
A sneak preview of the book she ghost wrote for Mike Grgich, A
Glass Full of Miracles.
Napa
Valley icon Miljenko “Mike” Grgich has released his memoir, “A Glass Full of Miracles,”
in celebration of his 93rd birthday on April 1st. The book, published by
Violetta Press, was written with Napa Valley Register editor Sasha Paulsen and
chronicles the long and storied life of a young Croatian boy whose search for
freedom and the chance to fulfill his American Dream led him through countless
hardships to become one of the most revered and beloved winemaking legends in
history.
“My
life has been filled with miracles’” Mike Grgich says. “How else do you explain
that a little boy from a little village in Croatia now has his wine on display
in the Smithsonian Institution, in the same place as Abraham Lincoln’s hat
and Neal Armstrong’s space suit?”
George Taber,
the Time magazine reporter who broke
the story of the Paris Tasting and later was the author of “Judgment of Paris”
about the famed tasting, praises “A Glass Full of Miracles:” “Mike Grgich may
be small in stature, but he is a giant in the world of wine. His new book
dramatically tells his full story, which is a great tale of a dream come
true…there are a lot more aspects to Mike’s life than just Cabernet and
Chardonnay. It’s a great and fun read.”
“A Glass Full of Miracles” retails for
$40, to pre-order visit www.ViolettaPress.com, www.grgich.com and www.amazon.com. The book will ship
in mid-April. For more information about the book, visit www.ViolettaPress.com.
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