From The Chapel in the Mission dirstict of San Francisco from May 18, 2013, SEDGE welcomed:

Author
PAUL THEROUX
the travel writer and novelist known for such bestsellers as The Great Railway Bazaar and The Mosquito Coast, here with his latest, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari.
Author
CLAIRE MESSUD
the bestselling author of The Emperor's Children brings us her next novel, The Woman Upstairs, about an elementary schoolteacher in need of a fantasy. She finds one.
Author
JONATHAN EVISON
author of the emotional and humorous works All about Lulu and West of Here, on tour with his latest big-hearted novel, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving.