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Stay in touch Sign up for updates from Fiction Attic Press books: Lithium for Medea (1979), Palm Latitudes (1988), Squandering the Blue (1990), Wonders of the West (1993), Small Craft Warnings (1998), Frantic Transmissions to and From Los Angeles: An Accidental Memoir (forthcoming 2006, winner of the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize) interview conducted by Fiction Attic editor Michelle Richmond 1. What are you reading right now? In my new mission to build a critical apparatus for this region,...
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Sept. 23, Litquake Benefit Enjoy Mexican fare, end-of-summer sun, and good company at the home of Phil and Christine Bronstein. Featuring Vikram Chandra, Peter Orner, Alejandro Murguía, Jaqueline Winspear, & Michelle Richmond. Tickets, $75. Purchase here. October 13, Litquake Litcrawl Why There Are Words, Litcrawl, San Francisco, venue & time TBA October 18, 2012, In Conversation with Louise Erdrich, San Francisco JCC Join me and Pulitzer Prize finalist Louise Erdrich at 2:00 p.m. for a discussion of Erdrich’s latest...
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read moreAbout Michelle
Michelle Richmond was born and raised in Alabama and has made her home for more than a decade in Northern California, where she lives with her husband and young son. She is the author of the award-winning story collection The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress (2001), the novels Dream of the Blue Room (2003) and No One You Know (2008), and the New York Times and international bestseller The Year of Fog (2007). Richmond has received the Hillsdale Award for Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, the Associated Writing Programs Award,...
read moreCreative fidgeting
An article by Roland Rotz, Ph.D., in ADDitude Magazine this month claims you shouldn’t fight the fidget, especially when it comes to children with ADHD: Doing two things at once, it turns out, can actually help focus the ADHD brain on a primary task. Experts believe that engaging in an activity that uses a sense other than what’s required for your primary task — listening to music while reading a social studies textbook, for example — can enhance focus and improve performance in children with attention deficit disorder....
read moreGreat books to read in 2012
Under the tree on Christmas morning, a swell stash of books that my personal Santa picked up from Green Apple Books on Clement Street in San Francisco The Jokers, by Albert Cossery I know nothing about this book, which is precisely why I love Green Apple: Santa will always find something he didn’t know he was looking for. A House with No Roof, by Rebecca Wilson A memoir by the daughter of labor leader Dow Wilson, who was murdered when the author was 3. Wilson writes about growing up with and later caring for a loving but mercurial mother, in...
read moreJust in time for Nanowrimo
Make the most of National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo)! Story Starters, A Workbook for Writers will banish writer’s block, spark your imagination, and provide endless opportunities to make fiction out of thin air. Whether you want to punch up your dialogue, explore dramatic tension, mine your life for material, or write a compelling opening chapter, this workbook is the perfect companion for Nanowrimo and beyond. Arranged in a daily progression to help you get the most out of your writing practice, the 50 exercises in this workbook are...
read moreHERE IS the truth, this is what I know: we were walking on Ocean Beach, hand in hand. It was a summer morning, cold, July in San Francisco. The fog lay white and dense over the sand and ocean–an enveloping mist so thick I could see only a few feet in front of me. Emma was searching for sand dollars. Sometimes they wash up by the dozens, whole and dazzling white, but that day the beach was littered with broken halves and quarters. Emma was disappointed. She is a child who prefers things in a state of perfection: sand dollars must be complete,...
read moreThe Year of Fog
“A mesmerizing novel of loss and grief, hope and redemption, and the endurance of love.” Library Journal, starred review Purchase from Indiebound, Barnes and Noble, others ABOUT THE BOOK: Six-year-old Emma vanished into the thick San Francisco mist. Or into the heaving Pacific. Or somewhere just beyond: to a parking lot, a stranger’s van, or a road with traffic flashing by. Devastated by guilt, haunted by her fears about becoming a stepmother, Abby refuses to believe that Emma is dead. And so she searches her mind for clues about what...
read moreRemembering the morning of September 11
At 6:21 a.m., the telephone rings. My mother, two time zones away in Mobile, Alabama, says, “Do you know?” “Know what?” “You better turn on the TV.” The pictures do not register. Something is burning, something familiar. But it isn’t possible; surely the burning building isn’t what I think it is. Then the voice-over confirms, “The World Trade Center has been hit by a commercial aircraft.” Moments after the picture comes into focus, there is an explosion, a ball of fire, a gaping hole. Great confusion. The commentator, all...
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Sutro Baths, San Francisco, photo by Misty Richmond
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