2009 Events
August/September
NO ONE YOU KNOW is the selection of the Times Book Group, hosted by Lynn Carey. Book club events at Book Passage and Clayton Books. Interviews, reader responses, and book group discussion summaries appear in the San Jose Mercury, the Marin Independent Journal, Contra Costa County Times, and Diablo Valley Magazine.
September 30
In conversation with Julia Glass at the San Francisco JCC
This event will also be broadcast on KQED. Tickets $18
October 9
An Evening at the Booksmith: Literary Fiction book swap, with Andrew Sean Greer & Michelle Richmond. Wine, appetizers, and stories. Tickets $25. Details and tickets here.
October 14
Peninsula Jewish Community Center. The Year of Fog is the October book club selection of Foster City Library, hosted by Cynthia Rider. I’ll be on hand to discuss the book, writing life, and life after fog. 7:30 p.m. Details here.
October 17
Reading at the Rumpus Litquake litcrawl event, with performance by John Wesley Harding and readings by Vendela Vida, Michelle Richmond, and Bucky Sinister, hosted by Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott. At the Makeout Room, San Francisco.
November 22
Reading group event at the brand new Books Inc. in Berkeley, hosted by Margie Scott Tucker.
Previous Events
College of Saint Mary’s Scholarship Fundraiser
featuring Al Young, Michael Ondaatje, Brenda Hillman, Michelle Richmond, and Alev Croutier
March 07, 2009 5:00pm, Chadwick’s Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Tickets: $100
University of Miami, Reading & Talk
March 11, 2009 12:15pm
Miami, FL
Towne Center Books, Pleasanton–Featured Speaker
March 28, 1:00-3:00
Scholarship fundraiser
Conference on Southern Literature
Reading featuring the recipients of the 2009 Fellowship of Southern Writers awards
April 03, 2009 9:00am
Chattanooga, TN
April 13
Notre Dame de Namur University–Featured Speaker
Wiegland Gallery, Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont , CA
Orinda Books
April 16, 7:00 p.m.
With Frances Dinkelspiel, Brenda Webster, Jessica Barksdale Inclan, and Susan Freinkel
Literary Women: The Bay Area Festival of Authors
April 18, Pleasant Hill, CA
Pleasant Hill Community Center, 9:00 – 2:00
Tickets are $42, and include tea and a boxed lunch
Northern California Book Awards
April 19, Koret Auditorium of the San Francisco Public Library
Feb. 3, Jewish Community Center, San Francisco
7:30 pm, Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave
Panel discussion with editor Ellen Sussman and contributors Kim Addonizio, Michelle Richmond and Kate Moses.
Sept. 16, City Arts and Lectures with Paul Auster
Join me at Herbst Theater in San Francisco for a conversation with one my favorite authors, Paul Auster. If you can’t make the live event, you can hear City Arts & Lectures on the radio.
Sept. 21, Booksmith booth at the Cole Valley Street Fair, San Francisco, noon
Sept. 27, Towne Center Books, Pleasanton, CA
Read it and eat author luncheon: lunch, wine, and book discussion, NO ONE YOU KNOW
October 9, Litquake, Nightclub at Hemlock Tavern at 1131 Polk St
Featuring: Bob Calhoun, Alan Black, Jack Boulware, Michael Disend, Beth Lisick, Michelle Richmond, Sylvie Simmons, David Henry Sterry.
October 13, WKRG TV, Mobile, Alabama
9:00 a.m., talking about No One You Know and The Year of Fog
October 26, Book Group Expo, San Jose, CA
Panel, “The Liar’s Club,” with Rabbih Alameddine (The Hakawati), Selden Edwards (The Little Book), and Julie Robinson
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The Reporter City-Wide Book Club
May 6, 7:00 p.m.
Vacaville Public Library, Vacaville, CA
Q&A, discussing THE YEAR OF FOG
South Bay Writers–Featured Speaker
May 12, 7:00 p.m.
Sunnyvale, CA
Wednesday, May 20, 6:00 PM
Book Passage
1 Ferry Building #42, San Francisco, CA, 94111
BOOK PARTY FOR PAPERBACK RELEASE OF No One You Know
May 21
Books Inc., Burlingame, 7:00 p.
1375 Burlingame Ave
Reading with the wonderful Meg Waite Clayton, author of The Wednesday Sisters
Thursday, May 28, 7:30 PM
Mrs. Dalloway’s Literary and Garden Arts
With Meg Waite Clayton, author of The Wednesday Sisters
2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA
June 2
Clayton Books, Clayton, CA
Reading with Meg Waite Clayton
June 04, 2009 7:30pm
Sweet Thursday at the Lafayette Library
Lafayette, CA
June 12
Literary Death Match, Elbo Room, San Francisco
July 10 & 11
Foothill College Writers Conference
I’ll be doing a reading, conducting a workshop with Alan Cheuse, and holding a couple of seminars. Details here.
July 1, No One You Know book launch party
Books Inc, Opera Plaza
July 9, Kepler’s, reading and signing
1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA
July 13, Backstage with Ben Fong-Torres
Tune in to 106.9 KFRC, where I talk with Ben Fong-Torres about No One You Know: the music, the inspiration, and how he came to be a character in the book. And listen while Ben spins some songs about fog, memory, math, and coffee. You can listen live from 8-9 a.m. or 8-9 p.m. today, or listen to the podcast anytime.
July 15, The Booksmith, reading & signing
1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA, 7:30 p.m.
Discussion and general throw-down. Drinks afterward across the street.
July 16, The Depot, discussion & signing
87 Throckmornton Ave, Mill Valley, CA, 7:00 p.m.
There’s ice cream just down the lane, you know.
July 17, Rakestraw Books, reading & signing
409 Railroad Ave, Danville, CA
July 19, Conversations on the Coast
Tune in to listen to my conversation with Jim Foster about No One You Know. Show airs at 3:00 and will be available here as a podcast.
July 29, M Is For Mystery
Reading & signing. 7:00 p.m.
86 East Third Ave, San Mateo, CA
August 13, Dirty Words, Litquake’s Tribute to Smut
Starring Daniel Handler, Ellen Sussman, Michelle Richmond, Kim Addonizio, Helena Echlin, Stephen Elliot, emcee Kirk Read, a fashion show by SOMA purveyor of corsets and fine leather Stormy Leather, along with cabaret and burlesque from Twilight Vixen Review.
CELLspace2050 Bryant Street, San Francisco, CA 7:00 – 11:00 pm
Purchase tickets ($25) here. Proceeds go to Litquake.
March 25, Sex for America, The Booksmith on Haight
With editor Stephen Elliott, and fellow contributors Nick Flynn and Anthony Swofford
April 19, Progressive Reading Series
Jane Smiley, Michelle Richmond, Tom Bissell, and Charlie Anders. Make-Out Room, San Francisco.
May 10, All-Star Literary Death Match, Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco
I’ll be judging as winners of past throw-downs go head-to-head. Hosted by Todd Zuniga and Opium Magazine.
March 9 – Writers on Writing, XM Satellite Radio
Program airs at 3:00 p.m. About the show: “A behind-the-scenes look at what goes on between the covers of today’s top sellers and tomorrow’s classics with authors like Anne Rice, Richard Ford, Ann Patchett, and Amy Tan.”
March 12
A Great Good Place for Books, Oakland
March 19, Evening Tea, hosted by Clayton Books, Clayton, CA
Englund’s Tea Cottage. Reservation required. Free admittance with purchase of The Year of Fog.
March 4
Books Inc., Palo Alto. 7:00 p.m. 855 El Camino Real #74. 10% of the days sales will benefit the C-A-R (Community Association for Rehabilitation)!
March 6
Mrs. Dalloway’s, Berkeley. 7:30 p.m.
Jan. 11, Minna Gallery, San Francisco
New Voices panel sponsored by National Book Critics Circle, moderated by Jane Ciabattari. 5:30 p.m. Panelists: Sandy Dijkstra, literary agent; David Kipen, NEA director of literature; Eli Horowitz, Publisher, McSweeney’s Books; Suzanne Kleid, City Lights Books and KQED blogger; Michael Ray, editor ZOETROPE: ALL STORY; Michelle Richmond, author.
Jan. 31 – 826 Valencia, San Francisco
Novel writing seminar featuring Andrew Sean Greer, Michelle Richmond, and Ann Packer. The cost is $100, and proceeds benefit the programs of 826 Valencia.
Jan. 31, Center for Sex and Culture, San Francisco
After the novel-writing seminar at 826 Valencia, I’ll be heading over to the Center for Sex & Culture, where no mayhem and madness will be spared in celebrating the publication of Stephen Elliott’s new anthology, Sex for America. Readers include Michelle Tea, Mistress Morgana, Charlie Anders, Liz Henry, Daphne Gottlieb, and yours truly.
February 23, Cantina, San Francisco. Babylon Salon.
Eat, drink, and hear stories. Readings by Eileen Reynolds, Herb Sandhu, Julie Bifano, The Editor’s Choice reader from Opium Magazine. Featured artist: Michelle Richmond. Complimentary eats. Cash bar-exotica! The location host is one Duggan McDonnell, famed mixologist.