Michelle Richmond

10 Questions With Kate Braverman

Michelle Richmond — Mon, 13 May 2013 17:18:28 +0000

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 [...]

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Michelle Richmond Events

Michelle Richmond — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:41:49 +0000

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 [...]

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Foreign editions

Michelle Richmond — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 20:58:26 +0000

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About Michelle

Michelle Richmond — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:44:06 +0000

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 [...]

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Creative fidgeting

Michelle Richmond — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:06:25 +0000

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 [...]

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Great books to read in 2012

Michelle Richmond — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:48:25 +0000

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 [...]

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Just in time for Nanowrimo

Michelle Richmond — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:20:20 +0000

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, [...]

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Michelle Richmond — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 04:45:40 +0000

HERE 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 [...]

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The Year of Fog

Michelle Richmond — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 21:24:35 +0000

“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 [...]

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Remembering the morning of September 11

Michelle Richmond — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:48:15 +0000

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, [...]

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