The annual Library Laureates Dinner, sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, will take place on April 20, 2007. Among this year’s thirty-plus local authors are Bharati Mukherjee, Amy Tan, Ben Fong-Torres, Dave Eggers, , Vikram Chandra, Richard North Patterson, Peter Coyote, Joyce Maynard, Orville Schell, ZZ Packer, Sean Wilsey, and yours truly. From the Friends: Join us as we celebrate the 40th anniversary of San Francisco’s Summer of Love with an evening that promises fine food, delightful company, and stimulating conversation with outstanding writers. Individual tickets are $400 and tables start at $5,000. That’s a lot...
Monthly Archives: January 2007
THE YEAR OF FOG : BD Reader Review Selection
THE YEAR OF FOG (March 2007) has been named the Bantam Dell Reader Review Selection for February. This means 20 contestants will win an Advance Reading Copy. Bantam will publish reader reviews of the novel in their BD Reads newsletter in April. For details, go here. To learn more about the book, visit the Fog page on my website.
unwanted
By way of Maud Newton, a place to send the stories nobody wants: The Rejected Quarterly rejected fiction contest.
letters, + reading tonight
Letters written by Anne Frank’s father before the family went into hiding have been found and will be released on February 14. The sheaf of Otto Frank’s letters, about 80 documents in total, show him seeking escape routes to Spain, exit visas from Paris and help to get to the United States or Cuba, all in vain. And tonight at Dog Ear Books in San Francisco: Anne-E. Wood, a very talented recent graduate of the SF State MFA program (and, I’m happy to say, a former student of mine), will be reading from her debut short story chapbook, TWO...
virgin birth
5 baby Komodo dragons born to a mama dragon who’s nary touched a boy. From AP: A British zoo announced Wednesday the virgin birth of five Komodo dragons, giving scientists new hope for the captive breeding of the endangered species. In an evolutionary twist, the newborns’ eight-year-old mother Flora shocked staff at Chester Zoo in northern England when she became pregnant without ever having a male partner or even being exposed to the opposite sex…Scientists hope the discovery will pave the way to finding other species capable of self fertilization. Scientists call it evolution. I call it feminism.
The international bestseller about one woman’s search for a missing child…
"Mesmerizing." ~Library Journal, starred review.
Stop dreaming, start writing!
