I noticed recently that I’d been getting a lot of hits from the Netherlands, but couldn’t figure out why. Then I realized that the Dutch translation of THE YEAR OF FOG came out this month, and the novel is currently featured in the book club section of the Dutch magazine Libelle. MyDutch publisher, Archipel, kept [...]
My friend Wade Williams wrote this beautiful essay for The Texas Observer. If you want to see more of his writing, check out The Tao of Wade over at Fiction Attic.
The exercise:
Write about revisiting the roads of your youth.
I gave a reading yesterday at ArtFete, a fundraising event for ArtSFest, which celebrates and showcases a wide range of arts in the Bay Area. Also reading was Jeff Greenwald, author of several books about travel. Greenwald read a wonderful piece about dawn-diving off Australia
from The Size of the World. You can read an excerpt [...]
Last night, Ellen Sussman hosted a reading and party in her home for Lalita Tademy, author, most recently, of the novel Red River, a multi-generational story inspired by the men in her family. The first half of the novel centers on the Colfax Massacre, an actual event which took place on Easter Sunday, 1873, in [...]
Jenny Durant, who is currently in the Philippines on a Fullbright, writes alluringly about what she calls “the native rice dilemma”–the impossible obstacles that Ifugao rice farmers face when trying to make ends meet. It’s a story of how the Department of Agriculture infiltrated a centuries-old practice, introducing a breed of rice that effectively destroyed [...]
Music and Lyrics won’t be getting anywhere near the Oscars, but it’s totally worth seeing just to see this video on the big screen. In it, Hugh Grant plays an eighties heart-throb, one of two front-men for the wildly popular band POP, singing their hit single Pop Goes My Heart. The parody of early eighties [...]
I just heard from my old friend Paul Perry from my U. of Miami days. Paul has a new baby, BláithÃn, and in November he had a new collection of poetry, The Orchid Keeper, out with Dedalus Press. You can hear Paul reading some of the poems from the collection here.
Another U. of Miami pal, [...]
I just came across this odd and wonderful little collection of video clips, taken at Ray Bradbury’s home in LA in 2001, by the folks who publish raybradbury.com. In it you’ll see the chaotic basement where the exceedingly prolific Bradbury works, and hear him joking about holding the record for rejections from The New Yorker. [...]
I just heard from Carrington MacDuffie, an award-winning narrator who will be narrating the audio version of THE YEAR OF FOG. MacDuffie has narrated books by Irish Murdoch, Candace Bushnell, Christopher Buckley, Ursula LeGuin, and others. THE YEAR OF FOG is available for pre-order here
on CD, MP3, or cassette (hello, does any actually own a [...]
THE YEAR OF FOG received a starred review in today’s Library Journal.
A mesmerizing novel of loss and grief, hope and redemption, and the endurance of love… Highly recommended.~Karen Fauls-Traynor, Sullivan Free Library, Chittenango, NY
Hoorah for the librarians!
Here’s my favorite librarian’s blog, Free Range Librarian.
You can find a particular item in any library by [...]
