There’s a rave review of Yellowcake, by Ann Cummins, in tomorrow’s Washington Post.
There’s a rave review of Yellowcake, by Ann Cummins, in tomorrow’s Washington Post.
I’m blogging for Book Passage this weekend in anticipation of the Tuesday release of The Year of Fog. Go to the Book Passage blog to share your thoughts on Ocean Beach in particular and San Francisco in general.
This from Anne Flaherty for AP: A sharply divided House voted Friday to order President Bush to bring combat troops home from Iraq next year, a victory for Democrats in an epic war-powers struggle and Congress’ boldest challenge yet to the administration’s policy. Ignoring a White House veto threat, lawmakers voted 218-212, mostly along party lines, for a binding war spending bill requiring that combat operations cease before September 2008, or earlier if the Iraqi government does not meet certain requirements. It’s about time we pulled out of Iraq. But the mess we’ve made there is going to have...
Meg Waite Clayton, author of The Language of Light, has sold her new novel, The Wednesday Sister, to Ballantine. The book will come out in summer 2008. And tonight at Phoenix Books on 24th Street in San Francisco–readings, music, wine, & more, featuring: receptionist movement, jon longhi, meredith maran, victor krummenacher, jane juska, bucky sinister, alison & dale
A new issue of Fiction Attic is now online, featuring nine short stories by eight intriguing writers. Real estate and record shops, masochism and murder, doppelgangers, majorettes, toys and tears and closets of love…it’s all here. The stories are illustrated with original art by Stephen Shearer, Andy Batt, and our featured artist, three-time NEA Fellow Ira Joel. View the issue here. This is Issue 20 of the little magazine that started several years ago as my own exercise in writing HTML code. In that time I’ve had the opportunity to publish stories by Michelle Tea, Steve Almond, Stephen Elliott,...