Sans Serif

Here’s a short essay I wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine. It appeared yesterday.

Nice review today in The Examiner. Plus:
Join me and Sheri Joseph, author of STRAY (and a dead ringer for Edna St. Vincent Millay) tonight at Bookshop West Portal, Neil Sofman’s excellent little bookstore in the deliciously retro neighborhood of West Portal. You might want to catch dinner before the reading at any number of [...]

I’ll be reading at the fabulous Bookshop West Portal on Saturday night at 7:00, along with my friend Sheri Joseph, author of the just-released STRAY. Joseph, who lives in Atlanta, paints a fascinating picture of her city, in a story that follows a love triangle involving a musician, his Mennonite wife, and the young gay [...]

I just returned from the Arkansas Literacy Festival, where I had the chance to hang out with the lovely Oxford American folks (check out their new Southern movie issue, so highly readable I read it cover to cover on the long ride back to San Francisco) and to catch up with old friends from Mobile, [...]

I have an essay in the current (May) issue of Playboy. (It’s the one with Anna Nicole Smith on the cover). It’s a piece I wrote for Ellen Sussman’s anthology Bad Girls, forthcoming in July. Also in this issue: fiction by the highly sensible Edward Falco (see blog post of two days ago) and an [...]

While flipping channels the day after the Virginia Tech shootings, I came across this headline on Fox News: Are Gun-Free Zones More Dangerous? Typical Fox News response…over-the-top stupidity.
Meanwhile, I’ve been thinking about how, the day after the shootings, 200 people died in Baghdad. 120 of them died in a bombing at a market. [...]

While flipping channels the day after the Virginia Tech shootings, I came across this headline on Fox News: Are Gun-Free Zones More Dangerous? Typical Fox News response…over-the-top stupidity.
Meanwhile, I’ve been thinking about how, the day after the shootings, 200 people died in Baghdad. 120 of them died in a bombing at a market. [...]

Edward Falco, a playwrite and novelist whose name is likely familiar to readers of the litblogs, was quoted by CNN today concerning Cho Seung-Hui, who was a student in Falco’s playwriting class at Virginia Tech.
Asked why he thought Cho became an English major, Falco offered what he called a guess.
The kid couldn’t speak. I did [...]

I just heard from my publisher that The Year of Fog is going into a second printing.
Fun reading last night at Book Passage. Thanks to the event manager, Ron, as well as Virginia and Cathy for helping everything to go smoothly.
Plus, sending good vibes to two friends at writers’ colonies right now–Meredith Maran [...]

I’ll be reading tonight at Book Passage in the Ferry Building at 7:00. Please come! (this means you.)