From this month’s Green Apple newsletter: Here are seven of the books we’re most excited about, including a foggy local novel, sustainable economies, scary mercenaries, SF postcards, heartbreaking short stories, a new food lover’s guide, and The Raw Shark Texts. Thanks to Pete for including my “foggy local novel” among this month’s picks. Also in the newsletter this month, Julie Orringer on “Why I Read” and Green Apple’s Book of the Month, Coal Black Horse by Robert Olmstead.
Monthly Archives: April 2007
Anne E. Wood at Radar
Anne E. Wood, author of the wonderful story collection Two if By Sea, will be reading and participating in a panel at Michelle Tea’s Radar Reading Series at the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library tonight at 6:00. Anne E. is ultra cool, and so are her stories, and Michelle bakes the best cookies. And a reminder: my launch party for THE YEAR OF FOG is tomorrow night at Books Inc. in Opera Plaza, 601 Van Ness. Reception at 6:00, reading at 7:00, drinks after at Hotel Rex on Sutter.
a day late
I’m a day late to the April Fool’s party. April 1st always registers in my mind as my sister’s birthday, so I tend to forget it’s the day when the gullible among us are most at risk. Yesterday, Ed Champion reported that Jane Smiley’s going to stop writing about horses, Martin Scorcese is going to direct the film adaptation of Richard Yates’s Revolutionary Road, and Jonathan Lethem is embarking on a five-year book tour.
The international bestseller about one woman’s search for a missing child…
"Mesmerizing." ~Library Journal, starred review.
Stop dreaming, start writing!
