If the name Matt Richtel sounds familiar, it’s because this guy has been following technology for the New York Times for going on seven years. Tomorrow, Richtel’s first novel, Hooked, will hit the stands. According to the subtitle, Hooked is “a thriller about love and other addictions.” All I can say is that the first [...]
Nice review of The Year of Fog yesterday in the San Francisco Chronicle:
What marks us, and how do we react to our impressions, both large and small, of life? These are the questions asked by San Francisco author Michelle Richmond in her wonderful second novel, “The Year of the Fog.”
Book burning: Tom Wayne, a bookstore [...]
Hmmm, here’s news from my home state, the kind of stuff you just can’t make up, or wouldn’t want to.
Benedict Cary has an intriguing essay on the science of stories–how we tell them, and what they say about us–in the New York Times. “Any life story is by definition a retrospective reconstruction, at least in part an outgrowth of native temperament.” (This interests me in part because of its thematic connection to The Year [...]
Free Range Librarian has an excellent post on the National Book Critics’ Circle’s Campaign to Save Book Reviews. And here’s Kate Brady, president of the AWP, on “The Value of Book Reviewers.”
To allude to mysterious market forces as a reason for not publishing book reviews sidesteps the fact that market forces most often result from [...]
Reading: the new story collection by Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance. Here’s a Salon interview conducted by Kate Moses a while back.
What I like: the brevity of the stories, the way Davis throws an idea onto the page in the first sentence and illuminates it by the end of the page. Many of these [...]
Catherine Brady’s new story collection, which will be published by University of Nebraska Press. I believe the title is still in the works. Fans of Curled in the Bed of Love and The End of the Class War will be anxious to get their hands on this new book by Brady, whose previous collection [...]
Today in the Seattle Times, music critic Melinda Bargreen gives The Year of Fog four out of four possible umbrellas in “Cool Reads for a Hot Beach.”
Inside Storytime tonight at the Rickshaw Stop. 6 - 8 p.m. From Inside storytime:
Just when you thought it was safe to take the kids to the beach, Michelle Richmond of Fiction Attic will read from her new book The Year of Fog. Also performing will be Michael Disend, author of the cult classic Stomping the [...]
Boathouse and Co. Performance presents Lost and Found in the Mission, a new dance theater production based on true stories from scraps of paper found on the streets of the Mission District.
About the Play:
Boathouse and Co. artistic directors Susie Hara and Rowena Richie were intrigued by the stories behind the bits of handwritten ephemera [...]
