flaming lit
May 28th, 2007 by Michelle
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 owner in Kansas City, Missouri, who found that no one wanted the books he wanted to give away in order to lighten the bookstore’s literary load, began burning his books yesterday, “in protest of what he sees as society’s diminishing support for the printed word.”
This is the funeral pyre for thought in America today,” Wayne told spectators outside his bookstore as he lit the first batch of books…He said he envisions monthly bonfires until his supply — estimated at 20,000 books — is exhausted.
Posted in Ephemera, The Year of Fog
May 28th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Hi Michelle,
Just wanted to let you know that I devoured “The Year of Fog” - so lush & absorbing. Also, I feel like an idiot but I can’t figure out how to submit to “Fiction Attic.” Please enlighten.
Peace,
Sarah
May 28th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
Hi Sarah. So glad you liked The Year of Fog! On Fiction Attic, click “submit” in the right hand column and it should take you right to the guidelines page. Or just send your submission in the text of the email to fictionattic at g mail dot com.