From the Chron:
The study, released on Monday by Marin County Coroner Ken Holmes, whose office handles most deaths from the bridge, showed that over 85 percent of the people who jump are Bay Area residents. The average jumper was 41.7 years old; men outnumber women nearly 3 to 1; and whites account for 83 [...]
at his home in Sweden, at the age of 89. Here’s his Wiki page. Or check out his amazingly lengthy and varied ouvre at IMDB. According to IMDB, the iconoclastic director’s favorite movies were Utvandrarna (1971), La Dolce vita, La (1960), and Les Vacances de M. Hulot (1953). He had at least nine children, among [...]
Help! A republican stole my name! This from the official website of the GOP, regarding recent additions to the Republican National Committee Communications team:
Michelle Richmond is the Assistant Press Secretary. Richmond joins the RNC after having served as Press Assistant to Republican Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO). Originally from Virginia, Richmond has worked on several local [...]
I’ll be reading from THE YEAR OF FOG tonight at Mrs. Dalloway’s, 2904 College Avenue in Berkeley, 7:30. This is a really cool store, with books, gardening supplies, and art. And of course, plenty of good eats nearby.
There’s an interesting article in the LA Times on the suspected suicide-by-drowning of “rising art star” Jeremy Blake, who is thought to have wandered “into the ocean off New York’s Rockaway Beach — presumably to his death — a week after he discovered that his blogger-filmmaker girlfriend, Theresa Duncan, had taken her life in their [...]
I’ll be reading from The Year of Fog at Mrs. Dalloway’s in Berkeley on Thursday, 7:30 p.m. It’s my only East Bay event.
Two stories by Thaisa Frank in Oxford Magazine.
Bad Girls reading at the Booksmith on Tuesday night, 7:00 p.m., featuring editor Ellen Sussman, Kate Moses, Kaui Hart Hemmings, Joyce Maynard, and yours truly.
West Coast [...]
The lowdown: Four contestants, two rowdy rounds, one winner, and a flying beer. Round one: Joyce Maynard and Stephen Elliott. Round two: me and Sam Hurwitt. Beth Lisick and John Wolanske proved to be exuberant and witty judges. After Judge Numero Tres, Howard Junker, left the bar following the flying beer incident (compliments of [...]
Ellen Sussman’s anthology Bad Girls, 26 Writers Misbehave, is just out from Norton. Contributors include Mary Roach, Erica Jong, Lolly Winston, Kate Moses, Liz Rosner, Susan Cheever, Pam Houston, Daphne Merkin, Joyce Maynard, Kaui Hart Hemmings, Kim Addonizio, and yours truly, among others. See the complete contributors list here. A few of us will be [...]
This from the website of Newmarket Films, on the big screen adaptation of The Year of Fog:
The suspenseful thriller follows a young woman whose life is shattered when her soon-to-be step-daughter vanishes while in her care. The woman’s quest to find the girl becomes an obsession that takes her to the other side of the [...]
Join me on July 17 at Harlot in San Francisco for Opium Magazine’s first-ever West Coast Literary Death Match. I’ll be competing against the rapscallion Stephen Elliott, leggy Joyce Maynard, and mercurial Sam Hurwitt in a fight to the finish of the (sort of) literary variety.
Howard Junker (ZYZZYVA), Beth Lisick (Everyone into the Pool), [...]
