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 Live on Saturday at Berkeley’s legendary Freight & Salvage was a hoot. The svelte and sassy Beth Lisick, a contributor to Samantha Schoech’s hilarious new anthology The Bigger the Better The Tighter the Sweater, talked about getting stuck backstage at a fashion show with a bunch of anorexic models, where, at 5′ 10″ and about 130 pounds, she was labeled a pear! Bad Girls editor Ellen Sussman, and contributors Kaui, Liz, and I were also there to share our tales of badness. Great live music by Kendal Carson and Chip Taylor (she’s new on the scene and I love her, he wrote “Wild Thing” and a bunch of other hits, as well as the highly quotable and catchy “I Like Trucks” on Kendal’s debut album.)