Monthly Archives: July 2007

Mrs. Dalloways, West Coast Life, & more

July 23, 2007
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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...

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opium’s literary death match — the morning after

July 18, 2007
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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 Steve Elliott), the ever-suave Jack Boulware kindly stepped in to fill his seat. Being the lazy mofo who represented my own magazine instead of throwing a contributor into the fray, I’ll admit I deserved to lose to the spunky Sam Hurwitt, who opened up a...

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when you’ve been bad

July 16, 2007
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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 reading and talking about badness tonight at Book Passage in Corte Madera, 7:00 p.m. Catch the Bad Girls crew again tomorrow night at Kepler’s, and Wednesday at Cody’s.

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fog thrills, plus good reading in periodicals

July 10, 2007
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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 world and to the very edge of her sanity. Says Newmarket’s John Crye,”We see this as a character-driven thriller in the Hitchcock tradition.” Plus, recent good reading: *a fascinating article on Malaria in the current issue of National Geographic (which points out that...

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Literary Death Match–Be there

July 9, 2007
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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), and Jon Wolanske (Killing My Lobster) will judge us on “literary merit, performance, and intangibles” before the two lucky finalists move on to a heart-palpitating game of Stab a Hole in Nebraska. Each of us will be representing a literary magazine–McSweeney’s, Canteen, Kitchen Sink,...

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