Yay! Check out this article about Michael Disend and his San Francisco-centric Penman Chronicles. If you haven’t yet had a chance to hear Mickey read, you won’t want to miss him this Sunday at Edinburgh Castle.
Monthly Archives: April 2008
Unmentionables, by Beth Ann Fennelly
Just out from Norton–Unmentionables, a new poetry collection by Beth Ann Fennelly, the author of Open House, Tender Hooks, and Great With Child: Letters to a Young Mother. Poems with titles like “The Kudzu Chronicles” and “Bertha Morisot: Retrospective” live side-by-side here, giving testament to Fennelly’s range. The poems in this collection, which move seamlessly from the tongue-in-cheek to the erudite, are concerned in equal measure with the everyday and the lofty. A taste, from Norton’s website. This excerpt is from the poem “First Warm Day in a College Town.” Today is the day the first bare-chested runners appear,...
Poetry for Water
May 1, 2008, a very special literary event to bring clean water to the Samburu People of Northern Kenya. The line-up: Dave Eggers, best-selling author of What is the What, on the Writing Life; reading by acclaimed author Maxine Hong Kingston; poetry readings by Roger Housden (author of the Ten Poems series) and poet-novelist Elizabeth Rosner (Blue Nude, The Speed of Light); live music; performance by Nina Wise. Hosted by Beth Lisick, author of Helping Me Help Myself. The cause: All money raised goes toward building the second of a series of water catchment areas along the migration route...
Ben Fong-Torres – Cameo King
Today at Red Room, my friend Ben Fong-Torres blogs about what it’s like to appear as himself in works of fiction. Most recently, he has appeared in Steer Toward Rock, by Fae Myenne Ng (forthcoming), In the Key of Death, by Bob Levinson, and No One You Know, by yours truly (forthcoming). In the latter, he makes more than a cameo, and actually turns out to have a pretty major influence on the storyline. Read the post, A Real Character, here. And of course, you don’t have to read a book to find Ben Fong-Torres personified. Just Netflix Almost...
The international bestseller about one woman’s search for a missing child…
"Mesmerizing." ~Library Journal, starred review.
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