If you’re reading this, you’re invited to the book launch party for NO ONE YOU KNOW. Where: Books Inc., Opera Plaza 601 Van Ness, San Francisco When: 7:00 p.m. Wine, munchies, reading, door prizes, mayhem and fun
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Amber Alert
An Amber Alert was issued today for a five-year-old Dublin boy who was abducted by his mother’s boyfriend. Justin Nottingham, 5, of Dublin in Alameda County, was abducted by Harold Bennett sometime between midnight and 3 a.m. Thursday. Bennett was last seen driving a blue 2004 Honda Civic sedan with California license plate 5TIC261. Anyone with information is asked to call 911 or the Dublin Police Department at (925) 833-6670. Read the article here.
best of the bay
Steven Dinkelspiel’s “note from the president” in the current issue of San Francisco Magazine is about obsession. It’s the Best of the Bay issue, and Dinkelspiel’s obsessions run the gamut from baseball (the Giants) to Sunday brunch (Town’s End), and ice cream (Fenton’s in Oakland, not to mention a great diner in my hood, Bill’s Place). Fortunately, Dinkelspiel is also a little obsessed with books. One of the best things about working at San Francisco is getting to read advance copies of books sent to us by publishers. I’ve discovered some terrific local writers this way, most recently Michelle...
today in TV land…
Today in TV Land, rock journalist, memoirist, and radio personality Ben Fong-Torres writes about how he came to be a character in my new novel, No One You Know. He writes about how we met, and how I fudged the truth, and what it feels like to show up as oneself–although not exactly oneself–in somebody else’s fiction. Read more of Ben’s blog posts here on redroom. And over at Meg Waite Clayton’s (The Wednesday Sisters) blog 1st books, wherein Meg asks writers about how they got their first break in writing, I talk about the dingy apartment in Knoxville,...
No One You Know is out today
Hitting the shelves today, NO ONE YOU KNOW. A book about the power of stories to shape our lives. A book about sisters, and math. And, oh yes, obsession. And literary ambition gone wrong. And San Francisco. Read about how I ditched the novel I’d been writing for two years and started all over again with No One You Know at The 3 Rs. “A thoroughly riveting literary thriller.” Booklist, starred review. “Addictive.” Denver Post. “Quietly captivating.” Publishers Weekly. “As complex and beautiful as a mathematical proof.” Family Circle, July book of the month. I’ll be kicking off with...
The international bestseller about one woman’s search for a missing child…
"Mesmerizing." ~Library Journal, starred review.
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