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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
June 24th will mark the 27th birthday of Jason Jolkowski, who disappeared at the age of 19 from his family’s driveway in Omaha, Nebraska, on June 13, 2001. He has not been seen or heard from since. His cell phone has never been used, and his bank account has never been accessed. He simply disappeared [...]
Karen Moncrieff has signed on with Newmarket Films and Andrew Lauren Productions to direct the film adaptation of THE YEAR OF FOG.
I was delighted to hear the news, as I loved Moncrieff’s 2002 Sundance hit BLUE CAR. You may also remember Moncrieff from her moody 2006 feature film THE DEAD GIRL, starring Toni Collette, [...]
If you’re reading this, then you’re invited to the publication party for my new novel, NO ONE YOU KNOW, due out next Tuesday from Delacorte.
When: Tuesday, July 1
Where: Books Inc., Opera Plaza, 601 Van Ness, San Francisco
Reception at 6:30, reading at 7:00
Heartbreaking and compelling…Richmond gracefully weaves in fascinating background material on the coffee culture and [...]
hits the shelves today! Meg Waite Clayton’s wonderful novel about five friends finding their way in Palo Alto in the sixties has already been generating a lot of buzz on Library Thing and elsewhere.
The Wednesday Sisters is a heartwarming novel about the joys and complications of friendship, an inspiring story for anyone who has [...]
Check out the fabulous new blog Real Americana, wherein David Wolking waxes poetic on everything from roadside carnivals (courtesy of the Electric Lion’s Club), to Mama Sim’s waffles, and Hormel’s Mary Kitchen Corned Beef Hash in a can. David and Misty (she’s my sister, and yes, that’s her real name, and yes, you wish you [...]
