I can’t imagine a time in recent memory when Frances Dinkelspiel’s forthcoming book, Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California, has been more relevant. I’ll post more about this book next month, but for the moment, read what Dinkelspiel had to say about it in a newsletter today:
For the past [...]
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I’ll be talking about THE YEAR OF FOG and NO ONE YOU KNOW today at Foothill College in Los Altos. Details here. This event is free and open to the public.
When: Noon
Where: Campus Center Student Lounge
Both books will be available for twenty percent off the cover price.
Saying “I can see Russia from my house” as evidence of her foreign policy experience is Sarah Palin’s most talked-about blooper to date. She topped it yesterday with a television interview in Colorado, when, in response to a third-grader’s question about what the Vice President job entitles, she said, “[T]hey’re in charge of the U.S. [...]
I’m guest-blogging today over at The Debutante Ball. Subjects discussed: where stories begin and end, sisterhood, and why I really dig research. Please stop by and say hello!
Minnesota Republican Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann told Chris Matthews today that members of Congress should be investigated by the press to see whether they’re pro-American or anti-American. And this is the party of small government? Here’s her exact quote:
“What I would say is that the news media should do a penetrating expose and take a look. [...]
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LL: The older we get, the longer things stay new.
LL and JH talk between songs about the English penchant for equestrian eroticism, the heroism of the guitar, and why musicians can never grow up.
Update in the middle of the music: LL sings it like nobody else can: One bad move can turn your world upside [...]
I’ll be stopping by the 9:00 a.m. show at WKRG, channel 5, on Monday, Oct. 13. for a quickie segment…will be sure to give a shout-out to the class of 88.
How deeply the quiet sets in here…you can stand on a street corner at noon and hear nothing but the trees. One has the sudden desire to sleep all day and get up for beer and oysters just before sundown.Time takes on the woozy contours of a sloe gin fizz.
When I first met my husband, [...]
