Monthly Archives: January 2009

Hungarian Rhapsody

January 8, 2009
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Hungarian Rhapsody

My husband and I celebrated our eighth wedding anniversary on Monday, which prompted me to revisit some of our wedding pics. We got married in Yosemite National Park and honeymooned in Hungary, which was brilliantly cold and romantic in January. Eight years ago today, we arrived in Budapest; both of us had been there before, separately, and loved the city so much we decided to spend the first couple of weeks of our marriage there. Here’s the view of the Danube from our suite at the wonderful old Hotel Gellert in Budapest: And here’s a street near our sweet...

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“A celebration of risk and failure”

January 7, 2009
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Elizabeth Stark, filmmaker and author of the award-winning novel Shy Girl, has written a great piece on redroom about why the “growth mindset” matters to writers. Read it here.

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Cover Love

January 7, 2009
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Cover Love

I am absolutely, positively loving the cover of Ilana Stanger-Ross‘s debut novel, Sima’s Undergarments for Women, forthcoming from Overlook Press in February. I had the good fortune to publish one of Ilana’s stories years ago, in the first Fiction Attic flash fiction contest. The story is called “In the Kitchen,” and you can read it here. “From the very first page, this is an assured narrative with an even surer voice; readers will know that they are in the hands of a real storyteller…” Publishers Weekly “Nestled in a tight-knit Brooklyn community, 65-year-old Sima Goldner’s discount lingerie shop is...

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Golden Gate

January 2, 2009
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National Geographic Traveler magazine recently asked me to name my favorite Golden Gate Park destination. I chose the playground at Koret Children’s Quarter. Pick up the December issue of National Geographic Traveler to see what other Bay Area folks have to say about the park: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, artist Maya Lin, floral artist Stanlee Gatti, California Academy of Sciences Senior Curator of Botany Frank Almeda, local yoga celeb Janet Stone, and Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope. Or visit the interactive Insiders Map on the magazine’s website. As my husband and I contemplate moving...

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