I just finished read Siri Hudsvedt’s second novel, The Sorrows of an American. A really lovely, melancholy, contemplative novel. It took me almost a week to read this book, because it’s a slow-burn book, the kind that requires one’s full concentration at every moment. The narrator, a psychiatrist, reminds me of Lars Gustafsson’s intellectual, solitary [...]
Who needs a social network to persuade her not to do any social networking? I do! Social networking is great. I love it. Too much. Which is why I’m going on a cyber-diet.
I’m declaring Tuesday, March 3, a social network-free day, and asking you to join me.
Why? Because I’m supposed to be writing a novel, [...]
I’m Twittering my daily writing exercise. Go here to follow. Thanks to the glory that is twitter, you can even have the writing exercises sent to your phone. Oh, technology, how we love thee.
The talented and wonderful Misty Richmond (she’s my sister, but I’d say that even if she weren’t), will be exhibiting her work along with other photographers tonight at the first-ever Fotovisiion SlideSlam in Berkeley. Each photograher will take a few minutes to talk about his or her project, and photos will be displayed in a [...]
I wanted to share an interesting email I received last week from a reader:
I’m a Marine stationed over at Camp Pendleton in California. While I was on deployment, I found The Year Of Fog in the small ship library…I was a part of an expeditionary unit sitting off the coast of Burma last year after [...]
A few days ago, a reader named Christine emailed me the following question: Do you think a person can begin being a writer at age 60? You’re so young and have such a solid educational background in literature. I know I want to write, and have a folder of snippets, unrelated, but think I’m crazy [...]
While I was getting my coffee this morning from Samir at Simple Pleasures, I ran into a local filmmaker named Kevin Epps, who was passing out postcards to promote the February 17 premiere of his film The Black Rock, a documentary feature “about the untold black experience at Alcatraz.”
I just came across the cover of the Spanish translation of The Year of Fog, Perdida en la niebla, out next month from La Esfera de los Libros. I think it’s pretty!
Join Bad Girls editor Ellen Sussman, along with contributors Elizabeth Rosner, Kate Moses, Kim Addonizio, and me, for a good time tonight at the San Francisco Jewish Community Center, 7:30 p.m. Admission: $18.
