I’ll be speaking Saturday, March 28, at Lynnewood Methodist Church in Pleasanton. This will be a fundraising event, sponsored by P.E.O. International. Towne Center Books will be on hand to sell copies of The Year of Fog and No One You Know, with part of the proceeds to benefit P.E.O. women’s scholarships. 1:00 - 3:00.
I found this photograph by J. Wilson while doing an internet search for JFG Coffee Company–a major olfactory memory from my days in Knoxville, TN, in the early nineties. The unsigned drawing, which appears on a yet-to-be-renovated building off Market Square in Knoxville’s Old City, takes graffiti art to a new level. .
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This week, Publishers Weekly rounds up the bestselling paperbacks of 2008. Topping the list at a whopping 5,298,355 copies sold in 2008 is Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth, followed closely by William P. Young’s The Shack at 4,432,439, and Three Cups of Tea at 1,346,204. Barack Obama’s books round off the 1 million plus list. [...]
It’s beginning to feel official. THE YEAR OF FOG is featured in Newmarket Films‘ “Coming Soon” category. Here’s a Newmarket post from March 1:
WHO WILL EMERGE FROM THE FOG?
Newmarket begins casting suspense thriller
Newmarket’s next production, THE YEAR OF FOG, is now casting. Based on the New York Times best-seller by Michelle Richmond, THE YEAR OF [...]
Over at right-reading, Tom Christensen shares a letter he received from a writer who says he met Tom years ago, and that Tom’s response to his work was so devastating that he stopped sharing his work for ten years. The letter-writer admits that he may have gotten Tom confused with someone else, and that, even [...]
Through the Alabama Writers’ Forum newsletter, I just discovered a great blog called Eating Alabama.
Yesterday at the Gustafer Yellowgold syphony performance in San Francisco, inspired music man Morgan Taylor (you gotta see the show if it’s in your town) joked about how all the kids in San Francisco probably count “quinoa noodles and soy protein [...]
I’m popping the champagne cork today. (Okay, not yet, I’m at home alone at 10:00 in the morning, so champagne would be entirely inappropriate, right? Oh, but there’s the trusty mimosa: champagne delivered with just enough OJ to make it a bona fide breakfast item.)
NO ONE YOU KNOW has been nominated for the Northern [...]
Ann K. Ryles recently interviewed award-winning short story writer Catherine Brady about her new collection, THE MECHANICS OF FALLING, just out from University of Nevada Press. Read the interview here. See Brady at the Mechanics Institute Library in San Francisco on March 17 or at the Babylon Salon reading series on March 7. See a [...]
In the Chronicle today: The Fawcett House near Los Banos, CA, designed by Frank Lloyd in 1959, is on the market. $2.7 million seems like an amazing steal for a 3700-square-foot home by Wright. But it is out in the middle of nowhere. Read all about the property here.
