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 bowls” among their favorite foods. Well, my boy likes pizza and ice cream, but anyhoo, San Franciscans can by no means claim a monopoly on sustainable agriculture and watching what goes in your mouth.
Monthly Archives: March 2009
2009 Northern California Book Awards
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 California Book Award in Fiction. The fiction nominees are: * Lady Lazarus, Andrew Foster Altschul, Harcourt * Doctor Olaf van Schuler’s Brain, Kirsten Menger-Anderson, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill * The Delivery Room, Sylvia Brownrigg, Counterpoint * Requiem for the Author of Frankenstein ,...
Catherine Brady on THE MECHANICS OF FALLING
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 complete list of appearances here. You don’t really have a story until you discover the moment when the pressures on a character force a sudden, abrupt shift in direction and she falls through the net that has so far held her in place. ~Catherine...
On the Market–Frank Lloyd Wright
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.
The international bestseller about one woman’s search for a missing child…
"Mesmerizing." ~Library Journal, starred review.
Stop dreaming, start writing!
