I was at Walgreen’s yesterday when I overheard a man at the pharmacy counter asking for face masks. “This is our last box,” the pharmacist said. The man glanced around to see if anyone was looking. I swear he gave me the evil eye right before he snatched the box from the pharmacist’s hands and [...]
The French translation of The Year of Fog, L’annee brouillard, is today’s Book of the Day on Radio France. Click the “Ecoutez la chronique” link on the page to hear the review in full.
Wendy Nelson Tokunaga’s second novel, Love in Translation, the follow-up to her well received debut, Midori by Moonlight. Love in Translation will be published this fall by St. Martin’s Press.
As reported in Publishers Lunch, a new book by Dean Faulkner Wells, author of THE GHOSTS OF MISSISSIPPI:
THE PILOT’S DAUGHTER: A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi, in which William Faulkner’s niece tells the story of growing up as the famous author’s surrogate daughter, providing insights into both William and the Faulkner family which have [...]
Ann Schmidt-Fogarty has written a nice piece in The Reporter about The Year of Fog, which is next month’s selection for The Reporter Book Club, Vacaville’s city-wide reading program.
In the article, Schmidt-Fogarty quotes Sgt. Jeff King of the Vacaville Police Depoartment on the subject of missing children:
“Obviously, here at the department we’ve been [...]
I’m now blogging for the San Francisco Chronicle, as part of their City Brights feature. Visit my SF Chronicle blog here.
L’année brouillard, the French translation of The Year of Fog (translated by the wonderful Sophie Aslanidès) is out today. There’s a nice review of the book on the French literary blog Chez Clarabel.
And the Buchet Chastel website has a wonderful virtual copy of L’Annee Brouillard, wherein you can flip through the first couple of chapters.
A [...]
Luis Meza Valdiva took his 22-month-old daughter, Yosseline, by gunpoint from her mother on East 14th Street in San Leandro this morning. I could not find this listed on the Amber Alert website. My information comes from the Chronicle:
Valdiva is described as a Latino man with brown hair and brown eyes, about 5 feet 8 [...]
My friend Wade in Texas wrote this beautiful song for his father-in-law, Sir Donald Neil MacCormick, who died on April 5, 2009.
Sir MacCormick’s incredibly illustrious career included drafting the constitution of the European Union and being a leading voice in the Scottish Nationalist Party that his father founded, but Wade’s song is about a different [...]
I met Georges and Anne Borchardt at Sewanee Writers’ Conference in 2003. The couple co-founded their literary agency in 1967, and are known for introducing American audiences to the work of Roland Barthes, Samuel Beckett, Pierre Bourdieu, Marguerite Duras, Franz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Eugene Ionesco, Jacques Lacan, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Elie Wiesel.
When [...]
