Join me tonight at the Jewish Community Center in San Francisco for a conversation with Julia Glass, National Book Award-winning author of Three Junes, The Whole World Over, and I See You Everywhere. The event begins at 8:00. Details here.
Last week, I sat down with Lynn Carey at one of my favorite San Francisco restaurants, Alice’s in Noe Valley. Lynn and I talked about No One You Know, which is the most recent selection for the Contra Costa Times Book Club. Lynn’s interview, “Home Turf and Unfamiliar Terrain Feed Michelle Richmond’s Fiction,” appears this [...]
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Okay, so we destroyed our expensive digital Leica six months after purchase on a trip to the beach. We’ve had bad luck with digital cameras. We left one on an airplane while returning from Cabo years ago, and lost all our vacation pics. One was stolen out of my sister’s car in the Mission, so [...]
L’annee brouillard, Sophie Aslanides’s translation of The Year of Fog, is back on the bestseller lists in France, according to Online Star. The Turkish publication reports on the top ten bestselling books in several countries (scroll down to see French list). Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife is number one in England.
If you’re like me, you watch Mad Men as much for the fashion as for the plot. Are you a Betty or a Joan? Betty, Don Draper’s cold and somber wife, is the epitome of classic elegance. Fiery, take-no-prisoners secretary Joan goes for the form-fitting; this woman loves her curves. If you could win either [...]
The AFP reports that Nobel prize-winning author Jose Saramago, known for his haunting novel Blindness, will say goodbye to the blog that he began writing last September. Why? He needs to finish his novel. Saramago was 85 when he started the blog with a love letter to Lisbon. In his last blog entry, Saramago [...]
November 19 of this year marks 21 years since Michaela Joy Garecht was kidnapped from a parking lot in Hayward, California. She was nine years old. Her friend saw a man grab Michaela and force her into a car. Michaela’s mother, Sharon Murch, has never stopped searching, and Jaycee Dugard’s recovery 18 years after her [...]
