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 week in the Marin Independent Journal, the San Jose Mercury, and Contra Costa County Times. You can read the interview here. Subjects discussed: Eichlers, math, only children, Narnia, and being married to an FBI agent. This month, readers met at Book Passage in Corte...
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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 we lost all the photographs of the first few months of my pregnancy. A couple have broken, and then this latest disaster with the beach. (Turns out the camera can withstand all sorts of bumps and bruises, but not sand.) So this time we’re...
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.
