Archive for December, 2009

Life in San Francisco’s Chinatown

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Take a bite out of this apple

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

I’ll be at one of my all-time favorite bookstores tonight, the scrumptious Green Apple on Clement in San Francisco, doing an event with Stephen Elliott, author of The Adderall Diaries–a memoir that’s every bit as addictive as its subject matter–and Paul Madonna, known and loved throughout the Bay Area for his All Over Coffee artistry, [...]

Life imitates fiction: Fog spoiler alert!

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

When I read this article about three little girls who were kidnapped by their father in 2007, I was struck by the uncanny similarities to The Year of Fog, particularly regarding the girls’ eventual recovery. The girls, who were abducted from their mother, Christine Bedford, during a custody visit with their father, David Matusiewicz, were [...]

Amanda Knox testifies (video)

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

Here is Amanda Knox’s testimony about the fourteen-hour interrogation by Italian police. Knox says that she was persuaded by an interpreter that she must have remembered the events on the night of roommate Meredith Kercher’s murder incorrectly. While her behavior following Kercher’s murder appeared strange to many who observed her at that time, she [...]

Booknotes, Litlife, & Writing Prompts from bestselling author Michelle Richmond