Monthly Archives: March 2010

Need to read? 2 books for price of 3

March 29, 2010
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My first novel, DREAM OF THE BLUE ROOM, which was reissued this month by Random House, has been selected as a Reading Group Favorite by Barnes and Noble and is part of their 3 for 2 promotion. Check out the 2 for 3 paperbacks table at the front of the store. Because you know you always want more books than you have! Other books on the table include Little Bee, The Kite Runner, Say You’re One of the Them, The Art of Racing in the Rain, American Wife, Cutting for Stone, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, and the Guernsey...

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Northern California Book Awards Nominees 2010

March 28, 2010
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Congratulations to the nominess for the 2010 Northern California Book Awards. Among the fiction nominees is Catherine Brady’s wonderful story collection, The Mechanics of Falling, and Yiyun Li’s unforgettable novel, The Vagrants (which I reviewed here for The Rumpus.) I was also happy to see Tamim Ansary’s Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes nominated in the General Nonfiction category. The Creative Nonfiction category includes heavy-hitters Dave Eggers (Zeitoun) and Michael Chabon (Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son)–a reminder how much literary talent exists in the Bay Area–along with...

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San Fran author revisits beloved characters

March 28, 2010
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San Fran author revisits beloved characters

San Francisco author K.M. Soehnlein has a new novel out, Robin and Ruby. Readers first met Robin MacKenzie almost nine years ago in Karl’s debut novel, The World of Normal Boys. In that book, which received the Lambda Literary Award, Robin was a 13-year-old child of the seventies attempting to find his place and his voice. The new book catches up with Robin in the eighties, “caught between his dreams of being a stage actor and the nightmare of negotiating relationships in an era when sex and death are inevitably linked.” Join the author for the book launch at...

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Virginia Utigard Video: Did she kill her 7 children?

March 27, 2010
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Here is a video from 1978, in which Virginia Gratto, now Virginia Utigard, is interviewed the morning after her husband and seven children were killed in a house fire in Cohoes, NY. An unemotional-seeming Utigard says that she fled the fire and couldn’t get back into the house. Strangely, she adds that she would have liked to save the 4-month-old twins, but makes no mention of her other five children. The fire was ruled an arson, but the case was closed years ago without an arrest. Utigard’s escape from the burning home has long been viewed with suspicion, said...

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Ode to the Unglamorous Book Tour

March 15, 2010
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Ode to the Unglamorous Book Tour

A hotel in Tuscon…

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