Sans Serif

Here’s the Hungarian cover of No One You Know. The Hungarian edition, Nikt kogo znasz, translated by Bo?ena Markiewicz, will be published by Videograf, which also published The Year of Fog.

My first novel, Dream of the Blue Room (2003, MacAdam/Cage), was re-released by Random House this week in a new paperback edition. I can’t tell you how excited I am to have this book back in stores again. The first time, the distribution was limited, and for the first couple of years it was available [...]

L’annee brouillard, the French translation of The Year of Fog (translated by Sophie Aslanides), is featured this month in the French edition of Elle Magazine as the November selection of the Elle Grand Prix des Lectrices. Read the jurors’ comments here. Read the Elle review here.
Thanks so much to the editors at Elle as [...]

I ran into Malena Watrous and her husband outside the Litquake party at Elbo Room in San Francisco Saturday night. Malena mentioned that she was working on her website–which reminded me that she has a book coming out next spring. Malena’s debut novel, If You Follow Me, is set in Japan. Thisbe Nissen calls it [...]

San Francisco writer Michelle Zaffino just posted this video review of NO ONE YOU KNOW. Honestly, I’d never even heard of bloggers posting video reviews. I think it’s a terrific idea. Thanks, Michelle!

My friend Ben Fong-Torres will be at the Booksmith on Haight Street tonight at 7:30, talking about his new book, Grateful Dead Scrapbook: The Long, Strange Trip in Stories, Photos, and Memorabilia.
Also, read a terrific blog post here for Asian Connections in which Ben talks about Telling My Story, sparring with Pat Sajak, his [...]

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.

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.

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 [...]

There’s a new Rumpelstiltskin in town, but he’s not going after the miller’s daughter. This Rumpelstiltskin has set his sights on authors, who, according to critics, may unwittingly spin him buckets full of gold. Judging from the panic issuing from home offices and cafes across the country, you’d think he was trying to steal our [...]