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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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No One You Know in Hungary

March 11, 2010
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No One You Know in Hungary

Here’s the Polish cover of No One You Know. The Polish edition, Nikt kogo znasz, translated by Boena Markiewicz, will be published by Videograf, which also published The Year of Fog. Follow-up note: Thanks to Laura Balazs for the correction, and a special thanks to Laura for translating No One You Know into Hungarian for Tericum.

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Now in Stores: Dream of the Blue Room

February 21, 2010
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Now in Stores: Dream of the Blue Room

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 only in the more expensive hardcover edition. After several months out of print, it is now available through your favorite independent bookstores, Barnes and Noble (look for it on the Reading Group Favorites 3 for 2 table, the Paperback New Releases table, and the...

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French prize nomination for Year of Fog

November 8, 2009
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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 well as the jurors, my publisher Buchet Chastel, and my wonderful translator, Sophie Aslanides. “A novel of unbearable suspense … This book is not read, it is consumed, it permeates.” Regina Lepage “A gem of originality.” Martine Madoux “The book exerts a kind of...

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