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Joshilyn Jackson, in the carpool lane

June 1, 2010
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Joshilyn Jackson, in the carpool lane

Roxanne Ravenel over at All Things Girl conducted a wonderful two-part interview with Joshilyn Jackson, whose new novel, Backseat Saints, will surely satisfy her fans and earn her many new ones. Joshilyn talks about her love-hate relationship with the South (“I am truly happy nowhere else, and yet I am angry with it, so I don’t imagine I am finished writing about it”), what she reads, and why she thinks writing groups are a good idea, among other things. My favorite bit of the interview involves Joshilyn’s writing process (or lack thereof). This pretty much sums my process up,...

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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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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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