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Breaking the Camera (again)

September 16, 2009
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Okay, so we destroyed our expensive digital Leica six months after purchase on a trip to the beach. We’ve had bad luck with digital cameras. We left one on an airplane while returning from Cabo years ago, and lost all our vacation pics. One was stolen out of my sister’s car in the Mission, so we lost all the photographs of the first few months of my pregnancy. A couple have broken, and then this latest disaster with the beach. (Turns out the camera can withstand all sorts of bumps and bruises, but not sand.) So this time we’re...

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Stuff chicks want

July 23, 2009
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Just discovered through Google alerts: StuffChicksWant.com. “The place to find stuff that women want. Written by women, for women (and so their men know what their women want).” I’m sold–I DO already want half the stuff I saw there–Zid Zidi Mini Poofs, anyone? Bright Bangle Watches? The Ice Cream Ball? They do books, too! (and I must say, biased as I am, that they have good taste). Today’s entry is a review of No One You Know. An excerpt below: Michelle Richmond is a writer of near-perfect pitch. Beyond eloquent, richly poetic, and blessed with subtle but flawless comedic...

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Breaking through the fog in France

July 17, 2009
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An article in the French newspaper Le Figaro today on the biggest successes of the summer quotes Laurence Deschamps, the president of the major French retailer Fnac, on the state of book sales. Deschamps says that numbers are up from last year, and two books in particular are breaking records: Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and The Year of Fog (L’annee brouillard, translated by the wonderful Sophie Aslanides). I happen to be reading A Mercy right now–very slowly, taking in a bit day by day–it’s a beautiful, heartbreaking book, a story told with subtlety and a great respect for the...

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Songs to Write By

May 28, 2009
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Songs to Write By

When I’m first piecing together the bones of a book, one of the most important things for me is to find the right rhythm. In the early stages of No One You Know I had a CD in the car, which contained a mix of a number of my favorite instrumental pieces: the soundtrack to The Endless Summer, Lesley Spencer’s Russian Waltz, Ryuichi Sakamoto’s Railroad Man–quiet, contemplative pieces, some piano, some guitar. Then, as I began to get more deeply into the story, more songs drifted into my head. Some on this list are mentioned in the novel, others...

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No One You Know is now in paperback

May 19, 2009
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No One You Know is now in paperback

NO ONE YOU KNOW is out in paperback today…just in time for the Memorial Day weekend. The paperback contains great supplementary materials, including a Q&A, reading group guide, and playlist. I’ve been hearing a lot from book groups, who say that this novel about sisterhood and the impact of stories on our lives makes for a lively book group discussion. If you’re in San Francisco, please help me celebrate tomorrow night at Book Passage in the Ferry Building. If not, you can purchase signed copies of the book from Book Passage or signed and personalized copies from The Booksmith.

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