Stop by the Booksmith booth at the Cole Valley Street Fair in San Francisco today. My pal Andrew Foster Altschul (Lady Lazarus) and I will be there from noon to one, chatting about literary fiction (or whatever else you want to talk about) and recommending great books. Where: Cole Street between Carl and Grattan N Judah stop: Carl and Cole. Bus: 43, 6, 66, 7, 71 All the details are here. Other folks who’ll be warming the seats and shooting the breeze at the Booksmith booth: 1- 2 pm – Discuss Mysteries with Louise Ure (The Fault Tree) and...
Fun-o-rama
Disturbing Sarah Palin Photo Surfaces; McCain Defends Palin’s Obscene Hand Gesture
After this reader-submitted photo was published in the Anchorage Daily News, featuring Sarah Palin surrounded by high school boys and possibly flashing the peace sign, the McCain campaign released this strong statement: The left-wing liberal news media seeks to belittle Sarah Palin’s character by implying that she was exhibiting the peace sign. In fact, she was merely showing her allegiance to an Alaskan youth gang called Virginity Now, whose official motto is “Abstinence until marriage, unless your boyfriend is a hot high school hockey star.” To hint that Sarah Palin is a proponent of peace is flat-out wrong and,...
Order of Myths, + Green Door
THE ORDER OF MYTHS, a documentary film set in my hometown of Mobile, Alabama, directed by Margaret Brown, is showing all day at Lumiere Theater in San Francisco. Brown will be in attendance at the 7:15 and 9:15 shows, along with moderator Sam Green (The Weather Underground). THE ORDER OF MYTHS has received rave reviews everywhere from the New York Times (“a wise and soberly effecting documentary”) to the LA Times (“brilliantly captivating, an invaluable portrait of us-and-them America, a smart, generous, poignant, quietly disturbing movie”). The New York Sun calls it THE KIND OF ILLUMINATING WORK THAT SENDS...
A Real Boy
If I had a martini for every time someone has suggested that my husband Kevin is a figment of my imagination, I’d be on a permanent bender. When I mention Kevin in public, the response is frequently, “But I’ve never actually seen him.” People I’ve known for years will come up to me at parties and ask, “When do I get to meet the mysterious husband?” That’s because he rarely comes to any of my readings. Really, who can blame him? After a while, all of them run together, and besides, if we hired a babysitter every time I...
Wade Goes 17 Across Part Deux
My old pal Wade, whom I met in Arkansas, but who hails from Houston, has been guest-blogging for the last couple of days on the enormously popular blog Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle. Here’s Wade, on today’s puzzle: Almost every single clue had its way with me. I verbed; it nouned. I past-tensed; it adjectified. I pluraled; it said, HA! Looking at the wrong word, fool! There’s this guy there named Noam Elkies, who appears to be one of the smartest guys on the planet. Just for an example of how smart he is, he was made...
The international bestseller about one woman’s search for a missing child…
"Mesmerizing." ~Library Journal, starred review.
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