I just came across the cover of the Spanish translation of The Year of Fog, Perdida en la niebla, out next month from La Esfera de los Libros. I think it’s pretty!
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Conversation with Paul Auster: Today on KQED
Tune in to KQED today at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time to hear my City Arts and Lectures conversation with Paul Auster, which was recorded at the Herbst Theater in September. Auster talks about his latest novel, Man in the Dark, his writing process, politics, Scotch, and what it’s like to have an assistant, among other things.
Hungarian Rhapsody
My husband and I celebrated our eighth wedding anniversary on Monday, which prompted me to revisit some of our wedding pics. We got married in Yosemite National Park and honeymooned in Hungary, which was brilliantly cold and romantic in January. Eight years ago today, we arrived in Budapest; both of us had been there before, separately, and loved the city so much we decided to spend the first couple of weeks of our marriage there. Here’s the view of the Danube from our suite at the wonderful old Hotel Gellert in Budapest: And here’s a street near our sweet...
Golden Gate
National Geographic Traveler magazine recently asked me to name my favorite Golden Gate Park destination. I chose the playground at Koret Children’s Quarter. Pick up the December issue of National Geographic Traveler to see what other Bay Area folks have to say about the park: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, artist Maya Lin, floral artist Stanlee Gatti, California Academy of Sciences Senior Curator of Botany Frank Almeda, local yoga celeb Janet Stone, and Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope. Or visit the interactive Insiders Map on the magazine’s website. As my husband and I contemplate moving...
Fog in Hong Kong
The South China Morning Post included The Year of Fog in its year-end roundup of “ultimate recession-proof gifts:” An unusually imaginative novel of family, loss and hope, The Year of Fog tackles mysteries of time, memory and the human heart. ~Stephen McCarty Having spent a month in Hong Kong back in 1998, and having vivid memories of combing the English-language bookshop near one of the ferry terminals in Kowloon for something to stave off the heat and loneliness of a Hong Kong summer, it was quite a treat for me to come across this item in the SCMP. You...
The international bestseller about one woman’s search for a missing child…
"Mesmerizing." ~Library Journal, starred review.
Stop dreaming, start writing!
