http://michellerichmond.com/sanserif San Francisco Literary Events, Writing Eexercises, Booknotes, Literary Contests, from Michelle Richmond Fri, 09 May 2008 16:42:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From Todd Zuniga at Opium: To celebrate the LDM's history of violence, we're thrilled to present an affair like never before: the All-Star Literary Death Match which will double as the release party for Opium6: Go Green! (But Save Me First). We won't dare tell you the particulars, but expect an ... http://michellerichmond.com/sanserif/2008/05/09/literary-death-match/ The death toll in Myanmar (Burma) from the cyclone is now at 22,000. During the government crackdown in September and October, I linked to several blogs within the country that reported on the imprisonment and beating of monks and other protesters. In the wake of the cyclone, however, it's difficult to ... http://michellerichmond.com/sanserif/2008/05/06/burma-digest/ A year has passed since three-year-old Madelein McCann disappeared from her family's holiday apartment in Praia de Luz, Portugal. Despite the massive international campaign to find her, there have been very few clues as to what may have happened to her. Although local police action has centered on implicating the ... http://michellerichmond.com/sanserif/2008/05/02/kate-mccann-a-mothers-instinct/ You've probably heard of all three of the winners of the Narrative Magazine love story contest: First Place ($2,500) Elizabeth Stuckey-French Interview with a Moron Second Place ($1,500) Maud Newton Conversations You Have at Twenty Third Place ($750) Janet Burroway Blackout Masha Hamilton was also a finalist. Congrats to all. http://michellerichmond.com/sanserif/2008/05/01/narrative-magazine-winners/ Author and editor Jordan Rosenfeld (Make a Scene: Crafting a Powerful Story One Scene at a Time) pays tribute to San Francisco's "literary hot spots" in this article for Writer's Digest. Jordan mentions the historic Caffe Trieste (this is the place that local writer Junvenal Acosta, among others, sometimes refers ... http://michellerichmond.com/sanserif/2008/05/01/literary-hot-spots/ SF Girl by Bay, who lives in Herb Caen's old apartment, pays homage to the local legend Herb Caen. Via Apartment Therapy--those literary journals piling up? Don't know where you'll stash another issue of your Glimmer Train, Mid-American Review, Paris Review, Believer, etc.? Try the ring rack. Via Interior Stories--could you write ... http://michellerichmond.com/sanserif/2008/04/29/home-decor-for-writerly-types/ Veterans of Bush's war are committing suicide by the hundreds each month, but, apparently, our government doesn't believe they really deserve health care. From the Chronicle today. More than 120 veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq commit suicide every week while the government stalls in granting returning troops the ... http://michellerichmond.com/sanserif/2008/04/22/fallout/ Andrew Sean Greer's new novel, The Story of a Marriage, is the much-anticipated follow-up to the critically acclaimed The Confessions of Max Tivoli. The setting is San Francisco, 1953, and the narrator is Pearlie Cook, whose lyrical opening words, a kind of soliloquy for her damaged marriage, set the tone for ... http://michellerichmond.com/sanserif/2008/04/19/the-story-of-a-marriage/ Time for the Progressive Reading Series! I'll be reading with Jane Smiley (Ten Days in the Hills), Yiyun Lee (A Thousand Years of Good Prayers), Charlie Anders (Choir Boy), Laura Fraser (An Italian Affair), and Jeff O'Keefe. With special guests- The Progressive Reading Series All Star Minstrels, and Board Of ... http://michellerichmond.com/sanserif/2008/04/19/tonight-at-the-makeout-room/ Green Apple Books is practically giving away books, people. Actually, the ongoing Warehouse Clearance Sale is coming to an end. All used books are now $2.98 or less. That's a dollar less than a gallon of gas. A more on-point comparison: $2.98 is just a few cents over half of ... http://michellerichmond.com/sanserif/2008/04/17/get-thee-to-green-apple/