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7 Inspiring Books for Writers in Any Genre

7 Inspiring Books for Writers in Any Genre

Every writer must be a reader first, and the best education you can get is by reading. The most inspiring books for writers aren’t necessarily books about writing. Remember the first novel you wanted to tell others about? The first story that stuck in your mind? The first character you wished you could know in …

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Silicon Valley novel tackles achievement obsession

Silicon Valley novel tackles achievement obsession

My new Silicon Valley novel, THE WONDER TEST, hits shelves today.  In a review of THE WONDER TEST for the San Francisco Chronicle, Anita Felicelli writes,  “Contemporary fiction set in or around Silicon Valley doesn’t always reach far enough with its absurdity and speculation.. Richmond’s eighth work of fiction, “The Wonder Test,” hits the right …

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Walking in Paris – Park Monceau to Batignolles, a Beautiful Goodbye

Walking in Paris – Park Monceau to Batignolles, a Beautiful Goodbye

During our final week in Paris at the end of October 2020, I ventured out for one last walk to Batignolles. Although traffic had returned to the boulevards, the city still felt deserted. Travel from the United States to the EU was still restricted, so the only Americans in town were expats like us. We …

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Consent by Vanessa Springora

Consent by Vanessa Springora

In Consent, Vanessa Springora delivers a heartbreaking, startling account of her adolescent relationship with one of France’s former literary stars, Gabriel Matzneff, when Matzneff was 50 and Springora was only 14 years old. What stands out in this memoir is the complicity of adults in Matzneff’s crimes. Springora’s mother, famous philosophers, renowned television personalities, politicians, …

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