Each year, Silicon Valley Reads brings together libraries, schools, and community organizations in 15 Bay Area cities to read a single book. I’m honored and delighted to announce that The Year of Fog is the 2011 selection, following on the heels of 2010’s In Defense of Food, by Michael Pollan. 2011 programming will kick off …
Buchet-Chastel, the wonderful French publisher that released the French translation of The Year of Fog, will soon publish the French edition of my first novel, Dream of the Blue Room. Once again, the book is edited by Marc Parent and translated by Sophie Aslanides. I’ve just seen the cover. Je l’aime! There are two versions, …
Thanks to Elle France for naming L’annee brouillard (The Year of Fog, translated by Sophie Aslanides), to their top ten picks for the week of Oct 20, alongside Patti Smith’s autobiography and Luis Vittons’ City Guide. This week marks the release of a new edition of the French translation from Pocket Books. A ELLE, nous …
Early in October, I joined Robert Burton, former Chief of Neurology at Mt. Zion-USCF, Mark Vonnegut, memoirist, Elaine Petrocelli, president of the beloved Bay Area bookstore Book Passge, and Stanford professor Blakey Vermeule for a Litquake panel at the Mechanics Institute Library, entitled Virtual Reality: The Effect of Fiction on Your Mind. Thanks to Evan …