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Miami Serenade

Miami Serenade

I’ll be doing a couple of events in Miami this weekend. On Friday, Sept. 10, at 7:00 p.m., I’ll be reading at the CAS Gallery (1210 Stanford Drive) at the University of Miami to kick off the Goran Reading Series, which celebrates Lester Goran’s 50-year teaching tenure at the University of Miami. On Saturday, Sept. …

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21

21

The Year of Fog has just gone into its 21st paperback printing. I’m celebrating with biscuits and eggs for dinner. Because who doesn’t love biscuits for dinner? Back home in Alabama, my favorite nights were always the ones when my mother declared that we were having “breakfast for supper.” It usually involved bacon and grits. …

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Time and the Novel

Time and the Novel

Sarah Stone, author of the novel The True Sources of the Nile as well as two books on the craft of writing, has a terrific new post up on RedRoom, “Navigating Time in Fiction”. “What does it mean for a work to traverse different kinds of time? What in each writer’s life, biology, or brain …

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Fog in Brentwood

Fog in Brentwood

I’m delighted to announce that The Year of Fog is the 2010 pick for Brentwood CityRead in Brentwood, California– part of the Contra Costa County Library One City One Book program. Other cities are reading Highest Duty (Sully Sullenberger), Cutting for Stone (Abraham Verghese), and The Street of a Thousand Blossoms (Gail Tsukiyama). About the …

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