My husband and I first saw the house on 38th Avenue in the Outer Richmond in August of 2004, while I was pregnant with our son. The moment we walked through the front door, we fell in love. Within a month we were busily setting up the nursery and landscaping the back yard to take…Continue reading The Mystery of Houses
Category: Ephemera
Flirting with Married People
Just in case you’ve ever wondered what happens when a whole bunch of writers get together, Steve Almond lays it out for The Rumpus, in the aftermath of the annual sort-of literary free-for-all known as AWP. I have to say, it’s my best cameo yet, hands down. (Dr. D! Dimplelingus? Really? I’ve never tried it,…Continue reading Flirting with Married People
San Fran author revisits beloved characters
San Francisco author K.M. Soehnlein has a new novel out, Robin and Ruby. Readers first met Robin MacKenzie almost nine years ago in Karl’s debut novel, The World of Normal Boys. In that book, which received the Lambda Literary Award, Robin was a 13-year-old child of the seventies attempting to find his place and his…Continue reading San Fran author revisits beloved characters
Ode to the Unglamorous Book Tour
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Books in Berkeley
Frances Dinkelspiel did a nice write-up for Berkeley Inside about the 8th Annual Author’s Dinner at the Berkeley Public Library on Saturday. The food and wine were over-the-top wonderful (especially the homemade banana ice cream), and I had a great time catching up with Rabih Alameddine (The Hakawati), Daniel Mason (The Piano Tuner), Alan Black…Continue reading Books in Berkeley