The Year of Fog was featured yesterday in Variety. Newmarket Films has acquired the film rights to Michelle Richmond’s novel “The Year of Fog” and tapped Semi Chellas to adapt. Newmarket will produce and fully finance the bigscreen project. P. Jennifer Dana and Andrew Lauren of Andrew Lauren Productions and Newmarket’s Aaron Ryder will serve…Continue reading Adaptation
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Hum
The summer issue of The Missouri Review is now out, featuring an interview with Sam Shepard, as well as fiction by Benjamin Percy, Kate Chase, Molly McNett, and yours truly (my story is entitled “Hum.”)
When Yes Means Not Really
I remember in high school when the drivers’ ed. teacher asked me if I knew how to drive. “Yes!” I said. I didn’t want to be stuck in the simulator room with the kids who said “no,” avoiding crashes on the big screen when I could be avoiding them in real life. Problem was, I’d…Continue reading When Yes Means Not Really
BGE bits, plus Mickey’s corner
Had a lovely conversation with Pat Montadon (Oh the Hell of it All) yesterday at the Book Group Expo in San Jose, a two-day event that brings authors and readers together. We talked about her current project, a book about her famous Roundtable lunches in San Francisco, which brought together the famous and infamous, the…Continue reading BGE bits, plus Mickey’s corner
today on West Coast Live
Catch Peter Plate, the all-female accoustic quartet Misty River, and me today on West Coast Live. We taped the program at the Freight and Salvage in Berkeley a couple of weeks ago. Peter Plate talks about San Francisco as the noir setting for his novels; I talk about my favorite kind of fog and am…Continue reading today on West Coast Live