I’ll be talking about THE YEAR OF FOG and NO ONE YOU KNOW today at Foothill College in Los Altos. Details here. This event is free and open to the public. When: Noon Where: Campus Center Student Lounge Both books will be available for twenty percent off the cover price.
Category: The Year of Fog
Muhammad: The Taboo-du-Jour
Apparently there’s a hot new taboo out there in the publishing industry: Muhammad. In this disturbing Wall Street Journal opinion piece,Asra Q. Nomani describes how concern over possible offense to Muslims and fear of terrorist threats led Ballantine to cancel the publication of Sherry Jones’s debut novel THE JEWEL OF MEDINA, “a tale of lust,…Continue reading Muhammad: The Taboo-du-Jour
Another One Bites the Dust
Today at Ghost Word, Frances Dinkelspiel reports extensively on what’s happening to the Los Angeles Times. A while back there was talk of the death of the novel. Well, that never happened, and I seriously doubt it will anytime in the near future. Who knows, we may all go Kindle, but I do believe the…Continue reading Another One Bites the Dust
Visit Me in California
Booklist gave Cooley Windsor‘s forthcoming story collection, Visit Me in California, a starred review: “These stories give new and devastating insight into what it means to yearn and what it means to falter; they commit the rare and essential accomplishment of exposing their characters as wounded, flawed, and wholly human.” And Publisher’s Weekly had this…Continue reading Visit Me in California
best of the bay
Steven Dinkelspiel’s “note from the president” in the current issue of San Francisco Magazine is about obsession. It’s the Best of the Bay issue, and Dinkelspiel’s obsessions run the gamut from baseball (the Giants) to Sunday brunch (Town’s End), and ice cream (Fenton’s in Oakland, not to mention a great diner in my hood, Bill’s…Continue reading best of the bay