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
Category: The Year of Fog
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
flaming lit
Nice review of The Year of Fog yesterday in the San Francisco Chronicle: What marks us, and how do we react to our impressions, both large and small, of life? These are the questions asked by San Francisco author Michelle Richmond in her wonderful second novel, “The Year of the Fog.” Book burning: Tom Wayne,…Continue reading flaming lit
telling stories, plus good wax
Benedict Cary has an intriguing essay on the science of stories–how we tell them, and what they say about us–in the New York Times. “Any life story is by definition a retrospective reconstruction, at least in part an outgrowth of native temperament.” (This interests me in part because of its thematic connection to The Year…Continue reading telling stories, plus good wax
Varieties of Disturbance
Reading: the new story collection by Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance. Here’s a Salon interview conducted by Kate Moses a while back. What I like: the brevity of the stories, the way Davis throws an idea onto the page in the first sentence and illuminates it by the end of the page. Many of these…Continue reading Varieties of Disturbance