Author Firoozeh Dumas debuts in her upcoming one-woman show, “Laughing Without an Accent,” in Palo Alto… Southern California mystery writer Rochelle Krich starts blogging… J.D. Lasica reports that the Digital Storytelling Fest is moving to San Francisco… LAPD Detective Will Beall closes a deal with Riverhead for LA Rex and The Lion Hunter — “two novels set in South Central LA, that present a look at the life of the police and criminal cultures of this volatile city within a city,” sez Publisher’s Lunch… Ignatius Press, a nonprofit publisher based in San Francisco, sees a sudden rush for its books on the German Cardinal crowned Pope Benedict XVI yesterday… The 8th Annual Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival arrives in San Francisco today. Hundreds of teenage poets from 36 cities compete Saturday in the Grand Slam Finals at Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium.
January 6, 2009
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