• Northern California writers (seven!) dominate the finalists line up for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle awards.
• David Kipen’s got a new blog chronicling his cross-country adventures with The Big Read.
• Michael Chabon prepares Gentlemen of the Road for the NYT Magazine.
• Daniel Olivas reviews the Inlandia anthology in The El Paso Times. He writes, “Inlandia paints a complex and compelling portrait of a region that is simultaneously beautiful and harsh, multicultural and alienating, vibrant and destructive…”
• Mark Frauenfelder and Carla Sinclair reign at the Feb. 3 Dorkbake Oven Competition in Los Angeles.
Meet the authors of the California Authors Directory. Visit the directory to discover writers like Christina Meldrum, a Bay Area attorney whose book Madapple was just released this month. “In debut novelist Christina Meldrum's mesmerizing literary mystery, 
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