Sunday in San Francisco: Dirty Words: Litquake’s Tribute to Smut, “a giddy homage to titillation and obscenity … a fundraiser starring a who’s who of Bay Area writers.” Details.
Congratulations to Heyday Books founder Malcolm Margolin on his San Francisco Foundation’s Community Leadership Award. From the Heyday newsletter: “The Helen Crocker Russell Award recognizes individuals and [...]
Stories in Anthology:
Notebook: Smut, honors, anger, hope and business
A trio of author updates
After I wrote yesterday about Latinos In Lotusland, editor Daniel Olivas shared the backstory of the anthology’s magical cover. He says, “Yes, it is a beautiful cover. Bilingual Press is affiliated with Arizona State University, which has the largest Chicano art collection in the country. So, last year, they flew me out to [...]
SoCal thriller debut
Today is pub day for T. Jefferson Parker’s new novel, L.A. Outlaws, and you can read about Jeff’s inspiration for the story here at CaliforniaAuthors.
On top of the pile: We also can’t wait to dive into two new California collections: Where the Light Takes its Color From the Sea: A California Notebook by James D. [...]
Yup, the book’s still got legs!
We just learned that the Benicia Public Library has selected My California: Journeys by Great Writers as its community book for 2008.
The Bay Area community of Benicia is the fifth California city to choose the anthology. Librarian Helaine Bowles said her town will be reading My California and hosting events from March 1 to [...]
Summer collections
The Chron compiles an interesting roundup of new anthologies from Bay Area authors and editors. Browse here.
Contemporary crime fiction
Daniel Olivas reviews the Los Angeles Noir anthology, edited by Denise Hamilton with stories by seventeen SoCal writers, for the Elegant Variation. Olivas loves the book (”the authors featured in Los Angeles Noir have big gumshoes to fill. And fill them they do”) and shares some choice tidbits.
Like this one:
Some of the stories take place [...]
The hot list
Granta’s list of twenty-one Best Young American Novelists includes four California authors: Daniel Alarcon (Lost City Radio), Yiyun Li (A Thousand Years of Good Prayers), Maile Meloy (Liars and Saints), and ZZ Packer (Drinking Coffee Elsewhere). From Granta:
A little over a decade ago Granta devoted an issue to new fiction by the twenty writers it [...]
Notebook: Smut, honors, anger, hope and business
A trio of author updates
After I wrote yesterday about Latinos In Lotusland, editor Daniel Olivas shared the backstory of the anthology’s magical cover. He says, “Yes, it is a beautiful cover. Bilingual Press is affiliated with Arizona State University, which has the largest Chicano art collection in the country. So, last year, they flew me out to [...]
SoCal thriller debut
Today is pub day for T. Jefferson Parker’s new novel, L.A. Outlaws, and you can read about Jeff’s inspiration for the story here at CaliforniaAuthors.
On top of the pile: We also can’t wait to dive into two new California collections: Where the Light Takes its Color From the Sea: A California Notebook by James D. [...]
Yup, the book’s still got legs!
We just learned that the Benicia Public Library has selected My California: Journeys by Great Writers as its community book for 2008.
The Bay Area community of Benicia is the fifth California city to choose the anthology. Librarian Helaine Bowles said her town will be reading My California and hosting events from March 1 to [...]
Summer collections
The Chron compiles an interesting roundup of new anthologies from Bay Area authors and editors. Browse here.
Contemporary crime fiction
Daniel Olivas reviews the Los Angeles Noir anthology, edited by Denise Hamilton with stories by seventeen SoCal writers, for the Elegant Variation. Olivas loves the book (”the authors featured in Los Angeles Noir have big gumshoes to fill. And fill them they do”) and shares some choice tidbits.
Like this one:
Some of the stories take place [...]
The hot list
Granta’s list of twenty-one Best Young American Novelists includes four California authors: Daniel Alarcon (Lost City Radio), Yiyun Li (A Thousand Years of Good Prayers), Maile Meloy (Liars and Saints), and ZZ Packer (Drinking Coffee Elsewhere). From Granta:
A little over a decade ago Granta devoted an issue to new fiction by the twenty writers it [...]
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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