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 Biography/memoir:
Notebook: Smut, honors, anger, hope and business
They’re California authors, too.
They’re not famous for it, but they are famous, and they’ve got books out this month.
Speaker of the US House of Representatives California Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi will celebrate the launch of her book Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters with three TV appearances on Monday (NBC’s “Today,” ABC’s “The View” and Comedy [...]
More summertime books and a few stray notes
The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression names its Book of the Month for June: Claim of Privilege by Barry Siegel, the former LA Times national correspondent who now heads the Literary Journalism Program at UC Irvine.
The ABFFE says: “Siegel uncovers the mystery behind a 1948 plane crash and the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in [...]
Saucy schemes and new stories
Isabel Allende’s memoir is just out: The Sums of Our Days… novelist Tobias Wolff is on the cover of Poets and Writers magazine (though the story is not yet available online)… Veronique de Turenne teams up with Ernest Marquez to chronicle Southern California’s century as a maritime hub in Port of Los Angeles… former Islands [...]
Mirror worlds
The Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle both delve into The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved by Judith Freeman in today’s papers. They come away with very different takes:
From Richard Rayner in the LAT:
“The Long Embrace” is an exploration of these two relationships — Ray and Cissy, Chandler and [...]
All about me
It’s Memoir Week over at Slate, which delves into a rash of new autobiographies and some older ones, too. Various memorists also talk about the experience of writing a book about their lives, among them Sean Wilsey in an essay called “Publish then Flee.”
Wilsey, author of Oh the Glory of It All, recounts [...]
Notebook: Smut, honors, anger, hope and business
They’re California authors, too.
They’re not famous for it, but they are famous, and they’ve got books out this month.
Speaker of the US House of Representatives California Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi will celebrate the launch of her book Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters with three TV appearances on Monday (NBC’s “Today,” ABC’s “The View” and Comedy [...]
More summertime books and a few stray notes
The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression names its Book of the Month for June: Claim of Privilege by Barry Siegel, the former LA Times national correspondent who now heads the Literary Journalism Program at UC Irvine.
The ABFFE says: “Siegel uncovers the mystery behind a 1948 plane crash and the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in [...]
Saucy schemes and new stories
Isabel Allende’s memoir is just out: The Sums of Our Days… novelist Tobias Wolff is on the cover of Poets and Writers magazine (though the story is not yet available online)… Veronique de Turenne teams up with Ernest Marquez to chronicle Southern California’s century as a maritime hub in Port of Los Angeles… former Islands [...]
Mirror worlds
The Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle both delve into The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved by Judith Freeman in today’s papers. They come away with very different takes:
From Richard Rayner in the LAT:
“The Long Embrace” is an exploration of these two relationships — Ray and Cissy, Chandler and [...]
All about me
It’s Memoir Week over at Slate, which delves into a rash of new autobiographies and some older ones, too. Various memorists also talk about the experience of writing a book about their lives, among them Sean Wilsey in an essay called “Publish then Flee.”
Wilsey, author of Oh the Glory of It All, recounts [...]
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, 