This weekend I’ll be at UCLA on Sunday soaking up the sunshine and signing copies of My California: Journeys by Great Writers with Edward Humes and Veronique de Turenne. From 1-2 pm, we’ll be parked at the Angel City Press booth (near Royce Hall).
Carolyn See joins us at 2 pm. Carolyn, btw, has an [...]
Stories in My California:
See you at the Festival of Books
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 [...]
On the road with My California
Five California cities — Long Beach, Santa Barbara, Sacramento, Whittier, and Benicia — have embraced My California: Journeys by Great Writers for their One-City, One-Book programs. Folks in the Northern California community of Benicia are reading the anthology right now.
Perhaps you’d care to join them?
On Tuesday, March 18, My California contributor and Sacramento Bee [...]
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 [...]
More on Literacy Month
Donna’s update: I spent Monday evening at the Downey Public Library talking about My California with a very enthusiastic group that included many of the city’s volunteer reading tutors.
Librarian Claudia Dailey mentioned a surprising statistic: that 27 percent of adults in Los Angeles County are not fully literate. So Claudia and her wonderful [...]
Tonight
The Downey Public Library celebrates National Literacy Month by reading My California: Journeys by Great Writers. Join Donna, the editor of My California, at 7 p.m. for a book talk and signing. Details.
My California Festival of Books
Join My California contributors at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at UCLA. See you at the Angel City Press booth near Royce Hall. On Saturday: Aimee Liu, Edward Humes, Donna Wares, Deanne Stillman (11 a.m.-noon); D.J. Waldie (noon-1 p.m.); Veronique de Turenne, David Kipen (1-2 p.m.); Carolyn See (3-4 p.m.) On Sunday: T. [...]
Whittier Reads My California!
The enthusiastic team at the Whittier Public Library has assembled an impressive calendar of events as the entire community dives into the My California anthology starting TODAY.
Whittier is the fourth community to choose My California as a One City, One Book pick. From the local paper:
(T)his year’s selection - “My California: Journeys by Great [...]
See you at the Festival of Books
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 [...]
On the road with My California
Five California cities — Long Beach, Santa Barbara, Sacramento, Whittier, and Benicia — have embraced My California: Journeys by Great Writers for their One-City, One-Book programs. Folks in the Northern California community of Benicia are reading the anthology right now.
Perhaps you’d care to join them?
On Tuesday, March 18, My California contributor and Sacramento Bee [...]
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 [...]
More on Literacy Month
Donna’s update: I spent Monday evening at the Downey Public Library talking about My California with a very enthusiastic group that included many of the city’s volunteer reading tutors.
Librarian Claudia Dailey mentioned a surprising statistic: that 27 percent of adults in Los Angeles County are not fully literate. So Claudia and her wonderful [...]
Tonight
The Downey Public Library celebrates National Literacy Month by reading My California: Journeys by Great Writers. Join Donna, the editor of My California, at 7 p.m. for a book talk and signing. Details.
My California Festival of Books
Join My California contributors at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at UCLA. See you at the Angel City Press booth near Royce Hall. On Saturday: Aimee Liu, Edward Humes, Donna Wares, Deanne Stillman (11 a.m.-noon); D.J. Waldie (noon-1 p.m.); Veronique de Turenne, David Kipen (1-2 p.m.); Carolyn See (3-4 p.m.) On Sunday: T. [...]
Whittier Reads My California!
The enthusiastic team at the Whittier Public Library has assembled an impressive calendar of events as the entire community dives into the My California anthology starting TODAY.
Whittier is the fourth community to choose My California as a One City, One Book pick. From the local paper:
(T)his year’s selection - “My California: Journeys by Great [...]
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