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October 7, 2008

Stories in Great Central Valley:

Notebook: Beijing reads, indie closing, RWA in SF

Game ready. Catherine Sampson — a crime writer who’s lived in China for fifteen years — shares her top ten books on Beijing. The list includes two novels by Chinese authors living and working in California. Number 3 on the list, Please Don’t Call Me Human by Wang Shuo. Number 6 is The Last [...]

Posted by Kate Cohen, July 23rd, 2008 | Permalink
File under: Booksellers, Events and festivals, Fiction, Great Central Valley, New Release 2008, San Francisco

Scary movies & other stray notes

• LaObserved reports today that Heritage Book Shop, LA’s rare book store, has been sold.
• LAO also notes that Kristin Gore is now an LA writer. “The 30-year-old daughter of former VP Al Gore lives near downtown with husband Paul Cusack, writes for ‘Saturday Night Live’ and ‘Futurama’ and has a new novel, Sammy’s House, [...]

Posted by Donna Wares, June 20th, 2007 | Permalink
File under: Booksellers, Celebrity, Great Central Valley, Los Angeles, Mystery/crime, New Release 2007, Poetry, Web video