Michelle Richmond's Blog

• Careful what you tweet

  June 30, 2009

  • Acclaimed novelist Alice Hoffman was called out on Gawker today for her angry twitter responses to a partially negative review of her latest novel, The Story Sisters, by Roberta Silman in The Boston Globe, Hoffman's hometown newspaper. Hoffman called the reviewer a "moron" and gave out her phone number. "Now any idiot can be a critic," Hoffman wrote. "Writers used to ...
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• Briefly in Britain

  June 12, 2009

  • The Telegraph recently asked me to write about San Francisco for its “My Kind of Town” feature. The article, which includes my favorite city haunts, where to stay, what to avoid, where to shop, and more, appears today. You can read it here.Other stuff across the pond: No One You Know was reviewed today in The Daily Mail, and earlier this week in Star Magazine. 
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• Holden on Hold: Literary Intrigue, Salinger Style

  June 2, 2009

  • Courthouse News Service reports today that J.D. Salinger is suing an anonymous writer, pseudonym J.D. California, over a book entitled 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye, which is slated for September 9 publication and bills itself as a sequel to the reclusive Salinger's classic The Catcher in the Rye. The latter made household names of Holden Caulfield and his creator, and sold almost ...
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