Michelle Richmond
August 22, 2009
- There's a new Rumpelstiltskin in town, but he's not going after the miller's daughter. This Rumpelstiltskin has set his sights on authors, who, according to critics, may unwittingly spin him buckets full of gold. Judging from the panic issuing from home offices and cafes across the country, you'd think he was trying to steal our firstborn. I'm talking about Google Books, and a deal negotiated ...
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March 29, 2009
- Red Room is a community that already spans the globe, and one day we'll have members from every country sharing wonderful content in every language. Of course, we got our start in San Francisco, so it will surprise no one that we have a special place in our hearts for the magnificent literary community that makes the Bay Area and Northern California such a great place to be a reader, a writer, ...
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March 27, 2009
- I'll be speaking Saturday, March 28, at Lynnewood Methodist Church in Pleasanton, at 1:00 p.m. This will be a fundraising event, sponsored by P.E.O. International. Towne Center Books will be on hand to sell copies of The Year of Fog and No One You Know, with part of the proceeds to benefit P.E.O. women's scholarships.
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February 26, 2009
- Who needs a social network to persuade her not to do any social networking? I do! I love all those websites that allow you to meet like-minded people, share embarrassing photos from high school, and talk up your book/album/organic bath products, etc. Too much. Which is why I'm going on a cyber-diet. That's right. I'm declaring Tuesday, March 3, a social network-free day, and asking you to join ...
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January 11, 2009
- Tune in to KQED today at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time to hear my City Arts and Lectures conversation with Paul Auster, which was recorded at the Herbst Theater in September. Auster talks about his latest novel, Man in the Dark, his writing process, politics, Scotch, and what it's like to have an assistant, among other things.
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January 2, 2009
- When National Geographic Traveler magazine recently asked me to name one of my favorite Golden Gate Park destinations, I chose the playground at Koret Children’s Quarter--for its great old carousel and wild slide. Pick up the December issue of National Geographic Traveler to see what other Bay Area folks have to say about the park: Michael Tilson Thomas, Maya Lin, floral artist Stanlee Gatti, ...
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October 17, 2008
- After criminal suspects were apprehended and crazed party girls were ejected, I read the blood match segment from Beer, Blood and Cornmeal at this year's Litquake. I thought they were prostitutes. Now I’m not the kind of guy who thinks that every gal in revealing clothing is out there turning tricks. No, these gals were dirty and drugged out looking. The way they were randomly yet ...
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October 4, 2008
- In my post, “I Could Write a Great Novel If Only I Had a Story to Tell,” I neglected my own favorite kind of plot trigger: secrets. It’s funny, but writers do seem to revisit a certain theme. Michelle Richmond (at least in her last two gripping books) seems to write about the consequences of losing people for the people who feel responsible for their loss. In The Year of Fog, the young ...
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July 26, 2008
- You’ve probably met a few writer types who say they don’t own a TV.Maybe you're even one of them. Well, I fully and shamelessly confess that my husband Kevin and I are bona fide addicts of The Office, and our TIVO never misses an episode of Top Chef. Our friends Dianne and Ben Fong-Torres are fans of the show as well, so when we asked them to suggest a place for our dinner get-together this ...
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July 18, 2008
- like today, when I'm at home at 10:00 a.m., chatting it up with the dishwasher repairman, who moved here from the Ukraine twenty years ago and, God love him, keeps dropping the kind of hints for which dishwasher repairmen are so justifiably famous, as in, "Does your husband treat you good? I can treat you very good. You need anything, you call me. For you, I give a very good price." I ...
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