Michelle Richmond
July 9, 2008
- I'm supposed to be writing my book on Quincy Jones. I have transcripts from four visits with the great musician to pore through, to mark up and put into potential chapters. But I spent the other day reading a 300-page novel. It references Elvis Costello, Townes Van Zandt, Gram Parsons, Warren Zevon and other fine artists, but not Quincy Jones. So what was my excuse? It was No One You Know, the ...
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July 1, 2008
- Please help me celebrate the publication of my new novel, NO ONE YOU KNOW, tonight at Books Inc. Opera Plaza. 601 Van Ness, San FranciscoMixing and mingling and drinking begins at 6:30, reading around 7:00.
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June 25, 2008
- When I started writing NO ONE YOU KNOW, I knew that I wanted to write a book about storytelling, about the blurred line between fact and fiction, about how literary ambition and the desire to tell the perfect story can cause a lot of grief. I knew how the story started, but that was about it. In other words, I knew just what sort of mess the characters were in, but I had no idea how to get them ...
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April 2, 2008
- It’s generally understood that when you receive a Lifetime Achievement Award, it means that you don’t have much more … well, life time. But what does it mean when you get mentioned in a novel? Last time I blogged, it was, in part, about Steer Toward Rock, the novel by Fae Myenne Ng, due out in May. While reading a set of proofs her publisher (Hyperion) had sent, I was shocked to run into ...
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