book reading
August 2, 2009
- If I could write what I wanted to write, this would be a note about a man throwing chairs at one of my readings or the fairly hyperactive “meditation” a person was engaged in prior to a morning TV talk show. No one was injured in either instance, but they are great stories nonetheless. However, some combination of age, maturity and especially the cautionary place occupied by a new writer ...
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June 2, 2009
- Now that our publication date is rapidly approaching (too rapidly, if you ask me — I’m having that burst of authorly self-doubt that a friend once called “post-partum-book-depression”), I thought it might be nice, along the lines of the playlist I made for the MacMillan/Holt site, to offer the occasional book recommendation. I was cleaning out my office here at home and under ...
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May 4, 2009
- What could trump reading a wonderful novel by a great novelist? Well, reading with a dog draped across your lap. Here is our Lord Byron in lapdom while my husband reads Amitov Ghosh's THE SEA OF POPPIES. He's been a huge Ghosh fan since he read SHADOWLINES. This novel is thumbs up, too. Lord Byron does not need to read any novels. He knows all he needs to know. Our old dog Arjun ...
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April 18, 2009
- I have not read a discussion dealing with what readers read. I do not mean what books they read. That might take forever, and is, for the most part, not relevant to this article.My interest lies in what readers read, what their mind interprets from one story, or article. Non-fiction, it might seem, should be obvious, but I doubt that.However, fiction is the place where one's imagination ...
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April 13, 2009
- Since Red Room's technical staff remains stymied by my inability to update this portion of my page, and since I've finished everything presently listed -- Except "Dahlgren," which I tossed in to the "sell" box just after the little boy fell down the elevator shaft. So here's where I'm at now: (1) "Lost Girls," Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbe's delightful, graphic, ...
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December 30, 2008
- On December 20, 2008, I took part in a birthday/book release party/dance with live music at Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center in Berkeley. Several musicians and dancers I had interviewed for the book were there that night, performing on the bandstand or otherwise in attendance. The birthday was for one of the band members of the Creole Belles, for whom we had a potluck dinner party in the ...
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October 19, 2008
- In one of those odd twist of fate things for which nothing quite prepares you, I discovered today I have something in common with Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Isabelle Allende, Amy Tan, Annie Lamott, Al and Tipper Gore and a lot of other literary luminaries: Monogrammed stationery, courtesy of Book Passage.Who knew?Today was our book reading for "Knowing Pains: Women on Love, Sex and ...
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October 15, 2008
- Further Fenway Fiction's been out a few years now, so readings are fewer and farther between these days, but I always find they energize me, get me back into the writing game with a little more oomph, a little more verve. And this time, I'm reading in my hometown, so I'm really looking into ways to get this reading as well if not more well-attended than previous readings. We've had good ...
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