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Michelle Richmond's Blog
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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August 11, 2009
- No One You Know is the next book club pick for the Times Media Group, which includes the San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, the Oakland Tribune, and a number of other Northern California newspapers. There’s an excerpt from the novel in the Marin Independent Journal today. Excerpts will be running in several newspapers over the next couple of weeks.Book club discussions of No One ...
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July 31, 2009
- In a truly Orwellian twist, a Michigan teenager named Justin Gawronski is launching a class-action lawsuit against Amazon for deleting the novel 1984 from his Kindle. It seems Justin had been taking notes, as students are advised to do, but when the book disappeared, he argues, his notes became irrelevant. CBC News reports: Justin Gawronski took copious notes using the Kindle that were linked to ...
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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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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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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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May 6, 2009
- The Reporter Book Club, the city-wide book club of Vacaville, CA, will be discussing THE YEAR OF FOG tonight. I’ll be there to sign books at 6:30, followed by a reading and discussion. The gathering takes place at the Vacaville Public Library-Cultural Center, 1020 Ulatis Drive. Books can be purchased in advance at Vacaville’s Bounty Books, 857 Merchant St., telephone 451-4770.
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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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March 24, 2009
- The NCBR has announced the nominees for the 29th Annual Northern California Book Awards. The ceremony, which is free and open to the public, will be held on April 19 at 1:00 p.m. in the Koret Auditorium of the San Francisco Public Library. I'm delighted that NO ONE YOU KNOW was nominated in fiction, along with four other books of fiction in whose company I'm honored to be included, and that ...
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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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February 11, 2009
- I wrote the following piece for THE RUMPUS, as part of a compilation of writers' reflections on John Updike, which originally appeared on February 2. The writers I love most tend to be those whom I associate with a single, unforgettable book—Walker Percy and The Moviegoer, William Maxwell and Time Will Darken It, Grace Paley and The Little Disturbances of Man— writers whose names ...
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January 28, 2009
- A few days ago, a reader named Christine emailed me the following question: Do you think a person can begin being a writer at age 60? You’re so young and have such a solid educational background in literature. I know I want to write, and have a folder of snippets, unrelated, but think I’m crazy to start at this age!Well, I should admit, first off, that I’m not really that young. I grew up ...
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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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December 30, 2008
- I’ve just finished reading The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, winner of the National Book Award, a fascinating look into the lives of the enslaved family so intimately connected with Thomas Jefferson. Annette Gordon-Reed does an excellent job resurrecting the history of an extensive family whose story has been buried for centuries under a version of history that champions ...
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