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Who Is Senor Calavera?

Many readers, specially children, keep asking me to tell them, once and fall all, who Señor really is. Well, sometimes even Señor Calavera has to go looking for an answer.

Exposing the Secrets of Freud's Inner Circle

Please enjoy this five minute book trailer for Brenda Webster's Vienna Triangle, a story of rivalry, intrigue and suicide in Freud's inner circle.

Children's Interntational Obesity Foundation and Charles The Chef on FOX!

The first collaborative television interview with CIOF and Charles the Chef

Authors@Google: Avinash Kaushik on Web Analytics 2.0

Avinash challenges the current notions around decision making on the web. He presents a alternative strategy called Web Analytics 2.0 as a solution to current challenges.

KQED PREVIEW: San Francisco Opera The Bonesetters Daughter

The world premiere of The Bonesetter’s Daughter, a new opera by Stewart Wallace based on Amy Tan’s best-selling novel of the same name with a libretto by the acclaimed author, is a highlight of San Francisco Opera’s 2008-09 Season.

Khaled Hosseini at Booksmith

Khaled Hosseini talks about his new book A Thousand Splendid Suns at an event organized by Booksmith, San Francisco.

Writer's life part 2

An answer to some copycat videos.

About Writing

James talks about turning a good idea into a good book.

writer's life part one

The first of my many battles with my cat, or my inner critic in cat form....

Where Creativity Hides

A 20-minute talk given at the 2008 TED Conference on the subject of creativity.

@ GOOGLE, July l, 2008:   INTIFADA IN SF CHINATOWN:  The first modern Chinese American Civil Rights March - Summer of '68

William Poy Lee displays 4 uniforms of the militias constituting the major bands of youth who set out to trash the Chinese New Year celebration of 1969.

My Husband Discovers Poetry

Another school-project film from SB Productions. However, this one's for the University of Toronto. A long-time friend of Chris Budziszewski's asked for a favor. This was it.

Clive reads from Chalcedony's  First Ten Songs (first song)

Clive reads the first song of Chalcedony's First Ten Songs on Mystic Babylon Poetry Podcast TV. Don Linker plays harp and John Rhodes is the producer.

Winter Light

An abstract and artful film exploring the play of light on a western Canadian landscape. Abstract, non-narrative, a visual essay by the author and his wife, Sherron Burns.

Red Room Panel at The Commonwealth Club (Preview)

On Monday, April 21, 2008, I was part of a panel of Red Room authors that discussed community among writers in the age of the internet.

Interview with Carrie Fisher

Writer and actress Carrie Fisher has spent the past few months at Berkeley Rep with her solo show WISHFUL DRINKING.

CINE AWARD-WINNING PBS DOCUMENTARY, "MY NAME IS BELLE" PRODUCED BY MAC AND AVA MOTION PICTURES

6 minute clip of a 30 minute documentary on Youtube. $19.95 from www.haukfa.com tel: 831-373-6007

"THE SOFT ROOM," part two of  a lost episode of THE DARK

This may or may not be the opening to the hoped for second season of the critically acclaimed web series.

Julie Anne Long on Deadline Preparedness (sweaty, half-dressed men and Jack Daniels *might* be involved)

In which Julie Anne Long explains that even though deadlines are a fact of life the moment you sell a book—theyr'e even written into our contracts!—they still somehow come as a horrible surprise e