Arts and Culture
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The Night Counter A Best Bet in Dayton/The Mother Daughter Book Club in Santa Barbara
http://daytonmetrolibrary.blogspot.com/2009/08/night-counter.html The Wright Brothers didn’t write so much as fly, but pretty cool for the book to get such a nice mention in their hometown. Meanwhile, I loved reading at Chaucer’s (www.chaucersbooks.com) in Santa Barbara last night amidst Fiesta Night traffic, and one of the great moments for me was when a woman in attendance Continue reading
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Updates: Book Soup and Christian Science Monitor And Entertainment Weekly
The Night Counter is still #2 Bestseller at Book Soup, thank you West Hollywood. I should be blogging about San Francisco and Seattle, which have been awesome, but I’m waiting for photos. Meanwhile, Entertainment Weekly gave it a B+, which reminded me of my students when they say to me, “A B+? Couldn’t you make Continue reading
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Screenplay vs Novel in Seattle
I gave a talk in Seattle this weekend at the Pacific Writers Network Association annual conference on taking a novel into a screenplay. As is fairly typical of me, I got into Seattle with half an hour to spare for set up and then my traditional technological meltdown began –this time actually not my fault, Continue reading
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The Night Counter Sells Out At Book Soup
Thank you to everyone who came to yesterday’s reading at Book Soup. You didn’t leave a copy in the store! (More books are on their way) When I first moved to LA many years ago, it was a terribly clunky move, with lots of test and trials that were not easy, in fact, often very Continue reading
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At A BOOKSTORE SOMEWHERE IN LA
Or How Not To Buy Your Own Book. The first day The Night Counter came out, my friend Natasha promptly bought it at Barnes and Noble in New York, and another friend did the same in Nashville. So I thought I’m going to go buy my own book, too. Just to see it in a Continue reading
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I Love My Daily Candy!
Chocolate milk balls, black licorice, gummy bears…but today it was extra sweet: http://www.dailycandy.com/los_angeles/article/70636/Magic+Carpet+Ride July 15, 2009 Magic Carpet Ride “The Night Counter,” by Alia Yunis Little pigs and lost siblings make for decent bedtime story fodder. But the life and times of Fatima Abdullah, the madcap matriarch of Alia Yunis’s charming debut, The Night Counter, Continue reading
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THE NIGHT COUNTER A RANDOM HOUSE EDITOR’S PICK
The Night Counter is an Editor’s Pick on the Random House website. Considering the large number of books Random House publishes and my littleness in that pool, this is a good thing and a happy thing. The Night Counter will be in bookstores tomorrow inshallah. I saw it as a book for the first time Continue reading
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Attending Michael Jackson’s Memorial Service
Today several people stopped me on the street to ask me how Michael Jackson’s memorial service was. It took me a while to catch on that they weren’t all psychic. I was wearing the gold wrist band that everyone in LA knows means you had a ticket to the event. I did indeed, thanks to Continue reading
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THE NIGHT COUNTER UPDATES: GERMANY, THE KINDLE AND MORE
As I get used to being back in L.A.—in some ways I’ve been gone more than a year and in other ways I forget that I haven’t been here for almost a year– I’d just thought I’d take a moment to do an update on what’s going on with The Night Counter, some of which Continue reading
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LIVING IN THE SOUND OF MUSIC:What Does A Small Alpine Village Have In Common With Abu Dhabi?
I’m in Obervellach in southern Austria, population 1,500, where the hills are alive with The Sound of Music—the movie that is. Everywhere you turn, you’re waiting for Julie Andrews to come twirling down the mountain or the Von Tramp children to pop out of the bright flower boxes on the Alpine homes and break into Continue reading
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