Books
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The Night Counter On True Talk in Tampa On Aug. 21
Here is the link to Samar Jarrah’s interview with me on NPR Tampa’s True Talk: http://www.wmnf.org/programs/256 Continue reading
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The Washington Post Review
It’s pretty cool to get reviewed by one of the book critics you respect the most. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/13/AR2009081303267.html A SCHERHEZADE FOR OUR TIMES LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO 1,001 NIGHTS By Carolyn See Special to The Washington Post Friday, August 14, 2009 Shaye Areheart. 365 pp. $24 Some people write about death, dying and tragedy as if Continue reading
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The Minneapolis Star Tribune and Other Reasons I Love Minnesota
The Minneapolis Star Tribune wrote a great review of The Night Counter in its Sunday edition: http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/books/52617702.html (Link also posted under The Night Counter Press & Reviews here) But that is not the only reason I was excited to do a reading for Mizna (www.mizna.org) in Minneapolis on Saturday. Minnesota has been a part of Continue reading
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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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Overcoming Speechlessness by Alice Walker
When I was in college, I remember reading THE COLOR PURPLE in an American studies class and marveling at how someone could write of such horrible indignities done on to someone with such dignity. I still am in awe of such a skill, and I was reminded of it yesterday during a bout of insomnia–I 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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THE NIGHT COUNTER: NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER AT VROMAN’S
It really is true: http://hometown-pasadena.com/2009/07/vromans-bestsellers-7202009/ Of course, that probably will not be the case next week at Vroman’s, as there are no books left in the store at the moment. But fear not, more are on the way. The Night Counter’s sold out status at one of L.A.’s best bookstores—if not one of the country’s–is 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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