We are proud to announce a partnership with Fiction365, which publishes one original story every day. Every other week or so we will publish an excerpt…
Creative writing class. That is a phrase that evokes in me some very ambivalent reactions. I’ve taken a few, and some of them have been…
[ Mon Mar 19 12 ] In The Reeducation of Cherry Truong the American-born Cherry wants to know how her no-good brother got his act…
I’m stuck. Like a cheap truck in a swamp. Like a deer in the headlights. Like a senile actor realizing with horror that he has…
Debate all you want about the role literary journals have in today’s rapidly changing publishing industry (OK, debate all you want about the publishing industry),…
Just thought you should know about this: Renee Gladman‘s going to be in town as part of the Mills College Contemporary Writers Series. I know,…
[Public Release] Held at Fort Mason Center’s Festival Pavilion, the Spring Book Sale will feature over 400,000 books, DVDs, CDs, books on tape, vinyl and…
Yesterday I got my second letter in the mail. The first one (“Dear people”, it begins) was handwritten and illustrated by Lorelei Lee. The second one (“Dear…
The Edge of Maybe is a wonderful portrait of East Bay culture that examines what happens when outsiders pierce the tenuous bubbles of lifestyle and family,…
On a day when I pick 3 events to feature and one of them is not the double release party for Maxine Chernoff and Paul…