June 2012
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Books by Victoria M. Johnson’s Bed
Victoria M. Johnson writes both fiction and non-fiction. The Substitute Bride, her short story collection out on Amazon and Smashwords, is Victoria’s debut in the arena of indie publishing. Her other publications include The Doctor’s Dilemma, a novel, and the nonfictional Grant Writing 101. Victoria is a blogger and film buff who writes and directs short films. First [...]
A Bonnie Jo Campbell Reading
Keeping It Real By Cheryl Olsen If you’re here for a review, keep moving. I haven’t read Once Upon a River. Yet. But I will, after the author’s reading at Book Passage in Corte Madera last night. Bonnie Jo Campbell is just so darn unguarded and appealing, it’s impossible not to want to spend more time [...]
Excerpt from Jennie Fields’ New Novel
Jennie‘s fourth novel, The Age of Desire (based on writer Edith Wharton’s life), won’t be released until August, but we couldn’t bear to wait that long! In this scene, Anna Bahlmann, Edith’s secretary and confidant tells her some shocking news she’s heard about Edith’s lover, Morton Fullerton. Anna stands in front of Edith at her [...]
It’s Eric Olsen’s Birthday!
One of the many perks of managing your own website is the ease with which you can perform unabashedly self-serving promotional tasks—and occasionally, genuinely romantic gestures for your incredibly talented husband of many decades who is the most creative, brilliant, witty and funny person you’ve ever known. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ERIC!
Books by Anne Marie Ruff’s Bed
Anne Marie Ruff, a former reporter for NPR, PRI, BBC and PBS, has recently published her first novel, Through These Veins. Anne Marie reported on AIDS research, drug development, biodiversity conservation, and agriculture from Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa. Her articles have appeared in Time, Christian Science Monitor, and Saveur among other publications. Drawn [...]
When the Re-read Affair Ends Part 2
Why Good Books No Longer Satisfy By Eric Olsen Reading and re-reading a good novel is always a learning experience. You might learn something about other times and places, or about human nature, or good and evil, or in the case of so many contemporary American novels, family dysfunction. And if you approach a novel [...]
Anthony Bukoski Profile
“A century and a half ago, whoever laid out the city grid for Superior made sure that there would be plenty of room in the town for loneliness,” says Nick Hayes in his profile of Superior’s East End writer Anthony Bukoski in the June 18 MinnPost. He goes on to spotlight the end of town not [...]
When the Re-read Affair Ends Part 1
Goodbye to Old Friends By Eric Olsen There are certain books I’ve read again and again over the years, old friends I like to check in with now and then. Among these are Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess; Catch-22 by Joseph Heller; The Cider House Rules by John Irving; and the first three of the [...]
Rosalyn Drexler in Group Show
Still up to her old tricks—i.e., working in many mediums—Rosalyn Drexler will have a painting, “Self Portrait,” in a group show at the Joe Sheftel Gallery opening June 21. She describes the piece, which she says she painted to amuse herself, as “lying on my back in a swirl of organdy, legs up above in [...]
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