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Lamenting Lithuania with Ruta Sepetysnew
Inspired by her own father's childhood experiences, Sepetys' debut novel Between Shades of Gray tells the tale of a Lithuanian teen deported over the Arctic Circle to Siberia in 1941.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
04-11-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Remembering the Reagan Assassination Attempt with Del Quentin Wilbernew
Drawing on never-before-seen documents, exclusive interviews, and well-guarded recordings, Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan tells the story its own author once yearned to read.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
04-07-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Del Quentin Wilber
Sipping in Sicily with Robert Camutonew
A travel writer pays homage to an ancient island's wines.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
03-25-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Trekking the Mediterraneannew
Joel Stratte-McClure walks around the Mediterranean Sea.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
03-21-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Crocheting Cupcakes with Twinkie Channew
A San Francisco crafter crochets food.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
11-11-2010 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Twinkie Chan
Chained to the Mast With Jim Nisbetnew
The local noir novelist is a cult favorite in Europe.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
10-14-2010 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jim Nisbet
Bagel King Noah Alper Serves Memories and Advice in a New Booknew
Two decades before he founded the bagel company that he would eventually sell for $100 million, Noah Alper was locked up in a mental hospital. Shocked to find their student son in a mania exacerbated by drugs, lack of sleep and the chaos of the Vietnam years, his parents had committed him.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
12-09-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
David P. Murphy Gives Advice for Soon-to-be-Zombies in 'Zombies for Zombies'new
A spoof of the ... for Dummies series, Zombies for Zombies: Advice and Etiquette for the Living Dead explains how to be a zombie (because, hey, you've got no choice) while retaining a semblance of style.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
10-07-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
In 'The Sower,' Sex With a Certain Guy Can Cure Everythingnew
Kemble Scott considers his new novel, The Sower -- whose title alludes to the Bible's Parable of the Sower, because Bill broadcasts seed -- Sex and the City crossed with The Da Vinci Code.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
09-02-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Magic Mixes With Mayhem in the Latest from Rock Star/Novelist 'Dr. Frank'new
Although Frank Portman already knew how to write songs, learning to write books was, at first, "like watching grass grow while hitting your head against a rock." But it was a natural career move for the lifelong book lover.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
08-26-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
John Bassett McCleary's 'Hippie Dictionary' Captures Peace & Love for Posteritynew
At first, McCleary says, "The Hippie Dictionary sounded almost like an oxymoron." Yet the more he thought about it, the more he realized that "many new and exciting words and emotions were developed during this profound period of time."
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
08-12-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Kate Christensen Assesses BFFs in 'Trouble'new
Writing about female friendship appealed to Christensen, whose previous novel The Great Man won a 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award, "because of a very painful misunderstanding I had had with my own best friend."
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
07-02-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Novella Carpenter Raises Goats, Pigs and Produce in Oaklandnew
When they moved into their Oakland apartment a few years ago, Carpenter and her partner "definitely had our eyes on the abandoned lot next door, with an eye toward farming it," Carpenter says. As they set to work, Carpenter charted the project in a blog and in a memoir, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
06-17-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
David Thomson's Memoir Invokes '50s London, Fave Films and an Absent Fathernew
Born in London during World War II, Thomson grew up in its rubble-strewn aftermath, a time and place when "people were steadily unwell in ways that made illness seem the norm," he remembers in his new memoir Try to Tell the Story.
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
02-18-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Steve Fainaru's New Book Gives the Mercenary in Iraq a Face and a Soulnew
Although mercenaries have a bad rap around the world, "I didn't really blame most of them," Fainaru recalls, "even though a lot of people did, demonizing them and calling them all kinds of names."
East Bay Express |
Anneli Rufus |
01-14-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
