San Francisco Chronicle: Books
- 'Fairyland,' by Alysia Abbott
Friday - 06/07/2013 - 10:35 PM'Fairyland,' by Alysia Abbott
A gay man living at the heart of San Francisco's decade-long coming-out party, he shared in the creative activism of the age of Harvey Milk.
The Fairyland of her book's title thus alludes not simply to the magical life she led with her expressive father; it calls to mind the fantasy remembrance of a time before
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Roundup of children's books
Saturday - 05/25/2013 - 01:35 AMRoundup of children's books
First you need to find the perfect bike for you.
Light beams, books, numbers and sugar dissolving in tea fascinated him and eventually led to amazing discoveries about motion, magnetism, atoms, gravity, relativity, time and the universe.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'Paper: An Elegy,' by Ian Sansom
Saturday - 05/25/2013 - 01:35 AM'Paper: An Elegy,' by Ian Sansom
Even travelers who check in with an electronic ticket still vomit into a paper bag and repair the damage with a wet wipe (invented in 1915, Sansom's dogged sleuthing reveals).
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'Is This Tomorrow,' by Caroline Leavitt
Saturday - 05/25/2013 - 01:35 AM'Is This Tomorrow,' by Caroline Leavitt
Though looking for a fresh start - her own slice of the American dream - Ava finds herself ostracized by the majority of her new neighbors, a judgmental and anti-Semitic lot who disapprove of beautiful and outgoing Ava pretty much on sight.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - LITERARY GUIDE
Wednesday - 05/01/2013 - 08:06 PMLITERARY GUIDE
Crystal Springs UMC, 2145 Bunker Hill Dr., San Mateo.
Laurie King "Garment of Shadows."
4 p.m. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera.
3 p.m. Borderlands Books, 866 Valencia St., S.F.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- 'Give Me Everything You Have'
Wednesday - 05/01/2013 - 08:06 PM'Give Me Everything You Have'
Lasdun, an accomplished British novelist and poet who lives in upstate New York, led a graduate fiction workshop at an unnamed small college in 2003.
After her graduation, they had scant, though friendly, contact through e-mail until, nearly three years later, she solicited his opinion of the nearly finished nov
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Science fiction and fantasy books
Wednesday - 05/01/2013 - 08:06 PMScience fiction and fantasy books
With a wicked sense of humor and a piercing eye for detail, "The Burn Palace" features a sprawling cast of vivid characters as it straddles multiple genres.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'Wave,' by Sonali Deraniyagala
Wednesday - 05/01/2013 - 08:06 PM'Wave,' by Sonali Deraniyagala
WaveBy Sonali Deraniyagala(Knopf; 228 pages; $24)In December 2004, when some of the places I had visited and loved in Sri Lanka were hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami, I watched from afar in horror.
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Wednesday - 05/01/2013 - 08:06 PM
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Joshua Edwards - looking at American privilege
Wednesday - 05/01/2013 - 08:06 PMJoshua Edwards - looking at American privilege
[...] imperialism is in the cereal I eat and the culture I consume, and the ghost of Manifest Destiny looms large in the histories of the states I've spent most of my time in:
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- 'The End of San Francisco'
Saturday - 05/25/2013 - 01:35 AM'The End of San Francisco'
The End of San FranciscoBy Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore(City Lights; 186 pages; $15.95 paperback)"If I'm trying to establish a narrative here," writes Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore in her short but potent memoir, "The End of San Francisco," "crying is that narrative and everything else is around it."
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Recommended books, May 26
Saturday - 05/25/2013 - 01:35 AMRecommended books, May 26
Wild OnesA Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in AmericaBy Jon Mooallem(The Penguin Press; 339 pages; $27.95)With a wry sense of humor and an eye for storytelling, Mooallem walks readers through the wilderness of wildlife conservation.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'And the Mountains Echoed,' by Khaled Hosseini
Saturday - 05/25/2013 - 01:35 AM'And the Mountains Echoed,' by Khaled Hosseini
What, in his opinion, makes contemporary Western literature distinctive?
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'A Delicate Truth,' by John le Carré
Saturday - 05/25/2013 - 01:35 AM'A Delicate Truth,' by John le Carré
The narrative opens as a midlevel Foreign Office functionary, alias Paul Anderson, frets in his hotel room in the British crown colony of Gibraltar, waiting to play his role in Operation Wildlife.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - San Francisco Chronicle best-sellers, March 17
Wednesday - 05/01/2013 - 08:06 PMSan Francisco Chronicle best-sellers, March 17
San Francisco Chronicle best-sellers, March 17
HARDCOVER PAPERBACK FICTION Bay Area 1.
Crown; $25
Stories
Random House; $26
VAMPIRES IN THE LEMON GROVE
THE DINNER
FLIGHT BEHAVIOR
Cara Black (Soho Crime; $25.95)
FICTION National 1.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'The Fun Parts,' by Sam Lipsyte
Wednesday - 05/01/2013 - 08:06 PM'The Fun Parts,' by Sam Lipsyte
According to Lipsyte, "Sad and Funny are both the world and how we withstand it," and nowhere is this more powerfully felt than in the fictional worlds he evokes.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Recommended books, March 17
Wednesday - 05/01/2013 - 08:06 PMRecommended books, March 17
The Black RussianBy Vladimir Alexandrov(Atlantic Monthly Press; 306 pages; $25)Alexandrov's feat of historical sleuthing is the astonishing account of the tragic life of the son of an American slave who reinvented himself as a polyglot multimillionaire overseas.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'The Still Point of the Turning World'
Wednesday - 05/01/2013 - 08:06 PM'The Still Point of the Turning World'
The Still Point of the Turning WorldBy Emily Rapp(The Penguin Press; 256 pages; $25.95)Emily Rapp coined the term "dragon mom" to refer to the fierce love of mothers of children with terminal diseases.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Kids book clubs take page from adults
Wednesday - 05/01/2013 - 08:06 PMKids book clubs take page from adults
The second-grade girls excitedly discussed the meaning of the words "gallant," "posh," "Goth," and "soap dodger."
"What image is the writer trying to put into your head?" asked Nicholas Baker, who runs the children's book club.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Kids book clubs take page from adults
Wednesday - 03/20/2013 - 09:55 PMKids book clubs take page from adults
The second-grade girls excitedly discussed the meaning of the words "gallant," "posh," "Goth," and "soap dodger."
"What image is the writer trying to put into your head?" asked Nicholas Baker, who runs the children's book club.
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- San Francisco Chronicle best-sellers, May 26
Saturday - 05/25/2013 - 01:35 AMSan Francisco Chronicle best-sellers, May 26
San Francisco Chronicle best-sellers, May 26
HARDCOVER PAPERBACK FICTION Bay Area 1.
INFERNO *
Doubleday; $29.95
A DELICATE TRUTH
MAYA'S NOTEBOOK
Gillian Flynn (Crown; $25)
An Easy Rawlins Mystery *
Walter Mosley (Doubleday; $25.95)
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Literary Guide, May 26
Saturday - 05/25/2013 - 01:35 AMLiterary Guide, May 26
SundayTim Kahl, Joshua Mckinney The poets read from their work. 3 p.m. Diesel, A Bookstore, 5433 College Ave., Oakland.
7 p.m. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'Robert Oppenheimer,' by Ray Monk
Saturday - 05/25/2013 - 01:35 AM'Robert Oppenheimer,' by Ray Monk
Oppenheimer, as the scientific director of the project, played perhaps the decisive role in delivering a working atomic weapon, which President Harry Truman ordered to be used, with devastating effects, against two Japanese cities.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'The Woman Upstairs,' by Claire Messud
Saturday - 05/25/2013 - 01:35 AM'The Woman Upstairs,' by Claire Messud
In "The Woman Upstairs," her fifth book, Messud, who also wrote the best-seller "The Emperor's Children," has created Nora Eldridge, a narrator whose first utterance brims with indignation as she catalogs the rules she's followed.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Virginia Morell on animal behavior
Wednesday - 05/01/2013 - 08:06 PMVirginia Morell on animal behavior
Virginia Morell on animal behavior
Virginia Morell sheds light on the many surprises of cognitive awareness of animals in her book Animal Wise:
The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'I Want to Show You More,' Jamie Quatro
Wednesday - 05/01/2013 - 08:06 PM'I Want to Show You More,' Jamie Quatro
Amid all this grief, Quatro often adds a confessional undercurrent of spirituality to her stories, with several of her characters struggling with larger questions of fate and God's role within the chaos and disappointments of their day-to-day lives.
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Wednesday - 05/01/2013 - 08:06 PMLITERARY GUIDE
SundayBeverly Donofrio "Astonished: A Story of Evil, Blessings, Grace, and Solace."
1 p.m. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera.
Friends of Noe Valley Student Writing Contest Winners Students will read their work.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- 'Facing the Wave,' by Gretel Ehrlich
Wednesday - 05/01/2013 - 08:06 PM'Facing the Wave,' by Gretel Ehrlich
World media reported intently on the resulting destruction, especially since it triggered the meltdown of a nuclear power plant - "the worst maritime contamination disaster in recorded history."
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'Sex and the Citadel,' by Shereen El Feki
Wednesday - 05/01/2013 - 08:06 PM'Sex and the Citadel,' by Shereen El Feki
Sex and the CitadelIntimate Life in a Changing Arab WorldBy Shereen El Feki(Pantheon; 345 pages; $28.95)As the civil war in Syria rolls grimly on and Tahrir Square becomes more infamous for sexual assaults on female protesters than for scenes of revolution, Western pundits have proclaimed the autumn o
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Joshua Edwards - looking at American privilege
Wednesday - 03/20/2013 - 09:55 PMJoshua Edwards - looking at American privilege
[...] imperialism is in the cereal I eat and the culture I consume, and the ghost of Manifest Destiny looms large in the histories of the states I've spent most of my time in:
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