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Due to internal MySpace difficulties, tonight's rgz LIVE! with Melissa Walker will be rescheduled. Watch the forum for the new date so you don't miss this awesome chat with Melissa!   ~the rgz d... Read the rest of this post

It was a long day...busy...lots of traffic and interest. We shall see how much translates to closed sales. I was interviewed today for next years promo spots...hope my twitching was under control . Picked up some *really* good Thai food at My Thai and watched Obamarama with friends (B&B Books and Prints Charming). Fun was had by all.

In Le Figaro they look at which titles might be contenders for this fall's French literary prizes, while at Le Monde they offer some of the sales figures for recent French bestsellers -- including Muriel Barbery's The Elegance of the Hedgehog (just out in English), which has topped a million in sales.

Signandsight.com has a translation of a recent piece by Dubravka Ugresic, Radovan Karadzic and his grandchildren.

Not many reviews yet, but we'll be adding them as they come in: the most recent addition to the complete review is our review-overview of Curtis Sittenfeld's Laura Bush-novel, American Wife.

First, do you live in or around Tallahassee, and use T-Mobile? I ask because I could go on a corporate cell phone (which would be a nice thing, all said) but I’m unclear how good T-Mobile is here in town.

Second, Ninth Letter noted that I am a contributor “forthcoming in Fall/Winter 2008,” which pleaseth me greatly. That’s a while away, and my essay is so topical I worry everyone else will exhaust the issue of gay marriage by then. But in any event, the plug for The Best Creative Nonfiction Volume 2 — now with a grand total of 9 OCLC holdings — was quite welcome.

I’m on the road this week and part of next, but when I’m home I plan to send out a pile of postcards to libraries to encourage them to buy Best Creative Nonfiction. It’s a really easy book to book-talk, and it would make a fabulous reading-group book because you could pick several short essays and have fun with that.

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It was sunny in SLO today. That's where my gym is and that's where I sat on the sidewalk and soaked up a little sun before heading back to Shell. It's been foggy here, which suits me just fine.

I have 2 days to be in my own space. 2 days without anyone. Two days.

As a full-time working mom, PARTYING has not been on my top 10 list of Things To Do list, unfortunately - although it's something I LOVE ... Read the rest of this post

Taking a few days off to play catch-up around here with reviews and other writing projects. Back next week with a post on The Legend of Colton H. Bryant, the anniversary of Rory Peterson's field guide, and Sunrise Over Fallujah.

Comments continue in the twisted world of survival for boys and glamour for girls; stop in and tell us what you think.

Back on Tuesday morning for sure - maybe sooner if something sparks my interest.

In The Moscow Times Victor Sonkin writes that Vladimir Sorokin's latest novel, The Sugar Kremlin, looks forward to the Russia of 2028.

In Expat's ambition to put Asia on literary map in The Telegraph Rosie Milne profiles Singapore-based Monsoon Books-man Philip Tatham. Among the books they publish: a 60,000-word e-less lipogram, Unhooking a DD-cup Bra without Fumbling.

In The Independent Boyd Tonkin profiles P.D.James in Heroine with a taste for life.

Joshua Clyde Duda
AGe 12 (11 in this photo)


Loves to pull up photos of his favorite bands on the computer and then draw them while listening to them sing.
He's gettin' pretty good at it.

Beautiful sunset this evening. (drawn on the iphone)

All of The Longstockings took a class with Tor Seidler while in the MFA program at The New School. So it was exciting to read this Q&A in today's PW Children's Bookshelf.

As of tomorrow, I will be a Brooklyn resident. This is my last post written from the corner of 99th Street and West End Avenue. Sigh.

xoxoxo
Lisa GW