Archive for the ‘Author Interviews’ Category

Vicki Abelson Wants to Save Your Mind. Yes!

The origin of this story is slightly complicated, while the rest of it is pretty straightforward, so let’s get the slalom course out of the way first in this combined Alpine event. In this internet world, it’s a constant wonder how many people we know that we

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A Conversation with Author Michael J. Sullivan

David Marshall: You’ve made a name for yourself with The Riyria Revelations series of six novels, now published by Orbit. Conventional wisdom says I should congratulate you on joining the ranks of the “professionals”, i.e. the authors published by conventional publishers. Do you feel you made the

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Ocean Beach Diary 89: The Muse of the Pacific

Looking out over the ocean to the horizon can be an inspiring and life-changing experience. It can help one with their Utopian Dreaming by helping one acknowledge that things can be better–that we can make decisions because things are different elsewhere. The Pacific is different than the

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A Trip to the Market with Martha Hall Foose

There are times in a writer’s life when she just feels thankful for the richness around her, when the story comes spilling out in colors, smells, and good vibes. And all this without the pen even hitting the page, yet. I had one of these moments last

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A Conversation with Poets, Carol and Laverne Frith

Laverne Frith and his wife Carol Frith are the authors of Practical Poetry—A Guide for Poets, and frequent presenters of poetry workshops. They are also the co-editors of Ekphrasis, a journal that publishes poems focusing on a single work of art. The couple lives in Sacramento. Lavere

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Celebrated Author of the elusive Great American Novel drops in at West Portal, San Francisco

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An Interview With Author Cathy Luchetti: Part 2

For Part 1 of our interview, click HERE. Cathy Luchetti is the author of eight books about the settling of the American West in the 18th and 19th centuries, from religion to cooking and cuisine to courtship rituals and child-rearing. She was invited by Laura Bush to

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An Interview With Author Cathy Luchetti: Part 1

    Cathy Luchetti is the author of eight books about the settling of the American West in the 18th and 19th centuries, from religion to cooking and cuisine to courtship rituals and child-rearing. She was invited by Laura Bush to come to the White House to

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Babycakes Covers the Classics

Fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies, just slightly undercooked, so as to allow for that gooey element that soothes the belly and the psyche, whoopie pies, moist cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, cinnamon buns on a Sunday morning….I could go on and on. I love sweets and I can’t

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A Conversation With Edward Frenkel, Mathematician & Filmmaker

By Zara Raab Photo credit: Nahoko Spiess Professor of Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley, and author of more than 80 articles in scientific journals, Edward Frenkel has published two monographs on his mathematical research, most recently Langlands Correspondence for Loop Groups, with Cambridge University Press. Professor Frenkel

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