My guest on Riehlife today is Junot Diaz whom I was lucky enough to hear speak at my local library branch in the Central West End in St. Louis before he went to Rome for a year to write. I found him funny, refreshing, and frank. Here are some of his thoughts on his work,…
On my recent trip to San Francisco I stayed at the Hotel Carlton and met a wonderful young man behind the desk the first night of my visit. Theo McKinney has agreed to be my guest on Riehlife. We’re starting by discussing the books on the coffee tables in the hotel lobby and will continue…
You’ll also enjoy the discussion questions and the interview with Jane at the end of the novel. This is a perfect book club choice, and, in fact, it is this month’s choice for the Women Writing the West Book Club. Click here to go to Jane Kirkpatrick’s website. Click here to go to Jane Kirkpatrick’s…
To read today’s blog book tour stop on Velda Brotherton’s blog, click here. Click here to view book details on Amazon. I’ve tagged the book “intuitive crafting” and started a discussion on that topic there. Here are a few things I love about Donna’s new book “Ethnic Knitting Discovery”: –Clear language –fun and helpful illustrations…
In award-winning author Donna Druchunas’ new book “Ethnic Knitting Discovery” just released by Nomad Press she takes knitting to the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, and The Andes. These places represent three different cultural regions for me. How they come together in the book is the sense of how to make and craft more intuitively. For me,…
We have an interview, guestpost, and book excerpt featuring Donna Druchunas new book “Ethnic Knitting Discovery: The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, and the Andes” coming up on Riehlife. Here’s some background information about Donna’s new book “Ethnic Knitting Discovery.” Donna’s blog tour stop on Riehlife will focus on the idea of craft and art, how knitting…
It’s a really hot ticket this Friday, September 28, 2007, 7pm, at Book Passage on 51 Tamal Vista Way in Corte Madera, California. Things sizzle at the official book launch celebration for HOT FLASHES 2: more sexy little stories and poems. If you come, you can get your copy signed by many of the writers,…
You can read our interview “Eleven things about Janet Riehl and Erwin A. Thompson” by clicking here. What I liked about how the interview came out was the comparison and contrast for my father and me, our books, and how we write. Here are the eleven questions you can read our answers for. 1. Tell…
“Moon in the Water,” by Elizabeth Grayson I was lucky enough to savor a long lunch this week with the woman behind the Elizabeth Grayson books, who, like me, is a member of Women Writing the West. She enjoys her anonymity, so I’ll just say this: she’s one heck of a woman and in reading…
Judy and I have known each other since the early 1990s when I became a student of Sogyal Rinpoche’s and started meeting her at the Rigpa Shrine Room in Berkeley, California. The shrine room moved to San Francisco, so the Berkeley Shrine Room is no more…except vividly in my memory. However, my friendship with the…