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Sonoma County Book Festival Launches a Kickstarter Campaign

Leilani Clark — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:09:34 -0700

It's official. Books are still rad.…

Neil Gaiman Coming To Santa Rosa; Tickets Selling Fast

Gabe Meline — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:34:00 -0700

If you want to see Neil Gaiman in Santa Rosa on July 6, you'd better act fast. Tickets for his appearance at Santa Rosa High School went on sale yesterday, and even without much notice or advertising, they're already selling quickly.…

The Silent History's Eli Horowitz Featured on Other People With Brad Listi

Leilani Clark — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:05:40 -0800

Last fall, we covered the debut of The Silent History, an innovative, "new kind of novel" created by a team that includes former managing editor of McSweeney's (and part-time Forestville resident) Eli Horowitz and Russell Quinn, a talented software developer and designer who lives in Cazadero. A serialized digital storytelling project, designed specifically for the iPhone and iPad, that project has the potential to redefine storytelling as we know it.…

The Best Books of 2012

Leilani Clark — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:45:00 -0800

This week's issue features a list of the top-selling books at Copperfields Books for 2012. Spoiler alert: Fifty Shades of Grey, the erotica series by E.L. James written for those who want their S&M draped in a gossamer lens, takes the top spot.…

The World Without You by Joshua Henkin

Leilani Clark — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:27:22 -0700

The World Without You, the new novel by New York-based writer Joshua Henkin, opens with a big event. After 42 years of marriage and four children, upper-middle class New York couple Marilyn and David Frankel are separating.…

Announcing Our 2010 'Prompt Jive' Writing Contest!

Gabe Meline — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 04:00:00 -0700

Whip out those Pilot G-2s and Mead notebooks, folks, 'cause it's that time of year again. Yes, indeed, the Bohemian's annual Jive writing contest is upon us.…

Bloomsday Contest

Gretchen Giles — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 04:00:00 -0700

To true Lit Nerd Geeks, Wednesday, June 16, is no ordinary day. Rather, it's Bloomsday, named for that warm 1904 Thursday during which Leopold Bloom wandered the city of Dublin, Ireland, and—not incidentally—explicated the entire history of Western literature while wooing wife-to-be Molly Barnacle and just generally standing in for the ancient hero Odysseus.…

Artist-on-Artist: Cartooning with Trevor Alixopulos and Alexis E. Fajardo

Gabe Meline — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:00:00 -0700

While working on my article about the Schulz Museum in this week's Bohemian, I had occasion to sit down with two excellent cartoonists, Trevor Alixopolus and Alexis Fajardo. I was there, ostensibly, to ask them questions about the museum’s guest cartoonist program; but as you’ll read below, what unfolded instead was a freewheeling chat between the two artists about the comics industry at large, the artists’ distinct working methods, the public misunderstanding of comics, the magic of working with ink and paper, and the plague of the Comic Book Store Guy on The Simpsons.…

Jami Attenberg's 'The Kept Man'

Gretchen Giles — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:00:00 -0800

Since when do novels have their own YouTube videos? Call me Rip, but I've evidently just awakened from a 40-year nap to discover that not only is my beard outta line but that such as New York author Jami Attenberg, whose second novel, The Kept Man centers on the lonely life of Jarvis Miller, the wife of a famous painter who fell from a ladder and knocked himself into a coma some six years before the book begins, has a moody hipster video to accompany it.…