Heading South: Bay Area and Sacramento/Davis

We’re heading south today. Readings at the venues below. Tell your friends in the area: Fabulosa Books https://www.fabulosabooks.com/ 389 Castro Street San Francisco, CA 94114 Tuesday, September 12, 7 pm Rossmoor Sportsman Picnic Area near the Hillside Clubhouse Walnut Creek, CA 94595 Wednesday, September 13, 2 pm Avid Reader 617 2nd St Davis, CA 95616 […]

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Israel and Me-Part I

Until now I’ve avoided writing about modern-day Israel. Everyone I know—friends, relatives, political comrades, associates at work—has passionate convictions about that contested strip of land on the eastern Mediterranean. Some are right-wing Zionists, some left-wing. Some are pro-Palestinian. Although I was raised to think of Israel as belonging to me by right of birth, as […]

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Coming Your Way!

I’ll be reading from my new book, We Set the Night on Fire–and signing copies–at the venues below. : Two Rivers Bookstore https://www.tworiversbooks.com/ 8836 North Lombard St. Portland, OR 97203 Sunday, June 4 at 4 pm Cross and Crows Bookstore https://www.crossandcrows.com/ 2836 Commercial Drive Vancouver, BC V5N 4C6 Saturday, August 5 The store is scheduled […]

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Out into the Wider World, Part III

My first class ticket on the train from Jakarta to Banyuwangi entitled me to an air-conditioned sleeping car, which I shared with an elderly woman of Chinese extraction. She was either unhappy or in pain (headache? arthritis?—I never found out, as we didn’t speak each other’s language). Recently I learned that Chinese had lived in […]

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