today at California Book Club, read novelist Nadifa Mohamed's keenly observant and potent essay on the unlikely heroes of May CBC author Percival Everett's novels (The Trees, Erasure, Dr. No, and Telephone). an honor to run this. https://www.altaonline.com/california-book-club/a43624395/percival-everett-telephone-novels-race-nadifa-mohamed/
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Anita Felicelli is the author of Chimerica: A Novel and the short story collection Love Songs for a Lost Continent. She edits Alta's California Book Club and serves as NBCC Fiction committee chair '22.
The California Book Club selection for May is Percival Everett's novel Telephone. I wrote in introduction to Everett's work for our newsletter. https://www.altaonline.com/california-book-club/a43646541/percival-everett-telephone-june-2023-california-book-club-anita-felicelli/
Alta’s California Book Club selection for March is Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits. Author Carolina De Robertis wrote a fantastic essay about the enduring influence of the author and her novel. https://www.altaonline.com/california-book-club/a43015192/isabel-allendes-house-of-the-spirits-enduring-impact-carolina-de-robertis/
A House for Our Spirits: On the Enduring Impact of Isabel Allende’s Classic Novel
Novelist Carolina De Robertis writes about the influence of Isabel Allende’s first novel, The House of the Spirits, the California Book Club’s March selection, on her own writing and the writing of other leading Latina writers.
soleil homy first piece as an official @sfchronicle #opinion columnist! we tip more and more out of a sense of social obligation, a desire to help people, but why can’t we parlay that feeling into actually sustainable ways of taking care of each other? #money #restaurants https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/tipping-restaurant-california-17786607.php
loved Rebecca Makkai's stellar, immersive novel of true crime, podcasts, adolescence, and sexual violence— I Have Some Questions for You—and reviewed it for Alta Journal. https://www.altaonline.com/books/fiction/a42781137/rebecca-makkai-i-have-some-questions-for-you-book-review-anita-felicelli/
for the California Book Club this week, we spotlighted the bookstore of my heart, Printer's Inc., which lived in Palo Alto for 20 years, my entire childhood, and which might be one of the major reasons I became a writer of books specifically (It took a lot out of me emotionally to report and write this over the last month, and to revisit the store's gut-wrenching demise—I could have written more). https://www.altaonline.com/california-book-club/a42737795/andrew-sean-greer-less-printers-inc-independent-bookstore-palo-alto/
We announced our National Book Critics Circle awards on Tuesday night - if you didn't get a chance to check out the livestream, here's the LA Times writeup with the finalists. (v. excited to have chaired the fiction committee and to read for/be part of judging with the rest of the nonfiction committee). https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-01-31/finalists-the-2022-national-book-critics-circle-awards
we have beautiful 2022 finalist lists for the @bookcritics
awards—a tremendous amount of passionate reading, thinking, talking went into them. register + join us tonight (Jan. 31 at 4 pm Pacific) for our livestreamed announcement. https://www.wildboundlive.com/events/nbccjanuary2023
awards—a tremendous amount of passionate reading, thinking, talking went into them. register + join us tonight (Jan. 31 at 4 pm Pacific) for our livestreamed announcement. https://www.wildboundlive.com/events/nbccjanuary2023
delighted to feature Andrew Sean Greer's Less as our February California Book Club selection. join him and John Freeman on Feb. 16 at 5 pm, Pacific on Zoom. & here's Ajay Orona introducing the novel in our newsletter.
a pleasure and honor to be the special guest talking to Jaime Hernandez with host Oscar Villalon yesterday night at California Book Club. here's a recap if you missed it. https://www.altaonline.com/california-book-club/a42571900/jaime-hernandez-maggie-the-mechanic-book-club-event-recap-video/
