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Ghost Word (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
McSweeney’s has announced some details of its newspaper-sized edition focusing on San Francisco and northern California. The 380-page broadsheet will go on sale the first week of December and feature an investigation into the reconstruction of the Bay Bridge, the growth of pot farms in Mendocino County, a 116-page book section, a 112 page magazine and three pull out posters. Lots of well-known...
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Slog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
I've written about this before , but it's getting very close now: The 33rd issue of McSweeney's is going to take the form of a Sunday newspaper titled The San Francisco Panorama : It'll have news (actual news, tied to the day it comes out) and sports and arts coverage, and comics (sixteen pages of glorious, full-color comics, from Chris Ware and Dan Clowes and Art Spiegelman and many others besides)...
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Ghost Word (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Andrew Sean Greer (right) talking to 5 month nephew Arlo, who is sitting on the lap of Greer's identical twin brother, Mike. New York Times photo by Heidi Schumann Earlier this week, I published a story in the new Bay Area section of the New York Times about the Sunday routine of novelist Andrew Sean Greer. The article touched on what Greer did on a typical Sunday. One thing he does not do is write....
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
The writer Andrew Sean Greer manages to cram a lot into his day, while still taking it easy.
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New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
This year's Montana Festival of the Book, which begins Thursday, has an incredible lineup scheduled. The October 23 reading with humorist David Sedaris is sold out, but there's so much else going on that nobody who missed out on tickets for that event should go home with an empty brain. On Thursday, October 22, four renowned crime novelists will participate in the panel discussion The Last Good Kiss:...
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Piece of Pie ala Mode (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
carry on tuesday: The prompt this week is the opening sentence from The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer “we think we know the ones we love”. Use all or part of it at the start or somewhere within your poem or prose we weave back and forth barely beyond the grave ghost shadows our arms [...]
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keith's ramblings (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
. This weeks prompt on Carry On Tuesday is the opening sentence from The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer - ' W e think we know the ones we love' . . We think we know the ones we love. But do we really? Can you put your hand on your heart and say that there’s not one part of your life you’ve kept to yourself? Can you be certain there’s not one little detail tucked away in...
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Ace and Hoser Blook (Free subscription) | 07/20/2009
The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer Fiction/Literature Max Tivoli is born in the early 1900s in San Francisco with an unknown condition. Max is born an old man and ages backwards. Based on his rough calculations, be believes he will die in his 70s. He becomes friends with Hughie, who is his age and quickly accepts him for who he is. Their friendship endures for their entire lives as...
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normblog (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
I just read an excellent novel, The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer. If you haven't yet read it and are persuaded to by what I say here, don't look at reviews of the book ahead of reading...
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Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 05/26/2009
It’s been a rough time of it lately for gays. First Adam Lambert loses American Idol by a wide margin to that other guy. And now the California Supreme Court has decided to uphold the Prop 8 same-sex marriage ban. Luckily for Ellen and Portia and our friend Andrew Sean Greer, the 18,000 marriages performed [...]
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Books on the Brain (Free subscription) | 05/18/2009
“We think we know the ones we love.” The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer is about Pearlie and Holland, a young couple living in San Francisco in the 1950s with their invalid son, a victim of polio. They sleep in separate rooms and don’t communicate well, but Pearlie says (in [...]
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Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 05/14/2009
Andrew Sean Greer — whose The Story Of A Marriage is like Edith Wharton meets Melrose Place when it was at its peak — was sitting in Central Park outside of the Met stalking a squirrel with a giant peanut and a big blond mustache when we caught up with him. He’s reading with Amanda [...]
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
It's not every author who, having flown across the country to publicize his book, then driven an hour and a half to a bookstore reading attended by all of two people, can laugh off the experience. Andrew Sean Greer has a reputation for being affable and...
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Breaking the Fourth Wall (Free subscription) | 04/12/2009
This book defies review. Almost anything at all I would say about it would be a spoiler. The story unfolds so subtly, but so shockingly, that I'm still thinking about the implications after a night's sleep. Marriage is my business (I'm a marriage counselor) so of course this book's title grabbed me. Oh yes, I want to hear another marriage story! This is the story of Pearlie and Holland Cook, living...
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The Daily Transom (Free subscription) | 02/24/2009
Sunday evening, the authors Zadie Smith and Andrew Sean Greer -along with their dates, Ms. Smith's husband, Nick Laird , and Mr. Greer's boyfriend, David Ross -gathered in a corner of the Library at the Hudson Hotel, where the Accompanied Literary Society was holding its black-tie Oscar-viewing party. Glasses of Champagne in hand, they assembled their chairs in a semi-circle in front of a flat-screen...
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