Join me and the amazing Frances Dinkelspiel at A Great Good Place for Books: 6120 La Salle AVE, Oakland on July 31st at 7pm

I'll be reading from WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW again at A Great Good Place for Books in Oakland on July 31st at 7pm. 6120 La Salle Ave. The wonderful Frances Dinkelspiel will join me for a discussion of books and writing. Come talk with us!

Thank you, Nina Schuyler, for your brilliant Q&A with me at Book Passage yesterday. Such a great audience!

I'll be reading and talking about books and writing with Nina Schuyler this Saturday, June 28, at Book Passage in Corte Madera. Join us!

Launching this book on Saturday, June 28. 1pm at Book Passage in Corte Madera, CA and talking books with the best, Nina Schuyler. If you're around, join us!

Literature, nature, politics, Richard Powers's novels and Nina Schuyler's linked stories. Art assemblage mines the connections between things. Substack does the same.
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New Substack posted today: literary antidotes to the current evils. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Favorite tree on my favorite walk with my favorite wife.

Words, commandments, transgressions. Some thoughts about adulthood and how plans to put the Ten Commandments in classrooms may have unexpected results.
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We went to SF MOMA today to see exhibit of Amy Sherald's work (the artist who did Michelle Obama's portrait--it's there too). I was quite taken with it. Also saw The Visitors again and ditto. Get there if you can.

Lord of the Manor.

Thanksgiving, 32 years ago, we celebrated in Paraguay. That day we received our gorgeous baby, Ana. This year we celebrated in Oakland and after dinner went to see "Wicked." Love this day!

Neighborhood peacock. This guy had been roosting in a tree a few blocks from our house for a year or so.