What are your favorite
opening lines from a novel? My favorite is:
"'I am writing a history of the world,' she says. And the hands
of the nurse are arrested for a moment; she looks down at this old woman,
this old ill woman. 'Well, my goodness,' the nurse says. 'That's quite a
thing to be doing, isn't it?'"
From Penelope Lively's "Moon Tiger."
New books on our shelves:
"Stuffed" by Patricia Volk and "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed" by Daniel Mark Epstein.
Visit cappuccino callosum, my online bookstore.
Joyce Maynard. Visit my Unofficial
Joyce Maynard Webpage. Visit my fellow cybs and me in our Discussion
Forum, hosted by writer Joyce Maynard. Joyce's official website -- "Joyce's Home Page" --highlights her
writings, including the material that 
brought her to national attention -- "An
Eighteen-Year-Old Looks Back on Life" -- which was published during April
1972 in the New York Times Magazine and "Looking Back," her subsequent memoir
on the topic. Her "Domestic Affairs" columns about raising a family and being
a parent are also highlighted, along with her fiction and her current life in
the environs of San Francisco.
Joyce's last book was her controversial autobiography -"At Home in the World" - which was
published by Picador. Her next book, a novel entitled "The Usual Rules,"
published by St. Martin's Press, will be released in February, 2003.
Joyce Carol Oates. Randy
Souther's Celestial Timepiece is a comprehensive and truly enjoyable
website, detailing the many and varied works of writer Joyce Carol Oates and
includes Tone Clusters, a listserv Discussion Forum.
Listen to an interview with Joyce Carol Oates, recorded in discussion at
the San Francisco "City Arts &
Lectures" series. (RealPlayer audio required.)
A biography of her life -- "Invisible Writer" -- written by Greg Johnson was
published by Dutton in 1998. It is an excellent source to learn about her and her
career.
Read the transcript
from a question-and-answer event by Joyce Carol Oates (Manchester, England; 27
August 1998).
Alice Hoffman's homepage.
Slinkster cool! What more is
there to say about Francesca
Lia Block? The Weetzie Bat series has been collected into a single volume,
"Dangerous
Angels." Recent works include "I
was a Teenage Fairy," "Violet & Claire," and "echo."
Polly Shulman wrote a 1998 piece in salon of love and art in the writings
of Francesca Lia
Block (1998). An Amazon.com interview
from July 1998.
Dangerous Angels 
Girl Goddess #9
The University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Margaret Atwood. Her official website. Here is her salon
interview and one with boldtype.
Additional material: an article
about "The Red Shoes" -- Rosemary Sullivan's biography of Margaret Atwood and
a poem published in Ontario
Review.
Alice Munro. In 1999, the National
Book Critics Circle Award for best work of fiction was presented to Alice
Munro for "The Love of A Good Woman." The New York Times Book Review reviewed
the book on 01 November 1998 and offered featured content about her.
Read the salon interview with
Lorrie Moore: "Moore's
better blues."
Columnist Barbara
Brotman is published in the Chicago Tribune.
"We watch, and we are always
here," states the calling card of the Talamasca, one of Anne Rice's creations. Pictured is
Anne Rice's home in the Garden District, and two of her dogs.
The Rosenbach Museum and Library.
Kelly Writers House.
"...Where the streets are paved with books..." Writers and readers
living in New York City -- a David Halberstam essay
(New York Times, September 1995).
Bookwire's Authors on the Highway
calendars and listings.
