Meredith Maran and Michelle Richmond's ""Friends Don't Let Friends Write Novels Alone""

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MEREDITH MARAN, in celebration of her first novel A THEORY OF SMALL EARTHQUAKES, talks about writing, as only friends can, with MICHELLE RICHMOND


In her ten previous nonfiction books, Meredith Maran has trained her journalistic eye on the subtle dance between the political and the personal. Now Maran brings her provocative gaze to her debut novel -- a very Berkeley family story spanning two decades, set against the social, political, and geological upheavals of the Bay Area.

Eager to escape her damaging past and chart her own future, Alison Rose is powerfully drawn to Zoe, a free-spirited artist who offers emotional stability
and a love outside the norm. After many happy years together, the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake deepens fissures in the two women’s relationship, and Alison leaves Zoe for a new, “normal” life with a man. Alison’s son is the outcome of both of these complicated relationships, and the three parents strive to create a life together that will test the boundaries of love and family in changing times.

Joining Meredith in conversation this evening is Michelle Richmond, friend, and the author of the award-winning story collection The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress, the novels Dream of the Blue Room and No One You Know, and the international sensation The Year of Fog. Richard was a James Michener Fellow at the University of Miami, has taught in the MFA programs in Creative Writing at USF, California College of the Arts, St. Mary’s College, and Bowling Green State University. She serves on the executive council of The Authors Guild and holds the Sister Catharine Julie Cunningham Chair at Notre Dame de Namur University.

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