To Big Sur, With Love
The August issue of Bon Appetit has hit the shelves. Editor-in-Chief, Barbara Fairchild, in her “Letter From The Editor” (pg 12) writes that My Nepenthe is one of her current favorite cookbook/memoirs, calling it a “valentine” to my childhood at the legendary Big Sur restaurant. Of the “fun and casual grill” [...]

It’s a sullen gray kind of day here in Oakland, and I’m puttering about trying to gather my thoughts.  In fact, I am staring at a million little notes scattered across my desk. They say things like: “Drop book off to the Monterey library,” “Contact LA store for reading in the spring,” and “Write every [...]

It’s been a whirlwind week for me with a trip south to Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, where I had events at the laudable Book Soup in West Hollywood and at Chaucer’s in the latter; dinner with producer Martin Ransohoff and his wife at Il Piccolino one night, and the next night with old friends, [...]