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Ed Park’s screamingly funny ‘Personal Days’
- If you’ve ever felt like a prisoner in your office, or a victim of 21st-century technology, pick up Ed Park’s “Personal Days,” a hilarious, biting tale of modern life in cubicles. Park, founding editor of the magazine The Believer and a former editor of the Village Voice Literary Supplement, finely skewers the day-to-day routines and foibles of a group of workers trying to keep their jobs at a company whose purpose is never made clear. Convoluted e-mails, bosses who can’t be trusted and plenty of corporate doublespeak are among the highlights of the funny novel, which surely will resonate with those who’ve ever been frustrated over a stapler missing from their desk. Park appears today at 7 p.m. at Booksmith, 1644 Haight St., San Francisco, (415) 863-8688; and at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Pegasus Books, 1855 Solano Ave., Berkeley, (510) 525-1646.
- If you’ve ever felt like a prisoner in your office, or a victim of 21st-century technology, pick up Ed Park’s “Personal Days,” a hilarious, biting tale of modern life in cubicles. Park, founding editor of the magazine The Believer and a former editor of the Village Voice Literary Supplement, finely skewers the day-to-day routines and foibles of a group of workers trying to keep their jobs at a company whose purpose is never made clear. Convoluted e-mails, bosses who can’t be trusted and plenty of corporate doublespeak are among the highlights of the funny novel, which surely will resonate with those who’ve ever been frustrated over a stapler missing from their desk. Park appears today at 7 p.m. at Booksmith, 1644 Haight St., San Francisco, (415) 863-8688; and at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Pegasus Books, 1855 Solano Ave., Berkeley, (510) 525-1646.
Chabon, Hosseini win book honors
- Popular Bay Area novelists Michael Chabon and Khaled Hosseini are winners of this year’s top California Book Awards for fiction.
- Popular Bay Area novelists Michael Chabon and Khaled Hosseini are winners of this year’s top California Book Awards for fiction.
Review: Willie’s life lessons for getting, keeping power
- How do you write about an icon — when you’re the icon in question?
- How do you write about an icon — when you’re the icon in question?
Dick Boyd to tell stories of North Beach
- Historian Dick Boyd, author of “Broadway North Beach, The Golden Years: A Saloon Keeper’s Tales,” is about to tell some wild stories of famous folks from yesteryear in two free San Francisco Museum and Historical Society events.
Arthur Wooten's amusing tales of dating life
- If Armistead Maupin and David Sedaris had a love child, it would be Arthur Wooten.
- If Armistead Maupin and David Sedaris had a love child, it would be Arthur Wooten.
‘Harry Potter’ marketing craze in full swing
- Falls Church may soon be known as the “Harry-est” town in America.
- Falls Church may soon be known as the “Harry-est” town in America.
Listen up at Enoch Pratt Reading
- Hear your neighbors’ most intimate thoughts — for free — at the Enoch Pratt Library’s Central Branch.
‘Harry’ mania takes over the Pratt
- Grab your magic wand and Nimbus 2000. Harry Potter’s flying into Baltimore City.
- Grab your magic wand and Nimbus 2000. Harry Potter’s flying into Baltimore City.
Harry Potter bus will be rolling through D.C. area in national tour
- Dust off your wands, muggles.
Bookworms abound in Bel Air
- Harry Potter’s magical powers have Bel Air captivated.
Get inked
- Author Ina Saltz never thought she would write a book about tattoos.
- Author Ina Saltz never thought she would write a book about tattoos.
Mujica divulges nun’s scandalous spirituality
- Sister Teresa’s desire for religion was scandalous.
- Sister Teresa’s desire for religion was scandalous.
