Tag: Book publishing
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Towers of Gold Lands on the NYT’s Essential California Reading List!
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Frances Dinkelspiel’s Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California, was picked by the New York Times for its California Reading List, alongside such classic titles as Amy Tan’s Joy Luck Club and John Steinbeck’s Tortilla Flat. Frances spent nearly a decade researching and writing about the life of her great-great-grandfather,…
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On warming up to the launch of my book on the artist Sam Francis
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By Gabrielle Selz I’m less than five months out from my book launch, and it still feels unreal to me. The manuscript is finished, but the material thingness of it doesn’t yet exist. It is out of my reach, gone off to the printer, but I still haven’t held a hard copy in my hands.…