Michelle Huneven
Author
Language
English
Description
The historic, handsome city in the shadow of Los Angeles has been a creative hotbed since the Arroyo Arts & Crafts scene of the early twentieth century. This literary journal gathers short fiction by such Pasadena-area writers as Michelle Huneven (Blame), Victoria Patterson (This Vacant Paradise), Jervey Tervalon (Understand This), Naomi Hirahara (Snakeskin Shamisen), Lian Dolan (Helen of Pasadena), Ron Koertge (The Arizona Kid), Dianne Emley (the...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This novel, written in the form of a memoir, follows the members of a search committee as they seek a new pastor for their church congregation. The narrator is a restaurant-review writer; meals at local restaurants and in committee members' homes occur in the course of the story. Recipes for twenty-five of the dishes are included"--
Dana Potowski is a restaurant critic and food writer and a longtime member of a progressive Unitarian Universalist...
3) Blame
Author
Language
English
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Description
Patsy MacLemoore, a history professor in her late twenties with a brand-new Ph.D. from Berkeley and a wild streak, wakes up in jail--yet again--after another epic alcoholic blackout. However, this time two people are dead, and Patsy had been driving with a revoked license. She will spend the rest of her life in prison, getting sober, finding a new community and husband, and trying to atone for this unpardonable act. Then decades later, another...
4) Off course
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Language
English
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Description
"When a PhD student ventures to a mountain cabin to finish her dissertation, the hothouse community subsumes her in a series of ill-advised relationships"--
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
In California, Red Ray, a former lawyer whose alcoholism cost him job and wife finds his calling by turning his Victorian ruin of a house into a drunk farm. The novel describes his work and the gratitude of the men he cures, before a local beauty begins complicating his life again. A first novel.
Author
Publisher
Professional Book Nerds
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Joe is joined by Michelle Huneven to discuss her new book Search! Michelle talks about how her years in food service and restaurant critique shaped her relationship with food. She also talks about receiving the call to writing, and what it was like smashing coconuts on her driveway.
