The #bookfair year is over, with a superb fair on the grass at LitQuake. Or is it? We've made a late application for the Dec 6 Howard Zinn fair in SF. And made early applications to the Sacramento Book Fair and the Bay Area Book Fair. So we are in it for another round. #Booksky

The woman sitting next to In the Pockets of Dreams is sooo tiny! Great day, talked to many wonderful folks, sold a solid # of books, but really have outgrown half a 6ft table. #Booksky #LitQuake

I think my favorite part is the Super Mario Bros duct tape holding up our sign. I think of it as a different sort of professionalism. #KarenJoyFowler delivered her keynote from about where that pile of boxes is in the center. #Booksky #SanJoseBookFestival #Bookselling

Just found out about this cool event in Stockton: Wordstock209. October 3, 10AM-3PM, at San Joaquin Delta College. We may have a presence... #Booksky #Bookfair #Stockton

Years ago, I sat in the lounge of Taipei’s Mandarin Center practicing characters, specifically, the word “breathe” (呼吸/“hu shee”). Next to me, friends talked about feminism as I repeated hu shee aloud to get it in my brain. A friend says, scandalized, “You don’t know who #GloriaSteinem is?”