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Author Ellen Ullman in the building on Montgomery Street in San Francisco where here new novel takes place, Monday, March 5, 2012

Programmer-Turned-Novelist Recalls an Era before Computers

Ellen Ullman's "By Blood" is a psychological thriller set in gritty 1970s San Francisco
By Jonathan Kiefer
Interior of Berkeley's Serendipity Books, which had an estimated one million books.

When a Bookstore Closes, Where Do All the Books Go?

Massive collection of shuttered Serendipity books to be sold in six auctions
Novelist Peter Orner near his home in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, October 24, 2011. His latest novel, "Love and Shame and Love," will be published in November

New Novel May Put Local Author on National Map

"Love and Shame and Love" was "a book that I had to write," says Peter Orner
 
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