Immigrant Girl

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Cheeky Baby

by Ann Carranza She was 14, this bright girl with no promise in her future Eyes dark and hair, too Tweet

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Podcast Interview with James Redford: “I Ask Myself ─ Even if Nothing Comes of It, Will it Enrich My Life by My Having Spent Time on It?’”

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UPDATE ON James Redford Screening of MANN vs. FORD Wednesday, July 6, 7:00 p.m. at The Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center Director Maro Chermayeff and producer James Redford will introduce and discuss a screening of their powerful new documentary Mann v. Ford, focusing on one of the largest toxic-waste cases in American history. Just [...]

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Podcast Interview with author Scott James: “People Don’t Want the Government in their Bedrooms”

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One of the best things about living in the Bay Area of San Francisco is that I get to meet and mingle with some of the most talented artists in the world: Amy Tan standing six feet away from me, singing “These Boots are Made for Walking” with the band, Los Train Wreck, as I [...]

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Podcast Interview with Michael Larsen & Elizabeth Pomada

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San Francisco Writers Conference February 2012 ___________________________ It’s that time of the year again – when San Francisco, CA., hosts one of the best writers conferences in the industry- The San Francisco Writers Conference. It will be held in the beautiful Mark Hopkins Hotel with a fabulous line up of exciting guest speakers and three [...]

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Harlots’ Sauce Radio is proud to announce the winner of this year’s Gregory Randall Prize – Vicola England!

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Congratulations to Vicola! Below is a little bit about her: I’m Vicola, a proud Northerner from the UK, with very little tolerance and even less patience. I got started writing an online diary in a rather weird way. My cousin married a conman with a personality disorder, and after wreaking havoc and ‘appropriating’ a chunk [...]

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Podcast Interview with Joyce Maynard: “I Don’t Have to be The Good Girl Anymore”

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Joyce Maynard has a big mouth. It’s either that, or she has too much integrity to lie about anything, despite the fact that telling the truth often gets her into trouble. When you hear our podcast interview, you decide which it is. I first met Joyce Maynard when I signed up for one of her [...]

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PIE by Joyce Maynard

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(From FEED ME, edited by Harriet Brown, Ballantine Books) The diagnosis reached me on Mother’s Day of 1989: My sixty- six year old mother was suffering from an inoperable brain tumor. They told us she had only weeks to live. Within twenty four hours, I had left my husband and our three young children to [...]

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Harlots’ Sauce Radio Book Review ~ May 2009

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_____________________________________________________ How to Buy a Love of Reading by Tanya Egan Gibson _____________________________________________________ Review by Patricia Volonakis Davis Gibson’s debut novel appealed to me on many levels – as a writer, as a teacher, as an observer of human minutiae, as a person who grew up on NY’s Long Island, and as a long time [...]

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Running Out of “Fuel” – One Staff Writer’s Experience with Writer’s Block

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What makes a writer undoubtedly good? Is it creativity? Is it imagination? Or, is it personal experience? When is it easier for a writer to put thoughts, emotions, and ideas smoothly and effortlessly into valid sentences? Are there any periods in a writer’s life when the act of writing seems like the easiest thing in [...]

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Jane Friedman ~ To Succeed at Your Art, Know How to Play Well in Business

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In my early days as an acquisitions editor for F+W Media, I found this quote by David M. Ogilvy: “In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented [...]

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