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What to Read

Novels Featuring a Writer as Protagonist

9 novels about writers

Jul 13, 2025 • Michelle Richmond

California Votes on Secession

an excerpt from the 2014 novel GOLDEN STATE, which imagines California on the brink of secession as the nation marches toward war with Iran

Jun 19, 2025 • Michelle Richmond

7 Things I Loved Last Month

Books, Streaming, an Indulgence, Plus a Few of my Favorite Substacks

Dec 30, 2024 • Michelle Richmond

What to Read if You Liked Babygirl (and even if you hated it)

Literary novels featuring an older woman and younger man, plus age-gap memoirs

Dec 24, 2024 • Michelle Richmond

Serial Fiction

An Object in Orbit (the end)

serial fiction, wherein the author makes a confession

Jun 5, 2025 • Michelle Richmond

An Object in Orbit (part 8)

serial fiction, wherein we question the nature of absence

Jun 4, 2025 • Michelle Richmond

Object in Orbit (part 7)

serial fiction, wherein we ponder "What kind of story is it?"

Jun 3, 2025 • Michelle Richmond

An Object in Orbit (part 6)

serial fiction, wherein we ponder, "What kind of story is it?"

May 28, 2025 • Michelle Richmond

An Object in Orbit (part 5)

serial fiction, wherein Kenny Feldt is still in mourning, yet extremely lucky

May 27, 2025 • Michelle Richmond

Commonplace

Notes on a Birthplace by Way of Joan Didion

Demopolis: Wherein we were all just passing through

Jul 7, 2023 • Michelle Richmond

Notes on a Marriage by Way of Joan Didion

"Marriage is memory, marriage is time."

May 23, 2023 • Michelle Richmond

Patti Smith on the Creative Process

of long-distance love and sleepyheads

Mar 1, 2023 • Michelle Richmond

Recent posts

Living la Rentrée in California

on revising my novel and other adventures in empty-nesting

Oct 16, 2025 • Michelle Richmond

Men Come to My House and Fix Things

Sep 23, 2025 • Michelle Richmond

One Day I'll Have My Eyes Examined

on things I forgot to do for eighteen years

Sep 5, 2025 • Michelle Richmond

Hum - a story of surveillance (part 4)

wherein paths cross

Aug 31, 2025 • Michelle Richmond

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