The Writers' Block
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A weekly podcast featuring writers of all stripes reading from their recent work.
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K. M. Soehnlein reads a selection from his novel You Can Say You Knew Me When.
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About You Can Say You Knew Me When
The book follows Jamie Garner, a slacker living in San Francisco during the dot-com boom who, on discovering that his father, Teddy, has died, returns to his family home in suburban New Jersey. While sorting through his father's belongings, Jamie discovers a box of memorabilia marked "1960" in the attic. The box contains the letters and other fragments chronicling the time that Teddy spent in San Francisco and inspires Jamie to seek out the characters that populated his father's life during this one mysterious year. Jamie's quest to bring Teddy's experience into focus takes him deep into the subcultures of San Francisco, from the bohemian heyday of the Beat Generation through the Internet mania of his contemporary world.
K.M. Soehnlein is the author of the Lambda Award-winning novel, The World of Normal Boys, which was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and has been optioned by Telling Pictures, with Soehnlein adapting his work for the screen. His essay, "Putting Gay Fiction Back Together" appeared in Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times (Basic Books, 2005), edited by Kevin Smokler. He lives in San Francisco, where he works as a freelance writer, editor and writing teacher. You Can Say You Knew Me When is his second novel.
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