{"id":92956,"date":"2025-08-18T23:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T23:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/92956\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T23:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T23:03:07","slug":"author-pamela-gullard-has-a-new-book-of-short-stories-lake-crescent-and-other-spirits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/92956\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Pamela Gullard has a new book of short stories \u2014 “Lake Crescent and Other Spirits”"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Linda Hubbard on August 18, 2025\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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We first met Menlo Park resident Pamela Gullard a decade ago when she wrote a book about Menlo College, where she teaches literature. She\u2019s also written histories of Palo Alto, Portola Valley, and Atherton.<\/p>\n

But our recent conversation focused on her latest work of fiction, a book of short stories \u2014 Lake Crescent and Other Spirits.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile I\u2019ve written both fiction and non-fiction, fiction will always be my first passion,\u201d she says. \u201cFiction is an exploration of some difficulty that the characters encounter. I love that.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlso, the short form interests me because it\u2019s compact \u2014 every word counts. It\u2019s powerful in a way I can\u2019t put my finger on.\u201d<\/p>\n

The eleven stories in her latest book are set in the San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle. The characters are seeking love and talk about their fears and desires. But things go wrong. Conversations break off. People leave or make outrageous demands.<\/p>\n

You can learn more about her stories on Wednesday, August 27, when Pamela will be at Kepler\u2019s in Menlo Park. She\u2019ll will talk about her book from 6:00 to 6:45 pm with a wine reception following from 6:45 to 7:30 pm. Get tickets online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Linda Hubbard on August 18, 2025 We first met Menlo Park resident Pamela Gullard a decade ago…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[223,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-92956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}