Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is excited to welcome local author and one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists Daniel Alarcón back to the shop to discuss and sign the new anthology about writing he has edited, The Secret Miracle: The Novelist's Handbook on Tuesday, April 20 at 7pm. Drawing back the curtain on the mysterious process of writing a novel, The Secret Miracle gathers together the foremost practitioners of the craft to discuss how they write. Paul Auster, Roddy Doyle, Allegra Goodman, Aleksandar Hemon, Mario Vargas Llosa, Susan Minot, Rick Moody, Haruki Murakami, George Pelacanos, Gary Shteyngart and others take us step by step through the alchemy of writing fiction.