Events

3 Events this weekend in NYC

3 Events this weekend in NYC

I’ll be doing three events this weekend in NYC. The first is tonight at KGB Bar at 7 pm with One Story author Andrew Porter, whose great collection, The Theory of Light & Matter, has just been released in paperback. The second will be Saturday at Cornelia St. Cafe at 6pm with the Italian-American Writers [...]

Le Bon Larron Returns

After a thrilling tour of France and Belgium as part of Les Belles Étrangères, I am finally back on U.S. soil. For those readers who missed it, you can check out the highlights on twitter from Andrew Sean Greer, Colson Whitehead, Matt Madden, John Haskell and myself here. And if you speak French, [...]

An American in Paris

An American in Paris

For the next 10 days I’ll be taking part in Les Belles Étrangères, a festival hosted by the Centre National du Livre in France. This year they are hosting 12 American writers whose work has recently been translated into French and putting us on tour across the country: Charles D’Ambrosio, Percival Everett, Forrest Gander, Andrew [...]

2 October Events at the Center for Fiction

2 October Events at the Center for Fiction

On Wed., Oct. 21st, I’ll be giving a talk at the Center for Fiction in NYC with Susan Kamil, my amazing editor (also editor-in-chief of Little Random and editorial director of The Dial Press), about how we created and published The Good Thief. Then, I’ll be returning on Tuesday, Oct. 27th to teach a lecture [...]

Behind the Book

Behind the Book

A great organization, Behind the Book, is hosting a fundraiser on Oct. 28th in NYC. I’ll be there hosting, along with Colum McCann and Martha Southgate. Won’t you join us?
Behind the Book’s mission is to excite children and young adults about reading. Working with low-income students in New York City’s K-12 public schools, Behind the [...]

Boston/Philly/Salem/Portland

I’m heading off to do a brief tour of readings. At each of these events I’ll be showing slides of graveyards and giving away things from The Good Thief: wishing stones, St. Anthony medals, and bottles of Mother Jones’s Elixir for Misbehaving Children. It would be great to see some of you–I hope you’ll come [...]

Sirenland 2010

Sirenland 2010

For the past three years, I’ve been taking part in the Sirenland Writers Conference. This extraordinary conference began about four years ago, when author Dani Shapiro and her husband the screenwriter Michael Maren met Antonio and Carla Sersale, owners of Le Sirenuse Hotel in Positano, Italy. Antonio wanted to host a writers’ conference at his hotel, [...]

Highlights from Sense & Sensibility & Sea Monsters

Last night I put on a bonnet and helped Ben Winters celebrate the publication of Sense & Sensibility & Sea Monsters at Idlewild Bookstore. Here are the highlights!

Tinti devoured by Sea Monsters?

Tinti devoured by Sea Monsters?

On  September 15th at 7 pm my friend David Del Vecchio, owner of the fantastic Idlewild Books is hosting a launch party for Sense & Sensibility & Sea Monsters, follow up to the bestseller Pride & Prejudice & Zombies. I’ll be there acting out a scene with Jane Austen’s co-author, Ben Winters. I’m hoping to [...]

Spirit of ‘76 & Julia Glass

Last night I did a book signing at The Spirit of ‘76 Bookstore in Marblehead, MA with National Book Award winner Julia Glass. I’ve been a fan of Julia’s work for many years, and it was a thrill to share a signing table with her. Her latest novel, I See You Everywhere, is just out [...]


Hannah Tinti is the author of the
short story collection Animal
Crackers
and co-founder and
editor in chief of One Story
magazine.
Her novel, The Good
Thief,
is a New York Times Notable
Book of the Year,
winner of the
John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize,
and a recipient of the American
Library Association's Alex Award.

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