Next Wednesday (Oct. 5th) I’ll be interviewing the Irish writer Anne Enright at Symphony Space. Best known for her Booker-Prize winning novel The Gathering, Enright is here in New York to launch her new book, The Forgotten Waltz. The Telegraph said of Enright’s work: Hers is a style that glories in minutiae. She modulates so finely between comedy and pathos, [...]
Last year the illustrator Arthur Jones contacted me about an anthology he was putting together, The Post It Note Diaries. I wrote a piece for him about playing in graveyards when I was a kid and he drew some wonderfully eerie pictures. Now, the book is coming out! Next Tuesday, Sept. 27th @ 7 pm I’ll [...]
On April 29th, 2011, One Story is hosting our 2nd annual Literary Debutante Ball. This year we’re celebrating 5 One Story authors who have published their first books in the past year: Robin Black (If I Loved You I Would Tell You This), Susanna Daniel (Stiltsville), Seth Fried (The Great Frustration), Jerry Gabriel (Drowned boy) and [...]
Some of you might remember this graveyard cake, put together by a mother/son bookclub reading The Good Thief. Now another group of readers in Rochester, NY has decided to create their own graveyard cake inspired by the book. Soon I may have to sponsor some kind of bake-off, but for now I will simply enjoy and [...]
I’m looking forward to heading up to Rochester, NY soon, where they are doing an All City Read of The Good Thief. To kick things off, Writers & Books is hosting a scavenger hunt: WITH REAL HUMAN BONES!!!!!!! It all takes place tomorrow, at participating First Friday venues in Rochester. About a dozen bones will be [...]
Thanks to the great organization Writers & Books, the entire city of Rochester, NY will be reading The Good Thief this winter. I’m heading to Rochester March 23–26th and going to bookclubs, schools, libraries, hospitals, churches, coffee shops and radio shows to talk with all the good folks of upstate New York who have given Ren a [...]
Last November, a story of mine, “Milestones,” was broadcast on public radio’s Selected Shorts, an award-winning, one-hour program featuring readings of classic and new short fiction by great actors from stage, screen and television, recorded live at New York’s Symphony Space. My story was read by Laurie Anderson, and afterwards I was interviewed by the [...]
I’ll be helping host this important event to support Charles Bock & his wife Diana Colbert on Feb. 6th. Tickets go on sale Jan. 10th, but you can donate anytime. To find out more click the picture or go here.
This coming Sunday, Dec. 19th from 1-4 pm I’ll be taking part in a marathon reading of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol at Used Housing Works Bookstore. Used Housing Works is a great organization that benefits the homeless and people living with AIDs, and they could use your support. So if you’re in New York [...]