On June 13th, The Showroom in Asbury Park, NJ, along with Words! Bookstore and the lit mag splashofred.net will be screening the 1945 horror movie The Body Snatcher, starring Boris Karloff & Bela Lugosi, as part of the BookFLX series. After the film, I will be skyping in and terrifyingly splashed on the same screen to chat [...]
Thanks to everyone who came out to support One Story on May 21st. Our first benefit hosted 450 people at the The Old American Can Factory in Gowanus, Brooklyn. The night featured comedian John Hodgman, original art inspired by issues of One Story, a performance based on Sam Allingham’s “Bar Joke, Arizona” by Wingspace Theatrical Design, and [...]
My other job, besides trying to write books, is being the editor of One Story magazine. For the past six months, I’ve also been working as an event planner, organizing One Story’s first benefit. At long last, it’s finally coming together. We’re calling it the One Story Literary Debutante Ball: A Celebration of Emerging Writers. The benefit is [...]
Since 2007, along with my mentor, author Dani Shapiro, and her husband, the screenwriter Michael Maren, I’ve been organizing a writer’s conference called Sirenland. A beautiful name, but even more beautiful is the spot where it takes place: Le Sirenuse Hotel in Positano, Italy. Our 2010 conference has just ended. Our Sirenlanders have flown back to their [...]
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 [...]
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, you can [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
