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 [...]
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, [...]
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!
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 [...]
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 [...]