I’m about to teach my first online class: July 6-12, 2014. There will be videos, online “lectures”, power-point, writing exercises, and open discussion boards for everyone to chat and share their work. Sign up now as spots are going fast.
For the first time (in a long time) I will be teaching a six-week master class that is open to the public. This writing workshop will be limited to 10 students, and take place in Brooklyn, at the offices of One Story on Tuesdays, 6-9 pm, November 12-December 17th. Deadline to apply is Sept. 30th. […]
Out of all of my stories, the one with the longest legs has been “Home Sweet Home.” I first published it in Epoch. From there it was picked for Best American Mystery Stories. Then it appeared in my collection, Animal Crackers. Then it was included in an anthology called Fiction Gallery, put out by Gotham […]
In 2002, I went to Japan for the first time with my friend Yuka. We spent time in Kawaguchi-ko, where I took this picture of Mt. Fuji. Kawaguchi-ko is the epi-center of the one of the most recent earthquakes. Yuka still does not know if her family’s house there has been destroyed. Meanwhile, other family members are […]
I found out today that a character from my short story, “Reasonable Terms,” has several pages on facebook and over 23,000 followers (far, far more than me). “Reasonable Terms” is about a group of giraffes who go on strike and stage a group mock suicide at a zoo. One of those giraffes, Lulu, starts hallucinating […]
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 […]
Hello folks: I’m off grid again, working on the new book. Feel free to keep sending in your questions about The Good Thief. I’ll answer when I get back in December.
The Good Thief is #20 on this week’s Indie Bestseller List!
The Good Thief was featured on KUSI-TV San Diego. Skip ahead to the 3:40 mark to see the segment on Hannah!
Today the paperback of The Good Thief arrives in bookstores. It’s hard to believe that a year has already passed since the hardback was published. I was in New Zealand in August 2008, and I remember feeling strange but also relieved that I was so far from home. The novel I’d been working on for […]