Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Reading this Thursday, October 8 at KGB

I'll be reading with two of my favorites, Lev Grossman (The Magicians) and Rivka Galchen (Atmospheric Disturbances), this Thursday at KGB, which is on 85 East 4th St. Doors open at 7.

It's a benefit for "Behind the Book," which promotes reading for schoolchildren and adults.

See you there?!

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Pushing the envelope

"This small, sixteen-page pamphlet is produced to put inside the postage-paid, business-reply envelopes that come with junk mail offers. Every envelope collected is stuffed with the pamphlet and mailed back to its original company."

(From Fred)

Friday, October 2, 2009

$28.46

Inspired Amazon offer:

Personal Days: A Novel + Then We Came to the End: A Novel + Revolutionary Road (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Vintage Contemporaries)
Price For All Three: $28.46

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Thursday, October 1, 2009

Should Thursday be the new Friday? (A: Yes)

Some work-related links, at Bookforum's blog. (Current Bookforum is devoted to work.)

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Richard Russo on Morning Edition

Richard Russo, author of That Old Cape Magic, was on NPR's Morning Edition today, talking about his favorite office lit, from Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener" to...Personal Days!

Listen here. (Whole show is here.)

Monday, September 28, 2009

Weds. 9/30 at Columbia....

Getting Personal with Ed Park
Wednesday, September 30, 8PM
203 Mathematics Hall

Columbia Professor and acclaimed novelist and critic Ed Park will give a reading from his novel Personal Days, followed by an open Q&A. Personal Days, one of Time’s top ten fiction books of 2008, was a finalist for the PEN Hemingway Award and the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize. Park is a founding editor of The Believer magazine, former editor of the Voice Literary Supplement and a contributor to the New York Times and LA Times, among many other publications. The Columbia Review and 114 Rue de Fleurus, the writers’ house of Columbia University, are co-sponsoring the event. Attendance is open and no RSVP is required.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Fall readings

I'll be reading a few times this fall — so far:

October 8 — NYC — "Behind the Book" benefit at KGB — with Lev Grossman (The Magicians) and Rivka Galchen (Atmospheric Disturbances) (This is, I believe, the third EP/RG reading).

October 25 — Sleepy Hollow (!!) — I'll be reading with Christine Lehner (Absent a Miracle) at the Hudson Valley Writers' Center.

November 12 — NYC — I team up again with Sung J. Woo (Everything Asian), this time at the Dirty Laundry reading series.