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On Tuesday, Nov 18, at 7 pm, join me as I moderate a conversation with Ruth Rendell, Honor Moore and Daniel Mendelsohn about the belated, London-led literary apotheosis of Stoner—John Williams's 1965 novel about a farmboy who falls under the spell of Shakespeare and becomes an English professor. The event will take place at the Brooklyn Public Library, Dweck Auditorium. Tickets are free but reservations are encouraged. Please note that seating is first-come, first-served.
http://wordswithoutborders.org/dispatches/article/pen-world-voices-2014-literature-of-the-great-war
"A Great War Reading List"-John Williams of the NYT gives an ArtsBeat blog overview of the April 30, 2014 PEN World Voices panel I appeared on with Geoff Dyer ("The MIssing of the Somme") and Justin Go ("The Steady Running of the Hour") --on the Literature of the Great War.
An evening about the work, life and influence of the great 20th c American novelist Bernard Malamud. May 1, 2014, at 7 pm. Moderated by Boris Fishman (author of "A Replacement Life"), with Alan Cheuse, Tea Obreht, Peter Malamud-Smith, Liesl Schillinger, Bharati Mukherjee, Philip Davis, Clark Blaise
April 30, 2014, 7 pm, 41 Cooper Square, Frederick Rose auditorium.
At 7 pm, several writers and critics and I will read from the noirish works of Marek Hlasko, the "Polish James Dean," at KGB Bar. (Born in 1933, died of vices and cafard in 1969). Hosted by Melville House, New Vessel Press and Northern Illinois University Press. I'll be reading from his 1966 autobiographical novel "BEAUTIFUL TWENTYSOMETHINGS"
Come to my panel at Bennington Wednesday, Mar. 19 at 7 (in the CAPA Symposium) where I'll discuss HOW TO READ BOOKS FOR A LIVING with three other literary journalists.
Mignon Fogarty (aka blogger Grammar Girl) calls WORDBIRDS "literary catnip for bird lovers who also find themselves fascinated — or annoyed — by the quirks of modern life" in this Sunday's New York Times Book Review write-up of Wordbirds, along with two other books that feature lost phrases and newly coined terms.
WORDBIRDS hailed as "deskside wordfountain to imbibe from," on diversophy.com
Marvelous, linguistically effervescent review of Wordbirds by the neologian Dr. George F. Simons- at diversophy.com. He calls my coinages “a remindergush, a deskside wordfountain to imbibe from” and adds,”like good bourbon, they lubricate cerebral remeshing” (He also extols Elizabeth Zechel’s beautiful drawings, which remind him of Audubon…)
http://www.diversophy.com/images/Wordbirds.pdf
New York Times Book Review calls WORDBIRDS "literary catnip"!!
“Literary catnip for bird lovers who also find themselves fascinated – or annoyed – by the quirks of modern life.”--The New York Times Book Review (Dec. 22 issue-link forthcoming next week)
On Tuesday, December 10 from 8 to 10 pm, come to 2A in the East Village, to the Big Umbrella (non-fiction) reading series, where Boris Kachka (Hothouse), Evan Hughes (Literary Brooklyn) and I (Wordbirds) will read from our books about the spills and chills of the writer's life. Hosted by Emily Wunderlich, $4 whiskey cocktails throughout the evening. Open to the public.
Printers Row Journal in the Chicago Tribune's Sunday edition singles out Wordbirds in its best-holiday-gift-books roundup -huzzah!
Der Spiegel covers my panel discussion at New York's Goethe-Institut with the German writer Ilija Trojanow and Suzanne Nossel, Executive Director of PEN American Center, about dangers to democracy and free expression in the age of data mining and security paranoia.
Neue Zürcher Zeitung writeup of my 11/13/13 talk at the SoHo Goethe-Institut with Suzanne Nossel, head of PEN American Center, and German writer Ilija Trojanow about the "chilling effect" data mining is having on free expression
WORDBIRDS will descend on the 36th annual National Press Club Book Fair in Washington D.C. on Tues, Nov. 19, from 5:30 to 8:30. I'll be signing copies along with a host of other authors, and would be delighted to see you. (It is $10 a ticket, so you know. http://press.org/bookfair#tickets)
WORDBIRDS will be part of a festive night of celebration, reading and book-signing at Celerie Kemble and Bronson van Wycks's fabulous pop-up Holiday Workshop ("A yuletide collaboration for the ages") on Wednesday, Dec. 4th. (19 East 75th St.) SAVE THE DATE (and look for the official announcement and more details next week)