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February 27, 2008
Time Out New York
I really like this article--Michael Miller writes a mean interview.
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February 26, 2008
Today!
At last: PUBLICATION DATE!!!!!
(Above: the new widget from HarperCollins, this time allowing interested parties to browse inside the book. Enjoy!)
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February 24, 2008
Boston Globe... L.A. Times
It's a cloudless, sunny Sunday morning in Boston; the only noise outside my workroom window is the slow sputtery trickle of Friday's snow, melting, melting off the roof. I woke up to a pair of newspaper features about We Disappear that have made me happy and relieved: this feature in the Boston Globe and this review in the LA Times.
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February 20, 2008
Ketchup Chips
Lately this blog has alternated between my favorite bands' YouTube videos and news about my forthcoming book. So today, here's a little diversion. I present to you one of my lifelong obsessions: KETCHUP CHIPS. Mmmmm.... Bet you didn't know there were so many brands.
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February 15, 2008
We Disappear: Book Tour Events Schedule
Although some of the dates and times and locations are still being ironed out, the tour schedule for We Disappear, just sent to me by my kickass publicist Heather Drucker, follows below. (If you see this, and you can come to one of these events, please do! And/or tell your friends who might live in or near one of these cities.)
Tuesday, March 4, 2008, 7:00 PM
BROOKLINE BOOKSMITH
279 Harvard St.
Brookline, MA
Thursday, March 6, 2008, 7:00 PM
PORTER SQUARE BOOKS
25 White St. (Porter Square Shopping Center)
Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, March 11, 2008, 7:00 PM
BARNES & NOBLE BOOKSELLERS – CHELSEA
675 6th Avenue @ 22nd St.
New York, NY
Thursday, March 13, 2008, 7:00 PM
BOOK SOUP
8818 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA
Tuesday, March 18, 2008, 7:00 PM
BOOKS INC. (Castro)
2275 Market St.
San Francisco, CA
Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 7:30 PM
POWELL’S BOOKSTORE
1005 W. Burnside
Portland, OR
Thursday, March 20, 2008, 7:30 PM
ELLIOTT BAY BOOK COMPANY
101 South Main St.
Seattle, WA
Thursday, March 27, 2008, 5:30 PM
GIOVANNI’S ROOM
345 South 12th St.
Philadelphia, PA
Monday, March 31, 2008, 7:00 PM
THE ENORMOUS ROOM
Four Stories Reading Series (with additional authors TBA)
569 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA
Saturday, April 5, 2008, 1:00 PM
MYSTERY ON MAIN STREET
119 Main St.
Brattleboro, VT
Tuesday, April 8, 2008, 7:00 PM
BORDERS BOOKS AND MUSIC
143 Providence Place
Providence, RI
Monday, April 21, 2008, 7:00 PM
RUTH SOKOLOF THEATER
Film Streams Series (screening of Mysterious Skin with reading/signing)
1340 Webster St.
Omaha, NE
Tuesday, April 22, 2008, 7:00 PM
KANSAS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY (in conjunction with RAINY DAY BOOKS)
Plaza Branch
4801 Main St.
Kansas City, MO
Wednesday, April 23, 2008, 7:00 PM
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Burge Union
1601 Irving Hill Rd.
Lawrence, KS
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February 11, 2008
Wasp Stings
It's odd, but sometimes it's the unexpected, out-of-left-field things that make me feel the greatest validation as a writer. For instance, I went through all of 2005 experiencing lots of joys & giddinesses & highs because of the release of the movie and everything related; however, even after the film festivals and reviews, the one tiny, strange, surprising instance that made me realize "Wow--the movie has sort of cracked the general consciousness" was when I saw the title of this New Yorker article about a sports stadium in Munich.
Now something equally unplanned and odd has happened: a band has named an album after something I wrote. Cursillistas, the brainchild of Portland, ME's Matt Lajoie, makes layered, hypnotic, ghostly music that I really love, and the new album, Wasp Stings the Last Bitter Flavor, takes its title from a line in the second chapter of my second novel In Awe.
(Pictured above: Matt Lajoie.) When In Awe came out in 1997, some of the initial reviews were less than enthusiastic about the description-overload sentences like the "Wasp" one, so now, a decade later, seeing the words used as this album's title is hugely flattering. I'm elated. And it's especially cool because I like the music so much.
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February 10, 2008
Ten Pies
(1) The Game:
(2) "Well I Never!":
(3) Hate-Spouting Evangelical Bitch:
(4) Bride:
(5) Bill Gates:
(6) "You're nasty!":
(7) Big Brother:
(8) Sizemore:
(9) "I can't see!":
(10) Mandrell:
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February 02, 2008
We Disappear Trailer
I've spent the last few weeks working on a promotional video / trailer for We Disappear. Michael and I (and my HarperCollins marketing team and I) have been discussing the possible publicity options for writers, and I've been wanting to make something like this for a while; after a couple of potential collaborations fell through--collaborations with folks who know more about creating this sort of thing--I finally took the advice from the excellent Joseph G-L to just do it myself. So I did. The result is below. Thank you to Brent Covington for letting me borrow his movie camera; Apple for the super user-friendly iMovie; and the saintly Gordon Sharp of Cindytalk for granting me the use of his song "In This World." I'll post this on YouTube and my Myspace page and HarperPerennial's weblog, as well.
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