I’m happy to announce that I’m one of forty-one people named to the long list for the Simpson / Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize, which is for midcareer fiction writers.
Category: being in public
“Overthrow” in California
Friends in California, please come to the bookstore events for Overthrow!
On Wednesday, September 18, at 6pm, at Book Passage, in the Ferry Building in San Francisco, I’ll read a little from the novel and be interviewed by Anna Wiener, author of the memoir Uncanny Valley, coming in 2020 from FSG.
And on Saturday, September 21, at 4pm, at Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood, I’ll read a little and be interviewed by Elaine Blair, longtime contributor to the New York Review of Books.
Both events are free, and at both I’ll sign (and stamp) books!
Other news about Overthrow: In the 15 September 2019 issue of the New York Times Book Review, the editors name Overthrow as one of “10 New Books We Recommend This Week.”
Bill Goldstein recommended Overthrow on New York’s NBC television station on 8 September 2019.
And Columbia magazine has put the novel on its fall 2019 reading list.
Bookforum; WGN Radio
There’s a lovely review of Overthrow in the September issue of Bookforum, which places the novel in the literary tradition and sees in it allegories of queer reading.
Over the weekend, I spoke with Amy Guth of Chicago’s WGN Radio about my recent article in the New Yorker on the history of unions and also, a little, about Overthrow (the segment with me starts at about 6:14).
If you’re in New York, please come to the reading at the Strand on Thursday, September 5, at 7:30pm! Admission is with purchase of the novel or of a $15 gift card.
Launch!
My novel Overthrow is on sale as of today! If you’re in New York, San Francisco, or Los Angeles, please come help launch the book at one of the bookstores below!
Kirkus interview and last day on Chicago Review’s Instagram
My novel Overthrow goes on sale today. Call or click over to your local independent bookstore and buy it!
There’s a new interview of me by James McDonald Feder in Kirkus, mostly about the perils and rewards of writing a novel that touches on contemporary issues. And today is also the last day that I’m in “residency” at the Instagram account of the Chicago Review of Books.