Category: being in public

Readings this weekend in DC and Brooklyn

I’m reading from my novel twice this weekend—on Saturday in Washington, DC, and on Sunday in Brooklyn.

On Saturday, September 21, at 3:30pm, I’ll be reading at the Politics & Prose bookstore in Washington, DC, with Anne Sward.

Thanks to the transporting power of a locomotive, I’ll be reading in Brooklyn, NY, the very next day, Sunday, September 22, at 11am, as part of the Brooklyn Book Festival. I’m on a panel of debut novelists, which will meet in Borough Hall Courtroom, 209 Joralemon Street.

Please come!

“Necessary Errors,” the book trailer

Penguin invited Brian Spinks, the co-creator of Wired magazine’s Codefellas series, to devise an animated book trailer for Necessary Errors. I think it’s kind of ingenious.

Tonight (Monday) at 7pm, I’ll be reading from the novel and having a conversation about it with Paris Review editor Lorin Stein at McNally Jackson Books, 52 Prince St., New York. Please come by!

A review, two interviews, an essay, and a meme

Lauren Christensen, writing for Vanity Fair’s VF Daily, has noticed parallels between Necessary Errors and Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, and argues that the center of both books is in “the psychological events of each well-crafted character.”

In Actuary Lit, I am interviewed by Evan Bryson, who has read a lot of my old writing and is correspondingly dangerous. He asked about the differences between the novella “Sweet Grafton” and the novel Necessary Errors, and we talked about Spark, Isherwood, Sontag, Hollinghurst, and Fitzgerald.

For the Paris Review Daily, Anna Altman has asked me about D. W. Winnicott, L. P. Hartley, and the function of the precinct in TV shows.

I’ve written a guest essay for Barnes & Noble’s Discover Great New Writers program about whether the critical half of one’s brain is at risk of eating the creative half.

And my novel’s place in literary history is secure now that Maris Kreizman has mash-upped it into a meme for her site Slaughterhouse 90210.

Save the dates

Here’s the schedule of the book tour for my novel Necessary Errors. I’ll keep adding details of future events here as I find out about them, so this page will continue to have up-to-date information.

Williamsburg, November 21, 2013, 7:30pm.
Pete’s Candy Store. With Sarah Bruni.

For the record, these are the events that have already taken place.

Brooklyn, August 7, 2013 (Wednesday), 7pm.
Book Court.
163 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY.

Manhattan, August 12, 2013 (Monday), 7pm.
McNally-Jackson. In conversation with Lorin Stein.
52 Prince Street, New York, NY

San Francisco, August 14, 2013 (Wednesday), 6pm.
Book Passage.
1 Ferry Building, #42, San Francisco, CA.

Washington, September 21, 2013 (Saturday), 3:30pm.
Politics and Prose. With Anne Sward.
5015 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC.

Brooklyn, September 22, 2013 (Sunday), 11am.
Brooklyn Book Festival.
Borough Hall Courtroom, 209 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY

Austin, September 26, 2013 (Thursday), 7pm.
Joynes Literary Series, University of Texas at Austin.
Joynes Reading Room, Carothers Residence Hall 007, 2501 Whitis Ave., Austin, TX 78712.
Note: Copies of my book will not be available for sale at this reading, because of university regulations, but feel free to bring one if you’d like it signed.

Bennington, October 2, 2013 (Wednesday), 7pm.
Bennington College. Franklin (a student house).
Bennington, VT

Manhattan, October 6, 2013 (Sunday), 7pm.
KGB Bar. With Kevin Baker.
85 East 4th St., New York, NY.

Boston, October 19, 2013 (Saturday), 12:30pm.
Boston Book Festival. With Christopher Castellani, Henriette Lazaridis Power, Russ Rymer, and Dawn Tripp (host).
The Hancock Room at the Boston Common Hotel & Conference Center