"...incredibly funny and well-written and oddly touching, and certainly unlike anything else you've read this year."
-The Capitol Times
Elsewhere, News & Links
WSJ Craft Essay
date: Jan 28, 2012
You can read an essay on noir that I wrote for the Wall Street Journal here
Little Impossibly Video #2
date: Nov 28, 2011
2nd of 5 (or 6) pre-Impossibly-re-release mini films.
Music by Lorna Hunt: “Unrecoverable” from Sentimental Bedlam produced by Dave Willey.
On Vimeo at: Vimeo
On Youtube at: Youtube
Story I Wrote
date: Nov 17, 2011
Here: Plume
Little Impossibly Video
date: Oct 31, 2011
I’m making a short series of 1 minute movies ahead of the February rerelease of The Impossibly. This is the first one.
Reading from Green Metal Door
date: Sep 13, 2011
In this podcast I read from Green Metal Door, a lost chapter to appear in The Impossibly rerelease coming out early in the new year…Indigest
News in No News
date: Aug 22, 2011
My News in No News (Robert Lopez): No News
Open City Review
date: Aug 22, 2011
My Rain Taxi review of Teju Cole’s Open City picked up by Powell’s: Open City
Conduit
date: Jul 18, 2011
A recent story of mine can be found in Conduit’s Deep Water issue.
Face Story
date: Jul 11, 2011
Face story in the Brooklyn Rail: http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/07/fiction/the-face
Site is Back!
date: Jun 30, 2011
Thanks to Zeke S. for getting this site up and running again! Updates to follow in the coming days.
The Paris Stories and Vacant Lot
date: Jan 11, 2011
I now have in hand handsome copies of the reedition of The Paris Stories and my translation of Oliver Rohe’s Terrain Vague: Vacant Lot. Please support Marick Press and Counterpath Press respectively by picking up a copy!
Also, please consider downloading the audio version of The Impossibly through Iambik.com. Or downloading e-versions of Ray of the Star and The Exquisite.
Elsewhere, excellent reviews of New York numéro 2 continue to come in. This one, for example…
Ebooks!
date: Dec 13, 2010
Ray of the Star and The Exquisite are now available from Coffee House through apple and amazon.
Framingham Earl 11-10
date: Nov 16, 2010
Untitled from Laird Hunt on Vimeo.
New York numéro 2!
date: Nov 03, 2010
The French translation of The Exquisite, beautifully rendered by Barbara Schmidt and published by Actes Sud, is out now in France under the title New York numéro 2. Le Monde, Livres Hebdo and Les Inrockuptibles have all already weighed in with positive reviews.
The Impossibly Audiobook
date: Oct 20, 2010
Laird Hunt Iambik has just reissued The Impossibly as an audiobook, read by Peter Yearsley.
Lots of good books in their launch.
Dark Charlie in The Brooklyn Rail
date: Sep 05, 2010
The three sections of my Dark Charlie story are in the September Brooklyn Rail.
Zing Interview
date: Aug 25, 2010
An interview I did with Brandon Johnson for Zing Magazine.
Pen USA Finalist
date: Aug 25, 2010
Ray of the Star has been selected as a finalist for the 2010 Pen USA Literary Award for Fiction.
November Exquisite
date: Jul 27, 2010
Actes Sud, my French publisher, has set November as the release date for their version of The Exquisite (trans. Barbara Schmidt).
Audio Impossibly
date: Jul 27, 2010
Listening to samples for the audio version of The Impossibly. Details to follow on release date, etc.
Stay Tuned
date: Jul 02, 2010
Stay-tuned for info about the release of one of my novels as an audiobook.
Also, reading galleys of my translation of Oliver Rohe’s Vacant Lot (Counterpath, this fall).
Some Things
date: May 26, 2010
A number of things coming in the next several months: Marick Press will reissue my first book, The Paris Stories; Counterpath Press will publish my translation of Oliver Rohe’s short novel, Vacant Lot; and Coffee House will be releasing my novels (The Impossibly, Indiana, Indiana, The Exquisite and Ray of the Star) electronically. Also, in 2011, Coffee House will release a 10th anniversary paperback edition of The Impossibly. More on all of this and other things as the months unfurl.
Where I’ll be at AWP
date: Apr 06, 2010
Wednesday (April 7)
7:00PM-9:00PM COUNTERPATH BOOKS / DRUNKEN BOAT / GUERNICA / PERSEA BOOKS / POOL PERFORMANCE
Location: Dikeou Collection, 1615 California St., Suite 515, Denver, CO 80202; 303.623.3001
Website: http://www.dikeoucollection.com
Join five of the most innovative journals and literary publishers showcasing their contributors in multiple genres, including fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction and video installation. Performers include Laird Hunt, Steve Katz, Alexander Chee, Susan Taylor Chehak, Elizabeth Kadetsky, Irina Reyn, Robin Beth Schaer, Dean Rader, Karen Holman, Elizabeth Bradfield and Dylan Landis. Free and open to the public, and only minutes from the conference hotel.
Friday (April 8)
3 pm
Room 201
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level
University of Denver Faculty Fiction Reading. (Brian Kiteley, Laird Hunt, Selah Saterstrom) This will be a reading by four fiction writers—one former and three current University of Denver professors. The reading will showcase the qualities DU’s creative writing program hopes to promote: a love of language and an interest in blurring the boundaries between genres
Astrophil Press AWP Reading and After Party
Tarpaulin Sky Press peeps Traci O Connor, Sandy Florian, Joanna Howard, Laird Hunt, and Selah Saterstrom join superstars Keith Abbott, David Gruber, and Brett Eugene Ralph
Sponsored by TSky Editor Duncan B. Barlow’s Astrophil Press, and TSky authors Johannes Göransson’s and Joyelle McSweeney’s Action Books
7:00 PM@Hi-Dive
7 South Broadway
Free
Music: To Be Announced
Thoughts of Sorts
date: Mar 20, 2010
My review of Thoughts of Sorts by Georges Perec is in the new Rain Taxi.
Astrophil Interview
date: Mar 03, 2010
An interview I did with Duncan Barlow at Astrophil…
