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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…

 

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