"...as dark and mysterious as its title."
-Hartford Courant
Elsewhere, News & Links
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…
Books and Bars Skype Interview
date: Feb 27, 2010
Some shots from my long distance exchange with the smart crowd at Books and Bars in Minneapolis….
Flatman Crooked
date: Jan 29, 2010
Flatman Crooked has posted a nice pickup of Matt Tiffany’s review of Ray.
Perec Essay
date: Jan 29, 2010
An essay I wrote on Perec some years ago has been published, in four parts, at Words without Borders. The first part is here.
Denver Reading
date: Jan 13, 2010
Thursday, January 14th,
Ellen Orleans, Laird Hunt and Matthew Cooperman
7 p.m.
Denver’s Gypsy House Café (1279 Marion St. (13th & Marion))
Hobart Interview
date: Jan 05, 2010
Jim Ruland and I had this conversation in late August in LA. Hobart has been gracious enough to reprint it. With thanks to Jim!
Words of Advice for Young People
date: Dec 05, 2009
The Impossibly gets pulled out of its dark closet and given some light.
The Selected Ballads
date: Dec 05, 2009
The Selected Ballads just ran this piece on Ray.
Vol.1 Brooklyn
date: Dec 05, 2009
Tobias Carroll, writing for Vol.1 Brooklyn, has this to say about Ray.
January Magazine on Ray
date: Nov 13, 2009
Lincoln Cho has this to say about Ray.
Interview in Elimae
date: Nov 01, 2009
An interview I did with MT Fallon is up on Elimae. It’s a great issue of an important journal. Take a look.
Bookforum on Ray
date: Oct 13, 2009
James Gibbons writes on Ray of the Star for Bookforum.
Upcoming Events
date: Oct 05, 2009
I’ll be doing some readings…
Oct. 12/7 pm/ New York/ McNally-Jackson Books (with Mary Caponegro)
Oct. 13/7:30 pm/Chicago/Hopleaf Bar/Bookslut Series/ (with Sarah Schulman)
Oct. 19/7:30 pm/Minneapolis/The Loft (with Mary Caponegro)
The Quarterly Conversation
date: Sep 29, 2009
The excellent Quarter Conversation has published a review of Ray by the excellent Matt Tiffany!
Paris Spleen
date: Sep 22, 2009
The fall 2009 issue of Rain Taxi contains, among many other fine things, a review I did of Keith Waldrop’s terrific translation of Baudelaire’s Paris Spleen.
Collagist Interview
date: Sep 21, 2009
An interview I did with Matt Bell at The Collagist in which I say, among other things, “I’m not sure just before and just after a book comes out is the best time for me to be trying to deal seriously with the problems of other projects, but I seem to be under the sway of what Blanchot calls the “tyrannical prehension” – I can’t stop my fingers from moving toward the keyboard. Maybe someone ought to take said keyboard away from me.”
book notes
date: Sep 18, 2009
Here is a playlist I did for David Gutowski’s Largeheartedboy.
