Oh, to be in …
New York… tonight, for the Lit Magazine launch party, with Ed “The Dizzies” Park among the readers on the bill. Los Angeles… on Sunday the 17th for Vermin on the…
Category Archives: events
Good storytellers, every one
BEA is the Olympics of small talk. Everyone is witty and charming and has these fantastic little nugget-like stories that are on point and end with a laugh. Plus, the…
The LBC party in pictures
Ed Champion! With lovely ladies of publishing! Mark Sarvas! With Keith Arsenault from PGW! Jessica Stockton! And Richard Nash! Budd Parr! Megan! James Marcus with C. Max Magee! Levi Asher…
Not a picture of the back of Dana Gioia’s head
But not for lack of trying. Today I found myself at the pre-BEA Javits Center, which, compared to what it’ll be tomorrow, was caverously empty. Upstairs there were just a…
Tina Louise and James Ellroy
The green room, LA Times Festival of Books: Nobel prizewinner Eric Kandell wears a red bowtie; Tim Gunn is immaculate in a navy suit. Michael Connoly sits shyly in a…
Instant love: Jami Attenberg podcast
A podcast! Of Miss Jami Attenberg. Her debut book Instant Love hit shelves last summer; now it’s coming out in paperback in April. When we sat down in a noisy…
American Girl meets Ron Jeremy
I’m still trying to get a handle on literary events in Pittsburgh. We’ve got this Drue Heinz lecture series, which features bigname literary writers — Chabon, Lahiri, Sedaris. It costs…
The Gist Street Reading n BBQ
That’s Aaron Burch from the excellent lit journal Hobart and the tireless Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network (and the LitBlogCoop) on the street in Pittsburgh, unable to buy…
Down on Gist Street
This Saturday is the annual Gist Street reading and BBQ here in Pittsburgh. It’ll feature Graywolf Press poets Martha Collins, Joe Campana and Susan Wheeler, and its fictioneers Robert Hill…
BEA in the rearview
Two great things happened when I went to BEA. 1. I got to meet all kinds of wonderful litbloggers and writers. More about that in a minute. 2. I finally…
