May 10, 2010
Ray Bradbury is the Rocketman .
April 21, 2010
Mark Twain died one hundred years ago today .
April 15, 2010
Why your cell phone may or may not be killing you .
February 19, 2010
On Robert Altman for The New York Review of Books .
February 9, 2010
On Roberto Rossellini for Slate .
January 21, 2010
We're all doomed .
January 11, 2010
The paperback of the British edition has been published .
January 5, 2010
"Over Ernest," an autobiographical nonfiction piece, appears in the new issue of the excellent Canteen Magazine .
December 12, 2009
"Oulo," a very short story, appears in the new issue of Flash Fiction Magazine . The story is an adaptation from a Constance Eakins story.
December 1, 2009
The London Observer names The Mayor's Tongue one of the "Best Debut Novels of 2009."
November 22, 2009
On Vladimir Nabokov for The Daily Beast .
September 24, 2009
On James Ellroy for The Daily Beast .
September 23, 2009
The Art of Sichuan in the new issue of Take the Handle.
September 21, 2009
Fall Paris Review with my interview with James Ellroy is on sale and online .
August 10, 2009
If you buy this rhinocerous , you will never have to worry about forgetting trivial facts again.
July 11, 2009
An ode to Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March for the National Book Foundation .
July 8, 2009
I read thirty Scandinavian crime novels and lived to tell the tale .
June 3, 2009
A new reading, with Samantha Hunt and Rachel Kushner, on June 22, at Housing Works . Also, this event at NYU on the 10th.
May 1, 2009
The new issue of Take the Handle is online. It's the Mysteries Issue. I contributed an investigation into the legendary King Rat and some of my other favorite New York mysteries.
March 20, 2009
US paperback of The Mayor's Tongue is published on April 7 . There will be a couple of readings in Brooklyn and Newton, MA .
March 18, 2009
A piece about film noir and American crime in the new issue of Lapham's Quarterly .
March 5, 2009
Ragazzi: the Italian edition of The Mayor's Tongue--La Voce del Sindaco--is out today from Neri Pozza .
February 27, 2009
I am interviewed about Ren and Stimpy for Jaime Clarke's Talkshow feature in Fanzine.
February 23, 2009
A short story, "Trainchasers", appears in the new issue of Another Magazine .
February 20, 2009
I've contributed an afterword to Signet Classics' new edition of one of my favorite books: Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels .
December 23, 2008
The UK edition of The Mayor's Tongue will be published by Chatto & Windus on January 15, 2009.
November 8, 2008
A reading and interview on Chicago Public Radio .
October 26, 2008
I'm interviewed by Rick Kleffel on NPR's Morning Edition today.
October 18, 2008
An essay on Otto Preminger published in The New York Review of Books .
August 19, 2008
Lots more events scheduled. List on the Tour page.
August 2, 2008
An essay about my obsession with New York's public swimming pools in the Sunday City section of The New York Times .
July 30, 2008
A two-part interview with the excellent Rick Kleffel is up on his site, available as podcasts. Part 1 and Part 2 .
July 21, 2008
The Philoctetes panel, on Place, Imagination, and Identity, in its entirety, on YouTube .
June 24, 2008
I'll be taking part in a conversation at the Philoctetes Center in New York on July 10.
June 10, 2008
A new reading announced, at Housing Works
, as well as a panel discussion at the Philoctetes Center. Also, in case you missed it, Stray Questions
.
April 16, 2008
We have just posted a cease & desist
letter , which we are
otherwise ignoring.
April 14, 2008
The site is almost working...
April 9, 2008
Glad the
placement of apostrophes has the power to drive
someone mad.
April 9, 2008
Constance Eakins is on myspace
.
April 1, 2008
Tour dates have
been posted. For real. No April Fool's.
March 28, 2008
Amazon.com’s blog Omnivoracious is
ensnared by Constance Eakins. Also: Maud
Newton . Also: The
Elegant Variation .
March 14, 2008
Hello, Internet. The current site's just temporary,
promise.
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