--and there's more!

Anne Strainchamps interviewed me a couple of weeks ago for "To the best of our knowledge," for Wisconsin Public Radio, as part of ...

yet another interview

with Andy Seisberg, for Emilybooks, here

bargain!

Lightning Rods is available on e-book at Emily Books , $11.99.

hinc illae lacrimae

...the thing about Lightning Rods is that of all the books in the tourney this year, it is probably the one I would be least likely to re...

podcast

InDefinite Podcast has published a podcast of me reading from Lightning Rods.  I am not necessarily endorsing or advocating, but it's he...

infra dig

I recently read a discussion between Nathan Englander and Jonathan Safran Foer in the Guardian (they were talking about their new edition of...

The Rooster

Lightning Rods is in the running for the Rooster, a prize offered by the Morning News for its Tournament of Books .  The books go through a ...

chrono

I posted a link yesterday to Michael Miller's profile in the Observer.  I'm not sure that it's not petty to correct details of c...

Rashomon

Michael Miller has published a profile in the New York Observer, here . It's a curious thing. If an industry is governed by a culture of...

xmas is coming

Have just been talking to my publicist.  Lightning Rods has had very good reviews, many interviews were given, but sales are a few significa...

one last interview . . .

with Brian Feinblum of Planned Television Arts, here

disgusted in topeka

pp has not had much to say about statistics lately.  So. Data. Cussedness thereof. Lighting Rods took a long time to get published.  It was ...

Lee Konstantinou, author of Pop Apocalypse, has a review of Lightning Rods and slightly mad interview of me over at the LA Review of Books...

unendlich shameless self-promotion

Readers of pp will have noticed that the blog has dwindled to an outpost of the New Directions PR machine, not much happening apart from occ...

yet another interview . . .

with Elizabeth Gumport and Chris Glazek of n+1, here and (Part II) here

yet another interview . . .

with Jenny Davidson at the Awl

Readers of pp will have noticed that not much is going on around here these days.  I have been trying to compose answers to various intervie...

Another interview

With David Israel, at boingboing .

Interview

Interview with Morten Høi Jensen of Bookforum

Events

A friend has just written asking why I had not told her about a reading.  Probably because it seemed like an imposition.  At any rate, these...