I recently appeared on New Orleans’s PBS affiliate station, WWNO, in order to have a chat with Susan Larson on her show The Reading Life. This program is my favorite thing to listen to each week, and Susan is a hero of the literary scene in South Louisiana. The entire episode is great, including Maria Semple, Philip Gould, and Herman Fuselier as well; you can listen here. I’m jabbering and reading from The Infinite in the last ten minutes of the show. The webpage also includes some lagniappe (extra) audio at the bottom.
News Roundup
A few recent things…
The great novelist Andrew Ervin chatted with me about The Infinite over at Tin House.
The Advocate, in Baton Rouge, LA, ran a review of The Infinite.
I hopped onto WSBT in South Bend, IN, (where I lived for a long time) for a little radio interview regarding The Infinite and sports and other fun things. Listen here.
My event page is up to date with all kinds of exciting things coming up.
Publishers Weekly
I’ve always seen friends’ first reviews come from Publishers Weekly, always thought it was so cool.
Now Publishers Weekly has reviewed THE INFINITE. So thrilled.
The review is concise and clear and kind and good. Check it out here.
THE INFINITE galleys
This week I received a box full of galleys from Harper. My goodness, they are beautiful.
I’ve also updated The Infinite’s page, here on the site, with the cover description and three early blurbs. And, I must say, it’s an incredibly humbling, surreal thing to receive a blurb from a writer you really admire.
The Infinite has three so far, from writers I love.
Philipp Meyer is one of the most exciting writers working today. The Son and American Rust are both modern classics. Incredible.
Joseph Boyden is not only one of my favorite writers—he’s a hero of mine, too. Please read his work. It’s been life changing for me, beginning with Three Day Road.
Andrew Malan Milward…he is the author of I Was a Revolutionary, which is one of the best books I’ve read in the last couple years. A true master of his craft.
And there’s still more to come.
New Short Story
My brief short story, “Mercy,” appears in the new issue (Winter 2015-2016) of Salamander Magazine.
Salamander is a wonderful literary journal published at Suffolk University. Please consider subscribing, if you don’t already.
Additionally, you may read “Mercy” in full, here, in the issue preview.