“[A] performance full of wit and rigor freed of the familiar polarizing semantics”
— New York Times Book Review
“[A] very serious story about the perniciousness of conspiracy thinking, wrapped in a very funny yarn about the shallowness of celebrity culture”
— Washington Post
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SPRING TOUR: LA, Portland, Seattle, NYC, Minneapolis, Salt Lake City.
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New & Recent Writing
- “Shibboleth Gold” – An excerpt from Reboot in n+1 (April 22, 2024)
- “The Pilgrim’s (Lack of) Progress, Or, Sorry I Took So Long to Finish My Novel, Or, On the Value of Restarting” – an essay at Lit Hub (April 23, 2024)
- “The Heart of Low” – A profile of Alan Sparhawk in The New Yorker online (April 11, 2024)
- “This page-turner upends the usual logic of crime stories”: on Megan Nolan’s Ordinary Human Failings for the Washington Post Book World (2/2/24)
- “Some Ballad Folks” in the Oxford American Fall 2023 (25th anniversary Southern Music Issue)
- FORTHCOMING: Last Days of Basic Cable, an original screenplay co-written with Adam Wilson.
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REBOOT SPRING TOUR
SATURDAY APRIL 20 — LOS ANGELES, CA — LA Times Book Festival: 3:30pm-4:30pm Taper Hall 101 . “Thicker than Water: Modern Families, Modern Problems” panel with Ruth Madievsky, Edan Lepucki, and Alexandra Tanner. Tickets required, see site for details.
TUESDAY APRIL 23 — PORTLAND, OR — Publication day! West Coast launch: Powell’s City of Books, 7 PM (1005 W Burnside) in conversation with Jon Raymond.
WEDNESDAY APRIL 24 — SEATTLE, WA: Third Place Books—Ravenna, 7PM (6504 20th Ave NE). Tickets available; RSVP here.
MONDAY APRIL 29 — VANCOUVER, WA — Columbia Writers Series: Clark College, 11 AM (Penguin Union Building (PUB) 258 A-B). I will be helping my old friend Andrew Leland celebrate his stellar book, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight. This university event is free and open to the public.
WEDNESDAY MAY 1 — NEW YORK CITY— East Coast launch: McNally Jackson—Seaport, 6:30 PM (4 Fulton Street) in conversation with Andrew Martin. Most McNally events require RSVP these days, but the May events aren’t posted yet, so check back on this one and make sure you can get in.
THURSDAY MAY 2 — DOUBLE-HEADER
DAY GAME – BRONXVILLE, NY: Sarah Lawrence College MFA program—Slonim House, 2 PM. I will be giving a Craft talk called “The Sentence Is a Place to Play.” This university event is free and open to the public. Books will be for sale courtesy of Transom Books.
NIGHT GAME – BROOKLYN, NY: Threes Brewing, 333 Douglas Street, 6:30 PM, in conversation with Anika Jade Levy.
FRIDAY MAY 3 — BROOKLYN, NY: N+1 Office, 37 Greenpoint Ave #318, 7:00PM, Bookforum 30th Birthday/Spring Issue party, reading with Kay Gabriel and Angelo Hernandez-Sias. Get tickets here.
MONDAY MAY 6 — MINNEAPOLIS, MN: No Coast launch: Milkweed Coffee, 6 PM (3822 E. Lake Street) in conversation with Dan Hornsby. Books will be for sale courtesy of Moon Palace Books.
FRIDAY MAY 10 — PORTLAND, OR (reprise): Powell’s City of Books, 7 PM (1005 W Burnside). Celebrating Julia Hannafin’s stunning debut novel, Cascade.