November 11, 2019
In December, the TNB Book Club will be reading You Can See More From Up Here (Golden Antelope Press), by Mark Guerin.
Sign up by November 15th to get your copy and join the club!
September 03, 2019
The TNB Book Club is reading Exile this month, available from OR Books. Join us! Get your copy now!
And stay tuned for Belén’s appearance on the Otherppl podcast later this month.
About the book:
Che Guevara left Argentina at 22. At 21, Belén Fernández left the U.S. and didn’t look back. Alone, far off the beaten path in places like Syria and Tajikistan, she reflects on what it means to be an American in a largely American-made mess of a world.
After growing up in Washington, D.C. and Texas, and then attending Columbia University in New York, Belén Fernández ended up in a state of self-imposed exile from the United States. From trekking—through Europe, the Middle East, Morocco, and Latin America—to packing avocados in southern Spain, to close encounters with a variety of unpredictable men, to witnessing the violent aftermath of the 2009 coup in Honduras, the international travel allowed her by an American passport has, ironically, given her a direct view of the devastating consequences of U.S. machinations worldwide. For some years Fernández survived thanks to the generosity of strangers who picked her up hitchhiking, fed her, and offered accommodations; then she discovered people would pay her for her powerful, unfiltered journalism, enabling—as of the present moment—continued survival.
This month, the TNB Book Club is reading Interior States (Anchor Books), the wonderful new essay collection by Meghan O’Gieblyn.
Lorrie Moore says:
“Meghan O’Gieblyn’s deep and searching essays are written with a precise sort of skepticism and a slight ache in the heart. A first-rate and riveting collection.”
And stay tuned for Meghan’s appearance on the Otherppl podcast, coming later this month!
This month, the book club will be reading Circa, the terrific debut novel by Adam Greenfield. Available from Pelekinesis.
Read some excerpts here.
This month, the TNB Book Club is reading The Dying of the Light, the excellent new novel by Robert Goolrick, bestselling author of A Reliable Wife, Heading Out to Wonderful, and The Fall of Princes. Stay tuned for Robert’s appearance on the Otherppl with Brad Listi podcast later this month. Enjoy!
The Gypsy Moth Summer by Julia Fierro
Powered by prose at once enchanting and colloquial, true, vividly-realized characters, and a literary voice that practically reverberates with authority, Fierro’s The Gypsy Moth Summer may not only be this year’s best second novel, but its best book period. Featuring a complex plot, a many-faceted story brimming with insights into people and families at all stages of the life cycle, zoology, myth, and allegory this is the rare beach read that doubles as a novel of ideas.
The TNB Book Club is thrilled to announce The Essex Serpent, by Sarah Perry, as its official May pick! It will be published in the United States by Custom House Books / HarperCollins on June 6, 2017.
Helen MacDonald, bestselling author of H is for Hawk, raves:
I loved this book. At once numinous, intimate and wise, The Essex Serpent is a marvelous novel about the workings of life, love and belief, about science and religion, secrets, mysteries, and the complicated and unexpected shifts of the human heart—and it contains some of the most beautiful evocations of place and landscape I’ve ever read. It is so good its pages seem lit from within. As soon as I’d finished it I started reading it again.
Sign up now to get your copy! Deadline is April 15.
Book Clubbers! In April we’re reading The Book of Joan, the incredible new novel by Lidia Yuknavitch.
The buzz is really building for this one:
The 25 Most Anticipated Books by Women for 2017, Elle Magazine
The 32 Most Exciting Books Coming Out in 2017, BuzzFeed
50 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2017, Nylon Magazine
33 New Books to Read in 2017, The Huffington Post
Most Anticipated, The Great 2017 Book Preview, The Millions
Also: The movie rights just sold!
Be on the lookout for Lidia’s appearance on the Otherppl podcast in the weeks to come.
The Nervous Breakdown Book Club is reading Ron Currie’s The One-Eyed Man this month, available from Viking Press. Richard Russo calls it “a revelation, a wonder.”
Stay tuned for Ron’s appearance on the Otherppl podcast in the weeks to come.
After I self-published my third novel Badge—both in paper and through a number of ebook platforms—in February 2014, I noticed something different about its Amazon page. In the upper right section where Amazon lists Badge’s paper-book availability, it read, “Usually Ships in 1 to 3 Weeks.” All of my novels have been self-published through the print-on-demand company Lightning Source. The availability of my other two, Stuck Outside of Phoenix and Ghost Notes, both published in the aughts, have been listed, with little variance, at the more POD standard “Only 2 left in stock (more on the way).” My books are stored in Lightning Source’s database and can be printed and mailed at will. The beauty of print-on-demand publishing is there is really no way to be “out of stock,” short of a computer crash.
TNB, The Rumpus, and Hot Dish reading series proudly present…
An off-site event to help kick off the LA Times Festival of Books weekend! Live readings! Comedy! Music! Beverages! Friendly banter!
WHEN:
Thursday April 10, 2014
Starts at 8 p.m.
WHERE:
Bootleg Theatre
2220 Beverly Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90057
WHO:
Readings by Gina Frangello, Dana Johnson, Jerry Stahl, and xTx!
Comedy by Ted Travelstead!
Music by DJ Mira Gonzalez!
Hosted by Brad Listi, J. Ryan Stradal, and Zoë Ruiz!
See you there!
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Original poster art by Lyndsey Lesh.
One of the biggest problems with selling people on the idea of a rock novel is the term “rock novel.” There’s something about the two words that don’t want to go together. In 2014, “rock” suggests teenage boys—or men acting like teenage boys—watching one of their favorite bands on TV and getting excited. “These guys rock,” might be said. The word “rock” as a verb also has become shorthand for anything anyone does well. For example, “Thanks, Bob and Jackie, for inputting those contacts into the spreadsheet. You guys rock.” It seems “rock” can be used across the board for the least rocking things imaginable. As a rock novelist three times over, I can’t say this rocks.
October 08, 2013
I haven’t worked full-time in over two years, so my response to the title of this essay is very simple: I need the money, and of the thirty-six resumes and vitas I recently sent out online or hand-delivered, a chain bookstore was the only place that responded. Prior to this, I was a full-time seminary student working toward national ordination in my faith. Before that, I was a part-time seminary student and full-time college teacher. Then, in 2011, shortly before I was to be granted tenure, I was informed, owing to precipitous drops in enrollment, that my contract would not be renewed for a crucial final semester. After eleven years of teaching for the state, collecting awards, certificates, and the friendship of many students, I was being let go.
Amazon’s announcement that it has begun offering opportunities to riff off of the work of Kurt Vonnegut on its fan fiction licensing site, Kindle Worlds, has caused a stir. Rightly so. Amazon is The Man and Vonnegut tilted against The Man, as all great artists do.
Scott Nadelson is the guest. His new memoir, The Next Scott Nadelson: A Life in Progress, is now available from Hawthorne Books.
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