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I'm Reading Tomorrow Night at Happy Endings on Broome Street!

It's a big night - lots of great readers, music, craziness and fun. Happy Endings is a fantastic spot. Please come out!

Read more about the series, Derangement of the Senses by clicking here.

Minneapolis Star Tribune Review

Thank you, Ellen Akins, for the great review. I'll be reading in Minneapolis on November 27th with Scott Wrobel at Common Good Books in St. Paul. 

Other People with Brad Listi

Thanks so much Brad for a great conversation. Also, check out all the other great podcasts, including Lorin Stein from the Paris Review.

"The Metamorphosis" in The New York Tyrant

I have my quite long, very different version of the famous Kafka story in this issue of the New York Tyrant. Thank you Luke B. Goebel and Giancarlo DiTrapano.

Jon Reiss's essay "Judging a Book by Its Author"

Jon Reiss wrote a thoughtful essay about sexism as well as other problems in the literary world. He mentions his preconceptions of NINE MONTHS and how they were shattered, more or less. A very interesting piece that delves into gay characters and writers, and JT Leroy.

Review of NINE MONTHS by Rachel Gladstone at All Booked Up

Thanks Rachel Gladstone, for your kind words about NINE MONTHS.

Library Journal Review of NINE MONTHS

Sonia, Brooklyn wife and mother of two, is shocked by an unexpected pregnancy, which comes just as she plans to revisit the artistic ambitions she set aside when her sons were born. In a hormone-induced panic Sonia abandons her family and sets out on a cross-country odyssey to rediscover her predomestic self. Fueled by desperation, she revisits different chapters of her life, pausing along the way to drink, smoke pot, and indulge in unprotected sex with a stranger at a truck stop. VERDICT Bomer, who previously lacerated the underbelly of family life in her short story collection Baby, has crafted a raw, darkly funny, at times appalling page-turner that rails against the sanctimonious culture of attachment parents, baby-wearers, and fervid breast feeders. Sonia is hard to like but genuine, both in her despair and in her flashes of affection for the family she’s left behind. Mommy lit lovers will be horrified, but Bomer’s debut novel will resonate with fans of quirky, character-driven fiction in the vein of Richard Russo, John Updike, and Tiffany Baker.

Library Journal Review

My Library Journal Review:

Sonia, Brooklyn wife and mother of two, is shocked by an unexpected pregnancy, which comes just as she plans to revisit the artistic ambitions she set aside when her sons were born. In a hormone-induced panic Sonia abandons her family and sets out on a cross-country odyssey to rediscover her predomestic self. Fueled by desperation, she revisits different chapters of her life, pausing along the way to drink, smoke pot, and indulge in unprotected sex with a stranger at a truck stop. VERDICT Bomer, who previously lacerated the underbelly of family life in her short story collection Baby, has crafted a raw, darkly funny, at times appalling page-turner that rails against the sanctimonious culture of attachment parents, baby-wearers, and fervid breast feeders. Sonia is hard to like but genuine, both in her despair and in her flashes of affection for the family she’s left behind. Mommy lit lovers will be horrified, but Bomer’s debut novel will resonate with fans of quirky, character-driven fiction in the vein of Richard Russo, John Updike, and Tiffany Baker.

The Daily Mail likes NINE MONTHS

I'm so pleased to be liked in England! Thank you, Christina Appleyard.

Review of NINE MONTHS at JMWW

Thank you Melanie Page, for focusing on the larger issues in NINE MONTHS over at JMWW,