Bill Cheng's Blog, page 43
February 24, 2014
February 20, 2014
Give to @narrative4’s crowdrise fund...
Give to @narrative4’s crowdrise fund today!
http://www.crowdrise.com/narrative4/fundraiser/gillbench
Donate at least $25 from 2/5 at 9am ET to 2/23 at 11:59pm ET and you’ll be automatically entered for a chance to win a Beach Bag Full of Autographed Books by Ten Narrative 4 Authors.
Donate at least $100 from 2/5 at 9am ET to 2/23 at 11:59pm ET and you’ll be automatically entered for a chance to win a Tote Bag Full of Books and a Lunch with a Narrative 4 Author
Also if you’re the highest donor on MY personal crowdrise page, I’ll write you a short story about anything you want.
February 19, 2014
@wordbookstores, Thanks for last night! Sorry I stole your...
@wordbookstores, Thanks for last night! Sorry I stole your pen…
February 18, 2014
wordbookstores:
Tonight in BK: Bill Cheng schooled us on some...
Tonight in BK: Bill Cheng schooled us on some of the best blues music out there and read from his novel, SOUTHERN CROSS THE DOG.
It’s Give Back Tuesday— (also...
It’s Give Back Tuesday— (also It-Won’t-Stop-Snowing-Not-Ever Tuesday)— so dig deep for @narrative4’s crowdrise fund.
February 17, 2014
wordbookstores:
The Weekly WORD, Brooklyn
Tuesday, February...
The Weekly WORD, Brooklyn
Tuesday, February 18th, at 7 p.m., we’ll celebrate the paperback release of Bill Cheng’s debut novel Southern Cross the Dog. And Cheng will be joining us — for a reading, a Q&A session, a signing, and refreshments! Beat the cold with what Entertainment Weekly has called a “sun-scorched prose that recalls William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, and Cormac McCarthy.”
On Wednesday, February 19th, at 7 p.m., we’ll welcome artist and writer Dan Goldman. He’ll be presenting his latest work, Red Light Properties, which chronicles a Miami-based husband-and-wife run real estate agency specializing in haunted properties. Location, location, location (and ghosts).
On Thursday, February 20th, at 7 p.m., WORD catches Olympic fever. Okay, not that Olympics. We’re talking Mt. Olympus Olympics, people. We’ll be joined by George O’Connor, who will be presenting his latest installment of the Olympians series: Aphrodite. Comics, a warm basement, and the goddess of love and beauty? What could be better?
Saturday, February 22nd, at 7 p.m., Bookshop Workshops, an organization dedicated to work-shopping new plays in bookstores, will present Mixtape by Stephanie Del Ross, as directed by Jesse Thurston. See it now, say you saw it in the basement of WORD later, you know, when it’s huge.
Also on Saturday, February 22nd, we’ll host two — count ‘em — two book groups discussions. At 1 p.m., our S. Book Group will hold its second and final meeting, this time focusing on the book’s marginalia, the extras, the Internet, and more! Then, at 3 p.m., we’ll hold the inaugural meeting of our Food Writing Book Group. They’ll be discussing Eat the City by Robin Shulman. Pick up your copy today and receive 10% off. (P.S. S. is finally back in stock!)
Sunday, February 23rd, Gotham Writers Workshop returns to WORD. Beginning at 2 p.m., we’ll be joined by Raven Burnett (The Eel, Behind the Byte). He’ll be focusing on dialogue, so get to writing all that talking.Phew. What a week. Next up? Kristopher Jansma (The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards) and Brandon Kiely; Deji Olukotun (Nigerians in Space) and Joel Whitney; and Jeff Vandermeer presenting Annihilation. Oh yeah.
February 16, 2014
Tuesday 7PM, it’s going to be a special night for me at...
Tuesday 7PM, it’s going to be a special night for me at @wordbookstores in Greenpoint.
Here’s the facebook thingy: https://www.facebook.com/events/654986114540210/
If all goes according to plan, there’ll be some wine, some reading, and a bit of the blues.
Hope you can make it!
February 15, 2014
thenotes:
Well would you look at this: my publisher is putting...
Well would you look at this: my publisher is putting out a collection of illustrated book reviews Kevin Thomas penned for The Rumpus. I loved his take on Ivyland so much I bought the original off him and hung it in my front hall. You need.
