Ben Tanzer's Blog, page 7

We are all CCLaP, all Chicago Book Expo 2015, all City Lit and all The New York Stories all of the time. We are also quite proud of all of it.

@cclapcenter @ChicagoBookExpo @josephgpeterson Yo, the @josephgpeterson is going to be there? So in.— Ben Tanzer (@BenTanzer) November 17, 2015

And yo the Ben Tanzer too an even better reason. https://t.co/1IHhM8uh3E— Joseph G. Peterson (@josephgpeterson) November 17, 2015

We are all CCLaP, all Chicago Book Expo 2016, all City Lit and all The New York Stories all of the time. We are also quite proud of all of it.

@cclapcenter @ChicagoBookExpo @josephgpeterson Yo, the @josephgpeterson is going to be there? So in.

— Ben Tanzer (@BenTanzer) November 17, 2015

And yo the Ben Tanzer too an even better reason. https://t.co/1IHhM8uh3E

— Joseph G. Peterson (@josephgpeterson) November 17, 2015

"Tanzer has the gift of writing characters who are believable and flawed." You Can Make Him Like You love from the Steve Karas who much to our great pleasure has clearly disappeared down the rabbit hole.

Not that it's merely our great pleasure, though it's certainly that, but we greatly appreciate it too. A lot. Excerpt? Cool.

"You Can Make Him Like You is such a cool, pop-culture-infused Chicago novel. It’s 2008, Obama versus McCain, and Chicago is “the center of the universe” for this brief period of time. There’s The Billy Goat Tavern and Mike Royko, Kyle Orton and Carlos Zambrano, Castaways and Mothers and Five Faces and Metro and Oprah, of course. And within that Chicago world, Tanzer resurrects Sister Hazel and Chumbawamba and TiVo and Beverly Hills Chihuahua and The Bachelorette with DeAnna. Then there’s Keith, most importantly, who’s struggling with his fears of impending fatherhood, monogamy, and facing his own childhood demons. Keith trying to become “anti-Keith,” the universal struggle we all face at some point, don’t we? To be better people, and finding it easier said than done. Tanzer has the gift of writing characters who are believable and flawed. Characters you feel like you know, feel like you’ve known for years in fact, that you may talk shit about with your spouse or other friends, but still love nonetheless and will always love."

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Twenty-One - Slow And Steady, starring the Jerry Brennan.

We are so Brennan. And so podcast. We are also Tortoise Books, the Oasis Cafe, Giano Cromley, Darrin Doyle, Rachel Slotnick, Resistance, West Point, Columbia University, journalism, publishing, and much, much more, that is sure to change your life.

An unabashed, and ongoing, The New York Stories Sell All The Books! and Bad At Sports podcast hype thing.

SELL ALL THE BOOKS! @BenTanzer talks "The New York Stories" at the Bad At Sports podcast: https://t.co/x4m7EPyYE6 pic.twitter.com/Y7EkVtj1FR— CCLaP Staff (@cclapcenter) November 9, 2015

So unabashed, and endlessly ongoing, and for even more of all that, please do feel free to learn more about The New York Stories Sell All The Books! campaign and/or listen to the Bad At Sports podcast, because all, or any of that would rock, a lot, thank you. 

“He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.” ―Victor Hugo

Zero Saints by the Gabino Iglesias is all sorts of release. So do hit it. It just might change your life.

The New York Stories is The Seven Deadly Sins. Not to mention "Untrammeled," Greed and Angela Vela.

(Courtesy of the Jonathan Schneider)

Fisk Peterson Tanzer (and a cast of thousands) The New York Stories CCLaP Chicago Book Expo 2015 and City Lit Books at 6:30 pm on November 19th.

For reals. More here and here. And quite certainly sure to change your life. A lot.

 

The New York Stories is Pop Up Book Fair. And the Gint Aras too, yo.