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Do you live in Philadelphia?

If so, and you have no lunch plans on Friday, come to hear me do my very first reading of *A Skeptic's Guide To Writers' Houses* at Kelly Writers House: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/calendar/...

It's part of Penn's Arts Crawl, and I am so excited to return to the city that spawned the idea for the book.

If you can rsvp, that's cool too.

rsvp to: wh@writing.upenn.edu or call (215) 573-9748

In this week's Sunday New York Times Book Review...

...you will find an essay I wrote about writers' houses:

http://nyti.ms/bvC18Q

I'm super excited about this!

Are book collecting and visiting writers' houses related?

That's a question I often think about, since I have a fascination with both--a vexed yet curious one. Rebecca Bego Barry is the editor of the awesome magazine, *Fine Books & Collections.* In her very sweet blog post about *A Skeptic's Guide To Writers' Houses* she raises this question:

http://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine...

books are in!

Word from the wonderful people in Philly is that copies of the book are in, and ready to be shipped to their new readers' homes--including me! I can't wait to see a real live copy.

Meanwhile, I am utterly captivated by the Jonathan Franzen glasses theft hullaballo. I keep imagining it as the opening of a David Lodge novel, or perhaps a scene in a Coen brothers movie. There's something even more profound in the whole thing, perhaps, but I have not quite figured out what that might be.

Edith Wharton's Drawing Room!

I could not be more excited to be speaking at The Mount, in Edith Wharton's drawing room (Dec. 11). I am a huge Wharton fan, as well as a fan of luxurious, beautiful places, of course. To see her manse, check out: http://www.edithwharton.org/

The big question, of course, is this: what should I wear??

Boston Globe columnist hates writers' houses....

....so Sam Allis talked to me about them in his column titled "This Writers' Old House"

http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articl...

Want to know more backstory behind this book?

Read this interview the talented Anna Clark did with me on the topic:

http://isak.typepad.com/isak/2010/08/...

Langston Hughes house & Cleveland Plain Dealer

Right in my own backyard a debate is brewing about a writers' house. Read what I have to say about it here:

http://www.cleveland.com/brett/blog/i...

PW picks my book....

...as an Indie Sleeper for the Fall!

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by...

I'm in great company, as Mark Twain is also on the list.