Rob Walker's Blog, page 13
August 17, 2010
On Connecticut Public Radio's "Where We Live"
A quick note: I just did a short interview about S.O. (and objects and value and story) on Where We Live, with John Dankonsky, on Connecticut Public Radio. I chimed in for about the last 15 minutes, in what I believe was an hour-long segment with Paul Bloom, author of How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
. It was very pleasant and informative, and I assume it will get archived soon here if you're curious.
If any listeners to that broadcast have found their way here...
August 16, 2010
Author Updates
1) Matthew Sharpe has a novel, You Were Wrong, coming out in a few weeks from Bloomsbury. Check out Sharpe's website, on which you'll find, among other things, videos exploring key themes and locations in the novel. Its first two chapters are being serialized this week at Fivechapters.com.
2) Susanna Daniel recently published a piece on Slate.com titled "WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG?: The quiet hell of ten years of novel writing."
3) Rachel Axler's play, Smudge, which had its Off-Broadway premiere...
Author Update
1) Matthew Sharpe has a novel, You Were Wrong, coming out in a few weeks from Bloomsbury. Check out Sharpe's website, on which you'll find, among other things, videos exploring key themes and locations in the novel. Its first two chapters are being serialized this week at Fivechapters.com.
2) Susanna Daniel recently published a piece on Slate.com titled "WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG?: The quiet hell of ten years of novel writing."
3) Rachel Axler's play, Smudge, which had its Off-Broadway premiere...
August 15, 2010
Significant Tweets for Week Ending 2010-08-15
August 14, 2010
Author Updates
1) On August 24, Scott Jacobson and some friends — including Significant Objects contributor Todd Levin — are publishing a humor book, SEX: Our Bodies, Our Junk (Random House). Art is by Robert Sikoryak, and the graphics minds from The Onion.
2) Laura Lippman's fifteenth novel, I'd Know You Anywhere (William Morrow), will be published August 17.
3) Michael Atkinson's new book, Hemingway Cutthroat (St. Martin's), is out this month; it's a prequel to last year's Hemingway Deadlights. He tells us ...
August 13, 2010
Rosecrans Baldwin X Coudal
Speaking of Rosecrans Baldwin's new novel You Lost Me There
, it turns out our friends over at Coudal did the trailer, above. Coudal explains the team-up:
[Mr. Baldwin:] wanted to use the prologue to the book and tracked down a studio where he recorded himself reading it. Sending those files over, along with a collection of amazing photos by Aya Padrón, and we got to work. Since the prologue, and the book itself, is all about memory, we built a collection of blur and flicker effects and...
August 12, 2010
August 11, 2010
August 9, 2010
Author Updates
1) Rosecrans Baldwin's first novel, You Lost Me There, is coming out from Riverhead on August 12.
2) Susanna Daniel's first novel, Stiltsville (HarperCollins), is coming out in August, too. She'll be reading in the Midwest and in Florida, where the book is set, throughout August and September.
3) Kirsten Miller has a teen romance/thriller coming out on August 10th. The Eternal Ones is a twisted tale of true love, reincarnation, and sinister secret societies.
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