Reading in Pasadena 5/7/11 + Recap & Video + Barnabas the Cat
Reading alert for Saturday, May 7, Southland folks:
Art.Write.Now. Opening Night in Southern California
The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards helped start my career by giving me "Honorable Mention" in 1996. I'm happy to support the 2010 winners at Art.Write.Now. opening night in Pasadena, CA.
I will read "Horrible Mention" from Teen Angst? Naaah... (first time reading it live!) and sign books. Stay after the reading to see the work of current Scholastic Art & Writing Award winners. This event is free and open to the public.
when: Saturday, May 7 at 7pm
where: Lineage Dance, 89 S Fair Oaks Ave Pasadena, CA 91105 [map]
more: [Facebook event page]
In other news:
Publishers Weekly on the 2011 LATimes Festival of Books
May 1, 2011
"Things were a little more sober on the YA stage, where panelists Blake Nelson (Recovery Road), Ned Vizzini (It's Kind of a Funny Story) and Lauren Strasnick (Nothing Like You) talked about addiction and madness and memoir and fiction. Fans stood up to say how much the authors had helped them. One shy girl asked her mother to ask Vizzini if he could give her a tidbit from his life that was not already on the Internet. Vizzini said she'd have to ask the question herself. ("Well, I have a cat named Barnabus," he told her. [correction: Barnabas, see below])..." [more]
Barnabas The Cat
photo credit Sabra Embury
At the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, I mentioned Barnabas because he has not made his online debut yet. Now he has. My wife and I picked him up at a shelter in LA on Valentine's Day, 2010 and he has been the best V-Day present ever. I don't want to get too boring waxing how he is the best cat in the world because all cat owners say this, but he is.
I picked his name out when I was reading David Cordingly's authoritative book on pirates, Under the Black Flag :
It mentioned a pirate named "Barnabas." I remarked it would be a good name for a cat. Sabra held me to it. I'm dopey for them both.
Figment in the Field: Ned Vizzini | Figment Blog
Thanks very much to online writer and book-nerd community Figment for posting this short video interview, recorded in Park Slope's Brooklyn Lyceum!
You can hear the coffee grinder quite well at one point. Special thanks to Figment co-founder Jacob Lewis and interviewer Trevor Ingerson.
Art.Write.Now. Opening Night in Southern California
The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards helped start my career by giving me "Honorable Mention" in 1996. I'm happy to support the 2010 winners at Art.Write.Now. opening night in Pasadena, CA.
I will read "Horrible Mention" from Teen Angst? Naaah... (first time reading it live!) and sign books. Stay after the reading to see the work of current Scholastic Art & Writing Award winners. This event is free and open to the public.
when: Saturday, May 7 at 7pm
where: Lineage Dance, 89 S Fair Oaks Ave Pasadena, CA 91105 [map]
more: [Facebook event page]
In other news:
Publishers Weekly on the 2011 LATimes Festival of Books
May 1, 2011
"Things were a little more sober on the YA stage, where panelists Blake Nelson (Recovery Road), Ned Vizzini (It's Kind of a Funny Story) and Lauren Strasnick (Nothing Like You) talked about addiction and madness and memoir and fiction. Fans stood up to say how much the authors had helped them. One shy girl asked her mother to ask Vizzini if he could give her a tidbit from his life that was not already on the Internet. Vizzini said she'd have to ask the question herself. ("Well, I have a cat named Barnabus," he told her. [correction: Barnabas, see below])..." [more]
Barnabas The Cat
photo credit Sabra Embury
At the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, I mentioned Barnabas because he has not made his online debut yet. Now he has. My wife and I picked him up at a shelter in LA on Valentine's Day, 2010 and he has been the best V-Day present ever. I don't want to get too boring waxing how he is the best cat in the world because all cat owners say this, but he is.
I picked his name out when I was reading David Cordingly's authoritative book on pirates, Under the Black Flag :
It mentioned a pirate named "Barnabas." I remarked it would be a good name for a cat. Sabra held me to it. I'm dopey for them both.
Figment in the Field: Ned Vizzini | Figment Blog
Thanks very much to online writer and book-nerd community Figment for posting this short video interview, recorded in Park Slope's Brooklyn Lyceum!
You can hear the coffee grinder quite well at one point. Special thanks to Figment co-founder Jacob Lewis and interviewer Trevor Ingerson.
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